( CNN ) -- Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95 , her niece , Amy Phillips , confirmed . Holm , a star of the Broadway stage and movies , was admitted to New York 's Roosevelt Hospital a week ago , but her husband took her home to her Manhattan home on Friday , Phillips said . `` She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby , '' she said . Holm won the best supporting actress Academy Award for `` Gentleman 's Agreement '' in 1947 . She was nominated for the same honor in 1949 for `` Come to the Stable '' and 1950 for `` All about Eve , '' according to the Academy database . Holm 's stage career began in 1936 in a Deer Lake , Pennsylvania , stock company , which led to an understudy role in a touring production of `` Hamlet '' with Leslie Howard , according to her official biography . Her Broadway debut in `` The Time of Your Life '' in 1939 was a small part , but it brought her to the attention of New York critics . Four years later , she was cast as Ado Annie in the smash `` Oklahoma ! '' because of her ability to `` sing bad , '' the biography said . She signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox that began her film career in 1945 , after she toured Europe entertaining troops with the USO . Her first Fox movie was `` Three Little Girls in Blue '' in 1946 , a supporting role that earned her star billing for the musical `` Carnival in Costa Rica '' in 1947 . Holm 's stardom took off in her third film , `` Gentleman 's Agreement , '' in which she won the best supporting actress Academy Award for playing fashion editor Anne Dettry . Her official biography said she was challenged in `` finding parts appropriate for this intelligent blonde who did n't fit their Betty Grable 'pin-up girl ' mold . '' In 1949 , however , she was cast as a `` tennis-playing French nun in `` Come to the Stable , '' which earned her another best supporting actress Oscar nomination , it said . Fox briefly suspended her in 1950 `` for refusing other roles she felt were beneath her . '' But she was brought back that same year to play the role of Karen Richards in `` All About Eve . '' She was again nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar . She shocked Hollywood by buying out her Fox contract after `` All About Eve '' to return to Broadway , despite her rising big screen stardom . Once back in New York , Holm also began a long career acting in television . Her TV resume includes dozens of series , starting as a guest actress with `` All Star Revue '' in 1950 and concluding with an episode of `` Whoopi '' in 2004 . In between , she had her own short-lived series `` Honestly , Celeste ! '' in 1954 . She is also remembered as the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein 's `` Cinderella , '' a 1965 television show . She played Hattie Greene in both the `` Touched by an Angel '' and `` Promised Land '' TV series in the 1990s . The last decade of her life was overshadowed by a bitter legal dispute between one of her two sons and Holm 's fifth husband , Frank Basile . She married Basile , who was 46 years younger than her , in 2004 . Neither of her two sons was there in her Central Park West apartment when she died , Phillips said . She first married director Ralph Nelson in 1938 , but the couple divorced the next year after the birth of a son , Ted , according to her official biography . Her second marriage , to English auditor Francis Davies , in 1940 also ended quickly , the biography said . Holm married airline public relations executive A. Schuyler Dunning in 1946 . Her second son , Daniel , was born that year , but that marriage did not last , it said . In 1961 , Holm married her fourth husband , actor Wesley Addy , whom she met while co-starring in the 1960 Broadway production of `` Invitation to the March . '' They often acted onstage together during their marriage , which lasted until Addy 's death in 1996 . Holm was appointed to the National Arts Council by President Ronald Reagan , knighted by King Olav of Norway , and inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame , her family said . Her many charitable works include the chairmanship of Arts Horizons , an organization that brings the arts to school children through the Metropolitan area ; The Actors Home of Englewood , New Jersey ; and UNICEF . Funeral arrangements were not immediately available . The family asked that donations in her memory be made to Arts Horizons , The Actors Home and UNICEF . People we 've lost in 2012 : The lives they lived .
Celeste Holm starred on Broadway , film and television . She `` passed peacefully '' with husband , friends , family nearby , her niece says . Holm won the best supporting actress Oscar for `` Gentleman 's Agreement '' in 1947 . Funeral arrangements were not immediately available .