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Date of Birth
7 December 1893, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death
16 April 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia)

Birth Name
Fay Okell Bainter

Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)

Spouse
Reginald Venable (1922 - 1964) (his death) 1 son

Trivia

Mother of Richard Venable.

Screen, stage, and television actress.

A change in the Academy Awards nominating and voting rules was made because of confusion over her two nominations in 1938.

Aunt of actress Dorothy Burgess.

Buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Her husband was a military officer who is buried there.

One of the ten thespians to have been nominated for both a supporting and lead acting Academy Award in the same year for two different movies. The other nine are Teresa Wright, Cate Blanchett, Barry Fitzgerald (he was nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore and Jamie Foxx. Bainter was the first to have ever been nominated for both awards in the same year.


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