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Deborah Kerr
Deborah Jane Trimmer, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals of proper, ladylike women, who often navigated societal expectations and stereotypes. Kerr attracted wide praise for her work, earning six Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She was regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she…
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entertainment · Scottish actress (1921–2007) · film actor · actor · ballet dancer · stage actor · also Deborah Kerr, Deborah Trimmer, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Deborah J. Kerr, Deborah Kerr Viertel, Deborah Jane Trimmer
Born 30 September 1921 · Died 16 October 2007 · Q104146
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2026· 1 entry
2007· 1 entry
Died 2007-10-16.
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1998· 1 entry
But was unable to accept the honour in person because of ill health
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1994· 2 entries
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 w
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Glenn Close presented Kerr with the Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood f
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Special Award, BAFTA (1991).
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1985· 1 entry
In favour of television and theatre work
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1977· 1 entry
Came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida
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1975· 1 entry
Returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape
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1960· 1 entry
Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960.
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress for Separate Tables (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Henrietta Award (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
And a Henrietta Award for "World Film Favorite – Female"
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1956· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The King and I (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play
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1953· 4 entries
Toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy
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Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar
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Appearing in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, for which she received a Tony Award nomination
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Kerr had a critical resurgence in the major hit From Here to Eternity, which reestablished her as a serious actress and earned her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
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1947· 1 entry
Kerr found critical praise in Edward, My Son (1949), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, becoming the first Scottish person to be nominated for an acting Oscar
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1945· 1 entry
Had approached him romantically in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra
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1943· 3 entries
Toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House
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Aged 21, Kerr made her West End début as Ellie Dunn in a revival of Heartbreak House at the Cambridge Theatre, stealing attention from stalwarts such as Edith Evans and Isabel Jeans
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Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's romantic-war drama The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which consistently ranks among the greatest British films of all time
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1942· 1 entry
That she was the most popular British actress with Americans
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1940· 1 entry
Playing, inter alia, "Margaret" in Dear Brutus and "Patty Moss" in The Two Bouquets
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1938· 1 entry
Made her début in the corps de ballet in Prometheus
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1937· 1 entry
As "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-09-30.
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