Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007) was a Scottish stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I, and she was also the recipient of honorary Academy, BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards. She was nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress but never won. In 1994, however, she was cited by the Academy for a film career that always represented "perfection, discipline and elegance". Among her most famous films were: The King and I, An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and Separate Tables... Mehr