Eva Marie Saint Bio: Age, Parents, Siblings, Husband, Children, Net Worth.
Eva Marie Saint is an American film and television actress known for bringing emotional depth and complexity to her roles, in which she generally played women who appear fragile but have great inner strength.
In a career spanning 75 years, she has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards.
Saint is both the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award-winner, and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Eva Marie Saint age-
Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey. She celebrated her 99th birthday in 2023.
Eva Marie Saint parents-
Her parents, Eva Marie Saint (née Rice) and John Merle Saint, were Quakers.
Eva Marie Saint siblings-
Eva Marie Saint has a sister named Adelaide Louise Saint.
Eva Marie Saint husband-
Eva Marie Saint was married to Jeffrey Hayden, an American television director and producer. They were married from 1951 until his death in 2016.
Hayden died on Christmas Eve at his home in Los Angeles after a year of cancer treatment, publicist Jeff Sanderson announced.
He was surrounded by his family, including Saint, his wife of 65 years; they met on the subway in New York City and were married in October 1951.
Eva Marie Saint children-
Eva Marie Saint and her late husband Jeffrey Hayden had two children together, Laurette Hayden and Darrell Hayden.
Their first child, Darrell, was born two days after she won an Academy Award for On the Waterfront.
She began her acceptance speech with “I may have the baby right here!” Saint and Hayden also have four grandchildren
Laurette Hayden was born on 19 July 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
She is a producer, known for The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), My Very Best Friend (1996) and Just Ask My Children (2001).
She has been married to Miles Beller since 20 October 1985. They have one child.
Eva Marie Saint net worth-
As of 2024, Eva Marie Saint’s net worth is estimated to be around $20 million.
She has amassed this wealth through a successful career spanning over six decades in multiple fields of entertainment.
Saint began acting while she was a student at Bowling Green State University (B.A., 1946). She started her career as a radio actress in New York City, and in 1948 she began taking classes at the Actors Studio.
From 1949 she appeared regularly on such television shows as Actor’s Studio (1948–50) and The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950–51).
Saint won notice for her performance in a 1953 televised production of Horton Foote’s play The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish, and she appeared on Broadway in the same role, also in 1953.
Saint was cast in the role of Edie Doyle, the convent-educated sister of a murdered dockworker and the love interest of the protagonist, played by Marlon Brando, in her debut film, On the Waterfront (1954). Her moving portrayal earned her an Academy Award for best supporting actress.
Saint was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the televised play The Middle of the Night, by Paddy Chayefsky (1954), part of the Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse series, and she received a second Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Emily in a televised musical version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1954) on Producers’ Showcase that also featured Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra.
In addition, Saint costarred with Bob Hope in the movie That Certain Feeling (1956) and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the dramatic film A Hatful of Rain (1957).
Alfred Hitchcock cast Saint against type in what was perhaps her most memorable role: a coolly competent spy who falls in love with the protagonist, played by Cary Grant, in North by Northwest (1959).
Her most notable subsequent movies included Otto Preminger’s Exodus (1960), Vincente Minnelli’s The Sandpiper (1965), the Cold War comedy The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966), and the racing film Grand Prix (1966), in which she costarred with James Garner.
Thereafter Saint appeared most frequently in television movies. She played Edith Wilson in the TV movie The First Woman President (1974) and earned an Emmy Award nomination for Taxi!! (1978), a two-hander in which she costarred with Martin Sheen.
She played a murder victim’s mother in the miniseries Fatal Vision (1984) and had a recurring role as the mother of the character played by Cybill Shepherd in the series Moonlighting (1985–89).
Saint won an Emmy Award for her performance in the miniseries People Like Us (1990), based on a novel by Dominick Dunne.
She appeared in several films in the 21st century, including I Dreamed of Africa (2000), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006), and Winter’s Tale (2014), and she voiced a character in the animated TV series The Legend of Korra (2012–14).
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