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