Joan Fontaine: Oscar-Winning Actress of Suspicion Dies at 96

Joan Fontaine was a British-American actress. Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, she was the younger sister of Olivia de Havilland.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and was nominated for Rebecca and The Constant Nymph. She also starred in Jane Eyre and Letter from an Unknown Woman.

She and her sister had a famous lifelong rivalry. Fontaine died in her sleep in Carmel, California, on December 15, 2013, at age 96.

Achievements: Academy Award for Suspicion (1941).

Birth: October 22, 1917 - Tokyo, Japan.

Profession: Actress.

Interesting Facts: She is the only actor to win an Oscar for a Hitchcock film.