Eva Marie Saint: Biography, Facts and Career

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress. In a career spanning more than seven decades, she received an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. As of July 2024, Saint was the oldest living Academy Award winner and one of the last living stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Saint graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1946 and began her career as a television and radio actress in the late 1940s. She played the role of Thelma in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful (1953). She made her film debut in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress along with a BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. Saint's later film career included Raintree County (1957), A Hatful of Rain (1957), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama; and as Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. In the 1960s, Saint appeared in Exodus (1960), The Sandpiper, 36 Hours, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, and Grand Prix (1966). Saint transitioned back to acting primarily in television and on stage after the 1970s, with mostly smaller or cameo roles in film after that.

Quick facts about Eva Marie Saint

• Full name: Eva Marie Saint
• Born: 1924-07-04
• Nationality: United States
• Known as: Actor
• Wikidata ID: Q228928

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