Background
She was born Ann Helen Minchin in Dorset, England, where her father was the headmaster of Shaftesbury Grammar School.
She was born Ann Helen Minchin in Dorset, England, where her father was the headmaster of Shaftesbury Grammar School.
Shaftesbury School.
Leaving school at 15, she moved to London as a secretary for a prestigious firm. In 1966, the couple had a daughter, Sasha. In June 1968, Faulkner was hired by GTV9 to co-host breakfast television program, Today, with Mike Walsh.
She also wrote a newspaper column for The Australian, and hosted Bobo"s Late Show in which she introduced the Nine Network"s midnight movie.
In 1973, she made a documentary for American Broadcasting Company-television called See lieutenant My Way – The Polysaturated Male, in which she called for the "liberation" of men from the demands and stereotypes placed upon them. In the early 1970s, she made some acting appearances in such programs as police drama Division 4 and the comedy series The Group.
After her separation from Faulkner, she had a relationship with the Australian publicist Harry M. Miller, which ended after Miller claimed she had spread some gossip concocted by himself and Clyde Packer to test her discretion. In 1984, Faulkner and Rosenblum emigrated to the United States where they lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and founded Vogue Interiors, a successful chain of furniture design stores for which Faulkner worked as an interior designer and spokesperson.
In 1998, Rosenblum and Faulkner separated and she became an interior designer and businesswoman in her own right owning "Couch Casting" of Burlingame.
In 2003, he was forced for health reasons to return to Australia. Due to immigration impediments on both sides of the Pacific to any permanent reunion, the couple decided to separate, Faulkner returning to her native England in 2004. Faulkner returned to study, taking a two-year course in counselling at the University of Surrey.
She died in December 2014, ten months after being diagnosed with cancer.