Hazel Phillips_

Hazel Julia Phillips (née Lovegrove) (born 17 November 1929) is a British-Australian singer, actress and television talk show personality with a notable career in Australia. Phillips is also a playwright, composer and lyricist who has written numerously for the stage, been a compere of radio shows, a newspaper columnist and briefly operated a dinner cabaret restaurant. She has worked as an interviewer in Hollywood, where she interviewed numerous stars, such as Bing Crosby, Paul Newman and Omar Shariff and Fess Parker. Phillips has the distinction of playing the world's first lesbian character on TV, the character Marie Crowther on the serial Number 96. Phillips has appeared in numerous films including the Australian film The Set in 1970 and more recently in 2021, the Netflix film Love and Monsters, and scheduled in a Paramount film starring Sam Neill, and a TV commercial for Ford She is often depicted as Australia's answer to Betty White in terms of career success and longevity.