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 married in 1380, at the age of 15 and was widowed 10 years later.

She portrayed a recently widowed attorney who defended Cal Leonard accused of murdering his cousin in " The Case of Constant Doyle.

She had been widowed by an earl, and was searching for a husband.

She was not widowed or divorced or seeking a man to support her.

She was the first woman to marry a sitting president, as Tyler had been widowed earlier in his presidency.

She played Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family ( 1970 – 1974 ), co-starring her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

She focused on blue collar women's issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses, and pushed boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control (" The Pill "), repeated childbirth (" One's on the Way "), double standards for men and women (" Rated " X ""), and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War (" Dear Uncle Sam ").

; Edna: She is the widowed daughter of Mrs. Clara Post.

She recounts that when she was 13 years old, Major Hartley, a friend of her widowed mother, had repeatedly raped her while her mother was away.

She was widowed again on 7 May 1781.

She was to write later, " If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation ; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it.

She was widowed two years later when DeLeon was killed in a car crash.

She arranged for her 20-year-old son, John Woodville, to marry the widowed and very rich dowager Duchess of Norfolk, Catherine Neville.

She was then married to Andronikos, and was widowed on his violent death in 1185.

She was famously widowed in 1889 when Rudolf and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods.

She kept her son's existence a secret, and when Joe refused her a divorce she allowed people to believe she was widowed.

She had been widowed three times.

She vowed to step in as the head of the family and take care of her newly widowed mother and her younger siblings.

She was raised by her widowed mother in Greeneville, Tennessee.

She worked as a domestic servant and was widowed in the 1930s.

She was widowed in 1984, and is now married to Ron Sauer.

She was widowed in 1910, but continued to live at Bansha until 1922, when she took up residence with the youngest of her six children, Eileen, Viscountess Gormanston, at Gormanston Castle, County Meath.

She was widowed and is the patron of widows and the patron against poverty.

She has been widowed for 21 years.