Oscar-Winning Actor Eva Marie Saint Dies at 102

Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actor whose career ranged from live television and Broadway to films including On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, has died at 102, according to reports citing her representative, Jeff Sanderson. The reports said she died Tuesday, October 6, 2026; they did not provide independent confirmation of the circumstances of her death. Saint made her film debut in 1954 as Edie Doyle in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront, starring opposite Marlon Brando. She won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for the performance. The film, a crime drama centered on corruption among dockworkers, also won best picture and several other Academy Awards. Five years later, Saint starred opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. She played Eve Kendall, a woman whose connection to a government operation draws Grant’s character into a case of mistaken identity. The role became another of her best-known performances and showed her in a suspense thriller after her breakthrough in drama. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 4, 1924, Saint studied acting at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.