Kim Hunter

Kim Hunter
Hunter in 1956
Born
Janet Cole

(1922-11-12)November 12, 1922
DiedSeptember 11, 2002(2002-09-11) (aged 79)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1943–2001
Spouses
William Baldwin
(m. 1944; div. 1946)
Robert Emmett
(m. 1951; died 2000)
Children2

Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole; November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for portraying Nola Madison on the soap opera The Edge of Night.[1] She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes (1968), and its sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).

  1. ^ "1980 Emmy Winners & Nominees". Soap Opera Digest. Archived from the original on August 18, 2004. Retrieved June 28, 2013.