Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar
Eggar in 1964
Born
Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar

(1939-03-05) 5 March 1939 (age 85)
Hampstead, London, England
Citizenship
  • British
  • American
OccupationActress
Years active1960–2012
Spouse
Tom Stern
(m. 1964; div. 1971)
ChildrenNicolas Stern
Jenna Stern

Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (born 5 March 1939) is a retired English actress. After beginning her career in Shakespearean theatre she rose to fame for her performance in William Wyler's thriller The Collector (1965), which earned her a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

She 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 has also worked as a voice actress, as Hera in Walt Disney's Hercules (1997) and in several video games, including Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned and 007: Nightfire. Her television work includes roles on Fantasy Island and a recurring part as Charlotte Devane in the soap opera All My Children in 2000.[1]

  1. ^ "Samantha Eggar Biography". Biography.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2017.