ACTOR · BORN 1924
Eva Marie Saint
- Born
- 4 July 1924, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Known for
- On the Waterfront (1954), West Side Story (1961), Exodus (1960), Moonlighting (1985)
25 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026
Eva Marie Saint (born 4 July 1924) is an actor best known for On the Waterfront, West Side Story and Exodus.
Eva Marie Saint over the years
25 Interesting Facts About Eva Marie Saint
Interesting Facts (8)
- #001
Elia Kazan said of Eva Marie Saint: "perfect… she was just perfect. Everybody loved her--especially me!"
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- #003
In her mid-nineties, Eva Marie Saint was still performing in radio plays and podcasts alongside the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Marisa Tomei and Harriet Harris.
- #004
In 1994, Eva Marie Saint had the rare honor of appearing on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York as a dramatic actress, invited by the New York Choral Society to read a poem by Denise Levertov while the choir sang Berlioz's Te Deum and other works. She said yes because her longtime archivist, Richard Weigle, sang tenor in the group.
- #005
To mark her 100th birthday in July 2024, Turner Classic Movies made Eva Marie Saint its Star of the Month, showing her films and interviews every Thursday.
- #006
Eva Marie Saint graduated from the Stella Adler Acting Studio.
- #007
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' song "Rattlesnakes" mentions Eva Marie Saint and her performance in On the Waterfront (1954).
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Eva Marie Saint is among the best-known actresses trained and nurtured at The Actors Studio in New York, alongside Jane Fonda and Marilyn Monroe.
Behind the Scenes (6)
- #009
In 1987, the Eva Marie Saint Theatre opened on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She graduated from the university in 1946.
- #010
She campaigned to ban drivers from using cell phones.
- #011
On 7/10/58 she gave birth to her second child, Laurette Hayden, at age 34. The child's father is her husband Jeffrey Hayden.
- #012
She is the grandmother of Tyler (b. 1985) and Molly Hayden (b. 1988) through her son Darrell, and of Eli Beller (b. 1990) through her daughter Laurette.
- #013
She is the daughter of John Merle Saint (1891-1965), born in Iowa, and Eva Marie Rice (1896-1987), born in New Jersey.
- #014
On November 11, 2024, the Greenwich Village Film Festival presented Eva Marie Saint with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Career & Awards (8)
- #015
Though Edie Doyle was really a lead role, producer Sam Spiegel put Eva Marie Saint forward as a supporting actress in hopes of a nomination, and the strategy paid off with an Oscar.
- #016
Eva Marie Saint beat Elizabeth Montgomery to Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront (1954). In his autobiography "A Life," director Elia Kazan says it came down to the two of them; Montgomery tested well, but she had a finishing-school air that Kazan felt didn't suit Edie, a girl raised on the Hoboken, NJ, waterfront. He chose Saint, who achieved screen immortality in the part and won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
- #017
Eva Marie Saint has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Blvd. and for television at 6730 Hollywood Blvd.
- #018
Eva Marie Saint is one of six actresses who were pregnant when they won an Oscar, with Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman, and Neal was the only one whose pregnancy kept her from accepting in person. Saint was nine months pregnant with her son Darrell when she won Best Supporting Actress for On the Waterfront (1954).
- #019
Colin Farrell called working with Eva Marie Saint on "Winter's Tale" one of the most important moments of his career and a dream come true.
- #020
At 90, Eva Marie Saint hosted "The Big Picture: Hitchcock!" at the Hollywood Bowl in 2014, an evening celebrating Alfred Hitchcock's film and musical legacy with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra playing live.
- #021
Eva Marie Saint turned down Eve in "The Three Faces of Eve," which won Joanne Woodward an Oscar, but two years later her glowing reviews as Eve Kendall in "North by Northwest" made her an international star.
- #022
Eva Marie Saint and Kim Hunter, both Actors Studio graduates, each won Best Supporting Actress for playing opposite Marlon Brando in an Elia Kazan film.
Life & Family (3)
- #023
According to the 1942 Bethlehem Central High School yearbook, Eva Marie Saint was nicknamed "Bubbles," wanted to be a teacher, and was both a cheerleader and senior class secretary.
- #024
Eva Marie Saint's favorite film is François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973).
- #025
Though she has lived in Southern California since 1955, Greenwich Village in New York was central to Eva Marie Saint's life: it was there that she met Jeffrey Hayden, her husband of 65 years, married him, had their first child and won her Oscar.
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Sources & editorial notes
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