Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

  • Birthday: 9/30/1921
  • Deathday: 10/16/2007
  • Place of birth: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Fame for: Acting
  • Also known as: 데보라 커

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.

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Bonjour Tristesse
Release date: 1/15/1958

Bonjour Tristesse

Role(s): Anne Larson

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Eye of the Devil
Release date: 11/18/1966

Eye of the Devil

Role(s): Catherine de Montfaucon

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Witness for the Prosecution
Release date: 12/4/1982

Witness for the Prosecution

Role(s): Nurse Plimsoll

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From Here to Eternity
Release date: 8/28/1953

From Here to Eternity

Role(s): Karen Holmes

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Quo Vadis
Release date: 11/8/1951

Quo Vadis

Role(s): Lygia

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