1. Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar was born on 5 March 1939 and is a retired English actress.
19 Facts About Samantha Eggar
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Samantha Eggar later appeared as Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle and the American drama The Molly Maguires.
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Samantha Eggar has worked as a voice actress, as Hera in Walt Disney's Hercules and in several video games, including Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned and 007: Nightfire.
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Samantha Eggar was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar on 5 March 1939 in Hampstead, London, to Ralph Alfred James Eggar and Muriel Olga Palache-Bouma, who was of Dutch and Portuguese descent.
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Samantha Eggar was brought up as a Roman Catholic and educated at St Mary's Providence Convent in Woking, Surrey.
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Samantha Eggar was offered a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts but instead studied fashion for two years at the Thanet School of Art.
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Samantha Eggar began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, notably playing Titania in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Tony Richardson.
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Samantha Eggar appeared on stage in a production of Douglas Seale's Landscape with Figures, where she was noticed by a talent scout.
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In 1965 Samantha Eggar appeared in the thriller The Collector, directed by William Wyler, playing a kidnap victim.
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Samantha Eggar received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe award for her performance.
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Samantha Eggar was awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966.
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Samantha Eggar appeared in The Walking Stick, a psychological thriller by Eric Till where she costarred with David Hemmings, The Molly Maguires, a social drama directed by Martin Ritt in which she starred with Sean Connery and Richard Harris, and The Light at the Edge of the World, an adventure movie from a novel by Jules Verne in which she shared the screen with Kirk Douglas and Yul Brynner.
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Samantha Eggar played the main character in The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, a thriller based on a book by French novelist Sebastien Japrisot and the last film directed by Anatole Litvak.
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Samantha Eggar then went to Italy to shoot The Dead Are Alive, a giallo directed by Armando Crispino.
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Samantha Eggar would go on to star in a number of horror films, including A Name for Evil and Demonoid Messenger of Death.
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Samantha Eggar appeared twice on The Love Boat, first charming ship's captain, Merrill Stubing, as fortune-teller Mary-Louise Murphy in 2 March 1979's 'A Funny Valentine'.
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Samantha Eggar appeared in the drama Dark Horse, followed by the superhero film The Phantom.
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Samantha Eggar had a role in the sci-fi thriller The Astronaut's Wife, which starred Johnny Depp.
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Samantha Eggar has appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Sarah Templeton, the wife of Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton, on the short-lived television series Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis.