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She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
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She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.
She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.
She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.
She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.
She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".
She won what would become her most famous acting role, that of Kimberly Drummond on Diff ' rent Strokes.
She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets.
She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.
She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.
She won the match 5½ – 4½ and won the largest prize money to that point in her career of $ 110, 000.
She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia ( 2011 ).
She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a
She and American
She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.
) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.
She would not stop to read them in American Express, as many were doing, sitting on benches or leaning against the walls, but pushed her way out into the street.
She makes the argument that grouping all people of African descent together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American community of slave descendents, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.
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 argues that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society.
She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.
She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.
She is also the patroness of the historically Catholic American woman's fraternity, Theta Phi Alpha.
She has been called " the world's most famous sheep " by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.
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.
Several countries charged Italian studios with exceeding the boundaries of acceptability with their late-1970s Nazi exploitation films, inspired by American movies such as Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.
She observed in the flirtations between the American soldiers and British women a pattern of misunderstandings regarding who is supposed to take which initiative.
She was launched by Holt's widow Dame Zara at the Todd Shipyards in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.
She studied for her Bachelor of Arts degree at American University ( 1957 – 59 ), going on to achieve a doctorate at George Washington University in Experimental Psychology in 1967.
She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.
She held various positions in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, notably president in 1975 and chair of the executive committee of the board of directors in 1976.
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