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Deborah Kerr
Acting
1921-09-30 - Present
Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, 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.
Credits
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Black NarcissusasSister Clodagh
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Casino RoyaleasAgent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
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Quo VadisasLygia
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The InnocentsasMiss Giddens
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From Here to EternityasKaren Holmes
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An Affair to RememberasTerry McKay
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The Night of the IguanaasHannah Jelkes
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Julius CaesarasPortia
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The King and IasAnna Leonowens
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Bonjour TristesseasAnne Larson
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Heaven Knows, Mr. AllisonasSister Angela
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The SundownersasIda Carmody
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The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpasEdith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
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And the Oscar Goes To...asSelf (archive footage)
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The Grass Is GreenerasHilary Rhyall
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Separate TablesasSibyl Railton-Bell
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King Solomon's MinesasElizabeth Curtis
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The Proud and ProfaneasLee Ashley
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Tea and SympathyasLaura Reynolds
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The Day Will DawnasKari Alstad
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Night of 100 StarsasSelf
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburgeras(archive footage)
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The Prisoner of ZendaasPrincess Flavia
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Beloved InfidelasSheilah Graham
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Witness for the ProsecutionasNurse Plimsoll
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Young BessasCatherine Parr
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The HuckstersasKay Dorrance
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Edward, My SonasEvelyn Boult
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Eye of the DevilasCatherine de Montfaucon
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The Gypsy MothsasElizabeth Brandon
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Dream WifeasEffie
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The ArrangementasFlorence Anderson
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If Winter ComesasNona Tybar
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The Naked EdgeasMartha Radcliffe
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The Chalk GardenasMiss Madrigal
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Please Believe MeasAlison Kirbe
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The JourneyasDiana Ashmore
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Marriage on the RocksasValerie Edwards
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The End of the AffairasSarah Miles
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Thunder in the EastasJoan Willoughby
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Rat PackasSelf (archive footage)
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I See a Dark StrangerasBridie Quilty
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Major BarbaraasJenny Hill
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack CardiffasSister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Preminger: Anatomy of a FilmmakerasSelf
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the MaverickasSelf (archive footage)
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for BreakfastasSelf - Actress (archive footage)
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Prudence and the PillasPrudence Hardcastle
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading ManasSelf
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Perfect StrangersasCatherine Wilson
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Penn of PennsylvaniaasGulielma Maria Springett
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Uncertain Verificationas(archive footage)
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Count Your BlessingsasGrace Allingham
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Sir John Mills' Moving MemoriesasSelf (archive footage)
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant StarasSelf
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Love on the DoleasSally
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Reunion at FairboroughasSally Wells Grant
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The Assam GardenasHelen
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Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was KingasSelf (archive footage)
The Sky DiversasSelf
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A Song At TwilightasCarlotta Gray
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Hatter's CastleasMary Brodie
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Ann and DebbieasAnn
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On the Trail of the IguanaasSelf
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Rome, the Eternal CityasSelf