- As of 2020 she is the 8th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, tied with Julie Christie and behind only Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, a tied Piper Laurie and Sophia Loren, and Julie Andrews. She was nominated in 1965 for The Collector (1965).
- Romance with Albert Finney until August 1964.
- She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Nicholas Courtney, Julia Ormond, Emma Chambers, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Daniel Hunt, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.
- She is the daughter of Muriel Olga (Palache) and Ralph Alfred James Eggar, a British Army brigadier. Her mother was from a Jewish family, from Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was of Sephardi and Ashkenazi descent.
- In 1966 she rented what would later become known the infamous 'Sharon Tate' house on Cielo Drive.
- First studied fashion design but soon preferred drama.
- Mother of Jenna Stern and Nicolas Stern.
- Mother-in-law of Brennan Brown.
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