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".
★7.9
MOVIE1939
Gone with the Wind
as Melanie Hamilton
★7.5
MOVIE1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Maid Marian
★5.6
MOVIE1977
Airport '77
as Emily Livingston
★6.9
MOVIE1939
Dodge City
as Abbie Irving
★10.0
MOVIE1988
The Woman He Loved
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
★7.2
MOVIE1935
Captain Blood
as Arabella Bishop
★6.8
MOVIE1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE1978
The Swarm
as Maureen Schuester
★4.7
MOVIE1970
The Adventurers
as Deborah Hadley
★7.8
MOVIE1949
The Heiress
as Catherine Sloper
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE1948
The Snake Pit
as Virginia Cunningham
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Government Girl
as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard
★6.7
MOVIE1941
They Died with Their Boots On
as Elizabeth Bacon
★7.3
MOVIE1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Miriam Deering
★7.5
MOVIE2021
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune
★8.0
MOVIE2015
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn…
★6.1
MOVIE1964
Lady in a Cage
as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Princess O'Rourke
as Princess Maria
★6.5
MOVIE1944
Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Hold Back the Dawn
as Emmy Brown
★6.1
MOVIE1958
The Proud Rebel
as Linnett Moore
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Wings of the Navy
as Irene Dale
★7.3
MOVIE2021
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
as Self - Actress
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The Strawberry Blonde
as Amy Lind
★6.5
MOVIE1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Elsa Campbell
★6.7
MOVIE1952
My Cousin Rachel
as Rachel Sangalletti Ashley
★6.2
MOVIE1955
Not as a Stranger
as Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh
★4.9
MOVIE1979
The Fifth Musketeer
as Anne d'Autriche
★5.8
MOVIE1940
Santa Fe Trail
as Kit Carson Holliday
★6.3
MOVIE1939
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Lady Penelope Gray
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Show-Business at War
as Self
★8.2
MOVIE1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self - Cast Member in 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage)
★4.5
MOVIE2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive)
★6.6
MOVIE1982
Murder Is Easy
as Honoria Waynflete
★6.9
MOVIE1942
In This Our Life
as Roy Timberlake
★6.6
MOVIE1955
That Lady
as Ana de Mendoza
★6.3
MOVIE1937
The Great Garrick
as Germaine de la Corbe
★3.8
MOVIE1969
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Serena Ferris
★8.0
MOVIE1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE1962
Light in the Piazza
as Meg Johnson
★4.5
MOVIE1942
The Male Animal
as Ellen Turner
★6.8
MOVIE1972
The Screaming Woman
as Laura Wynant
★7.0
MOVIE1946
To Each His Own
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Devotion
as Charlotte Brontë
★7.0
MOVIE1946
The Dark Mirror
as Terry Collins / Ruth Collins
★7.5
MOVIE1935
The Irish in Us
as Lucille Jackson
★5.7
MOVIE1946
The Well Groomed Bride
as Margie Dawson
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Call It a Day
as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton
★6.7
MOVIE2006
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
as Self (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hermia
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Alibi Ike
as Dolly Stevens
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE1937
It's Love I'm After
as Marcia West
★7.5
MOVIE2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
★7.7
MOVIE2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actress (also archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1935
A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Four's a Crowd
as Lorri Dillingwell
★6.0
MOVIE1937
A Day at Santa Anita
as Olivia de Havilland (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE1956
The Ambassador's Daughter
as Joan Fisk
★6.8
MOVIE1959
Libel
as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon
★8.0
MOVIE1978
Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE1936
Anthony Adverse
as Angela Guiseppe
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Raffles
as Gwen
★5.5
MOVIE1982
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
★4.9
MOVIE1940
My Love Came Back
as Amelia Cornell
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Hard to Get
as Margaret "Maggie" Richards
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1972
Pope Joan
as Mother Superior
MOVIE1983
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE1943
Stars on Horseback
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Out Where the Stars Begin
as Serena Ferris (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE2015
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Noon Wine
as Ellie Thompson
★6.7
MOVIE1936
The Making of a Great Motion Picture
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Herself
★7.8
MOVIE1983
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Self