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Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

Birthday: 1921-09-30 | Place of Birth: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

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

Year
Title

Role

2024
1995
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

as    Self (archive footage)

1991
1986
Ann and Debbie

as    Ann

1986
Hold the Dream

as    Emma Harte

1985
A Woman of Substance

as    Emma Harte

1985
The Assam Garden

as    Helen

1985
Reunion at Fairborough

as    Sally Wells Grant

1982
A Song At Twilight

as    Carlotta Gray

1982
Witness for the Prosecution

as    Nurse Plimsoll

1969
The Gypsy Moths

as    Elizabeth Brandon

1969
The Arrangement

as    Florence Anderson

1969
The Sky Divers

as    Self

1967
Casino Royale

as    Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

1967
Eye of the Devil

as    Catherine de Montfaucon

1965
Uncertain Verification

as    (archive footage)

1965
Marriage on the Rocks

as    Valerie Edwards

1964
The Night of the Iguana

as    Hannah Jelkes

1964
The Chalk Garden

as    Miss Madrigal

1961
The King and I

as    Anna Leonowens

1961
The Naked Edge

as    Martha Radcliffe

1961
The Innocents

as    Miss Giddens

1960
The Grass Is Greener

as    Hilary Rhyall

1960
The Sundowners

as    Ida Carmody

1959
The Journey

as    Diana Ashmore

1959
Count Your Blessings

as    Grace Allingham

1959
Beloved Infidel

as    Sheilah Graham