Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". She was born in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan...

Known For

Rebecca

as Mrs. de Winter

Suspicion

as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

Cast Credits

Good King Wenceslas

as Queen Ludmilla

Dark Mansions

as Margaret Drake

The Users

as Grace St. George

The Witches

as Gwen Mayfield

Tender Is the Night

as Baby Warren

A Certain Smile

as Françoise Ferrand

Until They Sail

as Anne Leslie

Island in the Sun

as Mavis Norman

Serenade

as Kendall Hale

Casanova's Big Night

as Francesca Bruni

The Bigamist

as Eve Graham

Flight to Tangier

as Susan Lane

Decameron Nights

as Fiametta / Bartolomea / Ginevra / Isabella

Ivanhoe

as Rowena

Something to Live For

as Jenny Carey

Othello

as Page

September Affair

as Manina Stuart

Born to Be Bad

as Christabel

You Gotta Stay Happy

as Dee Dee Dillwood

The Emperor Waltz

as Johanna Augusta Franziska

Ivy

as Ivy

The Affairs of Susan

as Susan Darell

Frenchman's Creek

as Dona St. Columb

Jane Eyre

as Jane Eyre