Acting

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr is vooral bekend van The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Oscars, What's My Line? en Entertainment Tonight. Deborah Kerr werd geboren op 30 september 1921. Deborah Kerr overleed op 16 oktober 2007 op 86-jarige leeftijd.

Geboren: 30 september 1921
Geboorteplaats: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Overleden: 16 oktober 2007 (86 jaar)

Biografie

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".