Eva Marie Saint was born on 4 July 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Her nickname is “The Helen Hayes of Television”. She played one of the most famous female leads in movie history, opposite Marlon Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award in a Supporting Role in 1955. She certainly brought "real acting" in a time when melodrama still ran rampant in the industry.

Eva Marie Saint is still going strong with her work. She takes the fact that she is part of film history in her stride. Other important films include A HATFUL OF RAIN (1957), RAINTREE COUNTRY (1957), and NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). By the end of 2004, she completed filming on Wim Wenders’ DON’T COME KNOCKING.

She is married to Jeffrey Hayden since 1951 and has two children and three grandchildren and lives in Santa Monica, California, USA. She has campaigned to ban the usage of cell phones by motorists.