Samantha Eggar Biography

Fast Facts

• Won second place at the Golden Laurel Awards for her work in "The Collector․"
• Received the 1966 Sant Jordi Award for Best Performince in a Foreign Film
• Was offered a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, but believing that acting would lead to an insecure life, her mother refused to let her go
• Studied acting at the Webber Douglas School for Drama in London
• Quote: "You can always take the girl out of the country, but you can never take the English countryside out of the girl․"
• Considers herself to have been destined to be a nun after spending 12 years of her childhood in a convent
• Appeared in the pilot episode of "Falcon Crest," but was never asked to stay on in the role of Maggie Gioberti Channing