Portrait of Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr

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".

Born: September 30, 1921

Place of Birth: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

Filmography

2022
Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2013
Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

1995
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

as Self (archive footage)

1986
Hold the Dream

as Emma Harte

1986
1985
1985
Reunion at Fairborough

as Sally Wells Grant

1985
1982
1982
A Song At Twilight

as Carlotta Gray

1974
Dinah!

as Self

1974
Playhouse

as Carlotta Gray

1971
1969
The Arrangement

as Florence Anderson

1969
The Gypsy Moths

as Elizabeth Brandon

1969
1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1968
Prudence and the Pill

as Prudence Hardcastle

1967
Casino Royale

as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

1966
Eye of the Devil

as Catherine de Montfaucon

1965
Marriage on the Rocks

as Valerie Edwards

1965
Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

1964
The Night of the Iguana

as Hannah Jelkes

1964
The Chalk Garden

as Miss Madrigal

1961
The Innocents

as Miss Giddens

1961
The Naked Edge

as Martha Radcliffe

1960
The Grass Is Greener

as Hilary Rhyall

1960
The Sundowners

as Ida Carmody

1959
Beloved Infidel

as Sheilah Graham

1959
Count Your Blessings

as Grace Allingham

1959
The Journey

as Diana Ashmore

1958
Separate Tables

as Sibyl Railton-Bell

1958
Bonjour Tristesse

as Anne Larson

1957
An Affair to Remember

as Terry McKay

1957
1956
Tea and Sympathy

as Laura Reynolds

1956
The King and I

as Anna Leonowens

1956
The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Recipient

1956
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Host / Presenter

1956
1955
The End of the Affair

as Sarah Miles

1953
From Here to Eternity

as Karen Holmes

1953
Dream Wife

as Effie

1953
Julius Caesar

as Portia

1953
Young Bess

as Catherine Parr

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
Thunder in the East

as Joan Willoughby

1952
The Prisoner of Zenda

as Princess Flavia

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Miss Plimsoll

1951
Quo Vadis

as Lygia

1950
Jungle Safari

as Herself (archival footage)

1950
King Solomon's Mines

as Elizabeth Curtis

1950
Please Believe Me

as Alison Kirbe

1950
1949
Edward, My Son

as Evelyn Boult

1947
If Winter Comes

as Nona Tybar

1947
The Hucksters

as Kay Dorrance

1947
Black Narcissus

as Sister Clodagh

1946
I See a Dark Stranger

as Bridie Quilty

1945
Perfect Strangers

as Catherine Wilson

1943
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

1942
The Day Will Dawn

as Kari Alstad

1942
Hatter's Castle

as Mary Brodie

1942
Penn of Pennsylvania

as Gulielma Maria Springett

1941
1941
Major Barbara

as Jenny Hill

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