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