Deborah Kerr
Birthday: 1921-09-30 | Place of Birth: Helensburgh, Scotland, UKDeborah 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".
Known For
Acting
Role
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Ann
as Emma Harte
as Emma Harte
as Helen
as Sally Wells Grant
as Carlotta Gray
as Nurse Plimsoll
as Elizabeth Brandon
as Florence Anderson
as Self
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
as Catherine de Montfaucon
as (archive footage)
as Valerie Edwards
as Hannah Jelkes
as Miss Madrigal
as Anna Leonowens
as Martha Radcliffe
as Miss Giddens
as Hilary Rhyall
as Ida Carmody
as Diana Ashmore
as Grace Allingham
as Sheilah Graham
