KIM HUNTER
Name: Kim Hunter
Birth name: Janet Cole
Born: 12 November 1922 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died: 11 September 2002 New York, New York, U.S.
Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning
American film and stage actress.
Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Donald Cole and
Grace Lind. She attended Miami Beach High School.
Hunter performed in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire
(1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski. She appeared in the 1951 film, for
which she won both the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe
Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live broadcast of The Comedian,
a harrowing drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer.
She was blacklisted from film and television during the Hollywood communism
paranoia created by McCarthyism.
Kim Hunter playing the ape scientist Zira in Planet of the Apes
Her other major film roles include David Niven's love interest in the classic
film A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Zira the chimpanzee scientist in the
first three of the Planet of the Apes series. She also appeared in several soap
operas, most notably as Nola Madison on The Edge of Night, for which she
received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 as Best Actress. She also
starred in several episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the mid
seventies.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kim Hunter has a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street and a second star at 1715 Vine
Street.
In 2002, Kim Hunter died of cardiac arrest in New York City at the age of 79.
Name: Kim Hunter
Birth name: Janet Cole
Born: 12 November 1922 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died: 11 September 2002 New York, New York, U.S.
Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning
American film and stage actress.
Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Donald Cole and
Grace Lind. She attended Miami Beach High School.
Hunter performed in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire
(1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski. She appeared in the 1951 film, for
which she won both the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe
Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live broadcast of The Comedian,
a harrowing drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer.
She was blacklisted from film and television during the Hollywood communism
paranoia created by McCarthyism.
Kim Hunter playing the ape scientist Zira in Planet of the Apes
Her other major film roles include David Niven's love interest in the classic
film A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Zira the chimpanzee scientist in the
first three of the Planet of the Apes series. She also appeared in several soap
operas, most notably as Nola Madison on The Edge of Night, for which she
received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 as Best Actress. She also
starred in several episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the mid
seventies.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kim Hunter has a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street and a second star at 1715 Vine
Street.
In 2002, Kim Hunter died of cardiac arrest in New York City at the age of 79.