Actress Joan Fontaine has passed away at her home in California.
The actress, famous for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca and Suspicion, was 96.
Fontaine won her Oscar for “Best Actress” back in 1942 for her performance in Suspicion, competing that year against her sister Olivia de Havilland, with whom she had a famous rivalry.
The actress served as a jury president at the 1982 Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy for the soap Ryan’s Hope.
Off screen she was a licensed pilot and a Cordon Bleau chef. She married and divorced four times. She published her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, in 1978.
May she rest in peace.
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