Patricia Velasquez

Her younger sister Limairy followed her in the pageant in 1993. Withers was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002. Now a L'Oreal spokesmodel, she competed in the 1989 Miss Venezuela pageant representing Peninsula Goajira, placing seventh. Withers' most recent screen performance was as the music teacher in the film Shine (1996) for which she and the other cast members were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild for "Outstanding Performance By A Cast". She is one of the highest-paid and most accomplished Hispanic supermodels in history. They are the parents of the actors Nicholas McCallum and Joanna McCallum. Her character makes her first entrance in the film in remarkably intricate bodypaint. Married to Australian actor John McCallum since 1948, the couple met on a film set in Britain, and returned to Australia where both worked frequently in television together and appeared in a number of stage productions.

She appeared in the role of Anck Su Namun in the 1999 film The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. Throughout her career she has appeared frequently in film, television, and theater. Full name Patricia Carola Velasquez Semprun. Among her successes of the 1940s was One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942), a topical World War II drama in which she played a resistance fighter who helps British airmen return to safety from behind enemy lines. Patricia Velasquez (born January 31, 1971) is a Venezuelan actress. Her best known work of the period was as one of Margaret Lockwood's friends in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). During the 1930s she was constantly in demand in lead roles in minor films and supporting roles in more prestigious productions.

She arrived on the set to find one of the major players in the production had been dismissed, and she was immediately asked to step into the role. She was a dancer in a West End production when she was offered work as a film extra. Born Georgette Lizette Withers she began acting at the age of 12. Googie Withers (born March 12, 1917 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a British actress.