AngelaD'Audney
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The career of iconic broadcaster Angela D'Audney spanned four decades. After a pioneering frontwoman role on 1974 regional show Look North, D’Audney went on to present news programmes, long-running arts slot Kaleidoscope, and act in teleplay The Venus Touch. In 2001 she was diagnosed with a brain tumour; D'Audney died the following year, after co-writing autobiography A Wonderful Life.
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Biography
Angela D'Audney has been called New Zealand's “first lady of broadcasting”. She became an iconic figure in local television and radio over the course of a career spanning nearly 40 years.
D’Audney was born Angela Cerdan on 26 August 1944, in a London hospital under a German bomb attack. She was the daughter of a Spanish civil war veteran and an American Jew. Her family migrated from Britain to Brazil when she was an infant, where her early childhood was spent living in Rio de Janero, Bahia and Sao Paolo before eventually settling in Auckland at age 12.
“I've always wanted to do this, and I've never been able to...this is One News on Monday, goodnight … love you, bye.”
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