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Samantha Eggar

Actress / Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 03/05/1939 (85) | Hampstead, London, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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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 ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Thriller

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A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the hu ...

The Brood

R

1979 | 3.4/5 | 1h 32min
Horror, Science Fiction
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A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail. ...

Doctor Dolittle

G

1967 | 3.1/5 | 2h 32min
Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
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Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a ...

The Collector

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1965 | 3.7/5 | 1h 59min
Drama, Thriller
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Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phi ...

Hercules

G

1997 | 3.8/5 | 1h 33min
Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Samantha Eggar

Golden Globe Awards Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Samantha Eggar as Actress(49)

as herself2015 Birth Pains
as Dr. Patraba1999 The Astronaut's Wife
as Insp. Strong1998 Loss of Faith
as Hera (voice)1997 Hercules
as Lily Palmer1996 The Phantom
as Diana Keswick1996 Everything to Gain
1996 Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
as Queen of the Night1994 The Magic Flute
as Brit1994 Inevitable Grace
as Ellen Denvers1993 A Case for Murder
as Mrs.Curtis1992 Dark Horse
as Anne1992 Round Numbers
as Mrs. O'Mally / Crown (voice)1992 P.J. Sparkles
as Queen Isabella (voice)1992 The Magic Voyage
1991 Ragin Cajun
as Jeanne1990 A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as Ory Palmer1988 Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
as Solange1987 Love Among Thieves
as Samantha Sherwood1983 Curtains
as Samantha O'Brien1983 The Hot Touch
as Jennifer Baines1981 Demonoid: Messenger of Death
as Dr. Megan Stewart1980 The Exterminator
as Nola Carveth1979 The Brood
as Billie Burke1978 Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
as Hostess1978 Unknown Powers
as Annelise Ackermann1978 The Biggest Battle
as Alice Field1977 Why Shoot the Teacher?
as Edina Hamilton (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")1977 The Uncanny
as Katherine1977 Welcome to Blood City
1976 The Hemingway Play
as Mary Morstan Watson1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Anne Roland1976 The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
as Evalyn Walsh McLean1975 The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
as Carol Ann1974 All the Kind Strangers
as Phyllis Dietrickson1973 Double Indemnity
as Joanna Blake1973 A Name for Evil
as Myra Shelton1972 The Dead Are Alive
as Arabella1971 The Light at the Edge of the World
as Danielle 'Dany' Lang1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
as Mary Raines1970 The Molly Maguires
as Deborah Dainton1970 The Walking Stick
as Emma Fairfax1967 Doctor Dolittle
as Christine Easton1966 Walk Don't Run
as Fabienne Wolf1965 Return from the Ashes
as Miranda Grey1965 The Collector
as Robin1964 Psyche 59
as Delia Mallory1963 Doctor in Distress
as Ethel Le Neve1963 Dr. Crippen
as Josie Stevens1962 The Wild and the Willing

TV Shows/Series with Samantha Eggar as Actress(31)

as Jennifer Baines (archive footage)2013 Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten
as Olivia Rezza2011 The Nine Lives of Chloe King
as Sara Templeton2005 Commander in Chief
as Sister Vivian Dole (2003)2003 Cold Case
as Huffy English Woman2002 She Spies
as Hera (voice)1998 Hercules
as Diana Westley1993 The Secrets of Lake Success
as Queen Guinevere1991 The Legend of Prince Valiant
as Marie Picard1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Camille Bancroft1986 L.A. Law
1986 Matlock
as Lisa Talbot1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marta Quintessa1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Megan Brody1984 Finder of Lost Loves
as Mrs. Vickers1983 For the Term of His Natural Life
1982 Hotel
1981 Darkroom
1981 Aloha Paradise
1980 Magnum, P.I.
as Gwen Carter1979 Tales of the Unexpected
1979 Hart to Hart
as Mary-Louise Murphy1977 The Love Boat
as Meg Chase1977 The Love Boat
1976 Family
1975 Starsky & Hutch
1975 Baretta
1974 Lucas Tanner
1972 Anna and the King
as Vivian Brandt1971 Columbo
as Agnes du Bois1968 Hawaii Five-O
as Claire Avery1962 The Saint

Full Name: Samantha Eggar
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Sunday, 03/05 1939 (March) in Hampstead, London, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 85 years + 49 days)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN)
Other names for Samantha Eggar (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar"
Samantha Eggar frequently works together with these people:
Alan Fudge (18x, Actor)
Jessica Walter (13x, Actress)
William Windom (13x, Actor)
Nehemiah Persoff (12x, Actor)
Monte Markham (12x, Actor)
George DiCenzo (12x, Actor)
Paul Burke (11x, Actor)
David Hedison (11x, Actor)
Lawrence Pressman (10x, Actor)
Herb Edelman (10x, Actor)
Allan Miller (10x, Actor)
Alfredo Zacarías (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:111348, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 03/26/2024