Bettina Welch

Bettina Welch (1922–1993) was an Australia-based theatre and television actor who became best known for her role as scheming businesswoman Maggie Cameron in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96. Welch was born in 1922 in New Zealand. Her acting career began in her teenage years when she arrived in Sydney from New Zealand with her parents on holiday. In Sydney she won a competition that led to her being trained by J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and she began acting on Australian radio. Her training with J. C. Williamson led to a succession of theatre roles with the company. During Robert Morley's Australian theatre tour in 1949 she played his young mistress in Edward My Son. Her other stage roles include Australian productions...