Deborah Kerr

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-09-30 (86 years old)

Deathday

2007-10-16

Place of Birth

Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

Deborah Kerr

Biography

Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, 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 Innoc...

Acting

1966

Eye of the Devil

as Catherine de Montfaucon

1958

Bonjour Tristesse

as Anne Larson

2000

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

1953

Julius Caesar

as Portia

1982

1953

From Here to Eternity

as Karen Holmes

1951

Quo Vadis

as Lygia

1957

An Affair to Remember

as Terry McKay

1943

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

1967

Casino Royale

as Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry

1960

The Grass Is Greener

as Hilary Rhyall

1946

I See a Dark Stranger

as Bridie Quilty

1952

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Princess Flavia

1964

The Night of the Iguana

as Hannah Jelkes

1956

1960

The Sundowners

as Ida Carmody

1957

1958

Separate Tables

as Sibyl Railton-Bell

1950

King Solomon's Mines

as Elizabeth Curtis

1953

Young Bess

as Catherine Parr

1956

Tea and Sympathy

as Laura Reynolds

1969

The Gypsy Moths

as Elizabeth Brandon

1942

The Day Will Dawn

as Kari Alstad

1961

The Innocents

as Miss Giddens

1956

The King and I

as Anna Leonowens

1947

Black Narcissus

as Sister Clodagh

1941

Major Barbara

as Jenny Hill

1964

The Chalk Garden

as Miss Madrigal

1969

The Arrangement

as Florence Anderson

1941

1953

Dream Wife

as Effie

1942

Hatter's Castle

as Mary Brodie

1959

The Journey

as Diana Ashmore

1950

Please Believe Me

as Alison Kirbe

1968

Prudence and the Pill

as Prudence Hardcastle

1955

The End of the Affair

as Sarah Miles

1949

Edward, My Son

as Evelyn Boult

1947

The Hucksters

as Kay Dorrance

1965

Marriage on the Rocks

as Valerie Edwards

1961

The Naked Edge

as Martha Radcliffe

1959

Beloved Infidel

as Sheilah Graham

1965

Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

1947

If Winter Comes

as Nona Tybar

1945

Perfect Strangers

as Catherine Wilson

1959

Count Your Blessings

as Grace Allingham

1985

1942

Penn of Pennsylvania

as Gulielma Maria Springett

1952

Thunder in the East

as Joan Willoughby

2022

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

1969

1995

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

as Self (archive footage)

1985

Reunion at Fairborough

as Sally Wells Grant

1982

A Song At Twilight

as Carlotta Gray

1986

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)

2019

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

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