- Born
- Birth nameVictoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar
- Nickname
- Sam
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- One thing that hasn't changed about her is her sharp sense of humour. Everything else has. Coming from England with an upper middle class accent and boarding school educated she now lives in a hidden away canyon in Los Angeles with her 2 children, Jenna and Nicholas and her stuntman boyfriend Dick Ziker who co-ordinated the stunts in Charlies Angels. She was previously married to American actor/producer Tom Stern in Britain in1964 but divorced in 1970. After their marriage they went to America, Sam to make the film The Collector, for which she was Oscar nominated and Tom to pursue his own career, and rented a house in Benedict Canyon where Sharon Tate was later murdered. After The Collector work kept being offered to her then she became pregnant and soon was on the celebrity circuit attending parties and premiers and making such films as Doctor Dolittle, Walk Don't Run and The Molly Maguires then about 1973 she retired and took pleasure in not having to get up at 5.30 and doing things around the house. Every year though she did some television for the educational channel then a tv series based on The King and I and a film for television then in 1976 returned to England to appear in the film The Seven Per Cent Solution but was told off for speaking with an American accent and she found the money system strange and the fact that she had no memories to go back to.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tonyman 5
- SpouseTom Stern(October 24, 1964 - March 25, 1971) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- ParentsRalph EggarMuriel Eggar
- As of 2020 she is the 8th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, tied with Julie Christie and behind only Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, a tied Piper Laurie and Sophia Loren, and Julie Andrews. She was nominated in 1965 for The Collector (1965).
- Romance with Albert Finney until August 1964.
- She is the daughter of Muriel Olga (Palache) and Ralph Alfred James Eggar, a British Army brigadier. Her mother was from a Jewish family, from Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was of Sephardi and Ashkenazi descent.
- She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Nicholas Courtney, Julia Ormond, Emma Chambers, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Daniel Hunt, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.
- In 1966 she rented what would later become known the infamous 'Sharon Tate' house on Cielo Drive.
- [on being directed by William Wyler in The Collector (1965)] Being directed by one of the greatest directors of the time at a young age, was a pure gift and, contrary to popular reputation, he hardly ever asked me for more than two takes.
- Anna and the King (1972) - $2,500 per episode
- The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970) - $200,000
- The Molly Maguires (1970) - $300,000
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