Awards & Winners

Gale Sondergaard

Date of Birth 15-February-1899
Place of Birth Litchfield
(Meeker County, Minnesota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Edith Holm Sondergaard
Profession Actor
Gale Sondergaard was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theater, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse. She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary, The Mark of Zorro and The Letter. She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer. Married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, and her film career was destroyed as a result. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre, and acted in film and television occasionally from late 1960s. She moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis.

Awards by Gale Sondergaard

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gale Sondergaard.

1946


Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anna and the King of Siam
Role: Lady Thiang

1936


Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Honored for : Anthony Adverse
(Role: Faith Paleologue)

Nominations 1936 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anthony Adverse