Jean Simmons

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1929-01-31 (81 years old)

Deathday

2010-01-22

Place of Birth

Crouch Hill, London, England, UK

Jean Simmons

Biography

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.

Acting

1960

Spartacus

as Varinia

1953

Angel Face

as Diane Tremayne Jessup

1955

Guys and Dolls

as Sarah Brown

1960

Elmer Gantry

as Sister Sharon Falconer

1948

Hamlet

as Ophelia

1954

The Egyptian

as Merit

1960

The Grass Is Greener

as Hattie Durant

1958

The Big Country

as Julie Maragon

1946

Great Expectations

as Young Estella

1953

The Robe

as Diana

1954

Désirée

as Desiree Clary

1950

The Clouded Yellow

as Sophie Malraux

1953

Young Bess

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

1945

1954

A Bullet Is Waiting

as Cally Canham

1955

Footsteps in the Fog

as Lily Watkins

1947

1967

2009

1950

So Long at the Fair

as Vicky Barton

1952

1983

1947

Uncle Silas

as Caroline Ruthyn

1969

The Happy Ending

as Mary Wilson

1957

1988

Going Undercover

as Maxine de la Hunt

2000

On Cukor

as Narrator

1967

Divorce American Style

as Nancy Downes

1953

The Actress

as Ruth Gordon Jones

1953

Affair with a Stranger

as Carolyn Parker

1958

Fun in the Big Country

as Self (narrator)

1958

Home Before Dark

as Charlotte Bronn

1963

All the Way Home

as Mary Follet

1957

Until They Sail

as Barbara Leslie Forbes

1954

She Couldn't Say No

as Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)

2003

Winter Solstice

as Countess Lucinda Rhives

1950

Cage of Gold

as Judith

1959

This Earth Is Mine

as Elizabeth Rambeau

1949

Adam and Evelyne

as Evelyne Wallace

1956

Hilda Crane

as Hilda Crane Burns

1965

Life at the Top

as Susan Lampton

1947

Hungry Hill

as Jane Brodrick

1980

Dominique

as Dominique Ballard

1988

The Dawning

as Aunt Mary

1966

Mister Buddwing

as The Blonde

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Ophelia (archive footage)

1945

Meet Sexton Blake

as Eva Watkins

1949

The Blue Lagoon

as Emmeline Foster

1990

Laker Girls

as Connie Harrison

1944

1988

Inherit the Wind

as Lucy Brady

1968

Heidi

as Frl. Rottenmeier

1947

1988

A Friendship in Vienna

as Narrator (voice)

1985

Midas Valley

as Molly Hammond

1990

Sensibility and Sense

as Older Elinor

1945

1971

Decisions! Decisions!

as Phoebe Masterson

2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

as Council Member (voice)

1975

Mr. Sycamore

as Estelle Benbow

1975

The Easter Promise

as Constance Payne

1995

Daisies in December

as Katherine Palmer

1983

A Moment in Time

as Deidre Mackay

1967

Soldier in Love

as Sarah Jennings

1950

Trio

as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)

1991

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold

1944

Mr. Emmanuel

as Sally Cooper

1998

Her Own Rules

as Katherine Stratton

1979

Beggarman, Thief

as Gretchen Jordache Burke

1984

December Flower

as Etta Marsh

1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Harpist (uncredited)

1981

Golden Gate

as Jane Kingsley

1990

People Like Us

as Peach Prindible Bailey

1981

A Small Killing

as Margaret Lawrence

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