Shirley “Jean” Alexander was born on Sept. 8, 1939, in Fulton County, Ky., to the late Edrell Bransford Mosley and Melvin Barnett. She was affectionately known to her husband and children as “Myrtle ...
Learn more about every best-supporting-actress Oscar winner over the last 87 years, from 1937—when the Academy Award was first handed out—to today.