Actress Diane Cilento died on October 6, 2011, in Queensland, Australia. She was 78.

No cause of death was given.

Cilento, who was born in Brisbane, Australia, had uncredited roles in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) and Moulin Rouge (1952) before receiving a Tony nomination in 1956 for her role as Helen of Troy in Tiger at the Gates.

Later, she was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role in Tom Jones (1963). Her career continued to pick up in the 1960s when she acted in The Third Secret (1964) with Stephen Boyd, The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) with Charlton Heston and Hombre (1967) with Paul Newman.

In 1962, Cilento divorced her first husband, Andrea Volpe, and married Sean Connery, with whom she acted in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). The couple divorced in 1973 and Cilento married playwright Anthony Shaffer 12 years later.

In addition to her work in cinema, Cilento starred in American and British TV. Cilento acted in a 1956 adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew and a 1957 ITV production of Anna Christie alongside Connery. She also appeared in a 1967 adaptation of Dial M for Murder with Laurence Harvey and Rogues’ Gallery (1969).

The actress also starred in Tycoon, a 1978 BBC miniseries, and acted alongside her son, Jason Connery, in The Boy Who Had Everything (1985).

Cilento’s last on-screen appearance was in Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, a 1994 Australian TV series.

Besides acting, Cilento wrote two books, The Manipulator and Hybrid. She also built and ran an open-air theater in an Australian rain forest.

Survivors include son Jason and Giovanna Volpe, a daughter from Cilento’s first marriage.