Oscar-winning actor Joan Fontaine has died at the age of 96.
Long-time friend Noel Beutel said she died in her sleep in her Carmel home on Sunday morning.
Fontaine won an Academy Award as a naive wife in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Suspicion and also starred in Hitchcock’s Rebecca . Her other films included The Women, Jane Eyre and Born to be Bad .
Fontaine was the sister of fellow actress Olivia de Havilland.