Samantha Eggar
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| Born | 5 March 1939 Hampstead, London |
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| Years active | 1960 - | ||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Tom Stern 1964-71 | ||||||||||
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Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar[1] (born 5 March 1939, in Hampstead, London, England) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning English actress.
She was born to an English father (Ralph,a major in the British Army) and a mother (Muriel) of Dutch and Portuguese descent and educated at a convent.
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. By 1965 she had received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector. She was also named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1964 she married Tom Stern, with whom she has a son, Nicholas Stern, and a daughter, Jenna Stern. The couple divorced in 1971.
She has also appeared in such films as Walk, Don't Run (co-starring with Cary Grant), Curtains, Doctor Dolittle, The Molly Maguires, Dark Horse, The Brood, and The Light at the Edge of the World.
In 1997 she provided the voice of Hera in Disney's animated film Hercules.
In 2000 she had a brief run in the American soap opera All My Children. She has also appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
[edit] Current activity
Recently she appeared as Sarah Templeton, the wife of Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), on the now-defunct television show Commander in Chief.
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[edit] External links
- Samantha Eggar at the Internet Movie Database
- Samantha Eggar biography and credits at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Samantha Eggar at TV.com
- Samantha Eggar article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
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| Preceded by Anne Bancroft for The Pumpkin Eater and Barbara Barrie for One Potato, Two Potato |
Best Actress Award- Cannes Film Festival 1965 for The Collector |
Succeeded by Anouk Aimée for A Man and a Woman |
| Preceded by Anne Bancroft for The Pumpkin Eater |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1966 for The Collector |
Succeeded by Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan! |
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