Deborah Kerr CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theatre, and television actress. She won a Golden Globe for her role as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for originating the role of Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy on Broadway. Kerr was a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, more than any other actress without a win. In 1994, she received an Academy Honorary Award recognizing her career for "perfection, discipline and elegance." Her films include An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Quo Vadis, The Innocents, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, King Solomon's Mines, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Sundowners, and Separate Tables.
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