Oscar winning actress Eva Marie Saint dies at age 102

Oscar winning actress Eva Marie Saint has died at the age of 102. Variety TV reported that she died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. NPR Arts, the New York Times Arts, GoldDerby, IndieWire, Deadline TV, and Variety TV all confirmed her death. [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Saint earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in On the Waterfront, NPR Arts and Variety TV reported. NPR Arts noted that she played Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. GoldDerby added that she beat out dozens of actresses for her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, where she acted alongside Cary Grant. [1][2][3][6]

IndieWire reported that Saint enjoyed an acting career that spanned eight decades across stage and screen. Deadline TV noted that her talent was honed at the Actors Studio and yielded both Academy and Emmy awards. At the time of her death, she was the earliest surviving and oldest living Academy Award winner as well as one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. [4][5][13]