Irving Thalberg as a Chinese peasant, she was required to act totally subservient to her husband, being perpetually huddled in submission, and barely spoke a word of dialogue during the entire film. Rainer recalls that Mayer did not approve of the film being produced or her part in it: "He was horrified at Irving Thalberg's insistence for me to play O-lan, the poor uncomely little Chinese peasant." However, she again won the Oscar for Best Actress, becoming the first actress to win two consecutive Oscars, a feat not matched until Katharine Hepburn's two Oscar wins thirty years later. Besides bringing a distinctive
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