Best supporting actress of 1979 (no order)
by salvadoras | created - 05 Feb 2011 | updated - 03 Mar 2021 | Public
1. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
for "Kramer Vs Kramer"
2. Eva Mattes
Actress | Enemy at the Gates
Versatile stage and screen actress best known for Werner Herzog films (Best Supporting winner at Cannes for "Woyzeck"). Possibly her most acclaimed starring role is as her mentor 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder' in "A Man Called EVA" (Fassbinder, who treated Eva Mattes kindly, was sometimes referred to ...
for "Woyzeck"
3. Franca Stoppi
Actress | L'altro inferno
Franca Stoppi was born on July 19, 1946 in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Other Hell (1981), Women's Prison Massacre (1983) and Violence in a Women's Prison (1982). She was married to Simone Mattioli. She died on July 9, 2011 in Foligno, Umbria, Italy.
for "Beyond darkness"
4. Colleen Dewhurst
Actress | Anne of Green Gables
Tall, luminous and leonine, the legendary Colleen Dewhurst must go down as one of the theater's finest contemporary tragediennes of the late 1900s. With trademark dusky tones and a majestically careworn appearance, she possessed an inimitable down-to-earth fierceness that not only earned her the ...
for "When a stranger calls"
5. Angie Chiu
Actress | Yang ka cheung
Angie Chiu became an air stewardess for Japan Airline after graduating from high school in Hong Kong. In 1973 she entered the first Miss Hong Kong Pagent by Hong Kong's TVB, and was the first runner up. This introduced her to the entertainment industry. In the late 70's she was one of the four ...
for "The secret"
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