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Eva Marie Saint, an Oscar-winning actress known for her roles in "On the Waterfront" and "North by Northwest," died at age 102 on Tuesday due to natural causes in Los Angeles, surrounded by family. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Saint won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her debut role as Edie Doyle in "On the Waterfront." She also starred alongside Cary Grant as Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller and later received an Emmy award for a TV miniseries called "People Like Us" in 1990.
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Eva Marie Saint, the iconic actress known for her roles in classics like "On the Waterfront" (1954) and "North by Northwest" (1959), passed away at 102 on October 6, 2026, of natural causes. Born in New Jersey, she made a groundbreaking debut opposite Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront," earning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later, her portrayal of spy Eve Kendall alongside Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller solidified her status as a Hollywood legend.
Saint’s career spanned over seven decades and saw collaborations with numerous acclaimed directors and actors such as Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, and Warren Beatty. Despite achieving immense success early on, she maintained an independent streak in the industry, rejecting studio contracts and prioritizing her family life.
Her work pushed boundaries during Hollywood’s censorship era, including roles in films like "A Hatful of Rain" (1957). Saint's legacy is marked not only by her exceptional performances but also by her commitment to authenticity and personal integrity within the film industry.
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Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actress who starred in Hollywood classics such as On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, has died aged 102.
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Saint won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her movie debut in director Elia Kazan's 1954 crime thriller On the Waterfront, playing Edie Doyle, the love interest of Marlon Brando's conflicted ex-boxer docker.
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Five years later, she portrayed femme fatale Eve Kendall, dangerously seducing Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's action thriller North by Northwest.
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She died on Tuesday of natural causes, surrounded by family and loved ones at her home in Los Angeles, family representative Jeff Sanderson confirmed.
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Saint also won an Emmy in 1990 for her role as a rich widow in the acclaimed TV miniseries People Like Us.
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Born in Newark, New Jersey, Saint had originally intended to become a teacher before developing a passion for theatre.
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She trained in New York at the Herbert Berghof Studio and then the Actors Studio - the home of method acting - co-founded by Kazan.
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Saint burst on to the Hollywood scene with her performance in Kazan's classic, On the Waterfront.
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Brando was known as an intense method actor and Saint admitted to having found him "adorable" but "a little frightening".
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"I felt that he could see right through me," she told Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in a 2013 interview.
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She was considered a surprise choice, though, to play one of "Hitchcock's blondes", as they were known at the time, in his masterpiece North by Northwest.
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Her co-star Grant was known for being very demanding of his leading ladies.
"He worked with me from the outside in," said Saint.
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And just from creating that exterior for me, he gave me the sense of a spy lady."
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Saint also starred opposite Paul Newman in Otto Preminger's Exodus in 1960, and she was Warren Beatty's love interest in John Frankenheimer's All Fall Down.
But she then stepped away from the limelight to raise a family with director Jeffrey Hayden.
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Half a century later, Saint - by then in her early 80s - made a big screen comeback as Superman's adoptive mother in the 2006 blockbuster Superman Returns.
And she later had parts in the supernatural fantasy Winter's Tale, alongside Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe, and another in the 2019 nun drama Mariette in Ecstasy.
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Saint, who has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said her longevity in acting had given her work extra depth.
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"The longer you live, the smarter you get, because you've been around, you've seen things," she told TCM.
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"You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better.
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"And that makes you a better actress."
Saint's marriage to Hayden lasted for 65 years, until his death in 2016, and she is survived by their two children.
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