Oscar winning actress Eva Marie Saint dies at age 102

Oscar winning actress Eva Marie Saint has died at the age of 102, according to reports by the Guardian, Variety, and the New York Times. Variety reported that she died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. The Guardian described her as one of the last survivors of the golden age of Hollywood. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

The Guardian and Variety both report that Saint made her screen debut opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, which was directed by Elia Kazan. Variety noted that she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in the film. Saint also starred alongside Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North by Northwest, the Guardian and the New York Times reported. [1][2][3]

Saint's career spanned six decades, according to the Guardian. Later in her career, she played the adoptive mother of Superman in one of her final screen appearances, the Guardian reported. Variety added that she was among the first breakout talents to emerge from early television. [1][2]

Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Bowling Green State University before starting her career in live radio and television dramas in the late 1940s. She received a Drama Critics Award for her Broadway debut in The Trip to Bountiful in 1953. At the time of her death, she was the earliest surviving and oldest living Academy Award winner. [7][10]