Samantha Eggar

Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (5 March 1939 – 15 October 2025) was an English actress. After beginning her career in Shakespearean theatre she rose to fame for her performance in William Wyler's thriller The Collector, which earned her a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, a Sant Jordi Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Eggar later appeared as Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle (1967) and the American drama The Molly Maguires (1970). In the early 1970s Eggar moved to the United States and Canada, where she later starred in several horror films, including The Dead Are Alive (1972), The Uncanny (1977) and David Cronenberg's cult thriller The Brood (1979).

Eggar also worked as a voice actress, as Hera in Disney's Hercules (1997) and in several video games, including Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999) and as M in James Bond 007: Nightfire (2002). Her television work included roles on Fantasy Island and a recurring part as Charlotte Devane in the soap opera All My Children in 2000.

Early life Samantha Eggar was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar on 5 March 1939, in Hampstead, London, to Ralph Alfred James Eggar, a brigadier in the British Army, and Muriel Olga Palache-Boumam, who was of Dutch and Portuguese descent. Eggar also had Irish ancestry through her grandmother. in the same year she appeared on stage again as Olivia in a production of Twelfth Night by George Devine.

In 1963, Eggar played the lead role of Claire Avery in "Marcia", a second-season episode of The Saint. After her appearance in The Saint, Eggar did not make a guest appearance on television for 10 years. In 1965, Eggar appeared in the thriller The Collector, directed by William Wyler, playing a kidnap victim. Of her time working on the set of the film "Ms. Eggar told The Daily Mirror in 1965 that working on the set ... was 'the hardest three months of my life;" she noted that during the shoot she lost about 14 pounds. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe award for her performance. She was also awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966.

The following year Eggar starred in the comedy Walk, Don't Run (1966) with Cary Grant (his last motion picture) and Jim Hutton, followed by a lead role as Emma Fairfax in Richard Fleischer's musical adaptation of Doctor Dolittle (1967). and The Uncanny, a horror movie directed by Denis Héroux. 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 and the couple had two children: film producer Nicolas Stern and actress Jenna Stern. Eggar and Stern divorced in 1971.

In the early 1970s, Eggar had an affair with her The Walking Stick co-star David Hemmings.

Eggar held dual British and American citizenship, obtaining the latter in 1973.

Death Eggar resided in Los Angeles, According to her daughter, Eggar had been diagnosed with this illness 22 years earlier. Dr. Crippen Ethel Le Neve Robert Lynn 1963 Doctor in Distress Delia Mallory Ralph Thomas 1964 Psyche 59 Robin Alexander Singer

Return from the Ashes Fabienne 'Fabi' Wolf J. Lee Thompson 1966 Walk, Don't Run Christine Easton Charles Walters

data-sort-value="Molly Maguires, The" | The Molly Maguires Miss Mary Raines Martin Ritt data-sort-value="Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, The" | The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun Danielle "Dany" Lang Anatole Litvak 1971 data-sort-value="Light at the Edge of the World, The" | The Light at the Edge of the World Arabella Kevin Billington 1972 data-sort-value="Dead Are Alive, The" | The Dead Are Alive Myra Shelton Armando Crispino

data-sort-value="Uncanny, The" | The Uncanny Edina Hamilton Denis Héroux Segment: "Hollywood 1936" 1979 data-sort-value="Brood, The" | The Brood Nola Carveth David Cronenberg

data-sort-value="Hot Touch, The" | The Hot Touch Samantha O'Brien Roger Vadim 1993 The Magic Voyage Isabella I of Castile (voice) Michael Schoemann 1994 Inevitable Grace Britt Alex Monty Canawati 1982 Darkroom Miss Alexis St. Clair Episode: "Exit Lane" 1993 L.A. Law Camille Bancroft Episode "Where There's a Will" 2011 The Nine Lives of Chloe King Olivia Rezza Episode: "Beautiful Day" 2012 Metalocalypse Whale (voice) 2 episodes 1975 The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond Evalyn Walsh McLean Delbert Mann

The Hemingway Play Glynis Don Taylor 1990 data-sort-value="Ghost in Monte Carlo, A" | A Ghost in Monte Carlo Jeanne John Hough 1996 Everything to Gain Diana Keswick Michael Miller 1998 Loss of Faith Insp. Strong Allan A. Goldstein

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford

Old Vic Theatre, London

Oxford Playhouse, Oxford

Theatre Royal, Bath 1992 Auntie Mame Vera Karin Baker Candlewood Playhouse, New Fairfield

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