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
Amanda Foreman (actress) Amanda Foreman (actress) Amanda Foreman (born July 15, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Meghan Rotundi on the college drama series "Felicity" which ran from 1998-2002 Foreman was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Linda Lawson, an actress, and John Foreman, a producer. She is the younger sister of Julie Foreman, an actress. Foreman has worked on four series produced and/or created by J.J. Abrams. On "Felicity, "she played Felicity's college roommate, Meghan Rotundi, a Wiccan who — in "Help for the Lovelorn" (January 23, 2000), an homage to "The Twilight Zone" —