Grace Kelly
1929 – 1982 · United States
Known for: Oscar-winning actress who became a princess
“The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.”
Biography
In just five years and eleven films, Grace Kelly became Hollywood royalty, an Academy Award, three Hitchcock masterpieces, and a luminous elegance the camera adored. Then, at the height of her fame, she walked away from it all to marry Prince Rainier III and become Princess of Monaco.
She traded the screen for a throne, raised three children, championed the arts, and remained the world's image of grace itself. Her death in a car crash on the very corniche roads Hitchcock had once filmed her driving shocked the world and sealed a life that really had been a fairy tale, with a fairy tale's shadow.