Jennifer Jones is well known an American actress. She was nominated for Academy Award five times and got an Academy Award for her best performance in the movie “The Song of Bernadette” in the year 1943.Her birth name was Phyllis Lee Islay and later she changed her name to stage name as Jennifer Jones.
She was born on March 2, 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the only daughter of her parents Flora Mae and Phillip Ross Islay and was raised as Roman Catholic. She attended Catholic school in her childhood later she joined Monte Cassino Junior College in Tulsa, there she completed her high school and then she went to North-western University.
She was the member of Kappa Alpha Theta society. She later went to New York and join American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1983 as she had started taking an interest in acting. She joined Powers Agency for modelling as a part time job.
She gave her first audition for the lead role of Claudia and was not selected but later the director called her for an interview and selected for the movie “The Song of Bernadette”. She signed a contract of seven years.
As per her personal life is concerned, she was married for three times, her first marriage was to Robert Walker Jr. and have two sons. She had relations with a producer David O. Selznick, later they got married. After the death of David, she married to Norton Simon. She was died on Thursday, December 17, 2009.
