Deborah Kerr

Biography

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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Kerr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Casino Royale

as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

From Here to Eternity

as Karen Holmes

The Innocents

as Miss Giddens

Black Narcissus

as Sister Clodagh

An Affair to Remember

as Terry McKay

Quo Vadis

as Lygia

The King and I

as Anna Leonowens

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

Julius Caesar

as Portia

The Night of the Iguana

as Hannah Jelkes