Fay Okell Bainter 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.
Bainter in 1950
Portrait of Fay Bainter by Robert Henri (1918)
Fay Bainter in Jezebel (1938).
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actor winner. In lieu of the traditional Oscar statuette, supporting acting recipients were given plaques up until the 16th Academy Awards, when statuettes were awarded to each category instead.
The 2023 recipient: Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Gale Sondergaard was the inaugural winner, for Anthony Adverse (1936).
Alice Brady won for In Old Chicago (1938).
Fay Bainter won for Jezebel (1938); also the first person nominated in both supporting and lead in the same year.