Samantha Eggar

Larger Version See trench coat. Evans was knighted as a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1946. In 2000, she had a brief run on the American soap opera All My Children. From then until 1977, she made several acclaimed films, including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Whisperers (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress), Tom Jones (nominated for Best Supporting Actress), The Slipper and the Rose, The Nun's Story, The Chalk Garden (nominated for Best Supporting Actress), The Madwoman of Chaillot, Crooks and Coronets and Nasty Habits. She has appeared in such films as Walk, Don't Run, Doctor Dolittle The Molly Maguires (1970), and The Brood. Born in London, she began a film career in 1915, but was noted mostly for her stage work until she appeared in the 1949 film The Last Days of Dolwyn. By 1965, she had received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector. Dame Edith Mary Evans (February 8, 1888 - October 14, 1976) was a British actress.

Born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London, England, she began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted in film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. Samantha Eggar (born March 5, 1933) is a British actress.