She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

She had an " exquisite " poise and a famously graceful deportment ; Horace Walpole once quoted Virgil as to her gait, saying, " vera incessu patuit dea " ( she was in truth revealed to be a goddess by her step ).

She remarked famously, “ Sometimes talking to Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn ’ t thump when it hits bottom .” She subordinated her career to his and shared his reclusive life style.

She famously worked in various ball-gowns without the customary cook ’ s apron, averring that women should feel cooking was easy and enjoyable, rather than messy and intimidating.

She famously compared the lengthy shoot to a cold she couldn't get rid of.

The famous feminist, Gloria Steinem at one point stated, “ you became a semi-nonperson when you got married .” She also famously coined the expression ' A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle ,' Steinem dismissed marriage in 1987 as not having a ' good name.

She famously said at the time of her election, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and her presence at Westminster proved to be a real focus for the SNP with a significant rise in membership being the result.

She lives in the English countryside and prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as " famously reclusive "..

She was famously widowed in 1889 when Rudolf and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods.

She refused, and the press sensationalized the family conflict and famously began referring to her as " The Mrs. Astor ".

She also famously retorted in response to Clive Anderson's suggestion that Jeffrey Archer should not be given " the oxygen of publicity " that " I'm not that happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen, actually ".

She famously relates to the tale of the missing sun deity, Amaterasu Omikami.

" She was famously treated harshly by Dreyer, who had a reputation for being a tyrannical director.

She was famously arrested on the picket line during the Grunwick dispute, where Asian women workers were striking for Union recognition.

She was a tough, pipe-smoking woman who once famously headbutted the headmaster of Lister's school when Lister came bottom in French, leading to Lister's expulsion, and whose cooking led to his being nicknamed " Fat Boy " from ages eleven to thirteen.

She was named after her father's aunt, Edith Minturn, famously painted with her husband, Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.

She was famously painted by society painter Philip de Laszlo at the age of 48.

She lived in Southern California and wrote widely ( most famously the book The Witches ' Qabalah ).

She showcased her singing abilities, famously covering Luther Vandross ' " Dance With My Father " and Dolly Parton's " I Will Always Love You ".

She is the daughter of former Fianna Fáil minister, Pádraig Flynn, who once famously described her as a " class act ".

She is well known for the Japanese voice of Monica Gellar in Friends and probably most famously Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon.

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

She appeared in a number of films, most famously Tod Browning's Freaks ( 1932 ) which, according to the documentary on the Freaks DVD ( Freaks: The Sideshow Cinema, 2004 ), left her unhappy with the overall portrayal of the sideshow performers in the film.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

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 received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

She was the first actress to win an Academy Award for a performance in any foreign language, and the second Italian leading lady Oscar-winner ( after Anna Magnani ).

She was a special guest at the 70th Academy Awards, where the show's host, Billy Crystal, introduced her as the " Beauty who charmed the Beast ".

She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948.

She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes ( with seven nominations ) and a BAFTA ( with seven nominations ) during her career.

She received Academy Award nominations for her performances in Damage and Tom & Viv.

She later said, " There was no teaching " at the Academy.

She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1980's Ordinary People.

She has received critical acclaim for her roles in Volver ( 2006 ) and Nine ( 2009 ) receiving Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for each.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

She was the first Spanish actress in history to receive an Academy Award and the first Spanish actress to receive a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

" She shared a Best Actress award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival with five of her co-stars, as well as receiving a Goya Award and European Film Award, and was nominated for the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role.

She was the first Spaniard to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She was not featured in the memorial tribute during the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony.

She taught first at Eunice Kenyon's Friends ' Seminary, and then at the Canajoharie Academy in 1846, where she rose to become headmistress of the Female Department.

* She was named the 1999 Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association ; Twain was the first non-US citizen to win the CMA award.

She won the award for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Academy Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in The Blind Side.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.