Kim Hunter
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- born: 12/Nov/1922 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
- died: 11/Sep/2002 (New York City, New York, USA) - heart attack
Biography
Kim Hunter was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.
Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Donald Cole and Grace Lind. She attended Miami Beach High School.
Hunter performed in the original Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski. She appeared in the 1951 film, for which she won both the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
She was blacklisted from film and television during the Hollywood communism paranoia created by McCarthyism.
Her other major film roles include David Niven's fiancee in the classic film "A Matter of Life and Death" (1945), and Zira the chimpanzee scientist in the first three of the "Planet of the Apes" series. She also appeared in several soap operas, most notably as Nola Madison on "The Edge of Night", for which she received a Daytime Emmy Nomination in 1980 as Best Actress.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kim Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street and a second star at 1715 Vine Street.
Hunter died due to cardiac arrest in New York City, aged 79.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Evil of Adelaide Winters (07/Feb/1964) - cast: Adelaide Winters
Other works of note...
- A Canterbury Tale (1944) - cast: Johnson's Girl (US release)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - cast: June
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - cast: Stella Kowalski
- Planet of the Apes (1968) - cast: Zira
- The Swimmer (1968) - cast: Betty Graham