Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, August 17, 1920 - October 24, 2015) was an Irish film actress and singer. Her only Disney role was Maggie McKendrick in The Parent Trap.
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| - Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, August 17, 1920 - October 24, 2015) was an Irish film actress and singer. Her only Disney role was Maggie McKendrick in The Parent Trap.
- Maureen O'Hara was an Irish-American actress. At the age of 10, she joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and worked in amateur theatre in the evenings. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. Her autobiography, Tis Herself, was published in 2004 and was a New York Times Bestseller. Her first major film was Jamaica Inn (1939) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Actor Charles Laughton was so pleased with O'Hara's performance that he cast her in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Director John Ford next cast her as Angharad in How Green Was My Valley, which won the 1941 Academy Award for Best Picture. Six year
- Maureen O'Hara, born as Maureen FitzSimmons on August 17, 1920 in Dublin, Ireland, is probably the most famous Fiery Redhead (and only famous Irish) leading lady in film history. She was (more or less) "discovered" by Charles Laughton, who gave her an important part in Jamaica Inn and her first starring role as Esmeralda in 1939's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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| - O'Hara at the 2014 Governors Awards
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- Boise, Idaho, United States
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- Maureen FitzSimons
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| - Maureen O'Hara was an Irish-American actress. At the age of 10, she joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and worked in amateur theatre in the evenings. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. Her autobiography, Tis Herself, was published in 2004 and was a New York Times Bestseller. Her first major film was Jamaica Inn (1939) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Actor Charles Laughton was so pleased with O'Hara's performance that he cast her in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Director John Ford next cast her as Angharad in How Green Was My Valley, which won the 1941 Academy Award for Best Picture. Six years later, in 1947, she made what is perhaps her best-remembered film, starring as Doris Walker and the mother of a young Natalie Wood in 20th Century Fox's Miracle on 34th Street, which has become a perennial Christmas classic. Other notable films she has starred in include, To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), The Black Swan (1942), The Spanish Main (1945), The Foxes of Harrow (1947), Sitting Pretty (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), and The Parent Trap (1961). She was one of the last living actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. In August 2014 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected O'Hara to receive an Honorary Academy Award. With this recognition O'Hara became the second actress, after Myrna Loy in 1991, to have received an Honorary Oscar for acting without ever having been nominated competitively. On October 24, 2015, O'Hara died in her sleep at her home in Idaho from natural causes. She was 95 years old.
- Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, August 17, 1920 - October 24, 2015) was an Irish film actress and singer. Her only Disney role was Maggie McKendrick in The Parent Trap.
- Maureen O'Hara, born as Maureen FitzSimmons on August 17, 1920 in Dublin, Ireland, is probably the most famous Fiery Redhead (and only famous Irish) leading lady in film history. She was (more or less) "discovered" by Charles Laughton, who gave her an important part in Jamaica Inn and her first starring role as Esmeralda in 1939's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. With her flaming red hair and deep green eyes, O'Hara (called at one time "The Queen of Technicolor") is considered one of the greatest beauties of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was also one of Hollywood's earliest Action Girls, donning Pirate Girl garb and seizing a sword (though she was never a Hot Chick with a Sword), or sporting the flimsiest of veils in Hollywood's best Arabian Nights Days style, to appear as the strong-willed heroine of quite a few Swashbucklers. O'Hara was a long time friend and collaborator with the legendary John Wayne. The two appeared in five movies together: Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, McLintock! and Big Jake. Like Wayne she worked extensively with iconic director John Ford.
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