Deborah Kerr

Acting · Born 1921-09-30 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

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…

Filmography

• Julius Caesar as Portia
• From Here to Eternity as Karen Holmes
• Quo Vadis as Lygia
• An Affair to Remember as Terry McKay
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
• The Innocents as Miss Giddens
• The King and I as Anna Leonowens
• Black Narcissus as Sister Clodagh
• Eye of the Devil as Catherine de Montfaucon
• John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)

TV

• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Miss Plimsoll
• The Steve Allen Show as Self - Recipient
• The Oscars as Self
• Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
• Hold the Dream as Emma Harte
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
• Dinah! as Self
• Entertainment Tonight as Self