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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".
The roles that explain the career.
53 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Actress (archive footage) | Film |
| 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | Film |
| 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) | Film |
| 1987 | Hold the Dream | Emma Harte | TV |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Older Emma Harte | TV |
| 1985 | The Assam Garden | Helen | Film |
| 1982 | Witness for the Prosecution | Nurse Plimsoll | Film |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths | Elizabeth Brandon | Film |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Florence Anderson | Film |
| 1968 | Prudence and the Pill | Prudence Hardcastle | Film |
| 1967 | Casino Royale | Agent Mimi / Lady Fiona McTarry | Film |
| 1966 | Eye of the Devil | Catherine de Montfaucon | Film |
| 1965 | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) | Film |
| 1965 | Marriage on the Rocks | Valerie Edwards | Film |
| 1964 | The Chalk Garden | Miss Madrigal | Film |
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Hannah Jelkes | Film |
| 1961 | The Naked Edge | Martha Radcliffe | Film |
| 1961 | The Innocents | Miss Giddens | Film |
| 1960 | The Grass Is Greener | Hilary Rhyall | Film |
| 1960 | The Sundowners | Ida Carmody | Film |
| 1959 | The Journey | Diana Ashmore | Film |
| 1959 | Beloved Infidel | Sheilah Graham | Film |
| 1959 | Count Your Blessings | Grace Allingham | Film |
| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse | Anne Larson | Film |
| 1958 | Separate Tables | Sibyl Railton-Bell | Film |
| 1957 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Sister Angela | Film |
| 1957 | An Affair to Remember | Terry McKay | Film |
| 1956 | The King and I | Anna Leonowens | Film |
| 1956 | Tea and Sympathy | Laura Reynolds | Film |
| 1956 | The Proud and Profane | Lee Ashley | Film |
| 1955 | The End of the Affair | Sarah Miles | Film |
| 1953 | Young Bess | Catherine Parr | Film |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | Portia | Film |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Karen Holmes | Film |
| 1953 | Dream Wife | Effie | Film |
| 1952 | Thunder in the East | Joan Willoughby | Film |
| 1952 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Princess Flavia | Film |
| 1951 | Quo Vadis | Lygia | Film |
| 1950 | Please Believe Me | Alison Kirbe | Film |
| 1950 | King Solomon's Mines | Elizabeth Curtis | Film |
| 1949 | Edward, My Son | Evelyn Boult | Film |
| 1947 | If Winter Comes | Nona Tybar | Film |
| 1947 | Black Narcissus | Sister Clodagh | Film |
| 1947 | The Hucksters | Kay Dorrance | Film |
| 1946 | I See a Dark Stranger | Bridie Quilty | Film |
| 1945 | Perfect Strangers | Catherine Wilson | Film |
| 1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon | Film |
| 1942 | The Day Will Dawn | Kari Alstad | Film |
| 1942 | Hatter's Castle | Mary Brodie | Film |
| 1942 | Penn of Pennsylvania | Gulielma Maria Springett | Film |
| 1941 | Major Barbara | Jenny Hill | Film |
| 1941 | Love on the Dole | Sally | Film |
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