Deborah Kerr

Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer en Escocia en el año 1921, she was the daughter of a soldier who had been gassed en World War I S tímida, insegura child, she found en la outlet for expressing her feelings en acting. Her aunt, a radio star, got her some stage de trabajo when she was a adolescentes, and she came to the attention of British film producer Gabriel Pascal, oms cast en his película de George Bernard Shaw "Major Barbara" (Major Barbara (1941)) and Love on the Dole (1941). She quickly became a star of the British cinema, playing búsqueda diversos roles as the three women in The Life and Death of Coronel Blimp (1943) and the ahora en Black Narcissus (1947). En 1947 she "crossed the pond" and came to MGM, where she found success en la película like The Hucksters (1947), Edward, My Son (1949) y Quo Vadis (1951). After a while, however, she tired of playing prim and proper English ladies, así she made the most of the role of the adulteress oms romps on the beach with Burt Lancaster en de Aquí a la Eternidad (1953). The film was a success, and Kerr received her segunda Oscar nominación. She also achieved success on the Broadway stage en "Tea and Sympathy," reprising her role in the 1956 versión cinematográfica (Tea and Sympathy (1956)). That same year she played one of her best-remembered pantalla de roles "de la Señora Ana", en The King and I (1956). More success followed in Heaven Knows, Señor Allison (1957), An Affair to Remember (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The tres vidas errantes (1960), The Innocents (1961) y The Night of the Iguana (1964). Then, en 1968, ella de repente quit películas, appalled by the explicit sex and violence of the day. After some stage and TV work in the 1970s and 1980s and swan song actuaciones en The Assam Garden (1985) and Hold the Dream (1986), she retired from acting altogether. Kerr holds the record for the most oscar nominations for Best Actress without a win (six), but that was made up for en 1994, when she was given a Oscar Honorario for her pantalla logros.