---
name: "Ava Gardner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ava-gardner"
fi1m_id: "ava-gardner"
imdb_id: "nm0001257"
tmdb_id: 25787
wikidata_id: "Q164487"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 December 1922"
died: "25 January 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T06:42:22.717648+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ava Gardner

## Identity

Ava Gardner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ava-gardner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ava-gardner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001257
- **TMDB ID:** 25787
- **Wikidata ID:** Q164487
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Gardner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164487, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001257/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25787

Actor. Born 24 December 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, USA. Died 25 January 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 December 1922, Grabtown, North Carolina, USA
- **Died:** 25 January 1990
- **Active:** 1946–1954
- **Also known as:** Ava Lavinia Gardner, A. Gardner, Ава Гарднер, 에바 가드너, エヴァ・ガードナー
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 acting, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Edmond O'Brien](https://film.one/person/edmond-obrien.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 84 (1), 1950s 79 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $8m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Gardner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164487, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001257/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25787

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Pandora and the Flying Dutchman*](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md) (79), [*The Barefoot Contessa*](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md) (74)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Band Wagon*](https://film.one/film/the-band-wagon.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ava Gardner was an American actor. Born Ava Lavinia Gardner on 24 December 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, she died on 25 January 1990 in London.

She made her breakthrough as Kitty Collins in *The Killers* (1946). Other notable films include *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), *On the Beach* (1959), *Seven Days in May* (1964), *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966) and *Earthquake* (1974). She also appeared in *The Band Wagon* (1953).

*Sources: imdb.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (3) — the average rests on these

- *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), Fi1m 74, as Maria Vargas — [page](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md)
- *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), Fi1m 79, as Pandora Reynolds — [page](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md)
- *The Killers* (1946), Fi1m 84, as Kitty Collins — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killers.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Band Wagon* (1953), Fi1m 84, as Ava Gardner (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-band-wagon.md)

## Complete filmography (76)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff* (2010), as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)
- *That's Entertainment! III* (1994), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Legends of the West* (1992), as Lily Langtry in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Maggie* (1986), as Diane Webb
- *Harem* (1986), as Kadin
- *Harem* (1986), series, as Kadin
- *The Long Hot Summer* (1985), series, as Minnie Littlejohn
- *A.D.* (1985), series, as Agrippina
- *Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid* (1982), as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
- *Regina Roma* (1982), as Mama
- *Priest of Love* (1981), as Mabel Dodge Luhan
- *The Kidnapping of the President* (1980), as Beth Richards
- *Knots Landing* (1979), series, as Ruth Sumner Galveston
- *City on Fire* (1979), as Maggie Grayson
- *The Sentinel* (1977), as Helen Logan
- *The Cassandra Crossing* (1976), as Nicole Dressler
- *The Blue Bird* (1976), as Luxury
- *Permission to Kill* (1975), as Katina Petersen
- *Earthquake* (1974), as Remy Royce-Graff
- *That's Entertainment!* (1974), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean* (1972), as Lily Langtry
- *The Ballad of Tam Lin* (1970), as Michaela Cazaret
- *Mayerling* (1968), as Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- *The Bible: In the Beginning...* (1966), as Sarah
- *The Night of the Iguana* (1964), as Maxine Faulk
- *Seven Days in May* (1964), as Eleanor Holbrook
- *55 Days at Peking* (1963), as Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
- *The Angel Wore Red* (1960), as Soledad
- *On the Beach* (1959), as Moira Davidson
- *The Naked Maja* (1958), as Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana
- *The Sun Also Rises* (1957), as Lady Brett Ashley
- *The Little Hut* (1957), as Lady Susan Ashlow
- *Bhowani Junction* (1956), as Victoria Jones
- *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), as Maria Vargas — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md)
- *Knights of the Round Table* (1953), as Guinevere
- *Mogambo* (1953), as Eloise Y. Kelly
- *The Band Wagon* (1953), as Ava Gardner (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-band-wagon.md)
- *Ride, Vaquero!* (1953), as Cordelia Cameron
- *Lone Star* (1952), as Martha Ronda
- *The Snows of Kilimanjaro* (1952), as Cynthia Green
- *Show Boat* (1951), as Julie LaVerne
- *My Forbidden Past* (1951), as Barbara Beaurevel
- *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), as Pandora Reynolds — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md)
- *East Side, West Side* (1949), as Isabel Lorrison
- *The Great Sinner* (1949), as Pauline Ostrovsky
- *The Bribe* (1949), as Elizabeth Hintten
- *One Touch of Venus* (1948), as Venus
- *Singapore* (1947), as Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden
- *The Hucksters* (1947), as Jean Ogilvie
- *The Killers* (1946), as Kitty Collins — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killers.md)
- *Whistle Stop* (1946), as Mary
- *She Went to the Races* (1945), as Hilda Spotts
- *I'm a Civilian Here Myself* (1945), as Dream Girl (uncredited)
- *Blonde Fever* (1944), as Minor Role (uncredited)
- *Maisie Goes to Reno* (1944), as Gloria Fullerton
- *Two Girls and a Sailor* (1944), as Dream Girl (uncredited)
- *3 Men in White* (1944), as Jean Brown
- *Twenty Years After* (1944), as (archive footage)
- *Lost Angel* (1943), as Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
- *Swing Fever* (1943), as Receptionist (uncredited)
- *Du Barry Was a Lady* (1943), as Perfume Girl (uncredited)
- *Young Ideas* (1943), as Co-ed (uncredited)
- *Ghosts on the Loose* (1943), as Betty
- *Hitler's Madman* (1943), as Franciska Pritric  (uncredited)
- *Reunion in France* (1942), as Marie, Parisian shopgirl (uncredited)
- *Mighty Lak a Goat* (1942), as Girl at Theatre Boxoffice
- *Calling Dr. Gillespie* (1942), as Student (uncredited)
- *Sunday Punch* (1942), as Ringsider (uncredited)
- *Kid Glove Killer* (1942), as Car Hop (uncredited)
- *This Time for Keeps* (1942), as Girl in Car Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)
- *Joe Smith, American* (1942), as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- *We Do It Because* (1942), as Lucretia Borgia (uncredited)
- *H.M. Pulham, Esq.* (1941), as Young Socialite (uncredited)
- *Shadow of the Thin Man* (1941), as Passerby at Racetrack (uncredited)
- *Strange Testament* (1941), as Waitress (uncredited)
- *Fancy Answers* (1941), as Girl at Recital

## Gallery

- ![Ava Gardner](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-5fa3dd6d5704.jpg) Ava Gardner — MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Ava_Gardner_Show_Boat_1951.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ava Gardner c. 1955](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-49c962337410.jpg) Ava Gardner c. 1955 — United Artists. Photographer not credited, [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Ava_Gardner_c._1955_-_United_Artists.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ava Gardner and Clarence Sinclair Bull (1955)](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-30ff67cde9ec.jpg) Ava Gardner and Clarence Sinclair Bull (1955) — Unknown authorUnknown author, distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Ava_Gardner_%26_Clarence_Sinclair_Bull.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The Angel Wore Red (1960) with Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-8db83d33ea34.jpg) The Angel Wore Red (1960) with Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Sposabella1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ava Gardner](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-6149dcc350ba.jpg) Ava Gardner — Image via TMDB
- ![Ava Gardner](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-0c2b03966c51.jpg) Ava Gardner — Image via TMDB
- ![Ava Gardner](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-d9887e0e37a0.jpg) Ava Gardner — Image via TMDB
- ![Ava Gardner 1955-02-21 at Kastrup Airport CPH, Copenhagen](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-d93aaa2ed025.jpg) Ava Gardner 1955-02-21 at Kastrup Airport CPH, Copenhagen — SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Ava_Gardner.jpg/1280px-Ava_Gardner.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ava Gardner with Katherine Hill on the set of 'On The Beach', 1959](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-906ca9ffe4ed.jpg) Ava Gardner with Katherine Hill on the set of 'On The Beach', 1959 — Dell Publishing, 1960. Photographer: Wayne Miller [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Ava_Gardner_with_Katherine_Hill_on_the_set_of_%27On_The_Beach%27%2C_1959.jpg/1280px-Ava_Gardner_with_Katherine_Hill_on_the_set_of_%27On_The_Beach%27%2C_1959.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ava Gardner](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-2ff3a50d4808.jpg) Ava Gardner — Image via TMDB
- ![Ava Gardner](https://film.one/media/person/3860512/gallery-3f2caac69b13.jpg) Ava Gardner — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1954: Best Actress (nominated), for *Mogambo*

### Golden Globes — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1964: Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (nominated), for *The Night of the Iguana*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Silver Shell for Best Actress 1964: Silver Shell for Best Actress (won), for *The Night of the Iguana*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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