"I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'"
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actress.
She is perhaps best known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, for which she earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest.
As of 2024, she is the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and one of the last surviving stars from The Golden Age of Hollywood.
Selected filmography:
- On the Waterfront (1954) as Edie Doyle
- North By Northwest (1959) as Eve Kendall
- Exodus (1960) as Kitty Fremont
- 36 Hours (1965) as Anna Hedler
- Grand Prix (1966) as Louise Frederickson
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) as Elspeth Whittaker
- The Love Boat (2 episodes, 1983) as Aunt Helen Georgelos
- Fatal Vision (1984) as Mildred Kassab
- Nothing in Common (1986) as Lorraine Basner
- The Last Days of Patton (1986) as Beatrice Ayer Patton
- Moonlighting (6 episodes, 1986–88) as Virginia Hayes
- Titanic (1996) as Hazel Foley
- Frasier (1 episode, 1999) as Joanna Doyle
- Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) as Miss Franny
- Superman Returns (2006) as Martha Kent
- The Legend of Korra (2012–14) as Katara (voice)
- Winter's Tale (2014) as Adult Willa
