Kim Hunter

American actress Kim Hunter was born on November 12, 1922, in Detroit, and died on September 11, 2002 due to a heart attack. Among her most remembered creations was that of Dr. Zira from Planet of the Apes (1968) and its two following sequels. In 1946 she co-starred with David Niven in the extraordinary and original Life or Death , by the British filmmaking couple Powell-Pressburger. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her unforgettable creation of Blanche’s sister Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire . This heralded a meteoric career for her, but in the late 1950s she was blacklisted, accused of sympathizing with communism. She reappeared in 1961 withLilith , where she was a doctor along with Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty .

During the last years of his life he only appeared in television productions and a few plays. In movies, she only made a sporadic appearance in titles like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil .