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Deborah Kerr

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Deborah Kerr

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Also known as Deborah Trimmer, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Deborah J. Kerr, Deborah Kerr Viertel, Deborah Jane Trimmer

British actress (1921–2007)

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Deborah Kerr (1921–2007) was a British film, stage, and ballet actor. Born in Helensburgh, she began her professional work in 1940. Her career included roles in works such as *Tea and Sympathy*, *The End of the Affair*, and *Seascape*. Kerr was married to Peter Viertel and had two children. She spoke English and resided in Helensburgh and Botesdale.

Kerr received several awards, including the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Henrietta Award, the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and other Golden Globe categories. Recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection, she is listed as a person in various databases.

Kerr died in Suffolk in 2007 from natural causes. Her death was attributed to Parkinson's disease, a medical condition she had.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1921
Died
2007
Works
4

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Film & TV

Acting · Helensburgh, Scotland, UK

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…

Known for

  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger — (archive footage)2024
  • Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)2022
  • Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Actress (archive footage)2019
  • Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)2013
  • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)2010
  • Sir John Mills' Moving Memories — Self (archive footage)2000
  • Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King — Self (archive footage)1995
  • Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star — Self1991
  • Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Self1991
  • John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick — Self (archive footage)1988

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1921
Active to
2007
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6,766
Total plays
26,802

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Deborah Kerr CBE (/kɑːr/; born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; 30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish film, theatre and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy (a role she originated on Broadway). She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,797x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,988x

  3. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

    · 2016 · cited 15,478x

  4. An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest

    · 2006 · cited 13,015x

  5. Thematic Analysis

    · 2017 · cited 11,501x

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Encyclopedic overview

Deborah Jane Trimmer (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kɑːr/), was a Scottish 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 late 1960s, she was one of the most popular actresses in the world.

Following a brief career as a ballerina, Kerr moved to the stage and acted in various Shakespeare productions and small plays before making her film debut in Major Barbara (1941). This led to additional leading roles which raised her profile, such as Love on the Dole (1941), Hatter's Castle (1942), and The Day Will Dawn (1942). In 1943, 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. Following major successes in the spy comedy I See a Dark Stranger (1946) and psychological drama Black Narcissus (1947), Kerr transitioned to Hollywood under the helm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM).

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