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Samantha Eggar

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Samantha Eggar

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Also known as Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar

British actress (1939–2025)

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Samantha Eggar (1939–2025) was a British stage and film actor. Born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London, England, she began her professional career in 1961. She was educated at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and spoke English. Her work period continued until her death in 2025.

Egar received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globes. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her personal life included an unmarried partnership with David Hemmings, and she had a child named Jenna Stern. She died of leukemia in Sherman Oaks.

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Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Ender's Game Alive
  • Mary Higgins Clark Presents Malice Domestic 2

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Film & TV

Acting · Hampstead, London, England, UK

Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (March 5, 1939 — October 15, 2025) was an Oscar nominated English film, television and voice actress who appeared in Doctor Dolittle.

Known for

  • Birth Pains — herself2015
  • Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten — Jennifer Baines (archive footage)2013
  • The Nine Lives of Chloe King — Olivia Rezza2011
  • Disney Heroes Volume 1 — Hera (voice)2005
  • Commander in Chief — Sara Templeton2005
  • Cold Case — Sister Vivian Dole (2003)2003
  • She Spies — Huffy English Woman2002
  • The American Nightmare — Self2000
  • The Astronaut's Wife — Dr. Patraba1999
  • Loss of Faith — Insp. Strong1998

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1939

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
42
Total plays
316

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Samantha+Eggar">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,936x

  2. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence

    · 2020 · cited 11,335x

  3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,797x

  4. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

    · 2018 · cited 9,610x

  5. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

    · 2018 · cited 9,016x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar , ( 1939-03-05 ) 5 March 1939, London , England
Died
15 October 2025 (2025-10-15) (aged 86), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Citizenship
United Kingdom, United States (from after 1973)
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1959–2012
Spouse
Tom Stern ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1971 ) ​
Children
Nicolas Stern , Jenna Stern
Awards
See below

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Encyclopedic overview

Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (5 March 1939 – 15 October 2025) was an 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, a Sant Jordi Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Eggar 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).

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