She can defend herself physically when necessary, and is capable of performing impressive feats of real magic ( as seen in Wyrd Sisters when Magrat uses her magic to turn the old wooden door into a rising oak-a display that impresses even Granny Weatherwax ).

She impresses the hotel's staff, with the exception of cantankerous guest services manager Miss Gunther ( Susan Kellermann ), with her naive manner and forthright kindness, and mingles with some of the other guests, including Matthew Kragen ( Timothy Hutton ), a self-help guru and coincidentally the owner of the store where she works ; his assistant / mistress Ms. Burns ( Alicia Witt ); pandering Senator Dillings ( Giancarlo Esposito ) from her home state of Louisiana ; and prominent Congressman Stewart ( Michael Nouri ).

She owns a modeling and finishing school, known as Deborah Carthy Deu Estudio y Agencia de Modelos, in which she helps girls and women to develop social skills and self esteem, as well as to start careers in modeling, the arts, television and participate in beauty pageants.

In a 2002 letter to The Guardian Deborah relates the experience: " We were not prepared for what we found-the person lying in bed was desperately ill. She had lost two stone ( 28 pounds ), was all huge eyes and matted hair, untouched since the bullet went through her skull.

She convalesced at Chatsworth House, the residence of her sister Deborah.

She appeared on the dramatic series The West Wing for four years ( 2002 – 2006 ) in the recurring role of presidential secretary Deborah Fiderer.

She has one daughter, Deborah Leslie Dozier ( born in 1948 ), from her union with Dozier, and another daughter, Martita Pareja Calderon, a Peruvian adoptee, whom Joan later gave up for adoption to a clergyman and his wife in Kennebunkport, Maine.

She met Handel while rehearsing and performing the role of Jael in the original production of his oratorio Deborah.

She later reunited with original Hairspray co-star Deborah Harry for the film Grammercy Park Hotel which was released in 2008.

Deborah Frances Tannen ( born June 7, 1945 ) is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C .. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

She has participated in a " blog debate " called " Bridging Differences " with Steinhardt School colleague Deborah Meier on the website of Education Week since February 26, 2007.

She was the oldest of 6 children of Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson, both of old Colonial stock.

She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, and Francis-Marie Uitti.

She was born Helen Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske and Deborah Waterman Vinal.

She recently joined the cast of the 2011 ABC summer drama Combat Hospital ( aka The Hot Zone ), alongside Elias Koteas and Deborah Kara Unger.

She played Deborah Curtis, wife of musician Ian Curtis, whose biography Touching from a Distance formed the basis of the film.

She was portrayed by Deborah Estelle Phillips.

She was replaced by the network's US correspondent Deborah Knight from 2006.

She was a great-granddaughter of Deborah Read and Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.

She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Separate Tables ( 1956 ); she won another Tony in that category for The Night of the Iguana ( 1962 ), playing the luminous Hannah Jelkes ( a role played by Deborah Kerr on film ) opposite Bette Davis's Maxine Faulk.

* Deborah Conway-vocals (" She Keeps Me Dreaming ")

She was ordered to flee by Deborah when she was arrested for witchcraft to survive.

She pleads with Deborah to end the affair, telling her she'll never get another man as good as John.

She left the cast of Songs For a New World during rehearsal in order to play Deborah Gilder in the television series Born and Bred in 2002 through 2005.

She turns out to be Nady Simmons ( Deborah Richter ), a young woman who ’ d been hiding since the pirate attack and thought Gibson was one of their gang.

She was replaced by Ten's then US correspondent Deborah Knight in 2006.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

She has the small, highly developed body of a prime athlete, and holds in contempt the `` girls who just move sex ''.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

She is owned by Ralph H. Kroening, Milwaukee, Wis., who, according to the railbirds, can feel justly proud of her.

She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

She later divorced Graham, who is believed to have moved to Bolivia.

She did suddenly, through the link of memory with his father, old Titus, who must have been in his nineties when Henrietta ran away.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

She had good friends here, people who liked her.

She giggled during the ceremony, and Mousie Chandler, who was one of Linda's bridesmaids, said John glared black as death at her.

She had used his rumpled shorts as the very image of his childishness, his lack of control, his general male looseness, while she remained cool, airy, and untouched, the charming teacher who disciplined an unruly body.

She fell in love with Apollo who disguised himself as Leucothea's mother to gain entrance to her chambers.

She is a serene woman who, after taking care of the housework, sits quietly in a chair.

She has a maid called Maria who prevents the public adoration from becoming too much of a burden on her employer, but does nothing to prevent her from becoming too much of a burden on others.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.