Deborah Kerr
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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".
Known for
Credits
Casino Royale (1967)
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Quo Vadis (1951)
as Lygia
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Portia
The King and I (1956)
as Anna Leonowens
From Here to Eternity (1953)
as Karen Holmes
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
as Anne Larson
The Innocents (1961)
as Miss Giddens
Black Narcissus (1947)
as Sister Clodagh
An Affair to Remember (1957)
as Terry McKay
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
as Hannah Jelkes
Separate Tables (1958)
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
The Journey (1959)
as Diana Ashmore
The Naked Edge (1961)
as Martha Radcliffe
The Grass Is Greener (1960)
as Hilary Rhyall
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
as Elizabeth Curtis
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
as Laura Reynolds
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
as Sister Angela
Hatter's Castle (1942)
as Mary Brodie
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
as Nurse Plimsoll
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Beloved Infidel (1959)
as Sheilah Graham
The Sundowners (1960)
as Ida Carmody
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Dream Wife (1953)
as Effie
The Chalk Garden (1964)
as Miss Madrigal
The End of the Affair (1955)
as Sarah Miles
Eye of the Devil (1966)
as Catherine de Montfaucon
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
as Valerie Edwards
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
as Princess Flavia
The Arrangement (1969)
as Florence Anderson
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
as Elizabeth Brandon
Young Bess (1953)
as Catherine Parr
Love on the Dole (1941)
as Sally
The Hucksters (1947)
as Kay Dorrance
Major Barbara (1941)
as Jenny Hill
The Proud and Profane (1956)
as Lee Ashley
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Thunder in the East (1952)
as Joan Willoughby
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Self
Edward, My Son (1949)
as Evelyn Boult
Perfect Strangers (1945)
as Catherine Wilson
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
as Bridie Quilty
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
as Prudence Hardcastle
Please Believe Me (1950)
as Alison Kirbe
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)
as Gulielma Maria Springett
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)
as Self
The Assam Garden (1985)
as Helen
Jungle Safari (1950)
as Herself (archival footage)
If Winter Comes (1947)
as Nona Tybar
Count Your Blessings (1959)
as Grace Allingham
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
as Self
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
as (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Uncertain Verification (1965)
as (archive footage)
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
as Kari Alstad
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sky Divers (1969)
as Self
A Song At Twilight (1982)
as Carlotta Gray
Reunion at Fairborough (1985)
as Sally Wells Grant
On the Trail of the Iguana (1964)
as Self
Rome, the Eternal City (1951)
as Self
Ann and Debbie (1986)
as Ann