Tributes to Australian actress Wendy Hughes have continued on social media.
Hughes, who is best known for her role in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career in 1979 and the 1983 mini-series Return to Eden, for which she won a Logie, lost her battle with cancer on Saturday at the age of 61.
Ireland-born, New Zealand based actor Sam Neill, who starred alongside Hughes in My Brilliant Career, took to Twitter on Saturday to express his pain after hearing the news.
"Very distressed to hear Wendy Hughes, loveable, outrageous, beautiful, hilarious, talented, utterly gorgeous friend has died," he tweeted.
An hour later he wrote: "The very last time we worked together, how sad - never again. That lovely girl. Wendy Hughes."
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Australian actress and award-winning director Lian Lunson also took to social media to pay her respects, posting on her Facebook page: "When I dreamed of being an actress in Australia I wanted to be a beautiful and glamorous one just like Wendy Hughes thank you for inspiring me rip beauty."
Hughes also won a Logie for her role in the 1976 series Power Without Glory and an Australian Film Institute award for her 1983 performance in the drama Careful, He Might Hear You.
Hughes will also be remembered for her work on the long-running Network Ten series State Coroner, in which she played Kate Ferrari.
