She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

She played chess with him by postcard.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

She understood sex anyway, and played at it well.

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.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

She dabbled in pop music and played the role of a glamour model.

She played the duet from orbit while Anderson played on the ground in Russia.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2009.

She again played the role for the Los Angeles production which began performances on February 7, 2007.

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

She played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.

She is addicted to sleeping pills, absorbed in the shallow dramas played on her " parlor walls " ( flat-panel televisions ), and indifferent to the oppressive society around her.

She played first board on the U. S. Women's team in the 38th Chess Olympiad, when the U. S. team scored a bronze medal.

She read books, wrote letters, and played the lute ( see Bartolomeo Tromboncino ).

She finished with only 4 points from 9 games, tied for 6 – 7 place with Jan Timman, who had also played below his rating.

She played a novelty in the opening which she devised over the board.

Kabir also played roles on Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P. I., Hunter, Knight Rider and Highlander: The Series amongst others.

She also played the part of Camie in the film Star Wars ( 1977 ).

She also played the recurring character Jackie Robbins on ER.

She was raised there by her mother, Ellen Simmons, whose Sioux name was Taté Iyòhiwin ( Every Wind or Reaches for the Wind ).

She spent three years there, dismayed to find that while she still longed for the native Sioux traditions she no longer fully belonged to them and that many around her were conforming to the influence of the dominant white culture.

She and both of the buffalo hunters, Big Zwey and Luke, are killed by the Sioux shortly after leaving Ogallala.

She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry.

When white people sit down to discuss racism what they are experiencing is shared ignorance .” She states her lesson plan for that day was to learn the Sioux prayer about not judging someone without walking in his / her moccasins and “ I treated them as we treat Hispanics, Chicanos, Latinos, Blacks, Asians, Native Americans, women, people with disabilities .”

She graduated from North High School in Sioux City, Iowa in 1981 and worked for several years in Omaha as a graphic designer before pursuing acting.

She apparently went to Sioux City, Iowa, confirmed that her children were all right and then went underground.

She entered the Sioux camp along the Kaministiquia River and, pretending to be lost, she bargained with them to spare her life if she would bring them to her father's camp.

She attended public schools in her hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

She recorded Sioux oral history and legends, and in the 1940s wrote a novel, Waterlily, finally published in 1988.

She had the advantage for her work on Native American culture of fluency in both the Yankton and Lakota dialects of Sioux, both of which she had used as a child, as well as the eastern dialect of Sioux ( in addition to English and Latin ).

She was compiling a Sioux dictionary at the time of her death.

She became one of the first female pitchers in integrated men's professional baseball ( female players such as Toni Stone had performed in the Negro Leagues ) when in 1997 she signed with the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League, playing in her first regular season game on May 31, 1997 against the Sioux Falls Canaries.

She made further starts, and later that season, on July 24, 1998, she became one of the first woman pitchers to record a win in pro men's baseball in a 3-1 home victory against the Sioux Falls Canaries.

She was raised in South Sioux City, Nebraska.

She continued to be active in stage and film throughout the 1990s, taking minor roles in the Barbra Streisand drama The Prince of Tides, the low-budget Lou Diamond Phillips thriller Sioux City, and the drama How to Make an American Quilt.

She is the spokesperson for the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council.

She has also toured with Lloyd Cole, Julee Cruise and Siouxsie Sioux, among others.

She starred with Gene Autry in Sioux City Sue in 1946.

She is of Irish, English, German, and Sioux Native American descent on her father's side and of Belgian, German, and English descent on her mother's side.