Olivia de Havilland

Acting · Born 1916-07-01 in Tokyo, Japan

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…

Filmography

• Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Miriam Deering
• The Adventures of Robin Hood as Maid Marian
• The Heiress as Catherine Sloper
• Captain Blood as Arabella Bishop
• Santa Fe Trail as Kit Carson Holliday
• The Fifth Musketeer as Anne d'Autriche
• Murder Is Easy as Honoria Waynflete
• Airport '77 as Emily Livingston
• Princess O'Rourke as Princess Maria

TV

• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• The Hollywood Palace as Self
• Roots: The Next Generations as Mrs. Warner
• ABC Stage 67 as Ellie Thompson
• The Oscars as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show as Self
• North and South as Mrs. Neal
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
• What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest