Merle Oberon
Birthday: 1911-02-19 | Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Anglo-Indian origin. Her career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Oberon's other notable roles included A Song to Remember (1945), Berlin Express (1948), and Désirée (1954). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that nearly ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article Merle Oberon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting
Role
as Self
as Serena Moore
as Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
as The Duchess Caroline
as Katherine Beckmann
as Jessica Warren
as Dorothy Donnelly
as Empress Josephine
as Margaret Faulson
as Elizabeth Rockwell
as Elizabeth Rockwell
as Cathy Mallory
as Lucienne
as Delarai
as Ruby
as George Sand
as Karin Touzac
as Kitty Langley
as Leslie Calvin
as Nicole Larsen
as Jill Baker
as Lydia MacMillan
as Sue Mayberry
as Joan Ames
as Self
as Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
as Jane Benson
as Mrs. Richardson
as Leslie Steele / Lady Claire Mere
