Completely happy Birthday to legendary actress Elisabeth Kirkby who turned an incredible 104 on Sunday.

UK born Kirkby is greatest recognized to Australian audiences for enjoying Lucy Sutcliffe in Quantity 96.

She served within the British Military throughout the Second World Conflict. After the warfare, she labored as a radio broadcaster in Malaya for 15 years earlier than transferring to Sydney in 1965. She served within the NSW Legislative Council from 1981 to 1998.

In 2014, aged 93, Kirkby grew to become Australia’s oldest college graduate finishing a PhD on the College of Sydney.

In 2012 she was awarded the nationwide Medal of the Order of Australia, for “…service to the Parliament of New South Wales, to the group of Temora, and to the performing arts.”

Completely happy Birthday to a unprecedented girl. Elisabeth Kirkby is not only somebody whose achievements have impressed us all for therefore a few years, she can also be one of many sweetest and kindest human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure of realizing and dealing with. My honest good needs that you just proceed to grace this world together with your presence for a few years to return.
A lot love.

Chard Hayward, who performed Dudley Butterfield, wrote on the Quantity 96 Appreciation Society Fb web page, “Completely happy Birthday to a unprecedented girl. Elisabeth Kirkby is not only somebody whose achievements have impressed us all for therefore a few years, she can also be one of many sweetest and kindest human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure of realizing and dealing with. My honest good needs that you just proceed to grace this world together with your presence for a few years to return. A lot love.”