If only, I suggest, you played housekeeper Mrs Hughes in Downton – you could bring even more sexual tension to the Carson-Hughes relationship.
But in 1960, after two decades of relative obscurity, she made a faltering comeback, playing housekeeper to Lana Turner in Michael Gordon's slightly pervy thriller Portrait in Black.
"In Ireland, we'd always felt secondary to England," adds Pauline McLynn, who played housekeeper Mrs Doyle and had worked with Ted star Dermot Morgan on Irish TV and radio.
Phyllis Logan, who plays housekeeper Mrs Hughes in the show, paid tribute to writer Julian Fellowes, saying his "imagination has captured the imagination of a lot of you all around the world".
She always retained fond memories of playing the housekeeper and former dresser Clara in what Coward termed "a cast that could play the Albanian telephone directory", and would work again with Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Robert Stephens and Lynn Redgrave.
Spacek not only worked with Malick and DePalma during that groundbreaking decade, she also collaborated with such filmmakers as Alan Rudolph in 1976's "Welcome to L.A.," where she played a housekeeper who liked to vacuum topless, and Robert Altman in 1977's "3 Women," in which she played a timid young woman named Pinky Rose.
Dotty (the wonderful Andrea Martin), who plays the housekeeper, is a slumming grand dame.
The nominations have helped draw more moviegoers to the film, in which Staunton plays a housekeeper who performs illegal abortions on the side.
In the film-festival hits "Another Earth" and "Sound of My Voice," both of which she co-wrote, Marling plays a housekeeper who is willing to take a gamble on interplanetary travel and a cult leader, respectively.
There, she was introduced to Mr. Zanussi as an actress "from the hit series 'The Sopranos.' " (She plays the housekeeper on the HBO series and said that she had been filming an episode during the screening).
