Gale Sondergaard
Birthday: 1899-02-15 | Place of Birth: Litchfield, Minnesota, USAFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse (1936). She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Letter (1940). She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer. Married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, and her film career was destroyed as a result. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre, and acted in film and television occasionally from late 1960s. She moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gale Sondergaard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Acting
Role
as Elk Woman
as Hester Black
as Nora Kernan
as Catherine Vail
as Señorita de Sola
as Emily
as Lady Thiang
as Zenobia Dollard
as Bessie Seagrave
as Lady Irene Herrick
as Luise
as Mrs. Manette
as Rhoda
as Anna Huber
as Gretta Van Leyden
as Marge Willison
as Madame Stephanie Runick
as Mrs. Devoe
as Mrs. Van Dorn
as Abigail Doone
as Colette
as Inez Quintero
as Mrs. Hammond
as Tylette (the cat)
as Empress Eugenie
as Juno Marko
as Lora Travers
as Rachel Salomon
as Doris Clandon
as Madame Therese Charlot
