Cast
Olivia de Havilland
Acting
Cast
Olivia de Havilland
Known for
Acting
Born
1916-07-01
From
Tokyo, Japan
Died
2020-07-26
Also known as Olivia Mary de Havilland, Livvie, Olivia De Havilland
Biography
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 - July 25, 2020) was a British-American actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to British parents, de Havilland and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved with their mother to California in 1919. They were brought up by their mother Lilian, a former stage actress who taught them drama, music, and elocution. Olivia de Havilland made her screen debut in Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935. During her career, she often played demure ingénues opposite popular leading men, including Errol Flynn, with whom she made nine films. They became one of Hollywood's most popular romantic on-screen pairings. She achieved her initial popularity in romantic comedy films, such as The Great Garrick (1937), and in Westerns, such as Dodge City (1939). Her natural beauty and refined acting style made her particularly effective in historical period dramas, such as Anthony Adverse (1936), and romantic dramas, such as Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In her later career, she was most successful in dramas, such as Light in the Piazza (1962), and unglamorous roles in psychological dramas including Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). In addition to her film career, de Havilland continued her work in the theatre, appearing three times on Broadway. She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979), and television feature films, such as Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. During her film career, de Havilland won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For her lifetime contribution to the arts, she received the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush, and was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. De Havilland and Joan Fontaine are the only siblings to have won Academy Awards in a lead acting category. A lifelong rivalry between the two actresses resulted in an estrangement that lasted over three decades. De Havilland lived in Paris since 1956, and celebrated her 100th birthday on July 1, 2016. In June 2017, two weeks before her 101st birthday, de Havilland was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama. She was the oldest woman ever to receive the honour. In a statement, she called it "the most gratifying of birthday presents".
Gone with the Wind
as Melanie Hamilton
Airport '77
as Emily Livingston
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Maid Marian
The Strawberry Blonde
as Amy Lind
The Swarm
as Maureen Schuester
Pope Joan
as Mother Superior
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Miriam Deering
Princess O'Rourke
as Princess Maria
The Heiress
as Catherine Sloper
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
Anthony Adverse
as Angela Guiseppe
Captain Blood
as Arabella Bishop
Dodge City
as Abbie Irving
Murder Is Easy
as Honoria Waynflete
Santa Fe Trail
as Kit Carson Holliday
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive)
The Dark Mirror
as Terry Collins / Ruth Collins
That Lady
as Ana de Mendoza
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
They Died with Their Boots On
as Elizabeth Bacon
Government Girl
as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actress (also archive footage)
The Adventurers
as Deborah Hadley
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
The Fifth Musketeer
as Anne d'Autriche
The Screaming Woman
as Laura Wynant
The Male Animal
as Ellen Turner
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In This Our Life
as Roy Timberlake
The Proud Rebel
as Linnett Moore
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self - Cast Member in 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hermia
Devotion
as Charlotte Brontë
Not as a Stranger
as Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh
The Snake Pit
as Virginia Cunningham
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Elsa Campbell
It's Love I'm After
as Marcia West
The Woman He Loved
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
My Cousin Rachel
as Rachel Sangalletti Ashley
Raffles
as Gwen
Libel
as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon
My Love Came Back
as Amelia Cornell
Light in the Piazza
as Meg Johnson
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Lady Penelope Gray
To Each His Own
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris
Lady in a Cage
as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Self
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
Show-Business at War
as Self
Wings of the Navy
as Irene Dale
Out Where the Stars Begin
as Serena Ferris (archive footage)
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Serena Ferris
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
The Irish in Us
as Lucille Jackson
Alibi Ike
as Dolly Stevens
A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
Hold Back the Dawn
as Emmy Brown
The Ambassador's Daughter
as Joan Fisk
Four's a Crowd
as Lorri Dillingwell
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Self
Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
The Great Garrick
as Germaine de la Corbe
Hard to Get
as Margaret "Maggie" Richards
Noon Wine
as Ellie Thompson
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune
The Well Groomed Bride
as Margie Dawson
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Herself
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Self
A Day at Santa Anita
as Olivia de Havilland (uncredited)
Call It a Day
as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton
Stars on Horseback
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
as Self - Actress
The Making of a Great Motion Picture
