Vale: Candy Raymond

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Vale: Candy Raymond

Actor Candy Raymond, best known for Number 96 and Prisoner has died.

Actor Candy Raymond, best known for Number 96 and Prisoner has died, aged 75.

Much of her work was throught the 1970s and 1980s in Australian film and television.

In Number 96 she played Jill Sheridan, presented as a sex symbol, a wild child who tried to seduce a priest and featuring in several controversial nude sequences.

This followed various episode work in Riptide, Skippy, Matlock Police and Division 4.

She featured in 6 episodes of Norman Gunston’s Checkout Chicks, then The Sullivans, Bluey, Young Ramsay, Chopper Squad, Cop Shop and Kingswood Country.

By 1981 she played Sandra Hamilton, a friend of Betty Bobbitt’s Judy Bryant in Prisoner, for 8 episodes.

Other TV credits included Shout: The Johnny O’Keefe Story, The Great Bookie Robbery, Hey Dad, The Flying Doctors, Rafferty’s Rules, and winning an AFI for her performance in the TV Movie Breaking Up (1985).

Her film credits include Alvin Rides Again, Don’s Party, The Getting of Wisdom and Ginger Meggs.

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