Olivia de Havilland Filmography

Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s. Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan, to parents from the United Kingdom. Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland , was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband - she would return to work after her... daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine. Her parents married in 1914 and they separated in 1919, when Lilian decided to end the marriage after discovering that her husband used the sexual services of geisha girls, but divorce was not signed until February 1925. Her younger sister is the actress Joan Fontaine - stage name of Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland .
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