Samantha Eggar

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One thing that hasn't changed about her is her sharp sense of humour. Everything else has. Coming from England with an upper middle class accent and boarding school educated she now lives in a hidden away canyon in Los Angeles with her 2 children, Jenna and Nicholas and her stuntman boyfriend Dick Ziker who co-ordinated the stunts in Charlies Angels. She was previously married to American actor/producer Tom Stern in Britain in1964 but divorced in 1970. After their marriage they went to America, Sam to make the film The Collector, for which she was Oscar nominated and Tom to pursue his own career, and rented a house in Benedict Canyon where Sharon Tate was later murdered. After The Collector work kept being offered to her then she became pregnant and soon was on the celebrity circuit attending parties and premiers and making such films as Doctor Dolittle, Walk Don't Run and The Molly Maguires then about 1973 she retired and took pleasure in not having to get up at 5.30 and doing things around the house. Every year though she did some television for the educational channel then a tv series based on The King and I and a film for television then in 1976 returned to England to appear in the film The Seven Per Cent Solution but was told off for speaking with an American accent and she found the money system strange and the fact that she had no memories to go back to.

Overview

Birthday March 5, 1939
Born In Hampstead, London, England, UK
Height 166 cm
Spouse/Ex- Tom Stern October 24, 1964 - March 25, 1971 (divorced)
Parents Ralph Eggar
Children Jenna Stern

Did you know

Trivia As of August 2024 she is the seventh-earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination (tied with Julie Christie), behind only Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Sophia Loren, and Julie Andrews. She was nominated in 1965 for The Collector (1965).
Quotes [on being directed by William Wyler in The Collector (1965)] Being directed by one of the greatest directors of the time at a young age, was a pure gift and, contrary to popular reputation, he hardly ever asked me for more than two takes.
Nickname Sam
Salaries $2,500 per episode

Scores

The Collector
1h 59m
7.5
Hercules
1h 33m
7.3
The Brood
1h 32m
6.8
Doctor Dolittle
2h 32m
6.1
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