Personal Life
Bishop is the daughter of opera singer Kathleen Congreve and enjoys singing and dancing, having appeared in several charity productions including The Sound of Music (as Baroness Elsa), and Grease (as the Headmistress). In 2007 she sang a duet of Irving Berlin's A Couple of Swells with then Health Minister, Tony Abbott, at a fund-raiser in Sydney. Bishop is also a patron of Opera Australia and was 2008 President of the Sydney International Piano Competition Committee.
She was divorced from lawyer Alan Bishop in 1992 and has two daughters: Sally, a rehabilitation counsellor, and Angela, an entertainment reporter for Network Ten. She currently lives in the Sydney suburb of Newport.
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