Age of Female Actor at Time She Won the Oscar Year Female Actor Movie Age 1928 Laura Gainor Sunrise 22 1929 Mary Pickford Coquette 37 1930 Norma Shearer The Divorcee 30 1931 Marie Dressler Min and Bill 62 1932 Helen Hayes The Sin of Madelon Claudet 32 1933 Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory 26 1934 Collette Colbert It Happened One Night 31 1935 Bette Davis Dangerous 27 1936 Luise Rainer The Great Zeigfeld 26 1937 Luise Rainer The Good Earth 27 1938 Bette Davis Jezebel 30 1939 Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind 26 1940 Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle 29 1941 Joan Fontaine Suspicion 24 1942 Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver 39 1943 Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette 24 1944 Ingrid Bergman Gaslight 29 1945 Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce 37 1946 Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own 30 1947 Loretta Young The Farmer’s Daughter 34 1948 Jane Wyman Johnny Belinda 34 1949 Olivia de Havilland The Heiress 33 1950 Judy Holliday Born Yesterday 28 1951 Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 38 1952 Shirley Booth "Com Back, Little Sheba" 45 1953 Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday 24 1954 Grace Kelly The Country Girl 26 1955 Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo 47 1956 Ingrid Bergman Anastasia 41 1957 Joanne Woodward The Three Faces of Eve 27 1958 Susan Hayward I Want to Live! 39 1959 Simone Signoret Room at the Top 38 1960 Elisabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 28 1961 Sophia Loren Two Women 27 1962 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker 31 1963 Patricia Neal Hud 37 1964 Julie Andrews Mary Poppins 30 1965 Julie Christie Darling 24 1966 Elizabeth Taylor Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 34 1967 Katharine Hepburn Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 60 1968 Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter 61 1968 Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 26 1969 Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 35 1970 Glenda Jackson Women In Love 34 1971 Jane Fonda Klute 34 1972 Liza Minnelli Cabaret 26 1973 Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class 37 1974 Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn’t live Here Anymore 42 1975 Louise Fletcher One Flew Over The Cockoo’s Nest 41 1976 Faye Dunaway Network 35 1977 Diane Keaton Annie Hall 31 1978 Jane Fonda Coming Home 41 1979 Sally Field Norma Rae 33 1980 Sissy Spacek Coal Miner’s Daughter 30 1981 Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 74 1982 Meryl Streep Sophie’s Choice 33 1983 Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment 49 1984 Sally Field Places in the Heart 38 1985 Geraldine Page Trip to Bountiful 61 1986 Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God 21 1987 Cher Moonstruck 41 1988 Jodie Foster The Accused 26 1989 Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy 81 1990 Kathy Bates Misery 42 1991 Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs 29 1992 Emma Thompson Howards End 33 1993 Holly Hunter The Piano 35 1994 Jessica Lange Blue Sky 45 1995 Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking 49 1996 Frances McDormand Fargo 39