Bond girl cast in "Tomorrow Never Dies". A few years after playing a Bond girl, she became one of the most highly paid actresses on television, starring in "Desperate Housewives". Jane Seymour was an unknown when she was cast in "Live and Let Die" (the opening credits read "Introducing Jane Seymour"), later won an Emmy Award for playing Maria Callas in a TV movie and then became a household name playing the title role in her TV series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". Kim Basinger had perhaps the most successful post-Bond career. After her break-out role in "Never Say Never Again", Basinger went
Roger S. Bagnall American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. In 2003, he won the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award. Roger S. Bagnall Roger Shaler Bagnall (born August 19, 1947 in Seattle) is an American classical scholar. He was a professor of classics and history at Columbia University from 1974 until 2007, when he took up the position of first Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. Born in Seattle, Washington, Bagnall studied at Yale University (B.A., 1968) and University of Toronto (M.A., 1969; Ph.D., 1972). He has published several works on the history