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
The King and I (1956)
as Anna Leonowens
Quo Vadis (1951)
as Lygia
From Here to Eternity (1953)
as Karen Holmes
An Affair to Remember (1957)
as Terry McKay
Eye of the Devil (1966)
as Catherine de Montfaucon
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
as Hannah Jelkes
Julius Caesar (1953)
as Portia
The Innocents (1961)
as Miss Giddens
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
as Elizabeth Curtis
Black Narcissus (1947)
as Sister Clodagh
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
as Anne Larson
The Sundowners (1960)
as Ida Carmody
The Grass Is Greener (1960)
as Hilary Rhyall
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
as Nurse Plimsoll
Separate Tables (1958)
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
A Song At Twilight (1982)
as Carlotta Gray
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
as Sister Angela
The Naked Edge (1961)
as Martha Radcliffe
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
as Valerie Edwards
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
as Laura Reynolds
The Proud and Profane (1956)
as Lee Ashley
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
as Prudence Hardcastle
The Journey (1959)
as Diana Ashmore
The Assam Garden (1985)
as Helen
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
The Arrangement (1969)
as Florence Anderson
Jungle Safari (1950)
as Herself (archival footage)
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
as Elizabeth Brandon
Beloved Infidel (1959)
as Sheilah Graham
Young Bess (1953)
as Catherine Parr
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
as (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
as Princess Flavia
Thunder in the East (1952)
as Joan Willoughby
The End of the Affair (1955)
as Sarah Miles
If Winter Comes (1947)
as Nona Tybar
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)
as Self
Dream Wife (1953)
as Effie
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Self
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
as Miss Madrigal
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
Please Believe Me (1950)
as Alison Kirbe
Discovering: Robert Mitchum (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Major Barbara (1941)
as Jenny Hill
Perfect Strangers (1945)
as Catherine Wilson
The Hucksters (1947)
as Kay Dorrance
The Sky Divers (1969)
as Self
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
as Bridie Quilty
Count Your Blessings (1959)
as Grace Allingham
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
as Kari Alstad
Ann and Debbie (1986)
as Ann
Love on the Dole (1941)
as Sally
Edward, My Son (1949)
as Evelyn Boult
Rome, the Eternal City (1951)
as Self
Hatter's Castle (1942)
as Mary Brodie
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
On the Trail of the Iguana (1964)
as Self
Uncertain Verification (1965)
as (archive footage)
Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)
as Gulielma Maria Springett
Reunion at Fairborough (1985)
as Sally Wells Grant