She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mépris.

She divorced Vadim in 1957 and in 1959 married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette Goes to War.

She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

She starred in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore in February 2010.

She starred as Kitty Walker McCallister on the ABC drama, Brothers & Sisters.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) with James Stewart.

She starred in the western film The Ballad of Josie ( 1967 ) and starred in a comedy film centered on the Northeast blackout of November 9, 1965 called Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

She also starred in the pilot episode of Eight Is Enough as Nancy Bradford, the role that, in the series, went to Dianne Kay.

She also starred in Rich Man Poor Man with Nick Nolte and a host of other well-received television mini-series.

She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette ( 2006 ) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People ( 2008 ).

She also starred in the successful musicals Lili ( 1953 ), with Mel Ferrer ; Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), with Fred Astaire, and Gigi ( 1958 ) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

She co-wrote, directed and starred in the film and produced it under the banner of her own company, Leni Riefenstahl Productions.

She also starred in the nearly universally panned film remake of Lost Horizon in 1973.

She also starred in the short-lived Annie McGuire in 1988.

She subsequently also guest starred on Ellen DeGeneres's next TV show, The Ellen Show, in 2001.

She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, and ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre ( transferred to the Royale Theatre ) on Jan. 8, 1988, and ran for 164 performances.

She soon starred in the 1953 science fiction film Donovan's Brain ; Crowther said that Davis, playing the role of a possessed scientist's " sadly baffled wife ", " walked through it all in stark confusion " in an " utterly silly " film.

She also made appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Man from U. N. C. L. E., and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Virginian and starred in television specials.

" She also starred in Sergio Castellitto ’ s melodrama Don ’ t Move.

She then starred on the short-lived television series, CBS's Live to Dance, which lasted one season in 2011, and was subsequently a judge on the first season of American version of The X Factor with her former American Idol co-judge Simon Cowell which premiered on September 21, 2011.

She then starred in films such as The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump ( earning her a Golden Globe nomination ).

She also starred in ads for Candie's shoes and Gitano jeans, who also sponsored her 1998 – 1999 Come On Over Tour.

She is the face of fragrances Chanel's Allure, Givenchy's Forbidden flower, Cacharel's Promise, Bulgari's BLV II, Ralph Lauren's Notorious, and in 15 June 2012 D & G's Pour Femme shot in Erice by Mario Testino.

She met The Notorious B. I. G.

She also appeared in Picnic ( 1955 ), The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ), Pal Joey ( 1957 ), Middle of the Night ( 1959 ), The Notorious Landlady ( 1962 ), and Kiss Me, Stupid ( 1964 ).

She was paired with Jack Lemmon for a third and final time that year in a mystery-comedy, The Notorious Landlady.

She has become well known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, including Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X and Panther, Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story, Katherine Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, and Voletta Wallace in Notorious.

She is known for her roles in films like Rounders, Celebrity, 3: 10 to Yuma, The Thirteenth Floor, and The Notorious Bettie Page, where she played the title character.

She is best known as the screenwriter of such films as American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and for playing the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.

She co-wrote the script for The Notorious Bettie Page with Mary Harron, who directed the film.

She has published a book, My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers.

She has acted in over a dozen movies, most recently 2006's The Notorious Bettie Page.

She has appeared with The Notorious B. I. G., Outkast, The Pharcyde, Cody Chestnutt, Common, Slum Village, Raphael Saadiq, Jody Watley, De La Soul, No Doubt, A Tribe Called Quest and Aaliyah.

She also warns Corwin that the Jewel is more than just a weather-control device ; in truth, it is an artifact of great power which draws upon its bearer's life force — and may well have been what killed Eric.

She had an extramarital affair with her preacher Reverend Whitfield which led to the conception and birth of her third child, Jewel.

She also appeared many times on film and television, most notably in the films The Captive Heart ( 1946 ), Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Georgy Girl ( 1966, opposite her daughter, Lynn ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Uncle Vanya ( 1991 ), and the television series The Jewel in the Crown ( 1984 ).

She was offered the small role as a key figure, Jewel Mayhew, in the murder mystery Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte, starring her friend Bette Davis.

She wrote a chapter in the book Finding Serenity, called " Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite On Firefly ".

She lost most of her power after the war, but was granted another new Jewel: Twilight's Dawn.

She is also known as a guest performer and / or session musician on over sixty records by a variety of artists, including John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Yann Tiersen, Neil Finn, Sheryl Crow, Iggy Pop, Jewel and Eels.

She assumed the codename Jewel and went underground with her fellow Legionnaires.

Sweet Sugar, aka She Devils in Chains ( 1972 ) starred Phyllis Davis, Caged Heat 2: Stripped of Freedom ( 1994 ) featured Jewel Shepard as an undercover agent.

She stars on a soap opera as Jewel, an " amnesiac and good friend " throughout the series.

She was also interviewed in the book Invasion of the B-Girls by Jewel Shepard.

She is the mother of Kajol and Tanisha, and is most remembered for her roles in Hindi films like Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi ( 1966 ), Jewel Thief, Haathi Mere Saathi ( 1971 ), and Anubhav ( 1971 ).