Eva Marie Saint Net Worth

Eva Marie Saint net worth is
$20 Million

Eva Marie Saint Wiki Biography

Eva Marie Saint was born the 4th July 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, USA and is an actress who won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in “On the Waterfront” (1954), and played her best known role in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959). She is also the winner of Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival as well as Savannah Film and Video Festival Awards for Lifetime Achievements. Eva Marie Saint has been active in the entertainment industry since 1946.

How rich is the actress? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Eva Marie Saint’s net worth is as much as $20 million, as of the data presented in the early 2017. Films, television and theatre are the major sources of Eva’s net worth.

Eva Marie Saint Net Worth $20 Million

To begin with, the daughter of John Merle Saint and Eva Marie was educated at Bethlehem Central High School near New York, from which she matriculated in 1942. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University.

Her career began in the mid-1940s with small television roles, commercials and radio appearances. In 1954, she gained her first Award from Theatre World for her performance in “The Trip to Bountiful”. In the course of her film career, Saint preferred mainly double edged and subtle roles and played only in relatively selected film projects. For her first role in the feature film “On the Waterfront” (1954) she won an Oscar, playing the mistress of Marlon Brando, whose brother dies in the harbour quarter. In the following years, other successful films followed, including Fred Zinnemann’s revolutionary drama film “A Hatful of Rain” (1957).

One of her best known roles she played in 1959, as a mysterious blonde in the film “North by Northwest”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; the director insisted that Eva, who was known for her long blond hair, cut her hair because it would fit her character better. Then, she took major roles in the films “Exodus” (1960), the drama about the founding of Israel with Paul Newman, and as a tragic beauty in John Frankenheimer’s “All Fall Down” (1962). In 1965, she played the wife of school principal Richard Burton, and a year later, she was again under the direction of Frankenheimer, played a magazine editor in the film “Grand Prix” (1966).When the quality of film offers diminished in the 1970s, Saint worked again in the theatre. In 1986, she was as a fragile mother of Tom Hanks in the tragicomedy “Nothing in Common”.

During her television career, she received a total of five Emmy nominations, before she won an Emmy for her role in the miniseries “People Like Us” (1990). In 1990, she played the wife of the murdered Leon Klinghoffer (Burt Lancaster) in the television film “The Abduction” by Achille Lauro. Wim Wenders captured her in his film “Don’t Come Knocking” (2004), and in 2006, she appeared in “Superman Returns” as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of the main character. Since 2012, Saint has appeared as a spokeswoman in the series “The Legend of Korra”. In 2014, she was in the main cast of the romantic drama film “Winter’s Tale” by Akiva Goldsman.

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Eva Marie Saint now has two stars, for her contributions to both film and TV.

Finally, in the personal life of the actress, Eva Marie Saint was married to the director and producer Jeffrey Hayden (1926-2016) from 1951 until the death. She has two children from this marriage and three grandchildren.



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