Deborah Kerr
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-09-30
Day of Death
2007-10-16 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
Deborah Kerr
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".
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Acting
(2024)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
as (archive footage)
(2022)
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2015)
Trumbo
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
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)
(1991)
(1991)
(1988)
(1988)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
(1986)
Ann and Debbie
as Ann
(1985)
Reunion at Fairborough
as Sally Wells Grant
(1985)
The Assam Garden
as Helen
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1982)
Witness for the Prosecution
as Nurse Plimsoll
(1982)
A Song At Twilight
as Carlotta Gray
(1969)
The Arrangement
as Florence Anderson
(1969)
The Gypsy Moths
as Elizabeth Brandon
(1969)
The Sky Divers
as Self
(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
(1964)
On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self
(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)
The Journey
as Diana Ashmore
(1959)
Beloved Infidel
as Sheilah Graham
(1959)
Count Your Blessings
as Grace Allingham
(1958)
Bonjour Tristesse
as Anne Larson
(1958)
Separate Tables
as Sibyl Railton-Bell
(1957)
An Affair to Remember
as Terry McKay
(1957)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
as Sister Angela
(1956)
The King and I
as Anna Leonowens
(1956)
Tea and Sympathy
as Laura Reynolds
(1956)
The Proud and Profane
as Lee Ashley
(1955)
The End of the Affair
as Sarah Miles
(1953)
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes
(1953)
Julius Caesar
as Portia
(1953)
Young Bess
as Catherine Parr
(1953)
Dream Wife
as Effie
(1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Princess Flavia
(1952)
Thunder in the East
as Joan Willoughby
(1951)
Quo Vadis
as Lygia
(1951)
Rome, the Eternal City
as Self
(1950)
King Solomon's Mines
as Elizabeth Curtis
(1950)
Please Believe Me
as Alison Kirbe
(1949)
Edward, My Son
as Evelyn Boult
(1947)
Black Narcissus
as Sister Clodagh
(1947)
The Hucksters
as Kay Dorrance
(1947)
If Winter Comes
as Nona Tybar
(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)
Hatter's Castle
as Mary Brodie
(1942)
The Day Will Dawn
as Kari Alstad
(1942)
Penn of Pennsylvania
as Gulielma Maria Springett
(1941)
Major Barbara
as Jenny Hill
(1941)
Love on the Dole
as Sally