Cornelia Frances - AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE LATELY? Biog

Cornelia Frances has been one of the most recognisable faces on Australian television since the 1970s.  Millions of people throughout the world have loved to hate her in her villainous soap opera roles and as the scathing host of the smash-hit game show The Weakest Link.  But there is much more to Cornelia than her 'Queen of Mean' persona.

In "And What Have You Done Lately?" she tells her fascinating story - beginning with a colourful family life as the niece of leading British film director Michael Powell, and the start of her career in England, including encounters with screen legends such as Dirk Bogarde and Peter O'Toole. 

Leaving England in the 1960s, Cornelia arrived in Australia as a 10 pound migrant seeking her fame and fortune, ending up almost four decades later as one of our best-known television celebrities.  Her memoirs give an enthralling and often hilarious insider's account of her experiences over these years in everything from The Young Doctors and Home and Away, to feature films and British panto.

But his book, while full of delicious backstagte anecdotes, is ultimately the story of a woman whose personal life has been every bit as interesting as her professional one.