Samantha Eggar

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Samantha Eggar Early life

She was born to an English father (Ralph, a major in the British Army) and a mother (Muriel) of Dutch and Portuguese descent and was educated at a convent.

Samantha Eggar Career

She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted on film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. Also in 1962 she played Ethel Le Neve in the film Dr. Crippen, alongside Donald Pleasence.

Eggar starred in the comedy Walk Don't Run (1966) with Cary Grant, his last picture. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector (1965), directed by William Wyler. She won a Golden Globe award for this performance and was also named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1964 she married Tom Stern, with whom she has a son, Nicholas Stern, and a daughter, Jenna Stern. The couple divorced in 1971.

Eggar has also appeared in such films as Curtains, Doctor Dolittle, The Molly Maguires, Dark Horse, The Brood, and The Light at the Edge of the World. In 1972 she played the governess opposite Yul Brynner for the short-run Anna and the King (TV series).

In 1997 she provided the voice of Hera in Disney's animated film Hercules. Eggar also had a role in a 1999 picture, The Astronaut's Wife, which starred Johnny Depp.

In 2000 she had a brief run in the American soap opera All My Children. She has also appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, as Sister Vivian in Cold Case, and as Sarah Templeton, the wife of Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), on the television series Commander in Chief

In 2009, she played the mother of Jack and Becky Gallagher in Season 1, Episode 11 (Lines in the Sand) of the FOX television series Mental.