Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones awas an American actress. Over the course of her career that spanned over five decades, she was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama.

Jones worked as a model in her youth before transitioning to acting, appearing in two serial films in 1939. Her third role was a lead role in The Song of Bernadette (1943), which earned her the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress. She went on to star in several films that garnered her significant critical acclaim and a further three Academy Award nominations in the mid-1940s, including Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), and Duel in the Sun (1946).

Jones earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for her performance in Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955).
Her final film appearance in The Towering Inferno (1974).