Samantha Eggar
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| Samantha Eggar | ||||||||||
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| Born | March 5 1939 Hampstead, London Image:Flag of England.svg | |||||||||
| Years active | 1960 - | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Tom Stern 1964-71 | |||||||||
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Samantha Eggar (born March 5, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning English actress.
She was christened Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar[citation needed] in Hampstead, London, England to an English father, Ralph Eggar, and a mother, Muriel, of Dutch and Portuguese descent.
She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted in film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. By 1965, she had received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector. She was also awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
She married Tom Stern in 1964 (divorced in 1971) with whom she has a son, Nicholas Stern, and a daughter, Jenna Stern.
She has also appeared in such films as Walk, Don't Run, Curtains, Doctor Dolittle, The Molly Maguires, Dark Horse, The Brood, and The Light at the Edge of the World.
In 2000, she had a brief run on 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.
[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
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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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