Merle Oberon
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-02-19 (68 years old)
Deathday
1979-11-23
Place of Birth
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
Also known As
Queenie Thompson
Queenie O'Brien
Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
Merle Oberon
Biography
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Anglo-Indian origin. Her career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel...
Acting
1939
as Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
1934
as Lady Marguerite Blakeney
1944
as Kitty Langley
1948
as Lucienne
1944
as Leslie Calvin
1954
as Empress Josephine
1933
as Anne Boleyn
1954
as Dorothy Donnelly
1941
as Jill Baker
1938
as Leslie Steele / Lady Claire Mere
1936
as Helen Drummond
1946
as Ruby
1934
as Antonita, a Dancer of Passionate Temperament
1939
as Mrs. Richardson
1956
as Jessica Warren
1936
as Karen Wright
1941
as Lydia MacMillan
1966
as Merle Oberon
1941
as Sue Mayberry
1943
as Nicole Larsen
1935
as Kitty Vane
1932
as Miss Hutchinson
1939
as Jane Benson
1938
as Mary Smith
1954
as Margaret Faulson
1940
as Joan Ames
1945
as George Sand
1946
as Delarai
1969
as Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
1952
as Linda Venning
1948
as Cathy Mallory
1935
as Baroness Genevieve Cassini
1973
as Serena Moore
1945
as Karin Touzac
1934
as Germaine Brissard
1967
as The Duchess Caroline
1931
as Flower Seller
1932
as Bit Part
1963
as Katherine Beckmann
1952
as Elizabeth Rockwell
1934
as Marquise Yorisaka
1943
as Merle Oberon
1932
as Bit Part
1943
as Marjorie Ismay
2002
as Self
1932
as (uncredited)
1951
as Elizabeth Rockwell
1931
as Minor Role
1932
as Ysobel d'Aunay
1940
as Self
1938
as Self
1936
1928
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1930
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1932
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1993
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