biography
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Kerr, Deborah
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popular name of Deborah Kerr Viertel, née Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer
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pronunciation:
[kah(r)]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland, UK. She trained as a dancer, but took up acting and made her film debut in Contraband (1940). Successes in British films The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and Black Narcissus (1947) brought her a Hollywood contract. Invariably cast in well-bred, lady-like roles, she played numerous governesses and nuns, sensationally straying from her established image to play an adulterous wife in From Here to Eternity (1953). Nominated six times for an Oscar, she retired from the screen in 1969, returning to the theatre in the 1970s, and to the cinema in The Assam Garden (1985). She received a BAFTA special award in 1991, and an honorary Academy Award in 1994. |
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