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Samantha Eggar
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Actor Born: March 5, 1939 in London, England, UK Biography:"Samantha Eggar"'s father was a British Army brigadier and her mother was of Dutch/Portuguese extraction. Convent educated, Eggar became a stage actress in her teens. While performing in a Shakespeare play, Eggar was discovered by film producer Betty Box, who cast the tall, auburn-haired 23-year-old actress as a sluttish college coed in "The Wild and the Willing" (1961). Eggar's first international success was "The Collector" (1965), replacing "Natalie Wood" (who'd turned down the film) as the harried kidnap victim of obsessive "Terence Stamp". Eggar garnered an Oscar nomination for her demanding performance, and also won the Cannes Film Festival award. Then followed a succession of unremarkable roles in films like "Walk, Don't Run" (1966) and "Doctor Doolittle" (1967) (which at least gave Eggar a chance to sing). She was better served in "The Molly Maguires" (1970) and "Seven Per Cent Solution"... Full Biography
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