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