Leslie Caron
Age: N/A | From: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Лесли Карон , Leslie Claire Margaret Caron
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 53
TV Involvements: 8
Most Famous Work
Biography
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Caron started her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in the musical An American in Paris (1951), followed by roles in The Man with a Cloak (1951), Glory Alley (1952) and The Story of Three Loves (1953), before receving critical acclaim for her role as an orphan in Lili (also 1953), which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. As a leading lady, Caron went on to star in films such as The Glass Slipper, Daddy Long Legs (both 1955), Gigi (1958), Fanny (1961), both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations, Guns of Darkness (1962), The L-Shaped Room (both 1962), Father Goose (1964) and A Very Special Favor (1965). For her role of a single pregnant woman in The L-Shaped Room, Caron, in addition to receiving a second Academy Award nomination, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a second BAFTA Award. Caron's other roles include Is Paris Burning? (1966), That's Entertainment! (1974), The Man Who Loved Women, Valentino (both 1977), Damage (1992), Funny Bones (1995), Chocolat (2000) and Le Divorce (2003). In 2007, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance of a child molestation victim in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Caron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Lorraine Delmas
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Nathalie Vareille
Le Grand Échiquier
(1972) Self
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Damage
(1992) Elizabeth Prideaux
Is Paris Burning?
(1966) Françoise Labé
Daddy Long Legs
(1955) Julie Andre
Le Divorce
(2003) Suzanne de PersandActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice) | |
| Pauline | ||
| 2017 | Self | |
| Self - Interviewee | ||
| Marguerite | ||
| 2016 | Herself | |
| Countess Mavrodaki | ||
| 2015 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2010 | Fanny (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Self | |
| Herself | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2003 | Suzanne de Persand | |
| 2002 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2001 | Miss Alvarado | |
| 2000 | Mrs. Audel | |
| Madeleine | ||
| 1999 | Lorraine Delmas | |
| Regine De Chantelle | ||
| 1996 | Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice) | |
| Madame de Saint Marne | ||
| 1995 | Marguerite | |
| Katie Parker | ||
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| Mary-Louise Osmont (voice) | ||
| 1992 | Elizabeth Prideaux | |
| 1990 | Madame Yvonne | |
| Nedeshda Krupskaja | ||
| Jane Hilary | ||
| 1989 | Coco Chanel | |
| 1988 | Nadia | |
| Self | ||
| 1985 | Nicole (archive footage) | |
| 1984 | Henia Liebskind | |
| Solange Dunas | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| Mother | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1980 | Penelopa Wilson, bratowa Adama, matka Patrycji | |
| Lucille Berger | ||
| 1979 | Dr. Sammy Lee | |
| Nathalie Vareille | ||
| 1978 | Nicole | |
| 1977 | Alla Nazimova | |
| Véra | ||
| 1976 | Céleste | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1975 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 1974 | (archive footage) | |
| Angela Kelno | ||
| 1973 | Carola | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1972 | Self | |
| 1971 | Katherine Creighton | |
| 1970 | Sister Mary | |
| 1967 | Paola | |
| 1966 | Françoise Labé | |
| Michele O'Brien | ||
| 1965 | Dr. Lauren Boullard | |
| 1964 | Catherine Freneau | |
| 1962 | Annie (segment "Les deux pigeons") | |
| Jane Fosset | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Claire Jordan | ||
| 1961 | Fanny | |
| 1960 | Mardou Fox | |
| Mlle de Vaudey | ||
| 1959 | Ann Garantier | |
| Mrs. Dubedat | ||
| 1958 | Gilberte "Gigi" | |
| 1956 | Gaby | |
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Julie Andre | |
| Ella | ||
| 1953 | Mademoiselle | |
| Self | ||
| Lili Daurier | ||
| 1952 | Angela | |
| Herself | ||
| 1951 | Madeline Minot | |
| Lise Bouvier | ||
| 1948 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
