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Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint is an American retired actress. In a career spanning more than seven decades, she received an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, in additions to nominations for two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Saint is the earliest surviving and oldest living Academy Award winner and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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entertainment · American retired actress (born 1924) · television actor · film actor · stage actor · voice actor · actor · also Eva Marie Saint, Saint
Born 4 July 1924 · Q228928
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2026· 3 entries
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Public attention spiked: 11,904 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 1,824, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1362541531 by ~2026-36707-75 (talk) was correct
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2021· 1 entry
Saint appeared alongside Marisa Tomei in the podcast play series "The Pack Podcast" as part of the segment "The Bus Ride"
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2016· 1 entry
She began her acceptance speech by saying, "I may have the baby right here!" Saint and Hayden also had four grandchildren and were married for 65 years until Hayden's death in 2016.
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2006· 1 entry
Saint appeared in Superman Returns as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, alongside Brandon Routh and archival footage of her On the Waterfront co-star Marlon Brando
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2005· 2 entries
Appeared in the family film Because of Winn-Dixie, co-starring AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels and Cicely Tyson
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Co-starred with Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Recalling her experience making the picture with Cary Grant and Hitchcock, Saint said, "[Grant] would say, 'See, Eva Marie, you don't have to cry in a movie to have a good time
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Saint returned to feature films in I Dreamed of Africa with Kim Basinger
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for People Like Us (1990).
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1960· 1 entry
Saint was given two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contributions to television and one for her contributions to motion pictures
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for On the Waterfront (1955).
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Saint was nominated for her first Emmy for "Best Actress In A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse, playing the young mistress of middle-aged E
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1954).
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Saint won the Outer Critics Circle Special Award for her Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful (1953), in which she co-starred with actresses such as Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet
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1949· 1 entry
As one of the original singing "Bonnie Maids" used in the live commercials
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1946· 2 entries
And began her career as a television and radio actress in the late 1940s
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And a theater on its campus is named after her
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1924· 2 entries
Born 1924-07-04.
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In Newark, New Jersey to John Merle Saint and Eva Marie (née Rice) Saint
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