Luise Rainer
Birthday
1910/01/12
Day of death
2014/12/30 (105 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Also know as
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Biography
Luise Rainer (/ˈraɪnər/; January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a German-American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award; at the time of her death she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient. Her training began in Germany from the age of 16 by leading stage director Max Reinhardt. After a few years, she became recognized as a "distinguished Berlin stage actress", acting with Reinhardt's Vienna theater ensemble. Critics "raved" about her stage and film acting q...Read more
Acting
(1937) The Good Earth
as O-Lan
(1936) The Great Ziegfeld
as Anna Held
(1938) The Great Waltz
as Poldi Vogelhuber
(1937) Big City
as Anna Benton
(1937) The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Countess Olga Mironova
(1938) The Toy Wife
as Gilberte 'Frou Frou' Brigard
(1935) Escapade
as Leopoldine Dur
(2019) Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
(1997) The Gambler
as Grandmother
(1938) Dramatic School
as Louise Mauban
(1932) Madame has a visitor
as ---
(1933) Heut' kommt's drauf an
as Marita Costa
(1943) Hostages
as Milada Pressinger
(1932) Sehnsucht 202
as Kitty
(1991) A Dancer
as Anna
(2004) Ziegfeld on Film
as Herself (interviewee, and in clips from The Great Ziegfeld)
(2003) Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
as ---
(2007) Hollywood Chinese
as Self
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1937) The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
(1938) Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
(1997) Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self (archive footage)
(2011) Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
as ---
(1987) Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as SElf
(1962) Combat!
as Countess De Roy
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Mrs. Page
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Chambermaid
(1992) MGM: When the Lion Roars
as ---
(1949) Suspense
as ---
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1948) The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
as ---
(1977) The Love Boat
as Dorothy Fielding
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Caroline
(1991) Boulevard Bio
as Self
(1975) Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
as Self
(1994) Brisant
as Self