Joan Fontaine
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-10-22 (96 years old)
Deathday
2013-12-15
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also known As
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
Joan 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 father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's par...
Acting
1940
as Mrs. de Winter
1948
as Lisa Berndle
1961
as Dr. Susan Hiller
1956
as Susan Spencer
1948
as Jane Wharton
1939
as Peggy Day
1941
as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
1943
as Jane Eyre
1939
as Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
1948
as Dee Dee Dillwood
1952
as Rowena
1966
as Gwen Mayfield
1956
as Kendall Hale
1957
as Mavis Norman
1950
as Christabel Caine Carey
1947
as Ivy
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1948
as Johanna Augusta Franziska
1937
as Alyce Marshmorton
1951
as Page
1937
as Charlotte Parratt
1953
as Eve Graham
1950
as Manina Stuart
1954
as Francesca Bruni
1943
as Tessa Sanger
1958
as Françoise Ferrand
1952
as Jenny Carey
1938
as Meg Lawrence
1957
as Anne Leslie
1942
as Prudence Cathaway
1935
as Caroline Rumsey
1944
as Dona St. Columb
1951
as Alice Grey
1946
as Susan
1938
as Ann Porter
1953
as Fiametta / Bartolomea / Ginevra / Isabella
1945
as Susan Darell
1939
as Eliza Allen
1938
as Julie Evans
1937
as Jean Clemens
1937
as Trudy Olson
1936
as Joan Stevens
1937
as Doris King
1938
as Sheila Harrison
1953
as Susan Lane
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1978
as Grace St. George
1961
as Self (uncredited)
2004
as Self (archive footage)
1982
1994
as Queen Ludmilla
1986
as Margaret Drake
1999
as Self (archive footage)
1949
as Self / Jane Eyre (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
as Baby Warren
1942
as Self
1976
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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