Ahead of her death on Oct. 6 at age 102, "North by Northwest" star Eva Marie Saint was the oldest living Oscar winner.
The blond starlet, who won the supporting actress category at the 1955 Academy Awards, died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, her representative Jeff Sanderson confirmed to USA TODAY in a statement Oct. 6.
She took home the Oscar for the 1954 film "On the Waterfront," where she plays Catholic schoolgirl Edie who seeks justice after her longshoremen brother is murdered in Hoboken, New Jersey.
"I may have a baby right here," she said in her speech while nine months pregnant with her first child, son Darrell Hayden. She thanked all the longshoreman in her speech.
Saint was also known for films like "Because of Winn-Dixie"
(2005) and "Superman Returns" (2006), as well as several TV shows, from "How the West Was Won" to "Moonlighting." She was nominated for five Emmys but won on her fifth nod in 1990 for playing Lil Altemus on "People Like Us."
Who is the oldest living Oscar winner now?
Lee Grant, the director, documentarian and actor known for films like "In the Heat of the Night" and "Mulholland Drive," is now the oldest Oscar winner, according to IMDb.
Though Grant was secretive about her age, public records show she was born Oct. 31, 1925. Currently 100, she'll turn 101 on Halloween 2026.
She won her first Oscar in the best supporting actress category at the 1976 Academy Awards for playing Warren Beatty's older lover in 1975's "Shampoo."
Nearly a decade later, she won her second trophy as a director for the 1985 documentary "Down and Out in America," which delved into how the mid-1980s recession affected Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.
Estelle Parsons, 98, is the next oldest living Oscar winner after Grant. Her performance as Blanche Barrow in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" led to her first win at the 40th Academy Awards ceremony the following year.
Who was the oldest living Oscar winner before Eva Marie Saint
Saint became the oldest Oscar winner following Olivia de Havilland's death at age 104 on July 26, 2020.
De Havilland was a two-time Oscar winner for 1946's "To Each His Own" and 1949's "The Heiress."
Her first Oscar nomination came from playing Melanie in David O. Selznick’s 1939 Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind," though she lost to her "Wind" co-star Hattie McDaniel. Her second nod came for 1941’s "Hold Back the Dawn," she was nominated alongside her only sister, Joan Fontaine, who won for "Suspicion."
De Havilland starred in more than 50 films on the big and small screen from 1935 to 1988.
Contributing: Charles Trepany and Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY
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