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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning On the Waterfront actor, dead at 102

Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died. She was 102.

Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning On the Waterfront actor, dead at 102

Eva Marie Saint, an Oscar-winning actress, has died at the age of 102. According to CBC News and NPR, she won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, opposite Cary Grant.

In On the Waterfront, Saint played the role of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered, as reported by NPR. Her career spanned seven decades and included work in film and television, earning her an Emmy, as per the New Straits Times.

Saint died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and loved ones, as announced by her representative Jeff Sanderson, according to the New Straits Times and Hindustan Times - World News.

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