Victoria Shaw (25 May 1935 – 17 August 1988) was an Australian film and television actress.
Shaw was born Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Her parents were Captain and Mrs. Francis W. Elphick.
She lived in Croydon, New South Wales, and attended a convent school.
1951
Shaw was named Australia's Model of the Year in 1951.
The next year, she was named Photographer's Model of the Year.
1953
Shaw worked in an insurance office for six months before she went to the Dally-Watkins Agency, where she studied modelling with June Dally-Watkins before making her Australian screen debut opposite Chips Rafferty in The Phantom Stockman (1953).
1955
Bob Hope spotted her while touring Australia and urged her to try her luck in Hollywood, where in 1955 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.
1956
She played opposite Tyrone Power in The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), her United States film debut.
Shaw married actor Roger Smith in North Hollywood, California, on July 28, 1956.
1959
Her subsequent films included The Crimson Kimono and Edge of Eternity (both 1959), Because They're Young and I Aim at the Stars (both 1960), Alvarez Kelly (1966), and Westworld (1973).
1962
She also made appearances in TV shows, including 77 Sunset Strip (1962), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), 12 O-Clock High (two episodes: 1964 and 1966), Cimarron Strip (1968), The F.B.I. (two episodes: both 1968), Ironside (1969), Barnaby Jones (1973), General Hospital (1974), McCloud (1976), and Charlie's Angels (1978).
1965
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).
1966
She married producer Elliott Alexander in 1966.
They also divorced.
1988
On August 17, 1988, Shaw died in Hornsby Hospital in Sydney at the age of 53 from emphysema.
