Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is a retired American actress and a centenarian. 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 is the oldest-living and earliest-surviving Academy Award winner. She is one of the last living stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Saint graduated from Bowling Green State University 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.

From then on, Saint appeared in a variety of films, including Raintree County (1957), opposite Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor; and Fred Zinnemann's A Hatful of Rain (1957), opposite Don Murray and Anthony Franciosa, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama; and Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959), opposite Cary Grant. In the 1960s, Saint appeared in Exodus (1960), alongside Paul Newman; The Sandpiper (1965), which reunited her with Elizabeth Taylor and featured Richard Burton; 36 Hours (1965) with James Garner; The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966), alongside Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin; and John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix (1966), opposite Yves Montand and in her second film with James Garner.