Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
10/22/1917
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
Joan de Beauvoir de HavillandJoan Burfield
Joan Fontaine
Biography
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". She was born in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their fat...
Known For
Suspicion
as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
The Women
as Peggy Day
Decameron Nights
as Fiametta / Bartolomea / Ginevra / Isabella
The Bigamist
as Eve Graham
The Witches
as Gwen Mayfield
Jane Eyre
as Jane Eyre
Serenade
as Kendall Hale
Island in the Sun
as Mavis Norman
The Users
as Grace St. George
Ivy
as Ivy
Born to Be Bad
as Christabel Caine Carey
The Affairs of Susan
as Susan Darell
From This Day Forward
as Susan
Frenchman's Creek
as Dona St. Columb
Ivanhoe
as Rowena
No More Ladies
as Caroline Rumsey
September Affair
as Manina Stuart
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dr. Susan Hiller
Othello
as Page
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
Career Timeline
1982
1961
1956
1953
The Bigamist
as Eve Graham
The Girl on the Park Bench
as Trudy
Flight to Tangier
as Susan Lane
Letter to Loretta
as Self - Guest Host
The Oscars
as Self
General Electric Theater
as Countess Irene Forelli
General Electric Theater
as Melanie Langdon
General Electric Theater
as Laurel Chapman
General Electric Theater
as Judith
General Electric Theater
as Linda Stacey
Decameron Nights
as Fiametta / Bartolomea / Ginevra / Isabella