Eva Marie Saint | Born: 1924

Eva Marie Saint has a career that has spanned over 75 years, for which she has received numerous creditsand accolades that included a Primetime Emmy Award, Academy Award, and nominations for two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe Award. She is one of the last surviving celebrities from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, as well as the earliest surviving and oldest living Academy Award winner.

The actress started her acting career as a radio and television actress back in the 1940s. Among her notable works included Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, where she played Thelma and won an Outer Critics Circle Award. The play was later on adapted into a film with the same title. Other films in which she starred were That Certain Feeling, A Hatful Rain, Grand Prix, Producer’s Showcase, How the West Was Won, and many more.

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