That same year, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance in Pride of the Yankees opposite Gary Cooper.

The following year, she was nominated again, this time for Best Actress for The Pride of the Yankees, in which she played opposite Gary Cooper as the wife of Lou Gehrig.

Mo was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Single Drama with Julie Walters and Gary Lewis receiving nominations for, respectively, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

In 1952, she appeared in High Noon with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, earning a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

It won the Emmy Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special ( Linda Lowy ) and was nominated Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special ( Anjelica Huston ), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special ( Glenne Headly ), and Outstanding Made for Television Movie ( Amanda DiGiulio, Gary Hoffman ).

It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance.

* Actress Jeanne Cagney, who played the part of Cohan's sister, was James Cagney's real-life sister.

She reportedly turned him down flatly by saying, “ Why don ’ t you ask my sister !” Olivia de Havilland went on to play Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in Gone with the Wind and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

* Emily Hart-American Actress ( younger sister of Melissa Joan Hart )

Actress Larisa Oleynik, who plays Katarina's younger sister Bianca in the film, actually did attend Sarah Lawrence College in real life and was a member of the esteemed Women's Vocal Ensemble.

* Innocent Steps ( 2005 )-Starring South Korean Actress Moon Geun-Young, she was obliged to replace her older sister — a trained dancer supposed to compete in order to pay for a family debt.

Griffiths received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of real-life flautist Hilary du Pré opposite Emily Watson as her sister, famed cellist Jacqueline " Jackie " du Pre, in Hilary and Jackie ( 1998 ).

Drea de Matteo () ( born January 19, 1972 ) is an American television actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Angie Bolen on ABC's Desperate Housewives, Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom Joey, and as Adriana La Cerva on the acclaimed HBO TV series The Sopranos, a role for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay ( 1959 ), the Academy Juvenile Award for Pollyanna ( 1960 ) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961.

* Mr. Noodle's sister, Ms. Noodle, portrayed by Tony and Emmy Award Winning Actress Kristin Chenoweth

* Noora Elweya Qadry is a retired Egyptian Actress and sister of Poussi.

Carla Alerghetti took over the role of Lili in Carnival from her older sister, Anna Maria Alberghetti, who had won a Tony Award as Best Actress ( Musical ) for the part, before it closed on Broadway in 1963, and took the show on the road, starring opposite Ed Ames and Ray Danton.

Actress Ruth Ford ( 1911-2009 ) was his sister and only known sibling.

Josephine Hull portrayed his increasingly concerned ( and socially obsessed ) sister on Broadway originally, and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the film.

Lindsay co-starred with Bette Davis in four Warners films: as Davis's sister in 1934's Fog Over Frisco ; in 1935's Dangerous ( for which Davis won her first Best Actress Academy Award ); in Bordertown, co-starring Paul Muni, and, lastly, as Davis's rival for Henry Fonda's affections in Jezebel ( 1938 ), which earned Davis her second Best Actress Academy Award.

In 2006, she played a sexually promiscuous professor in Bewitching Attraction, then a disapproving sister in Family Ties ( for which she shared Best Actress honors with three castmates at the 2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival, where their film also swept Best Picture and Best Screenplay ).

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Von Trier's next film, Breaking the Waves ( 1996 ), the first film in von Trier's ' Golden Heart Trilogy ', won the Grand Prix at Cannes and featured Emily Watson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

Among the 10 Academy Awards won by Gone with the Wind was a Best Actress award for Leigh, who also won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Julie Andrews, who accepted the part after she was passed over by Jack L. Warner for the leading role of Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady.

The film was also the screen debut for Eva Marie Saint, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

The film also won Linda Hunt ( who played a man in the film ) an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Though well reviewed, particularly the performances of Bridges and Rosie Perez — who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress — the film was less commercially successful than Weir's two preceding films.

In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets ; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.

She was portrayed in the 2002 television film Bertie and Elizabeth by Juliet Aubrey, the 2006 film The Queen by Sylvia Syms and in the 2010 film The King's Speech by Helena Bonham Carter, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre ( 2000 ) by Patrice Leconte, for which she was nominated for a César for Best Actress, was a period drama which saw Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.

James Cagney with Gloria Stuart, who was Academy Award for Best Actress | Oscar-nominated sixty-three years later for another nautical epic, Titanic ( 1997 film ) | Titanic ( 1997 ).

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.

When Davis was nominated for an Academy Award, Crawford contacted the other Best Actress nominees ( who were unable to attend the ceremonies ) and offered to accept the award on their behalf should they win.

Jones, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1943 The Song of Bernadette, was nominated five times for the Academy Awards.

Actress Birgitta Tolksdorf, who made a name for herself in American television in the 1970s, as well as German stage and screen actor Mathias Wieman ( 1958 recipient of the Justus-Möser-Medaille ) ( see German article Justus-Möser-Medaille ) were born in the city.

It was directed by Josephine R. Abady and starred Edward Asner and Madeline Kahn, who received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

Warner was criticized for choosing a non-singing star, Audrey Hepburn, to play the leading role of Eliza Doolittle, and indeed that year's Academy Award for Best Actress went to Julie Andrews, who had played Eliza on Broadway and the London Stage, for Mary Poppins, while Audrey Hepburn was not even nominated.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.