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Samantha Eggar

1939 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samantha Eggar is the 2,454th most popular actor (down from 2,276th in 2019), the 2,444th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,122nd in 2019) and the 313th most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Samantha Eggar ranks 2,454 out of 13,578Before her are Aidan Quinn, Tomas Arana, Kitten Natividad, Kieran Culkin, Édith Scob, and Stephen Bishop. After her are Jean-François Stévenin, Bud Cort, Noah Beery, Helmut Griem, Arlene Dahl, and Lesley Manville.

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Among people born in 1939, Samantha Eggar ranks 218Before her are Elena Obraztsova, Leonid Kanevsky, Patrick Wayne, Jane Alexander, Ralph Boston, and Jason Miller. After her are Jerry Brudos, Russell Means, Betty Everett, Yuri Bezmenov, Zeng Qinghong, and A. R. Penck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samantha Eggar ranks 2,444 out of 8,785Before her are John Baskerville (1706), Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947), George Romney (1734), Frank Dicksee (1853), Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (1269), and Ronnie Biggs (1929). After her are Ernest Payne (1884), Tom Sharpe (1928), Agnes Baden-Powell (1858), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), and Graham Nash (1942).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Samantha Eggar ranks 313Before her are David Tennant (1971), Joseph Fiennes (1970), James Stephenson (1889), Simon MacCorkindale (1952), William Hartnell (1908), and Penelope Wilton (1946). After her are Lesley Manville (1956), Gavin Rossdale (1965), Albert Austin (1881), Michelle Fairley (1964), Geraldine James (1950), and Jane Asher (1946).