Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Emmy.

A granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Baxter studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and had some stage experience before making her film debut in 20 Mule Team . She became a contract player of 20th Century Fox and was loaned to RKO Pictures for the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons , one of her earlier films. In 1947, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge . In 1951, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in All About Eve . She worked with several of Hollywood's greatest directors, including Billy Wilder in Five Graves to Cairo , Alfred Hitchcock in I Confess , Fritz Lang in The Blue Gardenia , and Cecil B. DeMille in The Ten Commandments , for which she won a Laurel Award for Topliner Female Dramatic Performance.
Early life
Baxter was born May 7, 1923, in Michigan City, Indiana, to Catherine Dorothy —whose father was the architect Frank Lloyd Wright—and Kenneth Stuart Baxter , an executive with the Seagram Company. When Baxter was five, she appeared in a school play, and as her family had moved to New York when she was six years old, Baxter continued to act. She was raised in Westchester County, New York and attended Brearley. At age 10, Baxter attended a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes, and she was so impressed that she declared to her family that she wanted to become an actress. By the age of 13, she had appeared on Broadway in Seen but Not Heard. During this period, Baxter learned her acting craft as a student of actress and teacher Maria Ouspenskaya. In 1939, she was cast as Katharine Hepburn's little sister in the play The Philadelphia Story, but Hepburn did not like Baxter's acting style, and she was replaced during the show's pre-Broadway run. Rather than giving up, she turned to Hollywood.

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