Christie has been portrayed on a number of occasions in film and television.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

Christie has also been portrayed fictionally.

In The Agatha Christie Hour, she was portrayed by British actress Angela Easterling, while in Agatha Christie's Poirot, she was portrayed by Pauline Moran.

But Christie reportedly did not approve of the 1960s films as they portrayed Marple as a comedy character and were not faithful to the original plots.

Christie portrayed Barlow's mother, who desperately fights to save her son from being hung for drug trafficking in Malaysia.

For example, the remake of a pre-code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie was cancelled by MGM in 1940 and 1946 because the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute.

Miss Marple, a character created by Agatha Christie and portrayed by Margaret Rutherford, and Margaret's husband Stringer Davis had a cameo role in The Alphabet Murders, a movie based on another of Christie's books and which featured Hercule Poirot.

In their early appearances, they are portrayed as typical upper middle class " bright young things " of the 1920s, and the stories and settings have a more pronounced period-specific flavour than the stories featuring the better known Christie characters.

The Christie waxwork mentions, disparagingly, that while he had been portrayed in film by Richard Attenborough, Haigh had been portrayed by Martin Clunes.

Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie.

Four female writers of the Golden Age are considered the four original " Queens of Crime ": Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham.

In late 1980s to mid 1990s several female rock singers popularly known as " Lady Rockers " were famous in Indonesia, such as Nicky Astria, Inka Christie, and Anggun that started her career in as a pop-rock singer in Indonesia before moving to France and pursue her international career.

Both films featured Julie Christie as the female lead.

In November 2008, Christie ’ s New York sold a 1959 white " Infinity Net " painting formerly owned by Donald Judd, No. 2, for $ 5. 1 million, then a record for a living female artist.

Christie was the female soloist singing a mid-tempo ballad called " Nothing on This Earth ".

There are multiple choices for housing on campus, with Moseley Hall, the Jaffray House, and the Dunbar Apartments for male students, and Christie Hall, Simpson Hall, and the Bethany and Harmony Houses for female students.

Then on their next drive, kicker Steve Christie made a 29-yard field goal to give the Bills a 23-17 lead.

Christie then kicked his second field goal as time expired in the half, increasing Buffalo's lead to 13-6.

With 16 seconds left in the game, Bills kicker Steve Christie made what seemed to be the game-winning 41-yard field goal to give his team the lead, 16 – 15.

Christie, who had obtained the lead role when the casting of Shirley MacLaine fell through, won numerous accolades for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The team then signed Christie Welsh, who had helped lead the 2007 Freedom to the W-League championship before being drafted by the WPS Los Angeles Sol and then traded to the St. Louis Athletica.

All five of the lead actors again reprised their roles in the third series, which featured guest stars including Richard Chamberlain, Linford Christie, Sara Cox and Paul Nicholls.

Christie plays the lead in I. D the film as Kate in 2011.

He became a star after playing Greta Garbo's lover in Anna Christie ( 1930 ), but never developed into a romantic lead.

With only 16 seconds remaining in the game, Steve Christie, the Bills ' kicker, made a 41-yard field goal to put Buffalo in the lead, 16-15.

But the Bills retook the lead with a 41-yard field goal from Steve Christie at the end of a 38-yard drive that saw quarterback Rob Johnson lose a shoe, forcing him to play without a shoe for most of the drive and featuring two receptions by Peerless Price for 23 yards.

In the second quarter, Thomas scored on a 3-yard touchdown and Bills kicker Steve Christie made two field goals to extend the lead 20-6.

Buffalo's defense took over the rest of the third quarter, holding the Dolphins offense to 2 offensive yards while Christie added two more field goals to increase their lead to 26-3.

Tyla took over on lead vocals ( while still playing guitar ) to replace Ned Christie and recorded the band's first album, The State We're In, in early 1984.

Christie Lynne Hayes ( born 31 October 1986 ) is an Australian actress, best known for her work on the television series Home and Away as Kirsty Phillips ( née Sutherland ) who she played from June 2000 to February 2005 and again from May 2008 to October 2009.

* Far and Away ( 1992 )-Daniel Christie

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

::::::::::::- Christie expressing her interest in archaeology, a passage from An Autobiography ( London, 1984 ), p. 389

::::::::::::- Christie wishing for an earlier exposure to Archaeology, a passage from An Autobiography ( 1984 ), p. 546

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

During Christie and Mallowan's time in the Middle East, along with their time spent among the many tombs, temples, and museums, there was also a large amount of time spent traveling to and from Mallowan's sites.

The characters in this book in particular are also based on archaeologists Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations sites.

Christie wrote little of Poirot ’ s childhood though in Three Act Tragedy she writes that he comes from a large family with little wealth.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

Although Buffalo's offense had trouble scoring touchdowns because Kelly and Thomas were rusty coming back from their injuries, Christie scored 5 field goals to make up for the difference.

In Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by David M. Thompson and Ian Christie, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams, or like taking dope and that he tried to induce the feeling of being almost awake.

* December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey ; on December 14 she is found at the Harrogate Hotel.

However, while in the stem Christie only one ski is forced away from the body, in the parallel both skis are forced in the same direction at the same time.

Clouseau's immense ego, eccentricity, embellished French accent and mustache were derived from Hercule Poirot, the famous fictional Belgian detective that featured in the novels of Agatha Christie.

American Vogue dubbed ten models ( Doutzen Kroes, Agyness Deyn, Hilary Rhoda, Raquel Zimmermann, Coco Rocha, Lily Donaldson, Chanel Iman, Sasha Pivovarova, Caroline Trentini, and Jessica Stam ) as the new crop of supermodels in their May 2007 cover story, while the likes of Christie Brinkley, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista returned to reclaim prominent contracts from celebrities and younger models.