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Name	Zoe Ada Caldwell
Alternative Names	Zoe Ada Whitehead
Born	14 September, 1933 Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	16 February, 2020 (aged 86) Pound Ridge, New York, United States of America
Cause of Death	Parkinson's
Education *	Methodist Ladies' College (Melbourne) (student, 1945-1950)
Occupation or Descriptor *	actor (stage) (1953-1959) Victoria, Australia actor (stage) (1959-2018) Overseas actor (television) (1959-2003) Overseas theatre director (1981-1995) Overseas actor (film) (1985-2011) Overseas autobiographer/memoirist (1999-2001) Overseas
Awards	Elizabethan Theatre Trust scholarship (recipient, 1959) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1970)
Key Organisations *	Melbourne Theatre Company (actor, 1953)

* Dates are approximate

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