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About: An icon of Hollywood's golden age, Olivia de Havilland was born July 1, 1916, in Tokyo to a British patent attorney and his wife. When she was 3, her parents divorced, and her mother moved Olivia and her sister (future actress Joan Fontaine) to California. Stage director Max Reinhardt discovered her there and cast her in his acclaimed 1935 film A Midsummer Night's Dream. Soon, she scored another hit as Errol Flynn's ladylove in Captain Blood; they would co-star seven more times.On loan to MGM, de Havilland played Melanie in Gone with the Wind; her most enduring performance, it resulted in a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She was nominated for Best Actress for The Snake Pit and Hold Back the Dawn and won the Oscar for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949).Her subsequent appearances were more sporadic, with her last screen role in 1979's The 5th Musketeer.
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