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Fay Bainter
Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Fay Bainter and Reginald Venable married on June 8, 1921 in Riverside, California. The couple had one son, Reginald Venable Jr. (1926–1974), who became an actor. Bainter was the aunt of actress Dorothy Burgess.
Bainter's career spanned six decades of considerable success. She began her acting life on stage as a child performer and had a successful Broadway career before she appeared in movies.
She made cinematic history when she became, at the 1939 Academy Awards ceremony, the first performer to be nominated for Oscars in two different categories, as Best actress for White Banners, and as Best Supporting Actress in Jezebel. She was nominated again, late in her career, for her performance in The Children's Hour in 1961.