Best Supporting Actresses over the Years Quiz

Answer: Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard (1899-1985) was an American actress who won the Oscar in her film debut as Faith Paleologus in "Anthony Adverse" with Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. The film won four Academy Awards. "Anthony Adverse" is the story of an orphan, who unknown to him is raised by his natural grandfather.

At an older age he tries to protect the debt he owes to the man who raised him but in doing so it separates him from the woman he loves. Gale was nominated for a second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946).

She was active as an actress from 1936-1985 and appeared on TV during the '60s and '70s. Alice Brady (1892-1939) was an American actress who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1936 for her role in "My Man Godfrey" and who started her film career in the silent film era, however, she did win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1937 in "In Old Chicago". Fay Bainter (1893-1968) won the same award for 1938 for her role as Belle Massey in "Jezebel". Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952) won the same award for 1939 as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind".

Answer: Tatum O'Neal

Tatum O'Neal (b.1963) was actually nine years of age during the shooting of "Paper Moon" in 1972. She won the award in 1974. She played the role of Addie Loggins (an orphan) opposite her father Ryan O'Neal who plays con man Moses Pray. Together they made a formidable team as "tricksters" and become the main protagonists of the movie.

She later appeared in movies opposite Richard Burton, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins and Walter Matthau. She was married to the professional tennis player John McEnroe and they had three children.

They were later divorced. Anna Paquin was 11 years when she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "The Piano" (1993). Patty Duke was 16 years when she won her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1962 in "The Miracle Worker". Kim Hunter was 29 years when she won the same award in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1952).

Answer: Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor (1910-2000) won for her role as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo", however, she did have two other Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in "Dead End" (1937) and "The High and the Mighty" (1954). Her career in films spanned from 1937-1987. "Key Largo" is the story of a veteran (Humphrey Bogart) who visits an ex-buddy's family hotel that has some interesting guests, with one of them being a gangster. As a hurricane approaches the area the two confront each other.
Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) was an American actress who began her career as a model. She was a stage actress who also appeared in musicals and romantic comedies. She was married to Humphrey Bogart and when he passed away she married Jason Robards. Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) was an American actress who had four Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
Barbara Del Geddes (1922-2005) was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1948 in "I Remember Mama". She is possibly best remembered as Miss Ellie in the TV series "Dallas" in which she appeared from 1978-1990.

Answer: Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno (b. 1931) played Anita (Maria's closest friend, played by Natalie Wood) and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Oscar after Jose Ferrer in 1951. Rita went on to become the first Puerto Rican to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Gammy Award. "West Side Story" is a romantic musical drama set in an area of Manhattan where two rival gangs the Jets (Anglo gang) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican) confront each other. Natalie Wood (1938-1981) was a child actress and received three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old. Gina Trikonis (b.1939) played Graziella in the movie as one of the Jets girls. Joanne Miya is an actress and composer who played Francisca in the movie as one of the Sharks girls.

Answer: Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters (1920-2006) was an American actress who played the role of Petronella van Daan who shared the hiding place in Amsterdam with the Frank family in the movie "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959). The story evolves around the Frank and van Daan families being hidden in a secret room in a friends house to escape the Nazi round-up of Jews.

Shelley's career spanned over 50 years and she received her second Oscar for "A Patch of Blue" (1965). She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in "A Place in the Sun" (1951) and for Best Supporting Actress in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972). Patty Duke (b. 1946) won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1962 for her role as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker". Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972) also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1963 in "The V.I.P.s". Hope Lange (1933-2003) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Peyton Place" (1957).

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

In "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, is asked to investigate the murder of an American business tycoon on the Orient Express train. The suspicious characters are portrayed by an all-star cast of actors. Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was originally offered a more important role as Princess Dragomiroff but she preferred the smaller role of Greta Ohlsson, a middle-aged Swedish missionary returning to Europe from Africa.

In "Gaslight" (1944) she received the Academy Award for Best Actress as Paula Alquist Anton in the mystery thriller.

In "Casablanca" (1942) she portrayed Ilsa Lund opposite Humphrey Bogart. She played Alicia Huberman in "Notorius" (1946) opposite Cary Grant in the Hitchcock thriller. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in "Anastasia" (1956).

Answer: Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn (b.1945) is an American actress, producer and director. She appeared on TV in "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" during the 1960s and 1970s. "Cactus Flower" (1969) is a comedy and Goldie plays the role of Toni Simmons and attempts suicide following the break up of her relationship with Dr. Julian Winston (Walter Matthau).

She is saved from the suicide attempt by her neighbour with whom she eventually falls in love. Goldie has appeared in many movies and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in "Private Benjamin" (1980) but lost out to Sissy Spacek in "Coal Miner's Daughter". Donna Reed (1921-1986) was an American film, television actress and producer.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "From Here to Eternity" (1953). Carol Channing (b.1921) is an American actress, comedienne, dancer and singer.

She appeared on numerous TV shows and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967). Carolyn Jones (1930-1983) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "The Bachelor Party"(1957).

However, she is better known as Morticia Addams in the TV series "The Addams Family".

Answer: Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett (b. 1969) is an Australian actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator" (2004). Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1934, 1968, 1969 and 1982.
"The Aviator" is the life of Howard Hughes, the aviation pioneer and film director and his romantic relationship with the movie actress Katharine Hepburn. Cate Blanchett also won the Academy Award for Best Actress in "Blue Jasmine" (2013).
Judi Dench (b. 1934) is an English actress and author and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1998 portraying Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love".
Meryl Streep (b. 1947) is an American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady".
Nicole Kidman (b. 1967) is an Australian actress who portrayed Grace Kelly in "Grace of Monaco" (2014) who was herself the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in "The Country Girl" (1954).

Answer: Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger (b. 1963) is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in numerous films, television movies and television series. She was Domino Petachi opposite Sean Connery in "Never Say Never Again" (1983).
However, it was as Lynn Bracken, a celebrity look-alike prostitute in the crime film "L.A. Confidential" (1997) that she won her Academy Award. The movie is about the L.A.P.D officers in the 1950s involving police corruption and Hollywood celebrity.
Maud Adams (b. 1945) is a Swedish actress who appeared as a Bond girl in "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974) and "Octopussy" (1983).
Grace Jones (b. 1948) is a Jamaican model, actress and singer. She appeared as May Day in the James Bond movie "A View to a Kill" (1985).
Halle Berry (b. 1966) is an American actress who appeared as a Bond girl in "Die Another Day" (2002) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 in "Monster's Ball".

Answer: Renée Zellweger

Renée Zellweger (b. 1969) is an American actress and producer who won her Academy Award as Ruby Thewes in the epic Civil War drama "Cold Mountain" (2003). Law and Kidman are the principal actors in the movie and while Law is away during the war Zellweger assists Kidman on the farm she inherited from her father.
Gemma Jones (b. 1942) is an English actress of the screen and stage who appeared in "Bridget Jones's Diary" as Bridget's mother, Pamela Jones. Marilyn Burns (1949-2014) was an American actress who appeared with Renée Zellweger (Sally) in the 1974 horror movie "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".
Catherine Zeta-Jones (b. 1969) is a Welsh actress who won the Academy award for Best Supporting Actress in the 2003 musical "Chicago".