Ena Harwood

Career Harwood had ambitions of becoming an actress during her younger years, and took private acting lessons in London with Cicely Berry. Returning to Australia she had minor roles in the Independent Theatre stage productions of Rhinoceros and Period of Adjustment.

In August 1990, Harwood had a small role in an episode of Home and Away.

Television +Year Title Role Type 1964; 1966–1968 Beauty and the Beast Regular Panellist – Herself TV series 1966–1968; 1969 Beauty and the Beast Regular Paneliist – Herself TV series 1970; 1980 Beauty and the Beast Regular Panellist – Herself TV series 1975–1979 The Mike Walsh Show Regular – Herself TV series 1980; 1982–1983 Beauty and the Beast Regular Pannellist – Herself TV series 1982–1983 Beauty and the Beast Regular Panellist – Herself TV series 1984 Carson's Law Guest role: Mrs. Preston TV series, 2 episodes 1990 Home and Away Guest role: Woman TV series, 1 episode

Personal life and death On 10 November 1942, she married Horace Barclay Harwood at St Mark's Church of England in Darling Point. They had three children, including Andrew Harwood.

Harwood's husband died suddenly at their residence in Bellevue Hill on 27 October 1960.

Harwood suffered asthma throughout her life, and in 1969 suffered a particularly severe asthma attack prompting her son Andrew to rush her to hospital. Specialists told her that she would have only survived another four hours without seeking medical attention.

Harwood died at the age of 80 on 21 July 1993.

After her death, her son Andrew Harwood was charged with social security fraud, accused of cashing $27,400 worth of his mother's pension cheques for a period of three years after her death.

He was suspended from his evening radio program on 2UE during the investigation but was later cleared of any wrongdoing when the magistrate at St James Local Court dismissed the fraud charge after the Director of Public Prosecutions failed to offer any evidence.