Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a British-American actress whose career spanned fifty-three years, from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in forty-nine feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to English parents, de Havilland and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved to California in 1919, where they were raised by their mother Lillian, a former stage actress who taught them dramatic art, music, and elocution. She made her acting debut in amateur theatre playing the lead role in Alice in Wonderland and later appeared in a local production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which led to her landing the role of Hermia in Max Reinhardt's stage production of the same play and a movie contract with Warner Bros.