BMP Actor Spotlight: Deborah Kerr....

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, CBE was a British stage, television and film actress. She was born in Scotland on the 30th September, 1921 and died on the 16th October. 2007.

She was nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress but never won. In 1994, however, she was cited by the Motion Picture Academy for a film career that always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". Amongst her most famous films were: The King and I, An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and Separate Tables.

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.

Best Motion Picture Association:
Kerr appeared in one Best Motion Picture.

From Here To Eternity (1953)


Academy Awards and Nominations

Nominated for Best Actress:
Edward, My Son (1949)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The King and I (1956)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Separate Tables (1958)
The Sundowners (1960)

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