Shirley Temple

She received Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra was widely acclaimed. She went on to hold several diplomatic posts, representing the United States in the United Nations in 1969-70 and serving as American ambassador to Ghana (1974) and Czechoslovakia (1989). Successful TV series included Love Hurts with Adam Faith and My Family with Robert Lindsay. She subsequently became involved in Republican Party politics under her married name, entering a Congressional race in 1967. She has also appeared in a variety of films, programmes, and plays. Temple married the California businessman Charles Black in 1950; she may have looked favorably on his admission while dating that he had never seen any of her films. She played Clarice, one of the dimwitted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy.

Later appearances on television did not prove as popular as her films. She is probably best-known by a world-wide audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Temple retired from film acting in her early twenties. She is the daughter of American film director Sam Wanamaker, who led the project to rebuild the Globe Theatre in London. The role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, played by Judy Garland, was originally intended for her. Zoe Wanamaker (born May 13, 1949) is an American actress who lives and works in the United Kingdom. By the late 1930s she was the biggest box-office attraction in motion pictures, and the success of her films may have saved more than one major studio from bankruptcy during the Great Depression.

She subsequently starred in many films including Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Susannah of the Mounties. It was in that film that she sang "On the Good Ship Lollipop"; though she often sang in her films, that was probably her most famous song. One of her first film roles was in Bright Eyes, for which she won a special Academy Award. Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928 in Santa Monica, California), later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American film actress and diplomat who is considered by many to be the most famous child actress in history.