Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer was a German-born film actress. She was the first thespian to win multiple Academy Awards, and the first to win back-to-back; at the time of her death, thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday, she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient, a superlative that has not been exceeded, as of 2026.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Düsseldorf
- Awards
- 🏆 Academy Award for Best Actress🏆 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany🏆 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true."
"Most observers agree that Rainer won her Oscar as the result of her moving and poignant performance in just one, single scene in the picture, the famous telephone scene in which the broken-hearted Hel…"
"I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it gr…"
"For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me."
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Timeline
1910
Born
Birth2014
Died
Death
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