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Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint dies aged 102
Eve Marie Saint has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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.
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-boxing docker.
Five years later, she portrayed femme fatale Eve Kendall, dangerously seducing Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's action thriller North by Northwest.
She died on Tuesday of natural causes, surrounded by family and loved ones at her home in Los Angeles, family representative Jeff Sanderson confirmed.
Until her death, Saint was the oldest surviving Oscar winner and one of the last remaining stars of Hollywood's golden age.
She also won an Emmy in 1990 for her role as a rich widow in the acclaimed TV miniseries People Like Us.
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1924, Saint had originally intended to become a teacher before developing a passion for theatre.
She trained in New York at the Herbert Berghof Studio and then the Actors Studio - the home of method acting - co-founded by Kazan.
Saint burst on to the Hollywood scene with her performance in Kazan's classic, On the Waterfront.