Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar
Eggar in a 1964 publicity headshot
Born	Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (1939-03-05) 5 March 1939 (age 77) Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Citizenship	British; American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1960–present
Spouse(s)	Tom Stern (m. 1964; div. 1971)
Children	2

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

She would later appear as Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle (1968), and the American drama The Molly Maguires (1970). In the early 1970s, Eggar relocated to the United States and Canada, where she would later star 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 also lent her voice to several video games, including Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned and 007: Nightfire. Her television work includes roles in Fantasy Island, and a recurring part as Charlotte Devane on the soap opera All My Children in 2000.

Samantha Eggar was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar on 5 March 1939 in Hampstead, London, to Ralph (a brigadier in the British Army) and a mother (Muriel) of Dutch and Portuguese descent. Shortly after her birth, her family relocated to rural Bledlow, Buckinghamshire during World War II, where she spent her childhood. There, she was neighbours with Oliver Reed.