Patricia Neal - ©Theda Bara

The name I bring to you in this post is that of the talented American actress Patricia Neal, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1964 for her work in “Hud” (1963), playing “Alma Brown”. However, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) is her most famous film, in which she played the character “Helen Benson”. This film was remade in 2008, but did not achieve the same success.

In addition to the Oscar, Patricia Neal received two BAFTAs (1963 and 1965), a Golden Globe (1971), and a Tony Award (1947). The actress was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for “The Subject Was Roses” (1968), playing “Nettle Cleary”, but did not win.

Patricia Neal has a star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, located at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard, in the Motion Picture category.

Patricia Patsy Louise Neal, born on January 20, 1926, in Packard, Kentucky, United States, died on August 8, 2010, in Edgartown, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 99.

Patricia Neal was one of the rare Hollywood actresses to marry only once. After a torrid romance with Spanish hard rock, blues, and progressive rock guitarist and composer Robert William Gary Moore (1952-2011), the actress married the famous British writer of Welsh and Norwegian descent Roald Dahl (1916-1990), whose successful works, translated into film, include: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1964) and "Matilda" (1988). The couple lived together for 30 years, from 1953 to 1983. They had five children: Olivia Twenty Dahl (1955-1962), who died at the age of seven from measles encephalitis, even before a vaccine against the disease was developed; British author and former actress Chantal Sophia “Tessa” Dahl (1957-); British-American businessman Theo Matthew Dahl (1960-); American lawyer Ophelia Magdalena Dahl (1964-) and British screenwriter Lucy Neal Dahl (1965-).