{"id":11704,"date":"2018-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/actor-cornelia-frances-had-died-at-age-77\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T00:00:00","slug":"actor-cornelia-frances-had-died-at-age-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/actor-cornelia-frances-had-died-at-age-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Cornelia Frances Had Died At Age 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Aussie actor Cornelia Frances has passed away. She was 77.<\/h3>\n<p>She was known for her time on Home and Away, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Young Doctors, Kingswood Country and for hosting the game show The Weakest Link.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 7 paid tribute to the star on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cCornelia Frances was a unique person. Her on screen presence inspired a generation of actors. This gift was coupled with an ability to bring a sense of dignity and presence into each room she entered. Her energy and character will be missed.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Frances was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2017 before being told it had spread to her hip.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Actor Cornelia Frances has passed away, aged 77: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/azlTBdxvJH\">https:\/\/t.co\/azlTBdxvJH<\/a><br><br>The former star of Home and Away is understood to have been surrounded by close family and friends when she died overnight in Sydney. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hHo88BF18A\">https:\/\/t.co\/hHo88BF18A<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Herald Sun (@theheraldsun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theheraldsun\/status\/1001273156873609217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie actor Cornelia Frances has passed away. She was 77. She was known for her time on Home and Away, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Young Doctors, Kingswood Country and for hosting the game show The Weakest Link. Channel 7 paid tribute to the star on Tuesday: \u201cCornelia Frances was a unique person. Her on screen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Actor Cornelia Frances Had Died At Age 77 - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/actor-cornelia-frances-had-died-at-age-77\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Actor Cornelia Frances Had Died At Age 77\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aussie actor Cornelia Frances has passed away. 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