Norma Shearer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Norma Shearer

Canadian-American actress

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1983

Profession: actor, stage actor, model, film actor

Nationality: Canada, United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian American actress and Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942.
Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues.
She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting, winning Best Actress for her performance in the 1930 film The Divorcee.Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her "the exemplar of sophisticated 1930s womanhood ...
exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards".
As a result, Shearer is celebrated as a feminist pioneer, "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen".