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Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception,...
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Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of only ten people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an...
Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) was an American film actress and television producer.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Granville was the daughter of stage actors, and made her film debut at the age of nine in Westward Passage (1933)...
Alice Brady
Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. She is perhaps best...
Andrea Leeds
Andrea Leeds (August 14, 1914 – May 21, 1984) was an American film actress. A popular supporting player of the late 1930s, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Stage Door (1937). She was...
Dawn Evelyn Paris
Dawn Evelyeen (Evelyn) Paris (April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993), known as Anne Shirley, was an American film actress.
Beginning her career as a child actress under the name Dawn O'Day, Shirley adopted the name of the character she played in Anne of...
Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage...
Fay Bainter
Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American actress. She is the aunt of actress Dorothy Burgess and sister-in-law to actress Grace Burgess.
She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Charles F. Bainter and...
Billie Burke
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz.
Known as Billie Burke...
Beulah Bondi
Beulah Bondi (May 3, 1888 – January 11, 1981) was an American actress.
Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theatre, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version. She...
Spring Byington
Spring Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress, best remembered for her seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. Earlier, she was a key MGM contract player.
She was born Spring Dell...
Miliza Korjus
Miliza Elizabeth Korjus (18 August 1909 - 26 August 1980) was an Estonian/Polish coloratura soprano opera singer, who later appeared in Hollywood films.
Miliza Korjus's father was Arthur Korjus, an Estonian lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Russian...
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
McDaniel was also a...
Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Ouspenskaya (Russian: Мария Успенская; July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.
Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia...
Edna May Oliver
Edna May Oliver (November 9 1883 – November 9 1942) was an American film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the American screen's best-known character actresses often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
Born Edna May Nutter in Malden,...
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Geraldine Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 – July 17, 2005) was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Fitzgerald was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith and Edward Fitzgerald...
Judith Anderson
Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1992) was an Australian actress of stage and screen, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar. She is generally regarded by theatre critics as the greatest classical actress...
Jane Darwell
Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American theater and film actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, for which she...
Ruth Hussey
Ruth Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.
Hussey was born Ruth Carol O'Rourke in Providence, Rhode Island in...
Barbara O'Neil
Barbara O'Neil (July 17, 1910 – September 3, 1980) was an American actress.
O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her acting career in summer stock. In July 1931 Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee (the grandson of Charles Richard...
Mary Astor
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent...
Patricia Collinge
Patricia Collinge (September 20, 1892 – April 10, 1974) was an Irish actress. She was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Her first stage performance was at the Garrick Theatre in London, England in 1904 in Little Black Sambo and Little White Barbara.
Collinge...
Margaret Wycherly
Margaret Wycherly (26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress.
Wycherley was born in London, England of American parents. She was married to writer Bayard Veiller (1869-1943) in 1901. They had a son Anthony Veiller (1903...
Sara Allgood
Sara Allgood (October 15, 1879 – September 13, 1950) was an Irish actress.
Allgood was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her sister was actress Maire O'Neill.
Allgood began her acting career at the Abbey Theatre and was frequently featured in early Hitchcock...
Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress.
She was born Muriel Teresa Wright in Harlem, New York City, the daughter of Martha (née Espy) and Arthur Wright, who was an insurance agent. She grew up in Maplewood, New...
May Whitty
Dame May Whitty, DBE (19 June 1865–29 May 1948), born Mary Louise Whitty, was an English theatre actress who appeared in several films towards the end of her life, achieving recognition in several character roles.
Born in Liverpool, daughter of...
Susan Peters
Susan Peters (July 3, 1921 – October 23, 1952) was an American actress.
Peters was born Suzanne Carnahan in Spokane, Washington. First contracted by Warner Brothers, which was unable to utilize her talents, she subsequently began working for MGM...
Katina Paxinou
Katina Paxinou (December 17, 1900 - February 22, 1973) was a Greek film and theatre actress.
Born Aikaterini (Catherine) Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929...
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress noted for her starring roles in American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female...
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Paulette Goddard
Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married...
Lucile Watson
Lucile Watson (27 May 1879 – 24 June 1962) was a Canadian actress.
Watson began her career on the stage debuting on Broadway in the play Hearts Aflame in 1902. Her next play was The Girl With Green Eyes, the first of several Clyde Fitch stories. At...
Aline MacMahon
Aline MacMahon (May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991) was an American actress.
MacMahon's career began in theatre during the 1920s, and she worked extensively in film and television, until her retirement in the mid 1970s.
She was nominated for an Academy...
Eve Arden
Eve Arden (April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she is perhaps best remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging high school...
Ann Blyth
Ann Marie Blyth (born August 16, 1928) is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her film roles include the selfish and ungrateful Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce, for...
Joan Lorring
Joan Lorring (born Mary Madeline Ellis on April 17, 1926) is a Hong Kong-born American actress.
Lorring fled with her mother in 1939 following the Japanese invasion . The two of them settled in San Francisco, California in the United States, where...
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (born March 2, 1919) is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943).
Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Flora Mae (née Suber)...
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Flora Robson
Dame Flora McKenzie Robson DBE (28 March 1902–7 July 1984) was an English actress, renowned as a character actress, who played roles ranging from queens to villainesses.
She was born in South Shields, of Scottish descent. Many of her forebears were...
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly...
Gale Sondergaard
Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress.
Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her...
Marjorie Main
Marjorie Main (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an Academy Award-nominated American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
Born Mary Tomlinson in Boggstown,...
Anne Revere
Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 - December 18, 1990) was an award-winning American stage, film, and television actress.
Born in New York City, Revere was a direct descendant of American Revolution hero Paul Revere. Her father was a stockbroker, and she...
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is an actress. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead from Gone with the Wind.
De...
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Ellen Corby
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Esther Walton" on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards.
Corby was born Ellen Hansen in...
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in...
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and actress.
She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in...
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family.
Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore (whose...
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress known for her performances in films such as All About Eve, The Razor's Edge and The Ten Commandments.
Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and...
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull (3 January 1886 – 12 March 1957) was an American actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film.
Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts. She attended...
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917) is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve (1950).
Born in...
Nancy Olson
Nancy Ann Olson (born July 14, 1928) is an American actress.
Olson was signed to a film contract by Paramount Pictures in 1948 and, after a few supporting roles, producers began to consider her for more prominent parts. She was up for the role of...
Hope Emerson
Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 - April 25, 1960) was an American actress.
Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. Following her graduation from West High School in Des Moines in 1916, she moved to New York City where she performed in vaudeville.
Emerson...
Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951...
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television.
Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Jewish parents Rose (née...
Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress.
After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Hays Code staple of Warner...
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, the eccentric life-loving...
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Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress.
Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she...
Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an American film actress.
Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Dutch immigrant Christian Verhagen (10 August 1890 - April 1983) and his Chicago-born wife, Marie (b. 25 May...
Terry Moore
Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford) (born January 7, 1929) is an American actress.
Born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, as Helen Luella Koford, Moore grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a child model...
Colette Marchand
Colette Marchand (born 29 April 1925) is a French dancer and actress.
Marchand was born in France.
Marchand performed as a première ballerina on Broadway: Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Paris (1949 & 1950) and Two on the Aisle (1951).
Marchand was...
Donna Reed
Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American film and television actress.
Reed was born Donna Belle Mullenger on a farm near Denison, Iowa, the daughter of Hazel Jane (née Shives) and William Richard Mullenger. The eldest of five...
Marjorie Rambeau
Marjorie Rambeau (July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970) was an American film and stage actress.
Rambeau was born in San Francisco, California. She began performing on the stage at the age of 12.
In her youth she was a Broadway leading lady. In 1921, Dorothy...
