Olivia de Havilland
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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".
Known for
Credits
Gone with the Wind (1939)
as Melanie Hamilton
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
as Maid Marian
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
as Miriam Deering
The Swarm (1978)
as Maureen
Airport '77 (1977)
as Emily Livingston
Captain Blood (1935)
as Arabella Bishop
The Heiress (1949)
as Catherine Sloper
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Elizabeth Bacon
The Dark Mirror (1946)
as Terry Collins / Ruth Collins
The Proud Rebel (1958)
as Linnett Moore
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
as Hermia
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self
Government Girl (1943)
as Elizabeth 'Smokey' Allard
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
as Lady Penelope Gray
Dodge City (1939)
as Abbie Irving
In This Our Life (1942)
as Roy Timberlake
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as Kit Carson Holliday
The Snake Pit (1948)
as Virginia Cunningham
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
as Rachel Ashley
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
as Amy Lind
The Adventurers (1970)
as Deborah Hadley
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
as Anne d'Autriche
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
as Elsa Campbell
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Murder Is Easy (1982)
as Honoria Waynflete
Not as a Stranger (1955)
as Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
as Serena Ferris
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
Anthony Adverse (1936)
as Angela Guiseppe
Pope Joan (1972)
as Mother Superior
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
Four's a Crowd (1938)
as Lorri Dillingwell
Lady in a Cage (1964)
as Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
as Self
Light in the Piazza (1962)
as Meg Johnson
The Woman He Loved (1988)
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
as Emmy Brown
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
as Princess Maria
To Each His Own (1946)
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris
Devotion (1946)
as Charlotte Brontë
It's Love I'm After (1937)
as Marcia West
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
My Love Came Back (1940)
as Amelia Cornell
That Lady (1955)
as Ana de Mendoza
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self - Cast Member in 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1944 (1944)
as Self
Libel (1959)
as Lady Margaret Anne Loddon
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler (1983)
as Self
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune (2021)
Actor
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano (1983)
as Self
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Call It a Day (1937)
as Catherine 'Cath' Hilton
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Screaming Woman (1972)
as Laura Wynant
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
as Self - Actress (also archive footage)
Wings of the Navy (1939)
as Irene Dale
The Male Animal (1942)
as Ellen Turner
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
as Joan Fisk
British Pathé Newsreels: Gone with the Wind (1939)
as Self (archive footage)
The Great Garrick (1937)
as Germaine de la Corbe
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021)
as Self - Actress
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982)
as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Noon Wine (1966)
as Ellie Thompson
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
Raffles (1939)
as Gwen
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001)
as Self (Archive footage)
The Irish in Us (1935)
as Lucille Jackson
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
as Margie Dawson
Inside 'the Swarm' (1978)
as Self
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn… (2015)
Actor
Hard to Get (1938)
as Margaret "Maggie" Richards
A Dream Comes True (1935)
as Herself (uncredited)
Stars on Horseback (1943)
Actor
A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
as Olivia de Havilland (uncredited)
Alibi Ike (1935)
as Dolly Stevens
The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936)
Actor
Out Where the Stars Begin (1938)
as Serena Ferris (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland (2004)
as Herself