Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (born 5 March 1939 in Hampstead, London) 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.
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.
References
^ New York Times biography
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
Awards and achievements
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
Vanessa Redgrave
for Morgan!
Preceded by
Anne Bancroft
for The Pumpkin Eater
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1966
for The Collector
Succeeded by
Anouk Aimée
for A Man and a Woman
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