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 christened the U. S. Navy's official " Little Sister "; the Army named two cannons after her and made her an honorary colonel.

She also joined the Literary Club and had two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry.

She played with her older sister Geraldine ( whom she called “ Sister ”), climbing trees and riding ponies.

She meets Sister Husband ( Stockard Channing ), a woman who runs the Welcome Wagon in town, and mistakenly believes Novalee to be her long-lost relative Ruth Ann.

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.

She auditioned unsuccessfully for Yves Boisset's Bleu comme l ' enfer and Robin Davis's Hors la loi, but was eventually cast in My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister ( 1986 ) by Jacques Rouffio opposite the popular French stars Michel Serrault and Michel Piccoli.

She inspired the character Dolores González in Raymond Chandler's novel " The Little Sister " ( 1949 ).

She is subjected to normal although rigorous spiritual training and hard work, but also emotional abuse from a cold and sinister Sister Vauzous, her former teacher at school, and who is mistress of novices here.

She would later resurface in the pop duo Shakespears Sister with Marcella Detroit.

She gave other notable appearances in Will & Grace, The Golden Girls, Wedding Crashers, and the Sister Act films.

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Scarlet Sister Mary in 1928.

She used to host a daily entertainment news show for Univisión Sister Station TeleFutura.

Supported by singles " Hard to Handle ", " She Talks to Angels ", " Jealous Again ", " Twice As Hard ", " Sister Luck ", and " Seeing Things ", their debut album received multi-platinum certification and eventually sold over three million copies.

She co-wrote " Sister Morphine ", which is featured on the Stones ' Sticky Fingers album.

She has also become a legally ordained wedding officiant who performs ceremonies as " Reverend Sister Go-Go ".

She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith ( with Myrna Loy ), A Farewell to Arms ( with actor Gary Cooper, whom Hayes admitted to finding extremely attractive ), The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows ( a reprise from her Broadway hit ) and Vanessa: Her Love Story.

She played a fanatical nun in the religious drama Sister Mary Explains It All, an impoverished mother in the drama On Thin Ice, and a bookkeeper in the mob comedy Plan B.

References to ' By Grand Central Station ' are littered throughout Smiths songs such as ' What She Said ', ' London ', ' Well I Wonder ', and ' Shakespeare's Sister '.

She turned down the lead role in 1992's Sister Act, which instead went to Whoopi Goldberg.

She went on to star as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun.

She asked the Sister how she could have the child baptized.

She immediately went to Sister Aloysius to arrange for her own admission to the Catholic Church.

*" Sister ", a 2005 song by She Wants Revenge

The poem Systern (" The Sister ") is silently dedicated to her, and contains the line " She got lost to me in the throng of the city " which, as biographer Gunnar Tideström has put it, corresponds to Södergran's dismay after the too short visits by Hagar Olsson and her friend's return to Helsingfors.

She has done uncredited polishes on movies starting with The Wedding Singer and Sister Act, and was hired by the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, to polish scripts for his 1992 TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.