The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret the following year but Diane Cilento allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery the second of her three husbands to whom Diane Cilento was married from 1962 to 1973. She also had a daughter Andrea with her first husband. ISBN 9780143006077.