Lauren Bacall American Actress (1924–2014)

Lauren Bacall was an American actress born on 16 September 1924 in The Bronx. She died on 12 August 2014, aged 89. The recorded cause of death is stroke. Audiences know her from Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and The Shootist (1976).

Early life

Lauren Bacall was educated at American Academy of Dramatic Arts, finishing in 1942 and Julia Richman High School.

Career

The earliest credit on record for Lauren Bacall is To Have and Have Not (1944). During the 1940s, she worked on The Big Sleep (1946) and Key Largo (1948). Work from the 1950s includes How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Written on the Wind (1956). Misery (1990) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994) are among her 1990s credits. In the 2000s, she appeared in Dogville (2003) and Manderlay (2005).

Her filmography here covers 56 films and one TV series from 1944 to 2020. Drama is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (9), followed by mystery (4) and comedy (3). Her last credit during her lifetime is The Forger (2012).

Humphrey Bogart appears in four of her listed titles, including Dark Passage (1947). Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Nicole Kidman (two titles) and John Wayne (two titles).

Recognition

In 2010, she won an Academy Honorary Award. She also won two Tony Awards (1970 and 1981) and a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1992). Lauren Bacall also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 for The Mirror Has Two Faces. Awards come to 14 wins and 7 nominations in total.

Personal life

Marriages on record are to Humphrey Bogart (1945 to 1957, widowed) and Jason Robards (1961 to 1969, divorced). She was the mother of Sam Robards and Stephen Humphrey Bogart, and has 3 children in total.