Actress in US and UK films of the early 1930s. Born on a farm, Cherrill was discovered by Charles Chaplin while sitting beside him at a boxing match in Los Angeles; he introduced himself at intermission and hired her for her debut in City Lights (1931). She met husband Cary Grant at the premiere of Blonde Venus (1932) and stopped working after their marriage in 1933. At one time, lived in England as the wife of the Earl of Jersey. Finally settled happily in Santa Barbara.
Virginia has a long career as a character actress on the screen, but she will always be best remembered as the Swedish "Mrs. Olsen", who somehow knew everything about making coffee, and we somehow always found her in the kitchen of some hapless young housewife who just couldn't seem to make good coffee. Mrs. Olsen taught these women how to do so, as long as it involved using "Mountain Grown" Folger's brand Coffee. For some reason only Mrs. Olsen knew, no other kind of coffee you could buy was any good. And if you believe her, I have some land you'll be interested in! Virginia was born in the small Iowa town of Stanton, which later converted its water tower to resemble a coffee pot in honor of its most famous citizen. When her family moved to Los Angeles, Virginia worked in radio while attending the University of California, Los Angeles. She was trained for a theatrical career by actor/director Fritz Feld, whom she married in 1940. In 1942, she signed a contract with Warner Bros. and started appearing in various films. Her first film was, Edge of Darkness (1943), in which she played a Norwegian peasant girl called "Miss Olson". Over the years, she appeared in prestigious films such as High Noon (1952) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - to horror in The Mummy's Curse (1944) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). She was a favorite of Stanley Kramer, appearing in a number of his films. But her greatest fame came in the 1960's when she started her 21-year stint as the matronly "Mrs. Olsen", who always had comforting words for young married couples while pouring Folger's Coffee in the TV ads.
Virginia Coombs is known for Married at First Sight: Couples' Cam (2020), Married at First Sight (2014) and Married at First Sight: Unfiltered (2016).
Virginia Cross is known for Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010).
Virginia Da Brescia is an actress, known for Per amor vostro (2015), L'abbiamo fatta grossa (2016) and E se mi comprassi una sedia? (2017).
Virginia Del Sol was born in 1992 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Her mother is Dominican and her father Dominican-Spanish. She grew up in Cuba, Canada and France where she undertook her 3 year Bachelor of Dramatic Arts in Paris. Virginia Del Sol is trilingual in Spanish, English and French.
Virginia Diop is known for Zero (2021), Headshot (2023) and L'ultima notte di Amore (2023).
Virginia Eubanks is known for Coded Bias (2020) and Philosophical Disquisitions (2016).
Virginia Farmer was born on April 18, 1898 in Marion, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Strangler of the Swamp (1946) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). She died on May 19, 1988 in Long Beach, California, USA.
London-born actress, daughter of the King's Counsel, St. John Field, educated in Paris and Vienna. Her mother, a cousin of famous Confederate General Robert E. Lee, chose the name "Virginia" as homage to Lee's beloved home state. Virginia also had an actress aunt, Auriol Lee, who paved the way for her debut on the stage. She first appeared in "This Side Idolatry" in 1933 (with Leslie Howard). She was later signed by 20th Century Fox (actually by standing in at a screen test as a favour to another actress), but was quickly typecast as the "other woman" or as perfunctory second fiddle to "Charlie Chan" and "Mr. Moto". She had greater success on Broadway, where she starred in the screwball comedy "The Doughgirls" (1942) at the Lyceum Theatre, and the Moss Hart farce "Light Up the Sky" (1948), with Sam Levene, Barry Nelson and Glenn Anders.