| Also Known As | Livvie |
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| Birth Name | Olivia Mary de Havilland |
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| Birth | Born on 1916-07-01 at Tokyo, Tokyo Japan |
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| Height | 5' 3½" |
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| Sex | F |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Profession | Actress |
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| Education | High School: Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, CA (1934)
University: Mills College, Oakland, CA |
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| Married To | Marcus Goodrich (author, Delilah, b. 1897, m. 26-Aug-1946, div. 1953, d. 1991, one son)
Pierre Galante (author, Operation Valkyrie, b. 1909, m. 2-Apr-1955, div. 1979, d. 1998 cancer, one daughter) |
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| Relationships | Jimmy Stewart (actor)
Howard Hughes (millionaire playboy)
Clark Gable (actor) |
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| Father | Walter Augustus de Havilland (British patent attorney, b. 1872, d. 1968) |
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| Mother | Lillian (Ruse) Fontaine (actress, The Lost Weekend, b. 1886, d. 1975, cance |
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| Sisters | Joan Fontaine (actress) |
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| Sons | Benjamin Briggs Goodrich (statistical analyst, b. 1949, d. 1991 Hodgkin's disease) |
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| Daughters | Gisèle Galante (reporter, Paris Match, b. 1956) |
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Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is an Oscar-winning Japanese-born American film actress.
Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is the elder daughter of Walter de Havilland, a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, an actress known by her stage name of Lilian (or Lillian) Fontaine, who married in 1914. Her father was the half-br ..
Olivia de Havilland's Biography |
| Quote: "The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. These men in their black towers don't know what they are doing. It's slave labour. There is no elegance left in anybody. They have no taste. Movies are being financed by conglomerates which take a write off if they don't work. The only people who fight for what the public deserves are artists." More Quotes | | Trivia: Turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in the screen version of 'A Streetcar Named Desire', allegedly stating that 'A lady just doesn't say or do those things on the screen'. More Trivia | Awards: Oscar
For: Best Actress(To Each His Own)
Year: 1947
Won More Awards | | Olivia de Havilland Photo Gallery | | Contact Olivia de Havilland |
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