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 almost sick when Bobbie came home with the news that Poor John had won the job.

She asked Bobbie.

She also collaborated on the album Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, which earned a gold record certificate.

She said, In 1974, Gentry hosted a short-lived summer replacement variety show, The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour, on CBS.

She grew up in Great Neck, New York, and has an older ( Trudy Carter ) and a younger sister ( Bobbie Cleave ).

She also was called Bobbie for her " bobbed " haircut.

The best-known songs from the musical include the title song, which was an international hit for Dionne Warwick, released before the show's December 1968 Broadway opening ; " I'll Never Fall in Love Again ", a hit for Warwick in the US and Canada ( No. 6 and No. 1, respectively ) and for Bobbie Gentry in the UK ( No. 1 ); " Knowing When To Leave " ( also recorded by Warwick ), " She Likes Basketball " and " Turkey Lurkey Time ", a dance number featuring McKechnie, Lee and Sappington.

She had a recurring role as seductive adulteress Bobbie Barrett in the 2008 season of AMC's Mad Men.

She and various Head Writers also created the Quartermaine family, Bobbie Spencer, Luke Spencer, Robert Scorpio, Anna Devane, Robin Scorpio, the Cassadine family, and many others who would dominate the show in the 1980s and early 1990s.

She was the older sister of Aaron Carter and his twin sister Angel and the younger sister of Nick Carter, Regina " Ginger " Carter, and Bobbie Jean " B. J.

She is known for her role as Barbara " Bobbie " Spencer on General Hospital.

She continues to reside in Islington, North London with her husband and three children Lauren ( b. 1984 ), Louis ( b. 1992 ) and Bobbie ( b. 1997 ).

She angrily rebukes him, and a heated discussion follows ; she charges him with destroying her sister's happiness, with treating Mr Wickham disgracefully, and with having conducted himself towards her in an ungentleman-like manner.

She currently hosts the Channel 4 game show The Million Pound Drop Live, Sky1's reality talent show Got to Dance, and ITV shows The Biggest Loser and Long Lost Family.

She also hosted the British Academy Television Awards 2004 for ITV, returning in in 2006.

She made regular appearances as a style advisor on The Oprah Winfrey Show and following her success on the shows, she went on to co-host Trinny & Susannah Undress ... on ITV in 2006 and Undress the Nation in 2007.

She presented the ITV daytime television chat show Vanessa, made by independent TV company Anglia Television.

She has also made a number of guest appearances on television, including Agatha Christie's Marple on ITV ( playing Betty Johnson alongside Brian Conley in the episode By the Pricking of My Thumbs, February 2006 ), The Catherine Tate Show ( late 2006 ), Supermarket Sweep with Dale Winton ( February 2007 ) and the children's programme Hider in the House ( March 2007 ).

She has guest presented Lorraine on ITV Breakfast and LIVE with ... on Channel 5.

She got her big break as a nurse in an ITV afternoon soap opera of the 1970s, General Hospital.

She also had a memorable role in the ITV comedy Bonkers playing Mrs. Wadlow, a man-eating suburban housewife who seduces her neighbour's teenage son and turns him into her gigolo.

She is featured in, or provides voice-over for, a variety of adverts on television and in the media, including one promoting the company as sponsors of Loose Women on ITV.

She has recently presented Lorraine and Saturday Cookbook for ITV Breakfast.

She was a contestant in the ITV series I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !.

She played Janet Leach in the ITV two-part film Appropriate Adult, about serial killer Fred West, for which she won a BAFTA.

She formed her own television production company, La Plante Productions, in 1994 and as La Plante Productions she wrote and produced the sequel to Widows, the equally gutsy She's Out ( ITV, 1995 ).

She left Channel 5 to join ITV in 1999 and hosted a quiz show called The People Versus in 2000.

She appeared as a guest panellist on the ITV daytime chat show Loose Women in October and November 2005 and later returned as a guest anchor in October 2008 and May 2009.

She also presented the ITV campaigning programme, That's Esther, with co-presenters Lara Masters and Heather Mills.

She made a documentary for ITV called Winton's Children about Sir Nicholas Winton who, as was first revealed on That's Life !, had rescued a generation of Czech children from the holocaust and he was later nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She then screen tested for the ITV Weather and beat two hundred people to the job.

* Murder, She Wrote ( US Import from CBS, Transferred to ITV in 2012 )

She appeared on ITV game show The Chase in 2011 and won £ 1, 000 for her chosen charity.

She presented coverage of the 2010 Indian Premier League ( season 3 ) cricket on ITV which started on ITV4 on March 12, 2010.

She also presented Thames Television's Video View from 1990 and after Thames lost the London ITV franchise, reprised the role straight afterwards on The Little Picture Show for Carlton Television from 1993.

She has most recently been seen as the host of the television series Chef vs Britain and as a regular panellist on Loose Women, both for ITV.

ITV describe Betty as a " lynchpin " of the soap opera, stating that: " She ’ s as much a part of Coronation Street as the cobble stones.

She has also appeared on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes, performing as Nina Simone, Celebrity Ready Steady Cook, Daily Cooks Challenge, as a panellist on ITV's Loose Women, and a presenter on the short-lived ITV Play channel.