" Alexis ' testimony nonwithstanding, Krystle is immediately put off by the former Mrs. Carrington's condescending attitude and manipulations ; Krystle's subsequent discovery that Alexis had caused Krystle's miscarriage by intentionally startling her horse with a gunshot settles Alexis as Krystle's implacable nemesis.

In 2008 Entertainment Weekly termed Alexis and Krystle's catfights " the gold standard of scratching and clawing.

In her native Greece, she formed the Royal Theatre of Athens with Alexis Minotis, her principal director and her husband since 1940.

The transfer of her remains in 2006 was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies, including at St. Isaac's officiated by the Patriarch Alexis II.

For her portrayal of Alexis, Collins was nominated six times for a Golden Globe Award ( every year from 1982 to 1987 ), winning once in 1983.

She loved a young man named Alexis, but her parents betrothed her to another man, and Alexis had to leave the city.

* Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria weaves Dreaming narrative from the Gulf of Carpentaria through her stories of contemporary Aboriginal characters, a form of Australian magical realism.

The Castle contains a variety of paintings, including portraits by Alexis Simon Belle of Queen Mary of Modena and her daughter Princess Louisa Maria., Lady Edeline Sackville who was later to marry Lord Strickland.

Breanna Stewart, at 6 ' 3 " ( 191 cm ), Alexis Prince ( 6 ' 2 "; 188 cm ), and Brittney Sykes ( 5 ' 9 "; 175 cm ) competed in the 2012 contest ; Prince and Sykes failed to complete their dunks, while Stewart landed two in the first round but missed her second two attempts in the final round.

The daughter of politician Alex Herman and schoolteacher Gloria Caponis, Alexis grew up in a Catholic home in Mobile and earned her high school diploma in 1965 from the Heart of Mary High School.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Alexis Stewart said that she believed that the BOP " may have made a point of sending her far away ".

Early in 1734, being occupied with estate affairs in Trois-Rivières, the widow asked her brother-in-law Alexis Monière to keep both her slave and her indentured servant Claude Thibault for her until her return.

In the first episode of the second season, titled " Enter Alexis ," the mysterious witness removes her sunglasses to reveal British actress Joan Collins as a new arrival to the series.

In the season finale, Fallon disappears just before her second wedding to Jeff ( now divorced of Kirby ) as her car seemingly collides with a truck on a stormy night ( to accommodate the departure of Pamela Sue Martin from the series ), while Alexis is arrested for the murder of Mark Jennings.

File: US Navy 100804-N-9671T-032 Underwater archeologists George Schwarz, left, and Alexis Catsambis position a lift bag to readjust shoring during the excavation of the U. S. sloop-of-war Scorpion. jpg | Underwater archeologists position a lift bag to readjust shoring during the excavation of the U. S. sloop-of-war Scorpion.

Amanda and Dex are drawn closer as Amanda catches Michael and Elena in a compromising position and Dex catches Alexis with a crown, imagining herself as Queen of Moldavia.

Alexis began his artistic career in the theatre, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company ( CanStage ).

Rad, Carlos and Alexis were given more character development the Energon comic as opposed to the supporting bit parts / semi-cameos they had in the television series, Alexis was now an anti-war demonstrator, in no government position, and was largely responsible for the Autobots being able to retrieve Kicker from a Decepticon ambush.

Jaden was shown to be an accomplished duelist, defeating the before-mentioned Crowler during his examination duel, Alexis Rhodes, who is hailed as the " Queen of Obelisk Blue ", Chazz Princeton in a school-wide duel, and Bastion Misawa for the representative position in an inter-school duel, all three of whom received higher grades than he did and represented the higher-ranked dormitories.

Alexis Glick joined the team as senior trading correspondent in May 2003, while Bartiromo stepped down from her position in 2004 to concentrate on other duties.

" His lucrative contract providing steel to the Trans-Siberian Railroad came after he provided a $ 200, 000 " gift " to the mistress of the Grand Duke Alexis Aleksandrovich.

Alexis is the daughter of Mikkos Cassadine, a Greco-Russian prince, and his mistress Kristin Bergman, a Swedish opera singer.

Alexis insists it was a one-night stand, but a public scandal led by the mayor's wife portrays an extended affair, resulting in Alexis becoming a suspect in the murder of the mayor's mistress, Brianna Hughes.

She acted infrequently during the 1980s and turned down the role of Alexis Carrington in 1981 for the TV series Dynasty.

In 1981, Collins landed Alexis Carrington Colby, the role for which she is perhaps best known, in the long-running 1980s television soap opera Dynasty.

In 1981, Collins was offered a role in the second season of the then struggling new soap opera Dynasty ( 1981 – 89 ) playing Alexis Carrington, the beautiful but vengeful ex-wife of tycoon Blake Carrington ( John Forsythe ).

Starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans and Joan Collins as oil magnate Blake Carrington, his new wife Krystle, and his former wife Alexis.

Collins ' Alexis Carrington blazed a trail across the show and its storylines ; the additions of Collins and the " formidable writing team " of Eileen and Robert Mason Pollock are generally credited with Dynastys subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings.

In the meantime, Adam Carrington ( Gordon Thomson ), the long-lost son of Alexis and Blake who had been kidnapped in infancy, reappears in Denver.

A storyline involving a murder and an old secret tying the Carrington, Colby, and Dexter families together spans the season as Alexis and Sable spar first over business and then over Dex.

The first cousin of Dynastys Alexis Carrington Colby ( Cecil's widow ), Sable is protective of her family but vengeful when Jason casts her aside for Francesca.

" Dynasty upped the ante ... On one side was the blonde stay at home Krystal Carrington ... in the other corner was the most delicious bitch ever seen on television, the dark haired, scheming, career vixen, Alexis Carrington Colby ... Krystal just wanted to make her husband happy ; Alexis wanted to control the world.

Close on the heels of Fallon Carrington Colby's disappearance and presumed death in a plane crash, a young woman named Amanda Bedford appears in the penthouse of Alexis Colby, Fallon's mother.

Loren was to play thirteen episodes, and producers promised a fabulous wardrobe and a dynamic character that would rival Dynastys Alexis Carrington.

Interestingly, Loren was also Aaron Spelling's first choice for the role of Alexis Carrington in Dynasty, but was passed over as she was requesting too much money, thus allowing the role to go to Joan Collins.

Although initially sluggish in the ratings, audience figures improved after the show was revamped and British actress Joan Collins was brought in to play opposite Evans and Forsythe as the evil Alexis Carrington.

The May 1989 series finale of Dynasty had left Forsythe's oil tycoon Blake Carrington shot by a corrupt policeman, his beloved wife Krystle ( Evans ) in an off-screen coma, and his conniving ex-wife Alexis Colby ( Collins ) plunging from a balcony.

She was the producers ' first choice for the role of " Alexis Carrington " in the primetime soap opera Dynasty.

This particular fight between Krystle Carrington ( Linda Evans ) and Alexis Colby ( Joan Collins ) is from the third season episode " The Threat ".

“ Dynasty upped the ante … On one side was the blonde stay at home Krystal Carrington … in the other corner was the most delicious bitch ever seen on television, the dark haired, scheming, career vixen, Alexis Carrington Colby … Krystal just wanted to make her husband happy ; Alexis wanted to control the world.