{{short description|Australian actress (1935–1988)}} {{for|the country music singer-songwriter|Victoria Shaw (singer)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Victoria Shaw | image = Victoria Shaw (1962).JPG | caption = Shaw in 1962 | birth_name = Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick | birth_date = {{birth date|1935|5|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|8|17|1935|5|25|df=y}} | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|[[Roger Smith (actor)|Roger Smith]]|1956|1965|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Elliott Alexander|1966|1969|end=divorced}} }} | yearsactive = 1953–1978 | children = 3 | website = }}
'''Victoria Shaw''' (25 May 1935 – 17 August 1988) was an Australian film and television actress.
==Early years== Shaw was born Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick<ref name="victoria">[https://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/249/Victoria+Shaw/index.html Victoria Shaw], Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen</ref><ref name="sr">{{cite news |last1=Kleiner |first1=Dick |title=America Gets Aussie Model Vickie Shaw For TV; Two Broadway Shows Disappoint |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22016146/the_sandusky_register/ |work=The Sandusky Register |agency=Newspaper Enterprise Association |date=June 29, 1956 |location=Ohio, Sandusky |page=7|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> in [[Sydney]], New South Wales, Australia. Her parents were Captain and Mrs. Francis W. Elphick.<ref name="fln">{{cite news |title=Australian Cinderella Wins A Hollywood Leading Role |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22017603/victoria_shaw/ |work=Ford Lauderdale News |date=October 16, 1955 |location=Florida, Fort Lauderdale |page=45|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> She lived in [[Croydon, New South Wales]], and attended a convent school.<ref name="obit" />
== Career == Shaw worked in an insurance office for six months before she went to the Dally-Watkins Agency,<ref name=fln/> where she studied modelling with [[June Dally-Watkins]]<ref>[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2491367 Portrait of Jeanette Elphick (picture)], [[Athol Shmith|Shmith, Athol]], 1914–90. Collection of fashion photographs, National Library of Australia</ref> before first making the news when voted Australian model of the year in 1951 at the Sydney Artists' Ball <ref> Daily Mirror Saturday, December 9th 1951,, Page 8 </ref> She went on to make her Australian screen debut opposite [[Chips Rafferty]] in ''[[The Phantom Stockman]]'' (1953).<ref name="fln" /> Although inexperienced and her voice was dubbed, she appeared opposite experienced radio and film actors.<ref name="phantom">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-lee-robinson-chips-rafferty-story-part-one-the-phantom-stockman/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=1 June 2025|access-date=1 June 2025|title=The Lee Robinson-Chips Rafferty Story Part One: The Phantom Stockman}}</ref>
[[Bob Hope]] spotted her while touring Australia and urged her to try her luck in [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]],<ref name="in">{{cite news |last1=Bacon |first1=James |title=Model Goes in Search of Acting Fortune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22016699/victoria_shaw/ |work=The Indianapolis News |agency=Associated Press |date=August 31, 1955 |location=Indiana, Indianapolis |page=17|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> where in 1955 she signed a contract with [[Columbia Pictures]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gwynn |first1=Edith |title=Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22016543/the_mercury/ |work=The Mercury |date=August 20, 1955 |location=Pennsylvania, Pottstown |page=4|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>
[[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]]'' (1956), her United States film debut.<ref name="sr" /> Her subsequent films included ''[[The Crimson Kimono]]'' and ''[[Edge of Eternity (film)|Edge of Eternity]]'' (both 1959), ''[[Because They're Young]]'' and ''[[I Aim at the Stars]]'' (both 1960), ''[[Alvarez Kelly]]'' (1966),<ref name="obit" /> and ''[[Westworld (film)|Westworld]]'' (1973). She also made appearances in TV shows, including ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]'' (1962), ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (1964), ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|12 O-Clock High]]'' (two episodes: 1964 and 1966), ''[[Cimarron Strip]]'' (1968), ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]'' (two episodes: both 1968), ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]'' (1969),{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} ''[[Barnaby Jones]]'' (1973), ''[[General Hospital]]'' (1974),<ref name="obit" /> ''[[McCloud (TV series)|McCloud]]'' (1976), and ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' (1978).
==Personal life== Shaw married actor [[Roger Smith (actor)|Roger Smith]] in North Hollywood, California, on July 28, 1956.<ref>{{cite news |title=Victoria Shaw, Actress From Australia, Wed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22018225/the_los_angeles_times/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=July 19, 1956 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=52|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> After their divorce in 1965, Smith had joint custody of their three children, Tracey Leone (born 1957), Jordan F. (born 1958), and Dallas E. (born 1961).<ref name="victoria"/> She married producer Elliott Alexander in 1966. They also divorced.<ref name="SMH">{{cite news|title=VICTORIA SHAW, MODEL WHO WENT TO HOLLYWOOD; OBITUARY|date=19 August 1988|work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|pages=NEWS AND FEATURES; Pg. 4|quote= Miss Shaw's second marriage in 1966 to a producer, Elliott Alexander, also ended in divorce.... Miss Shaw, who was 53... suffered from emphysema for several years and became seriously ill on Monday. She died on Wednesday in Hornsby Hospital.}}</ref>
==Death== On August 17, 1988, Shaw died in [[Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital|Hornsby Hospital]]<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Victoria Shaw, model who went to Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22018429/victoria_shaw/ |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=August 19, 1988 |location=Australia, Sydney, New South Wales |page=4|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> in Sydney at the age of 53 from [[emphysema]].<ref name="SMH"/>
== Recognition == Shaw was named Australia's Model of the Year in 1951. The next year, she was named Photographer's Model of the Year.<ref name="fln" />
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1953|| ''[[The Phantom Stockman]]'' || Kim Marsden || |- |1956|| ''[[The Eddy Duchin Story]]'' || Chiquita Wynn || |- |1959|| ''[[The Crimson Kimono]]'' || Christine Downs || |- |1959|| ''[[Edge of Eternity (film)|Edge of Eternity]]'' || Janice Kendon || |- |1960|| ''[[Because They're Young]]'' || Joan Dietrich || |- |1960|| ''[[I Aim at the Stars]]'' || Maria von Braun || |- |1966|| ''[[Alvarez Kelly]]'' || Charity Warwick || |- |1973|| ''[[Westworld (film)|Westworld]]'' || Medieval Queen || |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} {{Portal|Biography|Australia|Film|Television}} *{{IMDb name|0790021}}
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