Deborah Kerr
Actor
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".
Filmography
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes 1953
The Innocents
as Miss Giddens 1961
Black Narcissus
as Sister Clodagh 1947
An Affair to Remember
as Terry McKay 1957
Quo Vadis
as Lygia 1951
The King and I
as Anna Leonowens 1956
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon 1943
Julius Caesar
as Portia 1953
The Night of the Iguana
as Hannah Jelkes 1964
Bonjour Tristesse
as Anne Larson 1958
The Grass Is Greener
as Hilary Rhyall 1960
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
as Sister Angela 1957
King Solomon's Mines
as Elizabeth Curtis 1950
Separate Tables
as Sibyl Railton-Bell 1958
The Arrangement
as Florence Anderson 1969
Eye of the Devil
as Catherine de Montfaucon 1966