Oscar-winning actor Joan Fontaine dies

Joan Fontaine

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.