Movie Awards : Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

Anna Paquin in The Piano
Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins


Can you think of more examples?

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon

Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

Eva Marie Saint - On The Waterfront

Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave

Are you okay?

Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

Go, Geewizzz!

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

Wow, how did I not think of Lupita.

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

How does it feel to be part of a pack of wolves,Erica?

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Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

I’m the alpha bitch, Donna.

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

Timothy Hutton, in Ordinary People.

Re: Actors and actresses who won an Academy award in their 1st Role?

He didn't win, but Barkhad Abdi in Captain Philips was nominated for best supporting actor, noteworthy in that he had never acted before.
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