From Adrien Brody to Judy Holliday: Hollywood Actors who bagged prestigious Oscar before turning 30
Adrien Brody
Movie: The Pianist Category: Best Actor Age: Just a couple of weeks before turning 30
Adrien Brody is only the male actor who bagged the prestigious Academy award before age of 30 under the category of ‘Best Actor’.
Judy Holliday
Movie: Born Yesterday Category: Best Actress Age: 29 years 281 days
Judy essayed the role of Billie Dawn in this George Cukor comedy movie and stole the hearts of movie buffs with her awesome screen presence. But this ace actress breathed her last at the age of 43 itself!
Reese Witherspoon
Movie: Walk the Line Category: Best Actress Age: 30
Being a musical romantic drama, Reese made all the audience fall in love with her essaying the role of June Carter in the movie.
Natalie Portman
Movie: Black Swan Category: Best Actress Age: 29
Natalie Portman was seen as Nina Sayers in this psychological thriller essaying the role of a theatre artist and suffers from hallucination effects.
Ginger Rogers
Movie: Kitty Foyle Category: Best Actress Age: 29
Being known as an ace dancer, Rogers was seen in this female-oriented movie as Ginger Rogers who will face difficulty in choosing her life partner.
Ingrid Bergman
Movies: Gaslight, Anastasia and Murder on the Orient Express Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Age: 29
For the Gaslight movie, Ingrid received the Best Actress Academy award before turning 30. She essayed the role of a victim of the gaslighting in this film. Thereafter she also bagged two other Academy awards!
Julie Andrews
Movie: Mary Poppins Category: Best Actress Age: 30
Being a musical fantasy movie is based on P. L. Travers's book series Mary Poppins. It was the highest grossing movie in 1964and received a total of 13 Academy awards.
Jodie Foster
Movies: The Accused and Silence of the Lambs Category: Best Actress Age: 26
Jodie is oneof the fewactresses who received two Academy awards before turning 30. The first one she bagged at the age of 26 and the second one at the age of 29.
Elizabeth Taylor
Movies: Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Category: Best Actress Age: 29
Elizabeth was one of the best actresses in Hollywood. She bagged the first Academy Award for the BUtterfield which was an American drama movie. The movie is based on a novel penned by John O'Hora with the same name.