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Eva Marie Saint

Television Actress / Film Actress / Stage Actress / Voice Actress | * 07/04/1924 (99) | Newark, New Jersey (United States of America (USA))
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Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress of film, theatre, radio and television. In a career spanning 75 years, she has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Saint is both the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award-winner, and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Born in New Jersey and raised in New York, Saint attended Bowling Green State University and began her career as a television and radio actress in the late 1940s. Among her notable early credits, she originated the role of Thelma in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful (1953), originally an NBC telecast before being adapted into the Tony Award-winning play of the same name. For her performance in the stage version, she won an Outer Critics Circle Award. She made her film debut in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. The film, which received eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a nomination... ()
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Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades, she's known for bringing emotional depth and complexity to her roles, in which she generally played women who appear fragile but have great inner strength. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film "On the Waterfront" (1954), and later starred in the thriller film "North by Northwest" (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Saint received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations for the drama film "A Hatful of Rain" (1957) and won an Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990). Her most notable subsequent movies included "Raintree County" (1957), Otto Preminger’s "Exodus" (1960), Vincente Minnelli’s "The Sandpiper" (1965), the Cold War comedy "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" (1966), and the racing film "Grand Prix" (1966), in which she costarred with James Garner.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Documentaries

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Awards & Nominations for Eva Marie Saint

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Theatre World Award Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Movies with Eva Marie Saint as Actress(60)

as Willa (Adult)2014 Winter's Tale
as Self (archive footage)2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)2009 North by Northwest: One for the Ages
as Martha Kent2006 Superman Returns
as Miss Franny2005 Because of Winn-Dixie
as Howard's Mother2005 Don't Come Knocking
as Veronica Reynolds2003 Open House
as Dori "Grammy" Jenkins2000 Papa's Angels
as Franca2000 I Dreamed of Africa
as Self (archive footage)1999 Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as herself1999 Jackie's Back!
as Liz1996 After Jimmy
as Mother Saint-Raphael1996 Mariette in Ecstasy
as Emmaline Burden1995 My Antonia
as Mrs. Wilson1993 Kiss of a Killer
as Caroline Lord1991 Palomino
as Lil Van Degan Altemus1990 People Like Us
as Martha Bundy1988 I'll Be Home for Christmas
as Emma Wells1987 Breaking Home Ties
as Lorraine Basner1986 Nothing in Common
as Mrs. Beatrice Ayer Patton1986 The Last Days of Patton
as Addie Coleman1983 Jane Doe
as Mary Wharton1983 Malibu
as Mrs. Loomis1981 Splendor in the Grass
as Sarah Morrissey1980 The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Jane Denton1979 When Hell Was in Session
as Passenger1978 Taxi!!
as Emma Larson1978 A Christmas to Remember
as Kate1976 The Macahans
as Sheila Bartlett1972 Cancel My Reservation
as Selma Wilson1970 Loving
as Sarah Carver1968 The Stalking Moon
as Louise Frederickson1966 Grand Prix
as Claire Hewitt1965 The Sandpiper
as WAVE Lt. Gibson1964 Carol for Another Christmas
as Anna Hedler1964 36 Hours
as Echo O'Brien1962 All Fall Down
as Kitty Fremont1960 Exodus
as Eve Kendall1959 North by Northwest
as Nell Gaither1957 Raintree County
as Celia Pope1957 A Hatful of Rain
as herself1957 Operation Raintree
as Dunreath Henry1956 That Certain Feeling
as Emily Webb1955 Our Town
as Edie Doyle1954 On the Waterfront
as Thelma1953 The Trip to Bountiful
as David's Cafe Guest (as Eve Marie Saint)1950 The Man Who Had Influence

TV Shows/Series with Eva Marie Saint as Actress(20)

as Joanna Doyle1993 Frasier
as Ruth Gardner1986 A Year in the Life
as Mildred Kassab1984 Fatal Vision
as Emily Webb1954 Producers' Showcase
as Maudle Applegate1953 GE Theater
as Passenger1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Self - Mystery Guest1950 What's My Line?
as Francie1949 Suspense
as Self - Guest1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Edna Baker1948 Studio One
as David's Cafe Guest1948 Studio One

Full Name: Eva Marie Saint
Born: Friday, 07/04 1924 (July) in Newark, New Jersey (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 99 years + 269 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Actors Studio, Bowling Green State University, Bethlehem Central High School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, HB Studio
Spouses (current/former): Jeffrey Hayden
Mother: Eva Marie Saint
Other names for Eva Marie Saint (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Eve Marie Saint"
Eva Marie Saint frequently works together with these people:
E.G. Marshall (26x, Actor)
Charlton Heston (22x, Actor)
John Forsythe (18x, Actor)
James Daly (18x, Actor)
Everett Sloane (17x, Actor)
Hume Cronyn (16x, Actor)
Eddie Albert (15x, Actor)
Berry Kroeger (15x, Actor)
Nina Foch (15x, Actress)
Vaughn Taylor (15x, Actor)
Richard Kiley (15x, Actor)
Rick McKay (10x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:3472, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/24/2024