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 has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

She has uncovered the politics behind the New York City Greenmarket, and was among the first to publish a long-form article in a major American newspaper about Ferran Adria of El Bulli.

She had a major exhibition of 35 paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., in 1912.

She had a strong religious upbringing and developed a faith that would play a major role in later life.

She was a classics major at Scripps College, worked for the Delta Ministry in 1965 and taught at Howard University School of Religion from 1966 to 1976.

She was also one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour.

She later was promoted to major, a high rank for women.

She also had a major recurring role on ER as Jackie Robbins, sister to Dr. Peter Benton.

She provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

She established the Women's Health and Wellness Initiative and became involved with two major campaigns.

She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as first lady.

She had directed the detailed planning of the funeral, including ordering all the major events and asking former President George H. W. Bush as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak during the National Cathedral Service.

She was a major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley and its first woman Regent, serving on the board from 1897 until her death.

She graduated with her sister in 1909 with a major in English Literature.

She first had her major film role in the popular slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer.

She graduated from Wellesley as one of the 33 Durant Scholars on June 19, 1917, with a major in English literature and minor in philosophy.

She never played Desirée in the theater ; instead, she used the beautiful lyrics and melody to create a major pop hit.

She developed this in in Isis Unveiled ( 1877 ) and The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ), her major works and exposition of her Theosophy.

She displays ( major ) signs of both bipolar disorder and psychopathy, manifested in a bizarre brand of sadistic, gleeful, shrieking cruelty towards Xena and her associates.

She plays a major part in various adventures of Jason's crew, suffered injury in a battle at Colchis, and was healed by Medea.

" She was a formidable presence at his side and major force behind his success.

She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major, a move that mirrored her role as Reed in the television series Sisters.