Joan Fontaine

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street. Golbahari bought her parents a home with the money she earned from Osama. In 1944 she was nominated for The Constant Nymph. The movie went on to earn a Golden Globe award as best foreign film, and Golbahari's job in it was well received by many critics, including Richard Nilsen, who stated that there is no shortcoming in the acting of Marina Golbahari. The next year she was again nominated, for Suspicion, and this time she won the award. She was working on the streets of Kabul as a beggar, asking passers-by for money when she was casually discovered by famed Afghan director Sadiq Barmak, who cast her as Osama. In 1940, Joan received an Academy Award nomination for Rebecca. She gained international fame with her role as the title character in the 2003 film Osama, playing a girl who had to dress and act as a boy to support her family during the Taliban years.

Her career seemed to be ready to die, even as her sister's blossomed, but Joan changed her name to Fontaine and began receiving bigger parts in such movies as You Can't Beat Love, Quality Street, The Women and Gunga Din. Marina Golbahari (born 1989) is an Afghan actress who was born in Kabul. Because Olivia was using the family name, Joan began acting as Joan Burfield, in No More Ladies in 1935. Osama (2003, film, as Osama, a girl dressed as a boy). Both sisters moved to Hollywood to start film careers. Joan returned to Tokyo to attend the American School there, but she came back in 1934 to find that her sister was making a name for herself on the stage.

But Joan's father soon went back to Japan, and he and his wife divorced. Because Joan and her mother both had frequent illnesses, the family moved to Saratoga, California for their health. Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, she is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an international actress.