Her medal also meant the breakthrough for sporting women in Morocco and other mostly Muslim countries.

Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup model Lillian Müller and photographed her for " Playboy ".

Her breakthrough performance was as Stef Steinbrenner in the 1985 feature film The Goonies.

Her international breakthrough came with La Dentelliere ( 1977 ), for which she won a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.

Her 1991 album, Solace, was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles " The Path of Thorns ( Terms )" and " Into the Fire ".

Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 film Traffic, for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous character played by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar ( 1963 ), which earned her a BAFTA Award nomination.

Her breakthrough role proved to be that of the porn starlet " Roller Girl " in 1997's Boogie Nights, in which she appeared in scenes with frontal nudity and received several award nominations.

Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film Täältä tullaan elämä ( 1980 ) by Tapio Suominen.

Her breakthrough came in the early 1990s when she played Estrellita Montenegro, the main character in Cara Sucia, her most successful telenovela as the lead actress.

Her notable films include Lady Hamilton ( 1921 ; her breakthrough role ); Lucrezia Borgia ( 1926 ); Die Csardasfürstin ( 1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán ); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus ( The Song Is Ended ) ( 1930 ) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn ( 1936 ).

Her musical breakthrough came when she partook in the 1985 edition of Melodifestivalen.

Her breakthrough role came when she was chosen to play Trinity in the 1999 box office success The Matrix.

Her work The Ladder of Vision was acclaimed as a breakthrough in Dantean studies, upon its publication in the 1960s.

Her second studio album, platinum-plus selling Fear of Flying was released in 2000 and became a worldwide success, with single " Case of the Ex " becoming Mýa's breakthrough hit ; topping the Australian Singles Chart for two consecutive weeks.

Her final breakthrough came in 1999 with the German preselections for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Her breakthrough film was I Wanted Wings in 1941, a major hit in which Lake played the second female lead and was said to have stolen scene after scene from the rest of the cast.

Her breakthrough role was as a journalist in The Godfather, Part III.

Her breakthrough role was that of Barbara in the unconventional 1968 movie Zur Sache, Schätzchen ( Go for It, Baby ), which captured the spirit of the times in that it presented youthful protest against the German establishment and hinted at the loosening of morals in the wake of the sexual revolution.

Her breakthrough was winning the " Maiden of Finland " beauty pageant in 1993 and getting to the semi-finals in Miss World the same year.

Her first major breakthrough came when her singing ability was recognized by Igor Stravinsky ; her operatic career began when he invited her to perform in the 1956 Venice festival.

Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 sadomasochistic romance Secretary, for which she received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination.

Her art found its expression in Nordic art's modern breakthrough towards a more truthful depiction of reality, e. g. in Blue Ane ( 1882 ) and The Girl in the Kitchen ( 1883 – 1886 ).

Her breakthrough role came in 2002, when she portrayed Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.

Her private discussions with Prime Minister Tony Blair were dramatised in Stephen Frears ' film The Queen ( 2006 ).

Her final feature, the comedy film With Six You Get Eggroll, was released in 1968.

Her deadite serves as the main antagonist of the film.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

Her character is usually renamed in film adaptations because of difficulties with pronunciation.

* Richard Dysart in both the television film Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair ( 1993 ) and in the 1995 film Panther.

Her parents were the film producer Wilbur Stark ( 1912 – 1995 ) and New York television host Kathi Norris ( 1919 – 2005 ).

Her best known and most controversial performance was the lead role in the erotic film Emily

Her later film assignments included Father Goose ( 1964 ), with Cary Grant ; Ken Russell's Valentino ( 1977 ), in the role of silent-screen legend Alla Nazimova ; and Louis Malle's Damage ( 1992 ).

Her most famous film was Triumph of the Will, a documentary film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the National Socialist, or Nazi, Party.

Her next film, The Taming of The Shrew, made with husband Douglas Fairbanks, was a disaster at the box office.

Her film credits also include Robert Altman's Kansas City ( 1996 ), Robert Duvall's The Apostle ( 1997 ) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah ( 2005 ).

Her three act play, " The Whipping " was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

" Her next film was Blow, adapted from Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $ 100 million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All.

" Her final 2005 film was Don't Move playing Italia.

Her family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R & B singer / actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die ( Queen of the Damned had yet to be released ).

As of August 2012, Jonze's next project is Her, a science fiction romance film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Samantha Morton, Olivia Wilde, and Rooney Mara.

Her final screen appearance was in the 1991 film The Shepherd and the Women, directed by her ex-husband Ali Badrakhan.