Kari and Maureen

Canadian actress. Matchett was born in Spalding the province of Saskatchewan. She began her career as an actress after moving to Ontario. In the latter part of the nineties, Matchett started her acting career through Canadian Television. Later she moved to United States where she starred in The Secrets of Nero Wolfe Invasion: 24 Hours at Studio 60 and Ambulance Earth. It was the Last Conflict. In 2001, she was awarded a Gemini Award for her role in the Canadian TV series The Department of Wet Cases. She also played the ex-wife of one the main characters in various seasons of the TV show Impact. Joan Campbell has played her in Covert Operations on TV since the year 2010. Cube 2, a 2002 Canadian film, was her first big-screen role. Also, appeared on screen in Angel Eyes Boys with Broomsticks The Tree of Life as well as Hypercube. Divorced. Her first child called Jude Lyon Matchett was born in June 2013. Maureen O'hara..........................From her first appearances on the stage and screen Maureen O'Hara (b. 1920) was a captivating actor by her hair's reddish-orange color and her beautiful natural look and the passion she brought in portraying strong heroines. Her fans were captivated by her, no matter if she was freed from a Gallows scene in the film The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Charles Laughton (1939), fell in love with Walter Pidgeon beneath a coal-blackened sky (How green was my valley) with Natalie Wood or matched wits in The Quiet Man with John Wayne. Maureen O'Hara, the book-length biography of the famed screen actor loved by many as "the queen of technicolor" it is the first. Following the star from her childhood in Dublin up to her apex of fame in Hollywood the film critic Aubrey Malone draws on new data from the Irish Film Institute production notes in films as well as details from historical film journals newspapers and fan magazines. Malone explores the actresses relationship with frequent collaborator John Wayne as well as the friendship she shared along with John Ford. Malone addresses the controversial issue of whether she was feminist or antifeminist. She was always unknown, even though she was one of the most famous icons of golden age cinema. She was known for her secretive nature and public pronouncements that went against her own choices. This new biography gives us the chance to see the woman behind the iconic character of her day.