Jean Simmons
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Jean Simmons was a British-American actress who had a long career in film and television from the 1940s until her death in 2010. She is remembered as an influential performer who worked across major Hollywood productions during cinema's golden age.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929-01-31
- Died
- 2010-01-22
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Dash Diet Cookbook
- Hamlet (the Criterion Collection)
- Prospectives
- 5 Ingredient Slow Cooker Cookbook
- The Easy Renal Diet Cookbook
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Film & TV
Acting · Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Known for
- Discovering Hamlet — Ophelia (archive footage)2011
- Shadows in the Sun — Hannah2009
- Winter Solstice — Countess Lucinda Rhives2003
- Winter Solstice2003
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within — Council Member (voice)2001
- On Cukor — Narrator
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Jean Merilyn Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.
Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Among her other films were Great Expectations (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Blue Lagoon (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), Angel Face (1953), Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), The Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), Spartacus (1960), and The Happy Ending (1969), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won an Emmy Award for the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
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1929 births2010 deaths20th-century British actresses21st-century American women21st-century British actressesActors from the London Borough of IslingtonActresses from LondonAlumni of the Aida Foster Theatre SchoolAmerican film actressesAmerican musical theatre actressesAmerican stage actressesAmerican television actresses