Eva Marie Saint, Oscar winner from On the Waterfront, dies at 102

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Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actress best known for her performance in On the Waterfront, died on October 6, 2026, at age 102. She won an Academy Award for On the Waterfront and delivered celebrated turns opposite Cary Grant in North by Northwest and Marlon Brando, including the famous slap scene in On the Waterfront. Saint played Eve Kendall in North by Northwest; she later said her husband, director Jeffrey Hayden, persuaded her to take that Hitchcock role. Her career spanned film and stage, with Broadway credits including the 1953 production of A Trip to Bountiful, and later screen roles such as in Raintree County, Exodus, and Superman Returns. Colleagues and critics remembered her for layered intensity and luminous presence in dramatic and romantic roles.

Frank Conniff

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My favorite Eva Marie Saint films are On The Waterfront, North By Northwest, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, and, maybe less well known, Loving. One of the greats. Rest In Peace. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren)7

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is one of my absolute favourites. Still timely.

Bryan Wood6

It makes me angry how good North by Northwest is. I don't know how many times I have seen it and it is still just as good every time.

Michael Zey5

I was just watching The Russians Are Coming the other night and marveling on how well it's held up.

Jefferson Smith4

Man, 102. What a life.

Chris Charlton2

Love north by northwest 🙏

Mike Krupa1

I always thought it was so badass that she played grown-up Katara in The Legend of Korra. Maybe the single coolest thing about that show. And it was a cool show!

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Johanna Draper Carlson5

102? Wow. What a life.

Craig M. Ranapia5

If Saint had never made a movie besides NORTH BY NORTHWEST (my favourite Hitchcock joint) she'd still deserve that much over-used label "iconic". Without her cool ambiguity, this frenetic whirlpool of a movie would just be exhausting... and not half as intriguing. #FilmSky

Richard J3

Two of my favourite films here

Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon3

So sad...One of the great ones crosses the rainbow bridge...

Berthold Gambrel2

A lot of people are referencing how good she was in "North by Northwest", and rightfully so, but "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" is really underrated. RIP to a great actress.

EC 1,231,4402

Damn. For a while, I thought she'd live forever. RIP.

Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

Hats off to the user who reported the Eva Marie Saint trending topic for sexual content. Lady, you've still got it

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Rsquared1

She certainly had me contemplating the possibilities of an Amtrak sleeper car when I saw NORTH BY NORTHWEST as an impressionable youth.

Adam Mallinger

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102 years is a life well lived. Eva Marie Saint did everything from Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST to SUPERMAN RETURNS. In the dozens of documentaries I've seen her in, she seemed like a lovely person as well. Rest in Peace www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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James “Vamp” Fleet16

RIP, remembering how she came out on stage after a screening I saw of Hitch’s incomplete “The White Shadow.” She read old press notes, explaining how the flick’s love triangle involving twins resolved in the now-lost reels. Then she took a beat, and said “I have no idea what any of that means.” ❤️

Yonette Joseph

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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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Kevin Daly

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I watched a clip of her in North by Northwest just last night, and my god, she was wonderful. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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Kevin Daly10

Eva Marie Saint won her Oscar for On the Waterfront when she was nine months pregnant and quipped, "I may have the baby right here!" as she accepted her statuette. Her son was born two days later.

FQuin🏳️‍🌈1

That scene in the dining car is just so perfect!

Jeff Wodeshick1

I just watched North by Northwest on Saturday night. She was so wonderful in it.

Jacob T. Levy

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www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m... Good heavens— 102. I saw her speak once, at a screening of North by Northwest.

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Zach Schonfeld

@zachschonfeld.bsky.social

Eva Marie Saint has died at 102, which means the only living Hitchcock blondes are... Tippi Hedren (96), Kim Novak (93), and Vera Miles (96). Might as well include Julie Andrews (91) too because she starred in Torn Curtain.

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Dr Seth Thévoz

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RIP Eva Marie Saint. She starred in my favourite film, North by Northwest (1959) - she’s magnificent in that - and she was still acting well into the 2000s. As long as she was around, it felt like there was still a living link to the Golden Age of Hollywood. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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Andy Diggle

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She looks like Eva Marie Saint In "On the Waterfront" She reads Simone de Beauvoir In her American circumstance

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DC Pierson

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RIP Eva Marie Saint, as immortalized in this @lloydcole.bsky.social 💎, and some other stuff

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Jeff Abbott

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Eva Marie Saint brought Eve Kendall, one of the greatest Hitchcock characters, to luminous, intelligent life. EMS was wonderful in everything she did. RIP to an icon and condolences to her family and friends.

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She was one of the last survivors of Hollywood's mid-century Golden Age, the Guardian reports. She credited her husband, TV & stage director Jeffrey Hayden, with persuading her to star in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, in which Saint plays a spy who seduces Cary Grant, but ends up falling for him.

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New York Theater

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Eva Marie Saint,(July 4, 1924 - October 6, 2026. Yes, 102 years old ,Better known for her movie roles opposite Marlon Brando, Cary Grant and Paul Newman, she was also a two-time Broadway veteran, including the 1953 production of A Trip To Bountiful www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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Chace Verity

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Congrats to Eva Marie Saint for getting to slap Marlon Brando

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Nicky Jack-O'-Lantern O'Hagan 🎃

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Good-bye, Eva Marie Saint. She was the legendary Hollywood actress in the whole world. She were in ON THE WATERFRONT, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, RAINTREE COUNTY, EXODUS and many more. She will be reunite with the original TCM host; Robert Osborne in the heaven. We'll miss her. She was 102. RIP #TCMParty 😢💔

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