Lorrae Desmond, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lorrae Desmond

Australian actress

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1932

Place of Birth: Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: actor

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lorrae Desmond MBE (2 October 1932), born as Beryl Hunt is an Australian retired Gold Logie-award-winning singer, character actress, television presenter and theatre lyricist, with a career that has spanned over 60 years both locally and internationally.
She started her career in England as a singer and radio/television presenter before returning to Australia where she became a popular actress and remains best known to early television audiences as presenter of the self-titled musical variety program The Lorrae Desmond Show from 1960 until 1964, her live singing performances as a forces sweetheart, in the style of Vera Lynn and for her soap opera roles including the Marion Carlton in Number 96 her long-running role as Shirley Gilroy an original character in the television series A Country Practice, for 816 episodes from 1981 to 1992, and briefly Home and Away as Isobel Dupre in 1997