[PAR] [TLE] Recluse [SEP] A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society.  The word is from the Latin "recludere", which means "shut up" or "sequester".  Historically, the word referred to a hermit's total isolation from the world.  Examples are Symeon of Trier, who lived within the great Roman gate Porta Nigra with permission from the Archbishop of Trier, or Theophan the Recluse, the 19th-century Russian Orthodox monk who was later glorified as a saint.  Celebrated figures who spent, or have spent, significant portions of their lives as recluses include Virgil, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, Emily Brontë, J. D. Salinger, Emily Dickinson, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Cézanne, Nikola Tesla, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, H.P. Lovecraft, Marie Curie, Marcel Proust, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, Jackson Pollock, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Jean-Luc Godard, Thomas Pynchon, John Swartzwelder, Paul Allen, Layne Staley and Michael Jackson. [PAR] [TLE] Greta Garbo [SEP] Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; ] ; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), was a Swedish-born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s.  Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances."  In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.
[PAR] [TLE] Recluse [ SEP ] A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society . The word is from the Latin " recludere " , which means " shut up " or " sequester " . Historically , the word referred to a hermit 's total isolation from the world . Examples are Symeon of Trier , who lived within the great Roman gate Porta Nigra with permission from the Archbishop of Trier , or Theophan the Recluse , the 19th - century Russian Orthodox monk who was later glorified as a saint . Celebrated figures who spent , or have spent , significant portions of their lives as recluses include Virgil , Michelangelo , Isaac Newton , Emily Brontë , J. D. Salinger , Emily Dickinson , Gustave Flaubert , Paul Cézanne , Nikola Tesla , Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , H.P. Lovecraft , Marie Curie , Marcel Proust , Howard Hughes , Greta Garbo , Jackson Pollock , Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Jean - Luc Godard , Thomas Pynchon , John Swartzwelder , Paul Allen , Layne Staley and Michael Jackson . [PAR] [TLE] Greta Garbo [ SEP ] Greta Garbo ( born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson ; ] ; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990 ) , was a Swedish - born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s . Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her " luminous and unforgettable screen performances . " In 1999 , the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema , after Katharine Hepburn , Bette Davis , Audrey Hepburn , and Ingrid Bergman .
What Swedish-born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s lived as a recluse from public and society for a significant portion of her life?
What Swedish - born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s lived as a recluse from public and society for a significant portion of her life ?
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo