Margaret Rutherford

James Church, Gerrards Cross. Additionally, she has won many Soap Opera Digest Awards, including one for Favorite Couple with Mark Derwin in 2000. She is buried along with her husband in the graveyard of St. She has won the "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" Daytime Emmy in 1984, 1986, 1992, 1995, and 1996 (the most won by any daytime actress). She suffered from Alzheimer's disease at the end of her life, and died 11 days after her 80th birthday, of complications from a hip injury. Viki also found out that she had two long-lost daughters: Megan (played by Jessica Tuck from 1989 through 1992) and Natalie (Melissa Archer); this is in addition to her other children, Kevin (most recently played by Dan Gauthier), Joey (Bruce Michael Hall), and Jessica (Bree Williamson). She was a cousin of the politician, Tony Benn. She has also had to go through the process of many divorces (such that her full legal name is now Victoria Lord Riley Burke Riley Buchanan Buchanan Carpenter Davidson), the deaths of loved ones, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease.

Rutherford was awarded an OBE in 1961 and in 1967 she was created a Dame of the British Empire (DBE). Victoria, who is known as "Viki", has had to live with Dissociative Identity Disorder (also known as DID). Her husband was the actor Stringer Davis, whom she married in 1945 and with whom she often appeared. Slezak's character has gone through many tragedies. Rutherford won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for The VIPs (1963), as the absent-minded Duchess of Brighton, opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. She portrays Victoria "Viki" Lord on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role she has depicted since March 17, 1971. In 1961, she first played the film role with which she was most often associated in later life, that of Miss Marple in a series of films based on the novels of Agatha Christie. She is the daughter of actor Walter Slezak.

In most of these films, she had originally played the role on stage. Erika Slezak (born August 5, 1946 in Hollywood, California) is an American actress of Austrian descent. However, her appearance was such that romantic heroines were almost out of the question, and she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British films of the mid-20th century. Born in London, she made her stage debut in 1925 at the Old Vic. Dame Margaret Rutherford (May 11, 1892 - May 22, 1972) was a British character actress who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

The VIPs (1963) (Best Supporting Actress Oscar). Murder Most Foul (1964). Murder Ahoy (1964). Murder at the Gallop (1963).

Murder She Said (1961). The Mouse that Roared (1959). The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950). The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) (in which she played Miss Prism).

Blithe Spirit (1945) (in which she played Madame Arcati).