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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-09-30 (103 years old)

Place of Birth

Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

Deborah Kerr

Biography:

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".

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Known For

Acting

2024

2022

Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)

2019

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)

1995

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King as Self (archive footage)

1991

1988

1986

Hold the Dream as Emma Harte

1985

Reunion at Fairborough as Sally Wells Grant
A Woman of Substance as Emma Harte

1982

Witness for the Prosecution as Nurse Plimsoll
A Song At Twilight as Carlotta Gray

1981

1974

Dinah! as Self

1971

1969

The Gypsy Moths as Elizabeth Brandon
The Arrangement as Florence Anderson

1968

Prudence and the Pill as Prudence Hardcastle
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Casino Royale as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

1966

Eye of the Devil as Catherine de Montfaucon

1965

Marriage on the Rocks as Valerie Edwards
Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)

1964

1962

1961

The Innocents as Miss Giddens
The Naked Edge as Martha Radcliffe

1960

The Grass Is Greener as Hilary Rhyall
The Sundowners as Ida Carmody

1959

The Journey as Diana Ashmore
Beloved Infidel as Sheilah Graham
Count Your Blessings as Grace Allingham

1958

Bonjour Tristesse as Anne Larson
Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton-Bell

1957

An Affair to Remember as Terry McKay
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as Sister Angela

1956

The Proud and Profane as Lee Ashley
Tea and Sympathy as Laura Reynolds
The King and I as Anna Leonowens
The Steve Allen Show as Self - Recipient
Tony Awards as Self - Host / Presenter

1955

The End of the Affair as Sarah Miles

1953

Julius Caesar as Portia
From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
Young Bess as Catherine Parr
Dream Wife as Effie
The Oscars as Self

1952

The Prisoner of Zenda as Princess Flavia
Thunder in the East as Joan Willoughby

1951

1950

King Solomon's Mines as Elizabeth Curtis
Please Believe Me as Alison Kirbe
What's My Line? as Self - Panelist

1949

Edward, My Son as Evelyn Boult

1948

1947

Black Narcissus as Sister Clodagh
The Hucksters as Kay Dorrance
If Winter Comes as Nona Tybar

1946

I See a Dark Stranger as Bridie Quilty

1945

Perfect Strangers as Catherine Wilson

1943

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

1942

The Day Will Dawn as Kari Alstad
Hatter's Castle as Mary Brodie
Penn of Pennsylvania as Gulielma Maria Springett

1941

Major Barbara as Jenny Hill