Ava Gardner
Acting
Born 1922-12-24
Died 1990-01-25
Grabtown, North Carolina, USA
101 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Silver Shell for Best Actress 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1954 Best Actress Nominated Mogambo
Golden Globe Awards 1 nominated
- 1964 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated The Night of the Iguana
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Silver Shell for Best Actress 1 won
- 1964 Best Actress Won The Night of the Iguana
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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Considered one of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, she was ranked as the 25th greatest female screen legend by the American Film Institute. Initially cast in minor roles, her breakthrough came with the classic film noir The Killers (1946), which established her as a leading lady. Her career flourished in the 1950s with notable performances in films like Mogambo (1953), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, The Barefoot Contessa (1954), and The Night of the Iguana (1964), which earned her a BAFTA nomination.
Off-screen, Gardner's personal life and progressive politics attracted significant attention. Her marriages to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw were gossiped about, but her tumultuous relationship with Frank Sinatra particularly headlined. Gardner was a strong supporter of racial equality and desegregation, and became a member of the NAACP in 1968. Gardner was a heavy smoker, which deteriorated her health as she grew older. She continued acting in minor roles in the 1980s before she suffered a stroke in 1986 and retired. Gardner moved to Spain and England, where she spent her final years before passing away from bronchopneumonia on January 25, 1990.
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Filmography
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Knots Landing
What's My Line?
Intimate Portrait
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
On the Beach
A.D.
Earthquake
The Bible: In the Beginning...
55 Days at Peking
The Cassandra Crossing
The Sentinel
Mayerling
The Band Wagon
The Barefoot Contessa
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
The Long Hot Summer
The Night of the Iguana
The Killers
Seven Days in May
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Mogambo
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Show Boat
That's Entertainment!
The Blue Bird
Lone Star
That's Entertainment! III
City on Fire
Knights of the Round Table
Rat Pack
The Naked Maja
Ride, Vaquero!
The Sun Also Rises
Ghosts on the Loose
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Maisie Goes to Reno
Reunion in France
Harem
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Fancy Answers
Swing Fever
Whistle Stop
Shadow of the Thin Man
Two Girls and a Sailor
Iconic Couples of Hollywood
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Chavela
Regina Roma
Du Barry Was a Lady
The Great Sinner
Bhowani Junction
Twenty Years After
Maggie
My Forbidden Past
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
One Touch of Venus
Legends of the West
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
The Ballad of Tam Lin
Singapore
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