Kari and Maureen

Born March 25 1970 - Canadian actress. Matchett moved to Ontario from the village she grew up in Spalding Saskatchewan and began acting. In the late nineties, Matchett began her acting career on 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. The Last Conflict. She received a Gemini Award, in 2001 in recognition of her performance on the lead character on the Canadian TV show The Department of Wet Cases. She also played the wife of one of the major characters from the series for several seasons. Impact. The actress has played Joan Campbell since 2010 in the TV show Covert Operations. Cube 2, a 2002 Canadian film, was her first big-screen part. Additionally, she was in Angel Eyes Boys with Broomsticks The Tree of Life as and Hypercube. Divorced. Jude Lyon Matchett's son is her first child born on June 13, 2013. Maureen O'hara..........................From her first appearances on the stage and screen Maureen O'Hara (b. She commanded the attention of audiences with her radiant red hair, striking beauty and passionate depictions. She charmed the audience with her easy confidence and powerful presence, no matter if she was being saved from the Gallows (The Hunchback on Notre Dame in 1939), falling for Walter Pidgeon under a coal noired skies at the beginning of 1941 (How Green Was My Valley) and learning to believe miracles alongside Natalie Wood (Miracle on 34th Street in 1947). Maureen O'Hara: The Queen of Technicolor, is the sole book-length biographies of this screen icon. Aubrey Malone traces the life of the screen legend from Dublin which is where she grew as a child, up to the heights of Hollywood. The author draws on the Irish Film Institute production notes for films and also from historical newspapers and magazines. Malone analyzes the relationship between the actress and frequent costar John Wayne and her relationship with director John Ford and he addresses the hotly debated question of whether or not the screen diva could be considered a feminist, or an antifeminist persona. O'Hara was a film icon during the golden age cinema, yet her preference for privacy along with her tradition of making public comments which were in opposition to her own personal decisions made her an unsolved mystery. This is the first biography that reveals the real woman who was behind the larger-than-life persona The book dispels misconceptions and provides a balanced assessment of one the most well-known stars of cinema.