Ingrid Bergman, who was born in Stockholm on August 29, 1915, won three Academy Awards. She was named Best Actress of 1944 (for "Gaslight") and Best Actress of 1956 (for "Anastasia"). She also won the 1974 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in "Murder On the Orient Express."
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The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner is Cate Blanchett. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2004 for playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.Robert Downey, Jr. is the only other actor nominated for playing a previous nominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.Maggie Smith won an Oscar as supporting actress for portraying a fictional actress in The California Suite (1978). In the movie she gets ready for the ceremony, and returns to the hotel afterwards, without the award.
Jessica Lange won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
In the 80 years of Oscars, only three Annas won an award. Anna Paquin, Best Supporting Actress for The Piano (1993) Anna Magnani, Best Actress for The Rose Tattoo (1955) Anna Asp, Art Direction for Fanny & Alexander (1983)
In 2001, Halle Berry made Oscar history when she won the Best Actress award for Monster's Ball. As of 2015, she remains the only African-American woman to win in the lead acting category.
The only Oscar to win an Oscar was the famed lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.