Mary Cassatt, Lydia Leaning on Her Arms ( in a theatre box ), 1879

Her second husband was British theatre director Peter Hall.

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

Her husband, Pompeianus, was not involved, but two men alleged to have been her lovers, Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus ( the consul of 167, who was also her first cousin ) and Appius Claudius Quintianus, attempted to murder Commodus as he entered the theatre.

Her post-war theatre credits included Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest again at the Haymarket Theatre in 1946 and Lady Bracknell when the same play transferred to New York in 1947.

Her wreath of vines and grapes alludes to Dionysus, the god of the theatre.

Her father, a physician, was also the GP for the York theatre, and her mother was its wardrobe mistress.

The King's Opera House ( now rebuilt as Her Majesty's Theatre ) ( 1816 – 1818 ) where he and George Repton remodelled the theatre, with arcades and shops around three sides of the building, the fourth being the still surviving Royal Opera Arcade.

Her reason for this was opposition toward the theatre among the clergy.

Their work at miniature scale has translated into large-scale decors for the theatre and opera productions of director Richard Jones: Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges ; Feydeau's " A Flea in Her Ear "; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa ; and Molière's " Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ".

Her career also faced turmoil as a result of her marriage to Parks, and the two spent much of the 1950s doing theatre and musical variety shows.

Her poetry has been set to music, and adapted for theatre, CD, film, video, radio, television, multimedia performance, and dance.

Her theatre career flourished with her portrayals of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) and the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca ( 1940 ); the production of the latter was halted when the theatre was destroyed by a bomb in September 1940.

With Nicol on board, the band released the album They Called Her Babylon early in 2004, and extensively toured the UK, Europe and Australia, and their relatively prolific output continued with the release of the Christmas album ' Winter ' later the same year, as the band ended a busy year of touring with a gala performance in London's Palladium theatre.

Her successes in theatre include the Royal Court Theatre and Broadway productions of Home.

Her first professional theatre appearance was in a 1967 stage adaptation of Chekhov ’ s Three Sisters, at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in which she played Irina, co-starring with Glenda Jackson and Avril Elgar.

Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series.

Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964.

Her father introduced her to theatre when he took her to see Flora Robson in a 1938 production of Mary Tudor ; she later recalled that after the performance " I made up my mind then and there I was going to be an actress ...

Her celebrity status has been called " mythical " and " monumental ," and by " the mid-1780s Siddons was established as a cultural icon, along with Hannah Murphy, another theatre great of the time.

: Her aunt went off to the theatre

Her distinctive warbling voice and round cheeks made her a familiar and much-loved personality to British theatre and film audiences at the beginning of World War II, but her popularity waned in the 1940s after several years ' absence from the screen followed by an unsatisfactory thriller, Candles at Nine.

Her contributions are mainly on the roles of antibodies directed against ion channel at the nerve-muscle junction in the pathogenesis of above mentioned diseases.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Her Stage Door portrayal of a fast-talking, witty supporting character, gained Arden considerable notice and was to be a template for many of Arden's future roles.

Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes ( 1997 ), The Hi-Lo Country ( 1999 ), The Girl of Your Dreams ( 2000 ) and Woman on Top ( 2000 ).

Her other television roles include recurring appearances as Marelene on Dharma & Greg, and Penny in two episodes of Dead Like Me.

Her one scene role as pregnant checkout girl Nancy in 1991's City Slickers earned her " more attention than all previous roles combined ," and taught her that " that it's far better to have small parts in big movies that everyone sees.

Her other roles include parts in Barry Levinson's Toys and James L. Brooks ' As Good as It Gets.

Her best known film roles were " Susanne Wallner " in Wolfgang Staudte's film Die Mörder sind unter uns ( The Murderers Are Among Us ), the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany and produced by DEFA ); and in 1950, " Marina " in Die Sünderin ( The Sinner ), in which she performed a brief nude scene, the first in German film history, causing a scandal.

Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.

Her friend Miriam Cooper helped Lombard land small roles in her husband Raoul Walsh's films.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

With increasing interest in the war in Europe, the film performed well at the box office, but Shearer made errors in judgment, passing up roles in the highly successful films Now, Voyager and Mrs. Miniver, in order to star in We Were Dancing and Her Cardboard Lover ( 1942 ), which both failed at the box office.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

Garbo had successfully made the transition to talkies and after three less profitable films, Romance ( 1930 ), Inspiration ( 1931 ), and Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ), she performed two of her most famous roles.

Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theater roles to her credit.

Her image was considered with more care ; although she continued to play character roles, she was often filmed in close-ups that emphasized her distinctive eyes.

Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.

* Her notoriety intersected with the criminal obsessions and camp sensibilities of filmmaker John Waters, who has used Hearst in numerous small roles in films including Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. DeMented, and A Dirty Shame.

Her other film roles included the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland ( 1972 ), Livia in the abortively-attempted I, Claudius ( 1937 ), Miss Milchrest in Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ).

Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

Some other notable film roles include her work in Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Immortal Beloved, and Fearless.