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Deborah Kerr

Born
September 30, 1921
Died
October 16, 2007
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. During her international film career, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956). Her other major and best known films and performances are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), Quo Vadis (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Grass Is Greener (1960), and The Night of the Iguana (1964). In 1994, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognizing her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Kerr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Known For
Casino Royale
(1967)
Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Quo Vadis
(1951)
Lygia
Bonjour Tristesse
(1958)
Anne Larson
Perfect Strangers
(1945)
Catherine Wilson
Beloved Infidel
(1959)
Sheilah Graham
The Innocents
(1961)
Miss Giddens
From Here to Eternity
(1953)
Karen Holmes
The Sundowners
(1960)
Ida Carmody
Black Narcissus
(1947)
Sister Clodagh
An Affair to Remember
(1957)
Terry McKay
The King and I
(1956)
Anna Leonowens
Separate Tables
(1958)
Sibyl Railton-Bell
Julius Caesar
(1953)
Portia
The Night of the Iguana
(1964)
Hannah Jelkes
Young Bess
(1953)
Catherine Parr
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Full Filmography
Acting
Major Barbara
(1941)
Jenny Hill
Love on the Dole
(1941)
Sally
The Day Will Dawn
(1942)
Kari Alstad
Hatter's Castle
(1942)
Mary Brodie
Penn of Pennsylvania
(1942)
Gulielma Maria Springett
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
(1943)
Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Perfect Strangers
(1945)
Catherine Wilson
I See a Dark Stranger
(1946)
Bridie Quilty
Black Narcissus
(1947)
Sister Clodagh
The Hucksters
(1947)
Kay Dorrance
If Winter Comes
(1947)
Nona Tybar
Edward, My Son
(1949)
Evelyn Boult
King Solomon's Mines
(1950)
Elizabeth Curtis
Please Believe Me
(1950)
Alison Kirbe
Quo Vadis
(1951)
Lygia
Rome, the Eternal City
(1951)
Self
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1952)
Princess Flavia
Thunder in the East
(1952)
Joan Willoughby
From Here to Eternity
(1953)
Karen Holmes
Young Bess
(1953)
Catherine Parr
Dream Wife
(1953)
Effie
Julius Caesar
(1953)
Portia
The End of the Affair
(1955)
Sarah Miles
The Proud and Profane
(1956)
Lee Ashley
Tea and Sympathy
(1956)
Laura Reynolds
The King and I
(1956)
Anna Leonowens
An Affair to Remember
(1957)
Terry McKay
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
(1957)
Sister Angela
Bonjour Tristesse
(1958)
Anne Larson
Separate Tables
(1958)
Sibyl Railton-Bell
The Journey
(1959)
Diana Ashmore
Beloved Infidel
(1959)
Sheilah Graham
Count Your Blessings
(1959)
Grace Allingham
The Grass Is Greener
(1960)
Hilary Rhyall
The Sundowners
(1960)
Ida Carmody
The Innocents
(1961)
Miss Giddens
The Naked Edge
(1961)
Martha Radcliffe
The Night of the Iguana
(1964)
Hannah Jelkes
The Chalk Garden
(1964)
Miss Madrigal
On the Trail of the Iguana
(1964)
Self
Marriage on the Rocks
(1965)
Valerie Edwards
Uncertain Verification
(1965)
(archive footage)
Eye of the Devil
(1966)
Catherine de Montfaucon
Casino Royale
(1967)
Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Prudence and the Pill
(1968)
Prudence Hardcastle
The Gypsy Moths
(1969)
Elizabeth Brandon
The Arrangement
(1969)
Florence Anderson
The Sky Divers
(1969)
Self
Witness for the Prosecution
(1982)
Nurse Plimsoll
A Song At Twilight
(1982)
Carlotta Gray
Night of 100 Stars
(1982)
Self
The Assam Garden
(1985)
Helen
Reunion at Fairborough
(1985)
Sally Wells Grant
Ann and Debbie
(1986)
Ann
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
(1988)
Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
(1989)
Self (archive footage)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
(1991)
Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
(1991)
Self
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
(1995)
Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
(2000)
Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
(2010)
Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
(2024)
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