Overview
- Her publicist, Jeff Sanderson, said she died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, and that she was surrounded by family.
- Saint won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for On the Waterfront in 1955 and later won an Emmy in 1990 for the NBC miniseries People Like Us.
- She became a star after director Elia Kazan cast her opposite Marlon Brando and later played Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest opposite Cary Grant, roles that remain central to her legacy.
- Saint deliberately limited her film work to raise a family with husband Jeffrey Hayden, shifting into television and stage work from the 1970s onward while returning occasionally to film in later decades.
- She is survived by two children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and she leaves a record of awards, stage and screen work, and long-standing support for film charities and the Actors Studio.