Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning film star of ‘On the Waterfront,’ dead at 102

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Eva Marie Saint, the Academy Award-winning actress who excelled in roles opposite such stars as Cary Grant and Marlon Brando, has died, according to her publicist Jeff Sanderson. She was 102.

In a written message, Sanderson said Saint died Tuesday of natural causes surrounded by family and loved ones at her home in Los Angeles.

Saint won her Oscar for her movie debut in “On the Waterfront,” costarring with Brando in the breakout 1954 drama from director Elia Kazan. Her most memorable role, however, came five years later, as Eve Kendall, the cool double agent – tasked with wooing Grant – in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest,” one of the director’s signature thrillers.

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In a 2014 interview, Saint recalled working with Hitchcock, saying that the director never discussed emotion with her but told her to lower her voice and “always, in my scenes with Cary Grant, look directly into his eyes, which was not difficult.”

Born in New Jersey on the Fourth of July, Saint began acting in college and subsequently moved to New York, landing roles in radio plays and television.

Saint studied at the acclaimed Actors Studio, working with Kazan and Lee Strasberg, the renowned acting coach. They worked on what came to be known as Method acting, with Brando, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman and Geraldine Page among other famous students.

“Think of your body as an instrument, a musical instrument,” Saint recalled Strasberg telling her, in a 2001 interview. “So take care of your body. You have to be disciplined and you should be able to play what that director wants.”

Saint appeared in a number of films in the 1960s, including “Exodus” (with Newman), “The Sandpiper” and the Cold War comedy “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!”

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She stayed active in television, portraying Edith Wilson in the 1974 movie “The First Woman President,” and recurring as Cybill Shepherd’s character’s mother on the popular ‘80s series “Moonlighting.”

Saint received several Emmy nominations, winning for the miniseries “People Like Us,” based on a Dominick Dunne novel. She continued to appear in movies well into her 80s and 90s, including “Because of Winn-Dixie” and “Superman Returns.”

Saint married producer-director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951 – they met on a subway in New York – and the two stayed together for 65 years, until his death in 2016. They had two children, and Saint was actually pregnant when she accepted the Academy Award in 1955.

Early in their marriage, Hayden directed Saint an episode of the 1950s CBS series “Omnibus.” The couple later collaborated on several plays and performed together on stage in “Love Letters.”

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据其公关杰夫·桑德森透露，曾与加里·格兰特和马龙·白兰度等巨星合作、并荣获奥斯卡奖的著名女演员伊娃·玛丽·圣去世，享年102岁。

桑德森在一份书面声明中表示，圣特于周二在洛杉矶的家中，在家人和爱人的陪伴下，因自然原因去世。

圣女凭借电影处女作《码头风云》获得奥斯卡奖，她在伊利亚·卡赞执导的这部1954年突破性剧情片中与马龙·白兰度联袂主演。然而，她最令人难忘的角色是在五年后，在阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克的代表作之一《西北偏北》中饰演冷静的双面间谍伊芙·肯德尔，她的任务是追求格兰特。

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在 2014 年的一次采访中，圣特回忆起与希区柯克合作的经历，她说这位导演从未与她讨论过情感，只是告诉她要降低音量，“在与加里·格兰特的对手戏中，要始终直视他的眼睛，这并不难。”

圣特于7月4日出生于新泽西州，大学期间开始演戏，随后搬到纽约，在广播剧和电视剧中获得角色。

圣特曾在著名的演员工作室学习，师从卡赞和著名表演教练李·斯特拉斯伯格。他们研究了后来被称为方法演技的表演方法，马龙·白兰度、蒙哥马利·克利夫特、保罗·纽曼和杰拉尔丁·佩吉等众多著名学生都曾是他们的学生。

“把你的身体想象成一件乐器，一件音乐乐器，”圣特在2001年的一次采访中回忆起斯特拉斯伯格对她说的话。“所以要好好照顾你的身体。你必须自律，并且能够演奏出导演想要表达的东西。”

圣特在 20 世纪 60 年代出演了多部电影，包括《出埃及记》（与纽曼合作）、《沙滩上的流浪汉》以及冷战喜剧《俄国人来了！俄国人来了！》

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她一直活跃在电视界，在 1974 年的电影《第一位女总统》中饰演伊迪丝·威尔逊，并在 80 年代的热门电视剧《月光女神》中多次饰演西比尔·谢泼德角色的母亲。

圣特曾多次获得艾美奖提名，并凭借根据多米尼克·邓恩小说改编的迷你剧《我们这样的人》获奖。她一直活跃在影坛，直到八九十岁高龄，出演了《因为温迪克西》和《超人归来》等影片。

圣于 1951 年与制片人兼导演杰弗里·海登结婚——他们在纽约地铁上相识——两人携手走过了 65 年，直到 2016 年海登去世。他们育有两个孩子，圣在 1955 年领取奥斯卡奖时实际上已经怀孕了。

在他们婚姻初期，海登曾执导圣特出演 20 世纪 50 年代 CBS 电视剧《Omnibus》的一集。这对夫妇后来合作创作了几部戏剧，并在舞台剧《情书》中共同演出。