Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO (12 March 191715 July 2011) was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 theatre, film and television actress. She was a longtime resident of Australia

Australia

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 with her husband, the actor John McCallum

John McCallum (actor)

John Neil McCallum, AO, CBE was an Australian theatre and film actor. He was also a television producer.McCallum was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1918, son of theatre owner and entrepreneur John Neil McCallum Sr., who built and for many years ran the 2,000 seat Cremorne Theatre on the banks of...

, with whom she often appeared.
An Anglo-Indian

Anglo-Indian

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, Withers was born in Karachi

Karachi

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, then part of British India

British Raj

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, to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a Dutch-German mother named Zitette. She acquired the name "Googie" (Little Pigeon) at a young age from her ayah (nanny).