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Best Performance by An Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made
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Emmy (Primetime)
Outstanding Supporting Actress
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Academy Award
Actress in a Supporting Role
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1987 Winner Golden Globe. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna. 1953 Nominee Golden Globe. Best Actress - Drama.
- July 1, 1916
- July 26, 2020
For her performance in The Snake Pit, de Havilland received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup.
Playing sweet Melanie Hamilton, Olivia received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, only to lose out to one of her co-stars in the film, Hattie McDaniel. After GWTW, Olivia returned to Warner Bros. and continued to churn out films.
- January 1, 1
- Tokyo, Japan
- January 1, 1
- Paris, France
- Who Was Olivia de Havilland?
- Early Career
- 'Gone with The Wind'
- Legal Battle with Studio
- A Star Reborn
- Later Work
- Personal Life
Olivia de Havilland signed with Warner Brothers in 1935 and in 1939 appeared as Melanie in Gone with the Wind. The role gained her recognition and she went on to win Academy Awards for the films To Each His Own and The Heiress.
Born on July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan, de Havilland spent much of her youth in California. She moved there with her mother and younger sister, Joan, after her parents divorced. De Havilland caught her big break in 1933 with her stage role as Hermia in a Max Reinhardt production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the famed Hollywo...
De Havilland continued to work with Errol Flynn, and they proved to be a popular on-screen couple. She played Maid Marian to his Robin Hood in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood. While these films were entertaining, they did little to reveal de Havilland's talents as a serious performer. With 1939's Gone with the Wind, movie audiences had their fi...
Over the years, de Havilland became increasingly frustrated with her situation at Warner Brothers. Good parts seemed to be few and far between, and she was relieved when her contract with the studio neared its end in 1943. Warner Brothers, however, subtracted time that she had been suspended while under contract and claimed that she owed them that ...
After her hiatus, de Havilland quickly returned to top form with To Each His Own. Her turn as an unwed mother brought her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making she and Joan the only siblings to have both won Academy Awards in a leading category. Delivering another impressive performance, de Havilland starred in 1948's The Snake Pit. This film ...
Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965) proved to be one of de Havilland's more notable later roles. She shared the screen with fellow film legend Bette Davis in this acclaimed psychological thriller. In the 1970s, de Havilland appeared in the popular disaster film Airport '77 and the killer bee horror movie The Swarm(1978), among other roles. On the...
De Havilland lived in Paris, France, where she has resided since the mid-1950s. Before getting married, de Havilland dated the likes of Howard Hughes, actor James Stewart and director John Huston. She has been married twice — first to writer Marcus Goodrich and later to Paris Matcheditor and journalist Pierre Galante. Both unions ended in divorce. ...
Jul 27, 2020 · The actress, who died over the weekend at age 104, received one of Gone With the Wind ’s 13 Academy Award nominations—but she was one of only two nominees from the film who found themselves...
