MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
American nationality
Birth July 4, 1924 (Newark, New Jersey – United States)
BIOGRAPHY
Famous for playing fragile and disarming women, Eva Marie Saint gained fame very early on. After studying drama at the University of Bowling Green, in Ohio, she quickly worked in fiction and television series. In 1954, she made an impression by playing opposite Marlon Brando in On the Quays by Elia Kazan , a role which earned her, the following year, the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role. Her innovative, subtle and sober performance works wonders at a time when many actresses delight in an expansive style.
She subsequently alternated between romantic comedies and sentimental dramas, until her second significant role: that of a spy torn between love and reasons of state, in the famous police comedy Death on the Trail (1959), by Alfred Hitchcock. . Now feeling ready for big productions, she got involved in the adventure Exodus (1960), Otto Preminger ‘s epic epic about the birth of the State of Israel for which she co-starred with Paul Newman , then in 36 Hours (1965), a psychological drama set during the Second World War.
The era is dedicated to collaborations with great filmmakers. Twice she crossed paths with John Frankenheimer : for The Angel of Violence in 1962, then for Grand Prix in 1966. She also shot for Vincente Minnelli ( The Knight of the Sands , 1965), Norman Jewison ( The Russians are Coming , 1966) and for Robert Mulligan (for his very strange and little-known dreamlike western, The Wild Man , 1969).
After a role in Loving , by Irvin Kershner , a tragicomedy about sexual liberation typical of the late 1960s, she put her cinematographic ambitions on hold and began a career essentially devoted to filming television films. After almost thirty years of absence, she finally returned to the cinema, taking on supporting roles in I dreamed of Africa (2000) or in Wim Wenders ‘ film , Don’t come knocking (2005), which is presented in competition official at the Cannes Film Festival. Also in 2005, she appeared in the credits of Wayne Wang’s family comedy, Winn-Dixie My Best Friend .
The following year she will be Martha Kent,. The film did not achieve the expected success and she would not return until 2014 for her latest film, A Winter’s Love with Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay .
