Deborah Kerr
Acting

Deborah Kerr

Born 30 September 1921 · Helensburgh, Scotland, UK · Died 16 October 2007

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".

Known for

Casino Royale
From Here to Eternity
The Innocents
Black Narcissus
An Affair to Remember
Quo Vadis
The King and I
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Julius Caesar
The Night of the Iguana
The Grass Is Greener
Bonjour Tristesse
Ann and Debbie
The Assam Garden
Reunion at Fairborough
Witness for the Prosecution
A Song At Twilight
The Gypsy Moths
The Arrangement
Prudence and the Pill
Casino Royale
Eye of the Devil
Marriage on the Rocks
The Night of the Iguana
The Chalk Garden
The Innocents
The Naked Edge
The Grass Is Greener
The Sundowners
The Journey
Beloved Infidel
Count Your Blessings
Bonjour Tristesse
Separate Tables
An Affair to Remember
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
The Proud and Profane
Tea and Sympathy
The King and I
The End of the Affair
Julius Caesar
From Here to Eternity
Young Bess
Dream Wife
The Prisoner of Zenda
Thunder in the East
Quo Vadis
King Solomon's Mines
Please Believe Me
Edward, My Son
Black Narcissus
The Hucksters
If Winter Comes
I See a Dark Stranger
Perfect Strangers
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Day Will Dawn
Hatter's Castle
Penn of Pennsylvania
Major Barbara
Love on the Dole
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