Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland (full name Olivia Mary de Havilland, 1916–2020) was a Tokyo-born film actress who held British, American and French citizenship, and one of the last surviving major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.

She rose to fame in the mid-1930s as Errol Flynn's screen partner in adventure films such as Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Her role as Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939) earned her the first of her five Oscar nominations and her only one for Best Supporting Actress. The 1940s were the peak of her career: moving beyond ingénue parts, she starred in To Each His Own, The Snake Pit and The Heiress, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for To Each His Own and The Heiress. She also won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actress award, appeared on Broadway and in television productions, and won a Golden Globe for her television work.

She lived in Paris from the 1950s. She was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2010 and, shortly before her 101st birthday in 2017, was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the oldest person to receive the honor; she also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her younger sister was fellow Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, and they remain the only siblings to have both won major acting Academy Awards. She died in Paris in 2020 at the age of 104, having been the oldest living Academy Award winner.