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Meg Foster
Margaret "Meg" Foster[1] (born May 10, 1948) is an American film and television actress. Some of her many roles were in the 1979 TV miniseries version of The Scarlet Letter, and the films Ticket to Heaven, The Osterman Weekend and They Live. She also starred as Christine Cagney in the first season of Cagney & Lacey. Early yearsFoster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to David and Nancy (née Adamson) Foster on May 10, 1948,[3] and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut with four siblings: sisters Gray, Jan and Nina, and brother Ian.[1][4][5] She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York.[6] CareerIn 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theatre production of John Brown's Body.[7] Later in the same year, she was in the off-Broadway production of The Empire Builders.[8] When Loretta Swit was unable to reprise her television-film role of Detective Christine Cagney when the film was adapted into the Cagney & Lacey TV series, Foster took on the role for the short first season of only six episodes.[9] Foster was replaced by Sharon Gless for the remainder of the series. Entertainment columnist Dick Kleiner wrote in August 1982 about Foster's being dropped from the show: "It isn't a pretty story, no matter who you talk to. Meg was so hurt and distraught that she still isn't talking. But she told friends that she felt as though she had been hit by a truck."[10] Kleiner's story implied that Foster's dismissal from the show had cost her other opportunities. "Until that news spread," he wrote, "she was an in-demand actress."[10] Foster worked throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. She guest-starred in numerous TV shows including two episodes of Hawaii Five-O (1973 and 1976), The Six Million Dollar Man season two episode "Straight on 'til Morning" (1974), Three for the Road (1975), and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season four episode "The Muse" (1996).  Other TV shows include: Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, The F.B.I., Here Come the Brides, Storefront Lawyers, Barnaby Jones, Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice, Mannix, The Cosby Show, Quantum Leap, ER. She also portrayed Hera in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. She also appeared in films throughout the 1980s, beginning with a role as a woman who worked in the games in a travelling carnival in Carny, starring Jodie Foster, Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson; the villainous Evil-Lyn in the big-screen version of Masters of the Universe; and Holly in the John Carpenter film They Live, with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Personal lifeFoster was married to Canadian actor Stephen McHattie, but they divorced sometime before 2013.[11] Foster has a son with actor Ron Starr. As to Foster's striking pale-blue eyes being dubbed "the eyes of 1979" by Mademoiselle magazine, Foster stated she didn’t think her eyes were that distinctive.[12] [13] However, some film and television producers had Foster wear contact lenses to change her eye color as they considered her natural eyes distracting.[13] FilmographyFilms
Television films
Television series
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