Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for On the Waterfront, Dies at 102

Eva Marie Saint's film career began with an Oscar. She won for her first film, On the Waterfront, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

She became equally associated with North by Northwest, in which she starred opposite Cary Grant. /Film identified those two performances as central to her place in Hollywood.

Saint was born on July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in New York, according to Consequence of Sound.

Her performance career reached back to stage appearances in 1942, The Conversation reported. That account places her final film appearance in 2019, showing how far her working life extended beyond the classic films for which she was best known.

The career descriptions differ in scope rather than necessarily contradicting one another. Forbes described a screen career spanning more than seven decades, while IndieWire Movies described eight decades of stage and screen acting.

On October 6, 2026, Variety Movies reported that Saint had died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 102.

The reports agree on Saint's death and her age. The supplied coverage does not give a cause of death or details of funeral or memorial arrangements.

The remembrance has already taken several forms. The Guardian published a life in pictures, while The Conversation looked back across her performances from 1942 to 2019. Together, those accounts place her best-known films within a much longer acting life.