Victoria Shaw (actress)
Victoria Shaw was an Australian film and television actress.
Early years
Shaw was born Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents were Captain and Mrs. Francis W. Elphick. She lived in Croydon, [New South Wales], and attended a convent school.Career
Shaw worked in an insurance office for six months before she went to the Dally-Watkins Agency, where she studied modelling with June Dally-Watkins before first making the news when voted Australian model of the year in 1951 at the Sydney Artists' Ball She went on to make her Australian screen debut opposite Chips Rafferty in The Phantom Stockman. Although inexperienced and her voice was dubbed, she appeared opposite experienced radio and film actors.Bob Hope spotted her while touring Australia and urged her to try her luck in Hollywood, where in 1955 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.
File:Stewart Whitman Victoria Shaw Cimarron Strip 1968.JPG|thumb|right|With Stuart Whitman in Cimarron Strip, 1968, in an episode written by Harlan Ellison
She played opposite Tyrone Power in The Eddy Duchin Story, her United States film debut. Her subsequent films included The Crimson Kimono and Edge of Eternity, Because They're Young and I Aim at the Stars, Alvarez Kelly, and Westworld. She also made appearances in TV shows, including 77 Sunset Strip, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., 12 O-Clock High, Cimarron Strip, The F.B.I., Ironside, Barnaby Jones, General Hospital, McCloud, and Charlie's Angels.