What is Samantha Eggar?
{{Infobox person | image = Samantha Eggar.jpg | imagesize = 150px | | name = Samantha Eggar | birthname = Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar | birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|3|5}} | birth_place = [[Hampstead]], [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = | death_place = | othername = | yearsactive = 1961–2009 | spouse = | homepage = }} '''Samantha Eggar''' (born 5 March 1939) is a [[British people|British]] actress. Eggar was born in [[London]]. Her father was a British Army officer. Her mother had[[Portugal|Portuguese]] and [[Dutch people|Dutch]] acestors. == Career == Eggar has theater training, in companies doing works of Shakespeare. She began making movie appearances. The Wild and the Willing (1962), Doctor in Distress (1963), Dr. Crippen (1964). Being very young Samantha Eggar became famous for playing the role of Miranda Grey in The Collector (1965), Miranda is a student who is kidnapped by a maniac Freddie Clegg, played by Terence Stamp. Her outstanding performance won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. She continued her work in major films such as Walk Don't Run (1966), with [[Cary Grant]], Doctor Dolittle (1967), The Molly Maguires (1970), with [[Sean Connery]], The Light at the Edge of the World (1971), with [[Kirk Douglas]] and [[Yul Brynner]], Il grande attacco (1978). ==Horror movies== She has had several roles in horror films as A Name for Evil (1973), he plays the role of a young woman who with her husband, moving into a possessed house belonging to his grandfather, The Uncanny (1977), with [[Ray Milland]] and [[Peter Cushing]], The Brood (1979) by David Cronenberg, one of the most horror films of the story, she plays the role of Nola Carveth, a woman who suffers horrific mutations. In 1980s she work in Demonoid: Messenger of Death (1981), with [[Stuart Whitman]], and Curtains (1983). == Television == Her television credits include the TV series, Anna and the King (1972), with [[Yul Brynner]], Doubl