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Aliases: 데보라 커

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

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Movie Involvements: 49

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Tony Awards
Average
5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Host / Presenter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Average
9

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(1951) Miss Plimsoll
The Oscars
Average
7

The Oscars

(1953) Self
A Woman of Substance
Average
7

A Woman of Substance

(1985) Emma Harte
Quo Vadis
Average
7

Quo Vadis

(1951) Lygia
Talking Pictures
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4

Talking Pictures

(2013) Self (archive footage)
Hold the Dream
Average
3

Hold the Dream

(1986) Emma Harte
The King and I
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7

The King and I

(1956) Anna Leonowens

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Self (archive footage)
2014 Self (archive footage)
2013 Self (archive footage)
2010 Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000 Self (archive footage)
1991 Self
Self
1989 Self (archive footage)
1986 Emma Harte
Ann
1985 Helen
Sally Wells Grant
Emma Harte
1982 Nurse Plimsoll
Carlotta Gray
Self
1971 Self
1969 Florence Anderson
Elizabeth Brandon
Self
1968 Self - Guest
Prudence Hardcastle
1967 Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry
1966 Catherine de Montfaucon
1965 Valerie Edwards
(archive footage)
1964 Hannah Jelkes
Self
Miss Madrigal
1962 Self
1961 Miss Giddens
Martha Radcliffe
1960 Hilary Rhyall
Ida Carmody
1959 Sheilah Graham
Grace Allingham
Diana Ashmore
1958 Sibyl Railton-Bell
Anne Larson
1957 Terry McKay
Sister Angela
1956 Laura Reynolds
Anna Leonowens
Self - Recipient
Lee Ashley
Self - Host / Presenter
Self
1955 Sarah Miles
1953 Karen Holmes
Effie
Portia
Catherine Parr
Self
1952 Joan Willoughby
Princess Flavia
1951 Miss Plimsoll
Lygia
Self
1950 Elizabeth Curtis
Alison Kirbe
Self - Panelist
Self - Mystery Guest
1949 Evelyn Boult
1948 Self (archive footage)
Self
1947 Nona Tybar
Kay Dorrance
Sister Clodagh
1946 Bridie Quilty
1945 Catherine Wilson
1943 Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
1942 Kari Alstad
Mary Brodie
Gulielma Maria Springett
1941 Sally
Jenny Hill
Year Character Movie/Tv

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