OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND | 101

Born British, Actress Olivia de Havilland has been able to make a name for herself in the movie industry and becoming one of the most actresses during her time. Her acting career started in 1930 and since then, she has featured in several movies including The Snake Pit, Gone with the wind and To each His own. Her acting skills resulted in her winning multiple awards such as the Academy Awards. The last movie she starred in before retiring was The Woman He Loved.

Having retired, she has most likely already worked with her probate lawyer concerning her $20 million fortune and hopefully, gotten insurance as well. She was about to appear in the film adaptation of The Aspem Papers in 2010 making it as her supposed comeback in films but unfortunately it was scrapped but regardless, she was given by then French president Nicolas Sarkozy an award to became a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur in the same year and was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire seven years later. She died on July 26, 2020 at Paris, France at the age of 104.

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