Olivia de Havilland

British actress

Photo by: Unknown author · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born:July 1, 1916

Died:July 26, 2020

Age at death:104

Zodiac Sign:Cancer

Born in:Tokyo, Japan

Residence:16th arrondissement of Paris, France

Buried in:France

Languages:Japanese, English, French

Film Actor Screenwriter Actor Television Actor Stage Actor

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Sister: Joan Fontaine

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Photo by: Unknown author · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons
Joan Fontaine:
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Famous For

Movies & TV

Gone with the WindThe Adventures of Robin HoodThe HeiressCaptain BloodThe Snake Pit

Books

Every Frenchman Has One

Awards

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2017)Knight of the Legion of Honour (2010)الميدالية الوطنية للفنون (2008)honorary doctor of the University of Hertfordshire (1998)star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960)

Olivia de Havilland

British actress

Biography

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (; July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British, American, and French actress. She appeared in 49 feature films throughout her career, with the major works of her cinematic career spanning from 1935 to 1988. Before her death in 2020 at the age of 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her younger sister, with whom she had a noted rivalry that was well documented in the media, was the Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland first came to prominence with Errol Flynn as a screen couple in adventure films such as Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of her best-known roles is that of Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she received the first of her five Oscar nominations, the only one for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1940s, De Havilland departed from ingénue roles and distinguished herself for performances in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949), receiving four Best Actress nominations and winning for To Each His Own and The Heiress. She was also successful in work on stage and television. From the 1950s, de Havilland lived in Paris and received honors such as the National Medal of the Arts, the Légion d'honneur, and the appointment to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the age of 101. In addition to her film career, de Havilland continued her work in the theater, appearing three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), and A Gift of Time (1962). She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979), and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Movie or Series. During her film career, de Havilland collected two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her sister and she remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards.

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Photos

Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit, 1948.

Publicity photo of Olivia de Havilland, circa 1945.

Title: Olivia de Havilland [actress] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: February 1985. Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-01097 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf) Access Advisory: Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Call Number: LC-GB05- 1097 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title based on information from slide mount or other caption information provided by the photographer. Photo agency: Newsweek; NW/FILE. Date on slide mount: 2/85. Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). Subjects: Actresses Personalities Format: Slides--Color--1980-1990. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2020730638/

Actress Olivia de Havilland with PhM1/C Arthur J. Dodd at the Naval Air Station, Kodiak, Alaska, March 20, 1944, National Archives (80-G-279798 2016/01/19)