Delia Williams

{{Short description|Australian actress (born 1930)}}

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Delia C. Williams (born 1930) was a British-born Australian actor.

Williams was born in Lambeth, London in 1930,{{cite web |title=Delia C. Williams |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl |website=FreeBMD |access-date=21 April 2023}} where she trained at the Old Vic and worked for two years on the West End, as well as a model. She moved to Australia in 1956.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91238932 |title=Famous Thriller To-night |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=31 |issue=9,290 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=3 October 1957 |accessdate=30 July 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71654234 |title=Models defy Cupid |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=27 August 1956 |accessdate=30 July 2020 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} She worked a number of times with Annette Andre.{{cite web|website=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/annette-andre/|date=29 August 2020|title=Annette Andre: My Brilliant Early Australian Career}}

Stephen Vagg of Filmink felt Williams played her role in Stormy Petrel "with verve and a twinkle in the eye. Williams was a Welsh actress who moved to Australia and had a short but glittering career here, nabbing many of the best roles on Australian TV drama at the time (eg. Cathy in Wuthering Heights, Nina in The Seagull); she had presence, beauty and charisma and it’s a shame that her career ended shortly after this when she married and became a mother."{{cite web|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-tv-plays-stormy-petrel/|date=17 October 2021|title=Forgotten Australian TV Plays: Stormy Petrel}}