Samantha Eggar (born March 5, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning English actress.
She was christened Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London, England to an English father, Ralph Eggar, and a mother, Muriel, of Dutch and Portuguese descent.
She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted in film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. Also in 1962 she played Ethel Le Neve in the film Dr. Crippen, alongside Donald Pleasence. By 1965, she had received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector. She was also awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
She married Tom Stern in 1964 (divorced in 1971) with whom she has a son, Nicholas Stern, and a daughter, Jenna Stern.
She has also appeared in such films as Walk, Don't Run, Curtains, Doctor Dolittle, The Molly Maguires, Dark Horse, The Brood, and The Light at the Edge of the World.
In 1997, she provided the voice of Hera in Disney's animated film Hercules.
In 2000, she had a brief run on the American soap opera All My Children. She has also appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Mother of Jenna Stern and Nicolas Stern.
Mother-in-law of Brennan Brown.
