Connie Sawyer

Born on November 27, 1912, in Pueblo (Colorado),  Connie Sawyer ‘s mother  had wanted to be an actress, and she thought her daughter could achieve it, so she presented her to various castings. At age 9, the girl won third prize from a dance contest, which made her definitely decide that she would make a living in show business.

At 19 he moved to New York, where he began acting in vaudeville theaters. She played a woman with alcohol problems in the stage version of  Millionaire of Illusions . When  Frank Sinatra  bought the rights to the film adaptation, which he himself would star in, its director,  Frank Capra , decided to recruit her to reprise her role on the big screen. She would appear briefly onscreen in a couple of westerns,  Oregon Trail , opposite  Kirk Douglas , and  True Grit , opposite  John Wayne , but starting in the 1960s she would focus mostly on television.

After brief roles in  Justice for All  and  When Harry Met Sally ,  Connie Sawyer  took over a brief role as an old lady in  Dumb and Dumber . Since then they began to call her especially for comedies, such as  When you least expect it, where she was a woman from a supermarket, and  Superfumados , in which she gave life to the grandmother of the camel played by  James Franco .

Married to Marshall Schracker, a film distributor, the couple had two daughters. She had been living in a residential complex for entertainment industry retirees for 12 years. There it is said that she rigorously watched all the films that competed for the Oscars, before casting her votes, as a member of the Academy. She will surely have also voted in this year’s edition.