Eva Marie Saint

Paternal granddaughter of John Quincy Saint (1847-1927) and Lydia Gordon (1852-1902). Both were born and raised in Indiana.

Daughter of John Merle Saint (1891-1965), born in Iowa, and Eva Marie Rice (1896-1987), born in New Jersey.

Actress and producer Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924 on Newark, New Jersey.

Written by Ernest Lehman, the film updated and expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, including The 39 Steps (1935), Young and Innocent (1937), and Saboteur (1942).

According to the 1942 Bethlehem Central High School yearbook, her nickname was "Bubbles" and her ambition was to be a teacher; she was also a cheerleader as well as senior class secretary.

She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959).

Saint made her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan - a performance for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was a major success and launched her movie career.

Was the 41st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954) at The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955) on March 30, 1955.

Her film career also includes roles in Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966), Grand Prix (1966), Nothing in Common (1986), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006) and Winter's Tale (2014).

She starred in the pioneering drug-addiction drama A Hatful of Rain (1957) with Don Murray and Anthony Franciosa.

She also starred in lavish the Civil War epic Raintree County (1957) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.

Director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in what was to become a suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason.

Before the Academy Awards in 1969, she gave first-time nominee Sondra Locke advice on how to look for the ceremony. She thought Sondra would look best with a straight hairstyle and a simple dress. She said to Thomas C. Ryan, 'Sondra is just not the wavy type.'.

François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) is her favorite film.

Grandmother of Tyler (b. 1985) and Molly Hayden (b. 1988), via son Darrell, and Eli Beller (b. 1990), via daughter Laurette.

In 1987 the Eva Marie Saint Theater was dedicated on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. She graduated from the university in 1946.

As of 2016, she is the second oldest living female recipient of an Academy Award, behind only Olivia de Havilland. Following de Havilland's death in July 2020, she became the oldest living Oscar winner in an acting category.

Presented the Oscar for best costume design at the 2018 Academy Awards; admitted to being older than "the Oscars", but only by five months (is actually nearly five years older).

As of 2020, she is one of 13 actresses who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for On the Waterfront (1954)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013).