Actress and producer 'Eva Marie Saint' became a box-office success and an influence on spy films for decades.
Has campaigned to ban the usage of cell phones by motorists.
Lives in Santa Monica, California.
Son Darrell was born two days after she won the Oscar for On the Waterfront .
Although the role of Edie Doyle properly is a lead, producer Sam Spiegel listed her as a Supporting Actress in the hopes of getting her a nomination. The ploy worked and she won the Academy Award.
Received the role of Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront over Elizabeth Montgomery. Director Elia Kazan , in his autobiography "A Life", says that the choice of an actress to play the role was narrowed down to Montgomery and Saint, but there were also some qualms about Saint playing a teenager, since she was 30 years old at the time. Although Montgomery was fine in her screen test, there was an air of finishing school about her. Kazan thought this genteel quality would not be becoming for Edie, who was raised on the waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey. He gave the role to Saint, and she went on to win cinematic immortality, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, in the role.
In 1987, the Eva Marie Saint Theater was dedicated on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She graduated from the university in 1946.
Is a member of the Delta Gamma sorority.
She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.
She and her performance in On the Waterfront are mentioned in the song "Rattlesnakes" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.
She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
According to the 1942 Bethlehem Central High School yearbook, Eva Maries nickname was "Bubbles" and her ambition was to be a teacher; she was also a cheerleader as well as senior class secretary.
She was mentioned in Lucky Number Slevin .
Is a staunch liberal Democrat.
Is one of six actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Patricia Neal , Meryl Streep , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Saint was nine months pregnant with her son Darrell at the time of winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront .
Was the 41st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront at The 27th Annual Academy Awards on March 30, 1955.
Elia Kazan described her as "Perfect... she was just perfect. Everybody loved her--especially me!".
Franois Truffaut s La nuit amricaine is her favorite film.
Grandmother of Tyler (born March 18, 1985) and Molly Hayden (born March 9, 1988), via son Darrell, and Eli Beller (born March 26, 1990), via daughter Laurette.
Gave birth to her first child at age 30, a son Darrell Hayden on April 1, 1955. Childs father is her husband, Jeffrey Hayden.
Gave birth to her second child at age 34, a daughter Laurette Hayden on July 19, 1958. Childs father is her husband, Jeffrey Hayden.
Paternal granddaughter of John Quincy Saint (1847-1927) and Lydia Gordon (1852-1902). Both were born and raised in Indiana.
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 ). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind , Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver , Celeste Holm for Gentlemans Agreement , Mercedes McCambridge for All the Kings Men , Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity , Rita Moreno for West Side Story , Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer , Juliette Binoche for The English Patient , Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love , Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind , Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago and Lupita Nyongo for 12 Years a Slave .
Daughter of John Merle Saint (1891-1965), born in Iowa, and Eva Marie Rice (1896-1987), born in New Jersey.
Had an older sister, Adelaide Louise Saint.
Son Darrell weighed 8 lbs 8 oz at birth according to the birth announcement printed in the April 11, 1955 issue of Time magazine in the milestones column.
As of 2016, she is the second oldest female recipient of an Academy Award, behind only Olivia de Havilland.
She has been in two movies that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: On the Waterfront and The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming , with the former winning in the category.
He is an American institution.
