Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine (1943)
Born	Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland 22 October 1917 ( 1917-10-22 ) Tokyo , Japan
Dee'd	15 December 2013 (2013-12-15) (aged 96) Carmel-by-the-Sea , Californie , Unitit States
Cause o daith	Naitural causes
Residence	Carmel-by-the-Sea, Californie
Ither names	Joan Burfield Joan St. John
Citizenship	Breetish American [1]
Eddication	Los Gatos Heich School American Schuil in Japan
Thrift	Actress
Years active	1935–1994
Hauf-marrae(s)	Brian Aherne ( m.  1939; div.  1945) William Dozier ( m.  1946; div.  1951) Collier Young ( m.  1952; div.  1961) Alfred Wright, Jr. ( m.  1964; div.  1969)
Bairns	2
Kin	Olivia de Havilland (elder sister)

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (22 October 1917 ? 15 December 2013), kent professionally as Joan Fontaine , wis a Breetish-American actress. Fontaine began her career on the stage in 1935 an signed a contract wi RKO Pictures that same year.

In 1941, she received an Academy Awaird nomination for Best Actress for her role in Rebecca , directit bi Alfred Hitchcock . The follaeing year, she wan the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), makin Fontaine the anly actor tae ever win an Academy Award in a film directit bi Hitchcock. ^[2] Fontaine an her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are the anly set o siblings tae hae wan lead actin Academy Awairds . Durin the 1940s tae the 1990s, Fontaine continued her career in roles on the stage an in radio, telly an film. She released her autobiography, No Bed of Roses , in 1978. Efter a career spannin ower fifty years, Fontaine made her last on-screen appearance in 1994.

Born in Japan tae Breetish parents, the sisters moved tae Californie in 1919. Fontaine lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Californie , whaur she ained a home, Villa Fontana. It wis thare that she died o naitural causes at the age o 96 in 2013.

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