Biography
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, was nominated six times in all, and won one for Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).
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Awards & recognition
- Canada's Walk of Fame · 2008
- Volpi Cup — Best Actress · 1938
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1930
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1939 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1937 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1935 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1931 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1930 · nominated
Filmography21 titles
He Who Gets Slapped
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
That's Entertainment!
The Women
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
That's Entertainment! III
Vito
Way Down East
Riptide
Marie Antoinette
Private Lives
Romeo and Juliet
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Divorcee
A Free Soul
Smilin' Through
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Strange Interlude
The Stolen Jools
We Were Dancing
Let Us Be Gay