Eva Marie Saint, an acclaimed actress whose career spanned more than seven decades, died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 102.
Saint won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1954 film "On the Waterfront," opposite Marlon Brando. The film itself won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
At the time of her death, Saint was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award recipient. She was also one of the last remaining stars from Hollywood's Golden Age.
Her filmography included Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959), in which she played Eve Kendall, as well as "Raintree County" (1957) and "A Hatful of Rain" (1957), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Award nomination.
Saint began her career in the late 1940s as a television and radio actress after graduating from Bowling Green State University in 1946. A theater on campus is now named in her honor.
Early television appearances included the NBC-TV live show "Campus Hoopla" from 1946 to 1947 and "Bonnie Maid's Versa-Tile Varieties" in 1949. Audio recordings of these broadcasts are preserved in the Library of Congress.
She won a Theatre World Award for her stage performance as Thelma in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" in 1953 and a Primetime Emmy Award for the 1990 television miniseries "People Like Us."
Saint continued working into the 21st century, with her most recent theatrical film appearance in "Winter's Tale" (2014). She received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures and television.
Born July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, Saint was the daughter of John Merle Saint and Eva Marie Rice Saint. She graduated from Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, in 1942.
