Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks. She began her career as a model. She first appeared as a leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), as well as comedic roles in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. Bacall worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
In 1999, Bacall was ranked 20th out of the 25 actresses on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."
Bacall died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89. According to her grandson Jamie Bogart, the actress died after suffering from a stroke.
Acting
Movie
Misery
as Marcia Sindell
1990
TV
Family Guy
as Evelyn (voice)
1999
TV
The Sopranos
as Lauren Bacall
1999
Movie
Dogville
as Ma Ginger
2003
Movie
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard
1974
Movie
The Big Sleep
as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
1946
Movie
Birth
as Eleanor
2004
Movie
Key Largo
as Nora Temple
1948
Movie
To Have and Have Not
as Marie Browning
1945
Movie
How to Marry a Millionaire
as Schatze Page
1953
Movie
Manderlay
as Mam
2005
Movie
The Mirror Has Two Faces
as Hannah Morgan
1996
Movie
The Shootist
as Bond Rogers
1976
Movie
Dark Passage
as Irene Jansen
1947
Movie
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
as The Grand Witch (voice)
2008
Movie
Written on the Wind
as Lucy Moore Hadley
1956
Movie
La Classe américaine
as Christelle (archive footage)
1993
Movie
Prêt-à-Porter
as Slim Chrysler
1994
Movie
Harper
as Elaine Sampson
1966
Movie
My Fellow Americans
as Margaret Kramer
1996
Movie
Appointment with Death
as Lady Westholme
1988
Movie
All I Want For Christmas
as Lillian Brooks
1991
TV
The Rockford Files
as Kendall Warren
1974
Movie
The Forger
as Anne-Marie
2011