Gloria Stuart

Who was Gloria Stuart?

Gloria Frances Stewart, known by the stage name Gloria Stuart, was an American actress, activist, painter, bonsai artist and fine art printer and printmaker. Over a Hollywood career which spanned, with a long break in the middle, from 1932 until 2004, she appeared on stage, television and film, for which she was best-known. She appeared as Claude Rains' sweetheart in The Invisible Man and as the elderly Rose Dawson Calvert in an Academy Award-nominated role in the film Titanic. She was the oldest person to be nominated for a competitive Oscar, at the age of 87, for that role.