Background
Haddy was born an only child in Quorn, South Australia, she attended Adelaide High School.
Haddy was born an only child in Quorn, South Australia, she attended Adelaide High School.
She later attended the Sydney Theatre Company.
She acted in radio plays and school broadcasts while she was working in Adelaide University"s book room. She relocated to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to find acting work, but ended up working as a secretary for Kellogg"son In 1960, Haddy and her family moved to Sydney.
They acted alongside each other twice, both during Haddy"s tenure on Neighbours.
Anne Haddy became one of the first presenters of Play School, a show that has launched the career of many Australian soap stars. programmes in which Haddy appeared include Wandjina! She also appeared in the film They"re a Weird Mob (1966). In 1985, Regional Watson invited Haddy to join Neighbours as Helen Daniels.
During her time with Neighbours, she became the longest-running actress and she remained with the show until 1997. Haddy was dogged by ill health for the last two decades of her life.
She suffered a heart attack in 1979, leading to four bypass operations.
Shortly thereafter, she fell and broke a hip, and later learned she had stomach cancer, which was reportedly discovered early and successfully treated surgically. In 1983, she had one of her four heart bypasses unclogged. Further health problems and a broken hip led to kidney trouble, which caused her to retire from acting in 1997.
Haddy had remarked that she would like to have her real-life funeral screened as part of the show.
Anne Haddy died at her home in Melbourne on 6 June 1999. In the United Kingdom, the episode of Neighbours that was broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation One the following day ended with a dedication to her memory, accompanied by an announcement of her death.
In 1988, Haddy"s popularity was honoured when Oxford University undergraduates made her an honorary member of the university"s Corpus Christi College.
