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Top 10 March 3 Birthdays

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10 . March 3, 1958: Miranda Richardson.  Although English and an actress, she is not, as I previously believed, a member of the Redgrave-Richardson acting family. But she has played a few Queens, including: Queen Mab, Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth I of England, Mary of England (wife of King George V), Elspeth (the evil queen of  Snow White ), and the Queen of Hearts in  Alice In Wonderland. She's also played Mary Magdalene, both Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, Mrs. Claus, the Duchess of Kent (Queen Victoria's mother), Anna Leonowens (the "I" in  The King and I ), Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, Clementine Churchill (Mrs. Winston) and Eva Braun (for one day, Mrs. Adolf Hitler). That's one hell of a range. Honorable Mention: March 3, 1934: Jimmy Garrison.  A master of the bass fiddle, being the 4th-best member of the John Coltrane Quartet is like being the 7th-best member of the Mercury 7. Honorable Mention: March 3, 1970: Julie Bowen. ...