She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.

She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.

She converted to Islam and became known as Umm Habiba ( Little Mother of the Beloved ).

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3: 3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings.

She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.

She also drew Manet into the circle of painters who soon became known as the Impressionists.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street ( for which she received an Academy Award nomination ) and Annie Hall.

She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.

She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938, and married Deng a year later in front of Mao's cave dwelling in Yan ' an.

She became the top-ranking female box office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers ( male and female ), as of 2012.

She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Titan goddess Luna.

She also became the goddess of childbirth and ruled over the countryside.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

She made headlines and became part of the national debate over troubled child stars, particularly given the difficulties of her Diff ' rent Strokes co-stars, Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.

She introduces herself as the Lady from Lourdes, a professional Miracle Inspector, come to investigate the miracle.

" She developed a structured, professional routine, arriving promptly at her studio, and expected the same from her models.

She attended the Professional Children's School, in New York City, and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes.

She made her professional debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart, at the Circle Repertory Theatre.

She made her professional feature film debut in Three For The Road with Charlie Sheen.

She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead's daughter clearly express a romantic relationship.

She moved to Greece in 1956, and worked as a professional saw musician.

She dropped out after a year, and made her professional debut in 1960 on her father's television special, The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis, welcoming the return of Elvis Presley home from Europe following his discharge from service in the US Army.

She also dropped " Penn " from her professional name.

She was a complete " amateur ", meaning that she did not have any professional crime-fighting skills as did the two doctors.

She defended Leigh, saying, " Vivien was impeccably professional, impeccably disciplined on Gone with the Wind.

She scored her first professional gig, unaware that she would soon be center stage.

She was the first woman to play full time professional hockey in a position other than goalie.

As British writer and critic V. S. Pritchett explained, " She was certainly drily aware that she had been given to an old husband as a reward for his professional services to a friend of her family and that the capital was on her side.

She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra.

She began working as a professional dancer a year later, and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City.

Minnelli began as a nightclub singer as an adolescent, making her professional nightclub debut at the age of 19 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C .. She later appeared in other clubs and on stage in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York City.

She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.

" She claims the NBA has become irrelevant to average readers and of more interest to professional writers.

She said of the popular arts ," some of it is made for themselves by people without professional training in the arts or in the appreciation of them, and some of it has been made for those people by professionals who work to their taste.

She is currently an investment professional at Ontario Teachers ' Private Capital in Toronto.

She became a teacher in schools in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, and then, until about 1852, became a distinguished professional lecturer, conducting, in various Eastern United States cities, classes for women in history and literature by methods she devised.

She applied for a professional boxer's license in Mexico.

She graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD in 1979, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied theatre for several years before dropping out due to a professional acting job offer.