Deborah Kerr
Known for Acting
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
Casino Royale
1967
as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
Quo Vadis
1951
as Lygia
From Here to Eternity
1953
as Karen Holmes
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
as Anne Larson
The King and I
1956
as Anna Leonowens
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
An Affair to Remember
1957
as Terry McKay
Eye of the Devil
1966
as Catherine de Montfaucon
Prudence and the Pill
1968
as Prudence Hardcastle
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self
The Proud and Profane
1956
as Lee Ashley
Julius Caesar
1953
as Portia
The Night of the Iguana
1964
as Hannah Jelkes
Black Narcissus
1947
as Sister Clodagh
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
as Nurse Plimsoll
The Hucksters
1947
as Kay Dorrance
The Journey
1959
as Diana Ashmore
Thunder in the East
1952
as Joan Willoughby
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon