Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (22 October 1917 − 15 December 2013), kent professionally as Joan Fontaine, wis a Breetish-American actress. Fontaine began her career on the stage in 1935 an signed a contract wi RKO Pictures that same year.
Joan Fontaine | |
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 Joan Fontaine (1943) | |
| Born | Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland 22 October 1917 Tokyo, Japan |
| Dee'd | 15 December 2013 (aged 96) Carmel-by-the-Sea, Californie, Unitit States |
Cause o daith | Naitural causes |
| Residence | Carmel-by-the-Sea, Californie |
| Ither names | Joan Burfield Joan St. John |
| Citizenship | Breetish American[1] |
| Eddication | Los Gatos Heich School American Schuil in Japan |
| Thrift | Actress |
| Years active | 1935–1994 |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Brian Aherne (m. 1939; div. 1945) William Dozier (m. 1946; div. 1951) Collier Young (m. 1952; div. 1961) Alfred Wright, Jr. (m. 1964; div. 1969) |
| Bairns | 2 |
| Kin | Olivia de Havilland (elder sister) |
In 1941, she received an Academy Awaird nomination for Best Actress for her role in Rebecca, directit bi Alfred Hitchcock. The follaeing year, she wan the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), makin Fontaine the anly actor tae ever win an Academy Award in a film directit bi Hitchcock.[2] Fontaine an her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are the anly set o siblings tae hae wan lead actin Academy Awairds. Durin the 1940s tae the 1990s, Fontaine continued her career in roles on the stage an in radio, telly an film. She released her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, in 1978. Efter a career spannin ower fifty years, Fontaine made her last on-screen appearance in 1994.
Born in Japan tae Breetish parents, the sisters moved tae Californie in 1919. Fontaine lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Californie, whaur she ained a home, Villa Fontana. It wis thare that she died o naitural causes at the age o 96 in 2013.