Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1922-11-12
- Died
- 2002-09-11
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Trafficked
- Family Business
- East End Lottery
- East End Legacy
- East End a Family of Steel
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Film & TV
Acting · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades later she received a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long running soap The Edge of Night. Description…
Known for
- Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger — (archive footage)2024
- Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction — Self (archive footage)2024
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self – Interviewee2010
- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story — Self2008
- An Actor Named Brando — Self (archive footage)2006
- Censorship and Desire — Self (archive footage)2006
- A Man Named Brando — Self2006
- A Streetcar on Broadway — Self (archive footage)2006
- A Streetcar in Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2006
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self2003
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 25
- Total plays
- 43
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,403x
- General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,071x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
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Key facts
- Born
- Janet Cole , ( 1922-11-12 ) November 12, 1922, Detroit , Michigan , U.S.
- Died
- September 11, 2002 (2002-09-11) (aged 79), New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Miami Beach High School
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1943–2001
- Known for
- A Matter of Life and Death A Streetcar Named Desire Requiem for a Heavyweight Deadline - U.S.A. The Edge of Night Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes Escape from the Planet of the Apes
- Spouses
- William Baldwin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1946 ) Robert Emmett ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; died 2000 )
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Key dates
- Born
- 12 November 1922
- Died
- 11 September 2002
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Janet
- Family name
- Cole
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- Greenwich Village
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Kim Hunter Money, Women and Guns still.jpg
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Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole; November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for portraying Nola Madison on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968), and its sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).
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1922 births2002 deaths20th-century American actressesActresses from DetroitAmerican film actressesAmerican soap opera actressesAmerican stage actressesAmerican television actressesArt Students League of New York alumniBest Supporting Actress Academy Award winnersBest Supporting Actress Golden Globe (film) winnersCalifornia Democrats