Luise Rainer humble Chinese peasant subservient to her husband and speaking little during the entire film. Her comparative muteness, stated historian Andrew Sarris, was "an astounding tour de force after her hysterically chattering telephone scene in "The Great Ziegfeld"", and contributed to her winning her second Best Actress Oscar. The award made her the first actress to win two consecutive Oscars, a feat not matched until Katharine Hepburn's two wins thirty years later. In later years, however, Rainer felt that winning the two Oscars so early may have been the "worst possible thing" to befall her career. She said that it made
International Emmy Award for Best Actress the International Emmy for best actress went to French Muriel Robin for her role as Marie Besnard in the Belgian-French telefilm "The Poisoner. Lucy Cohu, Julie Walters and Helena Bonham Carter won in subsequent years, Walters is the only actress to win twice the prize in 2009, as Anne Turner in "A Short Stay in Switzerland", repeating the feat in 2011 for her performance in the telefilm "Mo", which tells the life story of the parliamentary Labour Party Mo Mowlam. The first Emmy for best actress for Latin America was won by Argentina's Cristina Banegas for her role in the