Geena Davis, who won the 1988 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "The Accidental Tourist," is listed as 6-feet tall.
Vivien Leigh who won for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Hattie McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
1940 - Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
No, Halle Berry was the first African-American to win the Best Actress award. She won for her role as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball (2001).However, Whoopi Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress for playing Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990). She had previously been nominated for Best Actress in 1985 for her role as Celie in The Color Purple.And, Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).Dorothy Dandridgewas the first African-American woman to be nominated for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)
Liza Minnelli won an Oscar for Cabaret (1972), and the same year won an Emmy for her TV special Liza with a "Z".
The first actress to win an Oscar was Janet Gaynor.
No. She was never nominated for an Oscar.
Actress Maggie Smith won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing an actress who's nominated for an Oscar but doesn't win in California Suite (1978).
She already has won an Oscar for best actress.
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The third woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress was Norma Shearer who appeared in The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin.
She won an Oscar for best actress in a lead role for Sophie's Choice, and another Oscar for best supporting actress for Kramer vs. Kramer.
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For best actress in the movie Requiem for a Dream.
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