Jennifer Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jennifer Jones

American actress

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1919

Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 17-Dec-2009

Profession: actor, model, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jennifer Jones

  • Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental health advocate.
  • Over the course of her career that spanned over five decades, she was nominated for the Oscar five times, including one win for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama.
  • Jones is among the youngest actresses to receive an Academy Award, having won on her 25th birthday. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jones worked as a model in her youth before transitioning to acting, appearing in two serial films in 1939.
  • Her third role was a lead part as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette (1943), which earned her the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress that year.
  • She went on to star in several films that garnered her significant critical acclaim and a further three Academy Award nominations in the early-1940s, including Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), and Duel in the Sun (1946). In 1949, Jones married film producer David O.
  • Selznick, and appeared as the titular Madame Bovary in Vincente Minnelli's 1949 adaptation.
  • She appeared in several films throughout the 1950s, including Ruby Gentry (1952), John Huston's adventure comedy Beat the Devil (1953), and Vittorio De Sica's drama Terminal Station (also 1953).
  • Jones earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for her performance as a Eurasian doctor in Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955). After Selznick's death in 1965, Jones married industrialist Norton Simon and went into semi-retirement.
  • She made her final film appearance in The Towering Inferno (1974).
  • Jones suffered from mental health problems during her life and survived a 1966 suicide attempt in which she jumped from a cliff in Malibu Beach.
  • After her own daughter committed suicide in 1976, Jones became profoundly interested in mental health education.
  • In 1980, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education.
  • She spent the remainder of her life withdrawn from the public, residing in Malibu, California, where she died in 2009, aged 90.

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