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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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Rat Pack | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1995 | Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | HIT | |
| 2024 | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon | HIT | |
| 1961 | The Innocents | Miss Giddens | HIT | |
| 1947 | Black Narcissus | Sister Clodagh | HIT | |
| 1991 | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self | HIT | |
| 1957 | An Affair to Remember | Terry McKay | HIT | |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Karen Holmes | HIT | |
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Hannah Jelkes | HIT | |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Portia | HIT | |
| 1951 | Quo Vadis | Lygia | HIT | |
| 1956 | The King and I | Anna Leonowens | HIT | |
| 1964 | The Chalk Garden | Miss Madrigal | HIT | |
| 1957 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Sister Angela | HIT | |
| 1958 | Separate Tables | Sibyl Railton-Bell | HIT | |
| 1988 | Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self | HIT | |
| 1982 | A Song At Twilight | Carlotta Gray | HIT | |
| 1956 | Tea and Sympathy | Laura Reynolds | HIT |