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Kim Hunter
Actor

Kim Hunter

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Playing Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Zira in Planet of the Apes.

A Streetcar Named Desire · Planet of the Apes

Born
12 November 1922
Birthplace
Detroit
Died
11 September 2002

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Kim Hunter

American stage and screen actor whose Oscar-winning role began on Broadway. She later reached another audience through the Planet of the Apes films.

Early life

Detroit and Florida

Born Janet Cole to a pianist mother and engineer father. Attended Miami Beach High School.

Career

  1. 1943

    Film debut

    Appeared in The Seventh Victim.

  2. 1947

    Broadway breakthrough

    Created Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire.

  3. 1950s

    Blacklist

    Faced exclusion from screen work during Hollywood’s anticommunist blacklist.

Selected work

A Streetcar Named Desire

Reprised Stella and won the supporting actress Oscar.

Planet of the Apes

Played chimpanzee scientist Zira, returning in two sequels.

Beyond work

Family and theatre

Married actor Robert Emmett in 1951. They occasionally performed together on stage; she had a daughter and a son.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

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