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 came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

She has small, broad, capable hands and an enormous energy.

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

She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.

She also banks into a turn like a fine runabout -- not digging in on the outside to throw passengers all over the boat like many a small cabin cruiser.

She was biting into a small red radish ; ;

She closed her eyes, remembering the small French cemetery, enclosed by stone walls.

She was at the moment just a small, walking package, being delivered to her aunt's and uncle's house.

She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.

She left Bill in Hope with grandparents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

She also gave private art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits.

She made her film debut in Altered States ( 1980 ), in which she had a small part.

She criticized their physical imperfections, including Ronnie's small stature and Roxanne's crooked teeth.

She described Malden as containing " a little settlement fronted by a big wooden pier, and a desolate plain of low greyish-green herbage, relieved here and there by small bushes bearing insignificant yellow flowers ".

She follows the ears under the house where she discovers two small magical creatures ( chibi or " dwarf " totoro and chu or " medium " totoro ), who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree.

She was small as a child, suffering from poor health with chronic tonsillitis.

She appears almost invariably with brown shorts, boots and small backpack, a dark green or blue sleeveless top, holsters on both sides of her hip for dual wielded pistols.

She also observes that the chess pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up.

She played a small role in politics, but became the iconic symbol of the nation, the empire, and proper, restrained behaviour.

She noted that if such stones were broken open they often contained fossilised fish bones and scales, and sometimes bones from small ichthyosaurs.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection ( 1998 ), a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man ( played by Paul Rudd ), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town.

She is a daughter of a King or Zamindar of a small princely state in India.

She made her feature film debut with a small role in 1992's Kuffs.

She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers ( 1946 ).