1942Nominee
Best Performance
China Girl
Gene Tierney
Actor
Brooklyn, New York, USA
November 19, 1920
Biography
Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951), and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1946Nominee
Best Performance
Dragonwyck
1950Nominee
Best Performance
Night and the City
Career Highlights
1944Highlight
Best Performance
Laura
1954Highlight
Best Performance
The Egyptian
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Dragonwyck
Night and the City
Laura