She is capable of superhuman feats, and bionically specialized for her job — her body is almost completely mechanized ; only her brain and a segment of her spinal cord remain organic.

She specialized in cursing men who had wronged women.

She was the title character in the poverty-budgeted 1959 independent Louisiana Hussy and is remembered by specialized genre fans as one of the two female leads in two other small-scale productions, 1959's The Hideous Sun Demon and 1963's Ed Wood-scripted Shotgun Wedding.

She then specialized in electron microscopy in London, and plant virology in Prague and Bari.

She specialized in Staatswissenschaft ( the science of forms of state ), the Middle Ages, and economic and stock exchange crises.

She specialized in " exotic " and " foreign " effects in both costume and stage design.

She specialized in modern history, in which she received a first class honours degree in two years.

She was a " governess "; i. e. she specialized in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like.

She studied medicine at the University of Bristol and later specialized in high altitude medicine.

She used Gordon again, this time as her irascible boss ( and brother-in-law ) Harrison Otis ' Uncle Harry ' Carter at an employment agency that specialized in unusual jobs for unusual people.

She specialized in playing demure young women.

She specialized in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 45P / Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, and the non-periodic C / 1946 K1 ( Pajdušáková-Rotbart-Weber ), C / 1948 E1 ( Pajdušáková-Mrkos ), C / 1951 C1 ( Pajdušáková ) and C / 1953 X1 ( Pajdušáková ).

She specialized in real estate law.

She took her degree in 1993, having specialized in criminology.

She later specialized in Paris ( Comédie-Française ).

She specialized in investigative journalism and wrote about social issues, including articles about religious sects and gypsy communities in Belarus, but also she published several articles about illegal arms trade between Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

She specialized in Snowboard Cross ( downhill obstacle ) events.

In 1990, she obtained a degree in business administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas and returned to Portugal to a job in BMF — Sociedade de Gestão de Patrimónios, S. A. She specialized as an asset manager.

She specialized in public international law and human rights She is the Chancellor of the University of Salford.

She specialized in teaching about the development of the American West.

She specialized in bubblegum dance music, in the same vein as Aqua, Bambee, Smile. dk, and Toy-Box.

She graduated from Bridgewater State College, earned a Master's degree at Cornell University and a Ph. D. at Harvard ( Radcliffe College ) where she specialized in shipworm research.

She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued palette dominated by the color gray.

She stresses the complementarity and equal importance of the male and female roles according to yin-yang theory, but she clearly accepts the dominance of the yang-male.

She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

She started taking roles in such B-movies as Bikini Beach Race and Lethal Cowboy.

She had her own ideas, and though she only did bits and ingenue roles, she didn't hesitate to express them.

Kabir also played roles on Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P. I., Hunter, Knight Rider and Highlander: The Series amongst others.

She is perhaps best known for the roles of Dr. Alexx Woods on CSI: Miami and as Catherine Duke on NewsRadio.

She compares the alleged misogyny characteristic of Lewis ' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which allegedly share the quality of men seeking to dominate subjects seen as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women.

She returned in guest roles in one episode each in Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth.

She has received critical acclaim for her roles in Volver ( 2006 ) and Nine ( 2009 ) receiving Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for each.

She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary's overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Clint Eastwood film Every Which Way but Loose.

She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( as Mary Todd Lincoln ), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ( as Mrs. Ehrlich ) and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s.

She shot to stardom after her roles as Buttercup in The Princess Bride and Jenny Curran in Forrest Gump, the latter role garnering her Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Thiessen then began to take on dramatic roles in several made-for-television movies, including The Stranger Beside Me ( 1995 ), She Fought Alone ( 1995 ), Sweet Dreams ( 1996 ), and Buried Secrets ( 1996 ).

She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles.

She made her film debut in 1985's Heaven Help Us, followed by roles in The Legend of Billie Jean and Maximum Overdrive.

She began doing television commercials, and soon she was in demand for television roles.

She appeared in B pictures in less-than-minor roles.

She rose to prominence during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary.

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 ).

She is known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Michelle Flaherty in the four main original American Pie film series.

She is particularly noted for her roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s.

She got her start in supporting roles in The World According to Garp ( 1982 ), The Big Chill ( 1983 ), and The Natural ( 1984 ), which all earned her nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She has been more recently known for her roles in The Shield and her Emmy and Golden Globe winning role as Patty Hewes in the FX TV series Damages.

She continued to gain experience with minor television appearances, and after she auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Liesl in the film version of The Sound of Music, Ransohoff gave Tate walk-on roles in two motion pictures in which he was producer: The Americanization of Emily and The Sandpiper.