One Academy Award was won by Anne Bancroft .
After her film debut in Do n't Bother to Knock ( 1952 ) , and a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s , she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for he lead role in The Miracle Worker ( 1962 ) , as the head teacher of teenage Helen Keller , reprising her role in the Broadway stage play .
Anne Bancroft