Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was a multi-award winning actor whose career spanned nearly 7 decades. She is known for  Forbidden (1932), Stella Dallas (1937), Double Indemnity (1944), Remember the Night (1940), The Lady Eve (1941), Union Pacific (1939) and TV's The Big Valley (1965) and The Thorn Birds (1983).

She was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Actress, won three Emmy Awards, for The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), the western series The Big Valley (1966), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983) for which she also won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. She received an Honorary Academy Award in 1982, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986, the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievment Award as well as The American Film Institute Lifetime Achievment Award. She received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.