Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly (1929 to 1982) was an American film actress from Philadelphia who became Princess Grace of Monaco. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she made her Broadway debut in Strindberg's The Father, then appeared in Fourteen Hours and in High Noon opposite Gary Cooper. Her role in Mogambo earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and her first Academy Award nomination, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl, opposite Bing Crosby. She married Prince Rainier III of Monaco on 19 April 1956, a wedding watched on television by an enormous audience, and retired from acting to become a royal consort and the mother of the present Prince Albert II. As princess she supported Monaco's arts institutions and founded the Princess Grace Foundation, which continues to fund emerging theater, dance and film artists.