Samantha Eggar
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Samantha Eggar | |
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Born | Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar 5 March 1939 Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1960–present |
Spouse(s) | Tom Stern (1964–71; divorced); 2 children |
Children | Nicolas Stern Jenna Stern |
Samantha Eggar (born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar; 5 March 1939) is an English film, television and voice actress.[1]
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Early life and education
She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar[2] in Hampstead, London, to Ralph (a brigadier in the British Army) and a mother (Muriel) of Dutch and Portuguese descent.[3]
Eggar was brought up as a Roman Catholic and educated at St Mary's Providence Convent, Woking, Surrey.
Career
She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted on film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. Also in 1962, she played Ethel Le Neve in the film Dr. Crippen, alongside Donald Pleasence. Eggar starred in the comedy Walk, Don't Run (1966) with Cary Grant (his last picture) and Jim Hutton. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector (1965), directed by William Wyler. She won a Golden Globe award for this performance and was also named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.[4]
On her role as Miranda in The Collector, Eggar has said: "My biggest relationship on set was with William Wyler. The tension on set was real. And if the tension wasn't there -- if I didn’t exude precisely what he wanted -- well, Willie just poured cold water over me."[5]
In 1963, she played the title character in "Marcia", a second-season episode of The Saint. After her appearance in The Saint, Eggar did not appear in television for 10 years, instead focusing exclusively on feature films. Although she costarred with Yul Brynner in the 1972 television series Anna and the King, she did not make another television guest appearance until 1973, when she starred in the episode "The Cardboard House" of the romantic anthology series Love Story. From the late 1970s to the 2000s, the bulk of Eggar's screen work would be on the small screen.
Eggar appeared in such films as Curtains, Doctor Dolittle, The Molly Maguires, Dark Horse, The Brood, and The Light at the Edge of the World. In 1976, she costarred with Peter Falk and Theodore Bikel in the Columbo episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case". She appeared as Maggie Gioberti in "The Vintage Years", the pilot for the drama Falcon Crest, but was replaced by Susan Sullivan when the series went into production.
In 1997, she provided the voice of Hera in Disney's animated film Hercules. Eggar also had a role in a 1999 picture, The Astronaut's Wife, which starred Johnny Depp.
She has appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Sarah Templeton, the wife of Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), on the short-lived television series Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis. In 2000, she had a brief run in the American soap opera All My Children. In 2003, she appeared in the first season of Cold Case, episode 14 ("The Boy In The Box") as Sister Vivian. In 2009, she played the mother of Jack and Becky Gallagher in season 1, episode 11 ("Lines in the Sand") of the FOX television series Mental.
Personal life
In 1964, she married actor Tom Stern, with whom she has a son, Nicholas Stern, and a daughter, Jenna Stern. Eggar and Stern divorced in 1971.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1962 | Dr. Crippen | Ethel Le Neve | ||
The Wild and the Willing | Josie | |||
1963 | Doctor in Distress | Delia Mallory | ||
1963 | The Saint | Claire Avery | Episode: "Marcia" | |
1964 | Psyche 59 | Robin | ||
1965 | Return from the Ashes | Fabienne 'Fabi' Wolf | ||
The Collector | Miranda Grey | aka The Butterfly Collector Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Sant Jordi Award for Best Performance in a Foreign Film Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress |
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1966 | Walk, Don't Run | Christine Easton | ||
1967 | Doctor Dolittle | Emma Fairfax | ||
1970 | The Molly Maguires | Miss Mary Raines | ||
The Walking Stick | Deborah Dainton | |||
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun | Danielle Lang ("Dany") | |||
1971 | The Light at the Edge of the World | Arabella | ||
1972 | The Dead Are Alive | Myra Shelton | ||
1973 | A Name for Evil | Joanna Blake | ||
1973 | Love Story | Ruth Wilson | Episode: "The Cardboard House" | |
1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Mary Morstan Watson | ||
1977 | The Uncanny | Edina Hamilton | ||
Welcome to Blood City | Katherine | aka Blood City | ||
Why Shoot the Teacher? | Alice Field | |||
Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case | Vivian Brandt | |||
1978 | The Greatest Battle | Annelise Ackermann | ||
1979 | The Brood | Nola Carveth | Nominated — Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress | |
1980 | The Exterminator | Dr. Megan Stewart | ||
1981 | The Hot Touch | Samantha O'Brien | ||
Demonoid Messenger of Death | Jennifer Baines | |||
1983 | Curtains | Samantha Sherwood | ||
1983 | For the Term of His Natural Life | Julie Vickers | TV movie | |
1983 | Hart to Hart | Gillian Rawlings | ||
1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Marta Quintessa | Episode "Hooray for Homicide" | |
1984 | Magnum, P.I. | Laura Bennett | Episode "Fragments" | |
1990 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Marie Picard | Episode "Family" | |
1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | Jeanne | ||
1991 | Ragin' Cajun | Dr. May | ||
1992 | Dark Horse | Mrs. Curtis | ||
Round Numbers | Anne | |||
1993 | L.A. Law | Camille Bancroft | Episode "Where There's a Will" | |
1994 | Inevitable Grace | Britt | ||
1996 | The Phantom | Lily Palmer | ||
1996 | Everything to Gain | Diana Keswick | ||
1997 | Hercules | Hera, Hercules' Mother | (voice) | |
1999 | The Astronaut's Wife | Dr. Patraba | ||
2012 | Metalocalypse | Whale | (voice) Recurring |
References
- ↑ http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9efa8114
- ↑ New York Times biography
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/21328/Samantha-Eggar
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External links
- Samantha Eggar at the Internet Movie Database
- Samantha Eggar biography and credits at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Official website
- Collecting Life: An Interview with Samantha Eggar - July 2014
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- Articles with hCards
- 1939 births
- 20th-century English actresses
- 21st-century English actresses
- Actresses from London
- Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
- British expatriate actresses in the United States
- English expatriates in the United States
- English film actresses
- English people of Dutch descent
- English people of Irish descent
- English people of Portuguese descent
- English Roman Catholics
- English soap opera actresses
- English stage actresses
- English television actresses
- English voice actresses
- Living people
- People from Hampstead