Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress.

[2] She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[3] Bainter made her first appearance on stage in 1908 in The County Chairman at Morosco's Theater in Burbank, California.

P. G. Wodehouse, reviewing Turn to the Right in Vanity Fair in 1916, wrote, "Miss Bainter's advent from nowhere and her instant success form the season's biggest sensation.

"[4] She appeared in a number of successful plays in New York, such as East Is West, The Willow Tree, and Dodsworth.