Dotty Major
Dorothy Major (7 August, 1939 in Carrington) is a Lovian-Brunanter actress famous in the 1960s and 1970s and a politician. She was affectionately known as "Dotty Major".
Biography[]
Early career[]
Major's first major role was in The Zombies from Planet 68 (A Koopman/Hosen sequel to It Came From Planet 68), where she played the leading lady. Despite rather limited screenings, Major was praised for her role.
Breakthrough[]
In 1961, she got a starring role in Antoni Wisnowski's surprise hit, The Fifth Column. Major got lost of accolades for her performance and was quickly wanted by the "big three" studios to star in their films.
Lovia and later years[]
Following her marriage to a Lovian in 1975, she moved to Lovia and stopped acting by the end of the decade (her only parts were in a small Lovian production and another Vianna film). Major became involved in philanthropic and volunteer work and in 1988 became the vice-president of The Cancer Society of Lovia. Major held this role until 1996 in order to open up an acting school in Noble City for poor children.
Finally in 2005 she announced she would return to acting. In 2006 she starred in the comedy Long Trip and in 2010 she had a part in Sleepless Night in Brunant. Presently she is on hiatus as she headed into politics; she campaigned for the 2013 federal elections and won a seat in congress. She has been re-elected in 2014 and 2015.
Personal life[]
Early life[]
Major was born in Carrington to a traditional and conservative family. Her father had been a priest-in-training and was very religious though Dorothy did was not "deeply religious or pious".
Relationships and family[]
In 1963, while filming Up in Arms, Major became involved in a relationship with actor James Gunn that nearly ruined his marriage to actress Silvia Samaniega.
After "a few terrible relationships and even worse men", Dorothy eventually married Lovian pianist John Andrews in 1974. The couple had three daughters and lived together until Andrews' death in 1996.
Activism[]
Since the mid-1960s, Dorothy has been a big rights activist and considers herself to be among "those peace-loving hippies with drug-infused fantasies". Major was a prominent and active campaigner against smoking, guns, alcohol and nuclear weapons and protested in favor of women, immigrant and animal rights. Since the 1980s she became an ardent activist for cancer awareness, as it claimed her mother's live in the 1950s.