" She had been a model since she was sixteen and had acted in two failed plays.

She subsequently acted in many melodramas with the Valentine Company in Toronto, capped by the starring role of Little Eva in their production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular play of the 19th century.

She wrote a play about snobbish college girls that she acted in as well.

She was replaced as leader by Bartlett following a membership ballot interval during which Brian Greig acted in the position.

She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums — encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, and art songs.

She acted as a private citizen " tired of giving in ".

She acted as regent in Wessex in 1040.

She removed the young Paul and acted as if she were his mother and not Catherine.

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

She hates the callous and indifferent Lunar Authority for personal reasons: when she was transported to Luna as a young girl along with her convict mother, a radiation storm contaminated her ova, causing her to later give birth to a deformed child-a misfortune that could have been averted had the Lunar Authority acted in a timely manner to move their ship's passengers from the surface of Luna.

She continued to invoke Mao's name in her major decisions, and acted as first-in-charge.

She acted late into life, latterly for American television films, including a lavish production of A Tale of Two Cities ( in which she played Miss Pross ).

She is considered to have acted calmly and with some degree of political skill.

She remained a widow for four years and acted as a regent for her son John VI during that time.

She and her sisters attended Aphrodite, and Aglaea sometimes acted as messenger for the goddess of love.

She acted in more than 100 stage productions and did more than 60 film and TV roles.

She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.

She also acted as a religious minister, which was unusual at the time ; the Foundation Deed of the Christian Mission states that women had the same rights to preach as men.

She was also critical of the way that some Jewish leaders, notably M. C. Rumkowski, acted during the Holocaust.

She later became identified with the war goddess of Lower Egypt, Bast, who acted as another figure symbolic of the nation, consequently becoming Wadjet-Bast.

She was the only person in the history of the original Twilight Zone to have acted in one episode and directed another.

She has also acted on TV as a character ( not as " MC Lyte ") in such shows as In the House, Get Real, Half & Half, and The District.

She also acted as intermediary for relatives separated by the war.

She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX.

She ruled England as regent while Richard went off on the Third Crusade.

She served as the regent of Mantua during the absence of her husband, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and the minority of her son, Federico, Duke of Mantua.

She decreed in her will that her husband be the regent during the minority of her child.

She served as Otto III's regent from 984 until her death in 991.

She was only three years old and Maria Cristina, her mother, served as regent.

She served as regent for her husband on several occasions.

Mary of Guise () ( 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560 ) was a queen consort of Scotland as the second spouse of King James V. She was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and served as regent of Scotland in her daughter's name from 1554 to 1560.

She was the regent of Brittany from 1399 until 1403 during the minority of her son.

She was the first queen of France to serve as regent.

She served as regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035.

She intends to rule House Atreides as regent through her son Leto, as he is still under-age.

She was regent of Spain during the minority of her son Alfonso XIII and the vacancy of the throne between her husband's death and her son's birth.

She would remain Queen regent until Wilhelmina's eighteenth birthday on 31 August 1898.

She acted as regent for her brother, Peter II, in 1701 and 1704 – 05.

She was forced to abdicate on 24 July 1567 in favour of the infant James and to appoint her illegitimate half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, as regent.

She was born in the prison of the Château of Vincennes into which her father and mother had been thrown for opposition to Marshal d ' Ancre, the favourite of Marie de ' Medici, who was then regent during the minority of Louis XIII.

She was the daughter of King Louis VII of France by his third wife Adèle of Champagne, and the sister of Philip II of France ; she had originally come to Constantinople to be betrothed to Alexios II Komnenos, but Alexios was murdered by his co-emperor and regent Andronikos I Komnenos in 1183.

She then became her own brother ’ s regent: “ In 412 Pulcheria quarreled with Antiochus, who like Anthemius had served the dynasty faithfully for a number of years, and induced her brother to dismiss him from the duties of praepositus.

She was supported by a large number of French barons who had also drawn more or less in rebellion against Blanche of Castile for supporting Blanche of Navarre as regent.

When her husband died at the age of 40 in 1751, Anne was appointed regent for her 3 year-old son, Prince William V. She was hard-working, but arrogant and imperious, which made her unpopular.

She continued to act as regent until her death from dropsy in 1759, at The Hague, Netherlands, when she was replaced by her mother-in-law, Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and by Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg.