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Deborah Kerr
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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 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".
Notable films
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The Innocents
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Casino Royale
As Agent Mimi
From Here to Eternity
As Karen Holmes
An Affair to Remember
As Terry McKay
Black Narcissus
As Sister Clodagh
The Night of the Iguana
As Hannah Jelkes
King Solomon's Mines
As Elizabeth Curtis
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
As Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Glass Houses That Refuse to Let You Leave
A tour of haunted architecture, from a 2001 remake's clockwork glass prison back through Italian gothic and the black-and-white British ghost story, where the b...
8 films
The Mother Who Comes Back Wrong
A chain of films where the woman who gave you life returns as something else: a ghost, a double, a hunger with her face. Other Mommy opens the door, and the bes...
8 films
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Casino Royale
1967 · Agent Mimi
The Night of the Iguana
1964 · Hannah Jelkes
The Innocents
1961 · Miss Giddens
An Affair to Remember
1957 · Terry McKay
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Karen Holmes
King Solomon's Mines
1950 · Elizabeth Curtis
Black Narcissus
1947 · Sister Clodagh
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · Bridie Quilty
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
The Day Will Dawn
1942 · Kari Alstad