Deborah Kerr's biography
Deborah Jane Trimmer is 86 years old film actor born at Helensburgh. She was born on Friday 30th of September 1921. She is often nicknamed as Deborah Jane Trimmer, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Deborah Kerr. According to year of birth 1921 she belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 30th of September means she is Libra. Libra sign depicts that it is all about “Balance”. It seems that their life is very balanced, however, things are way opposite as they always face unstable situations in order to balance it further.Deborah was married 2 times.
She is white british. Deborah is citizen of United Kingdom. Her primary profession is to be film actor. You can know her also as actor, ballet dancer. She is recently known as stage actor.
Deborah Kerr's family
Deborah Kerr's ex husbands
Peter Viertel
Deborah Kerr and Peter Viertel have been together since 1960 for 47 years. He is known as military officer. Her ex husband was born on Tuesday 16th of November 1920 in Dresden. Deborah´s ex husband died on Sunday 4th of November 2007 in Marbella. Peter Viertel was 86 years old, when this happened.
Anthony C. Bartley
Deborah Kerr and Anthony C. Bartley have been together since 1945 for 14 years. He is known as aircraft pilot. Her ex husband was born on Friday 28th of March 1919 in Dhaka. Her ex husband died on Wednesday 18th of April 2001. Anthony C. Bartley was 80 years old, when this happened.
Detailed informations about Deborah´s schools
She studied high school - Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol, England.
Deborah Kerr's career
Deborah´s main focus is to be film actor. She is famous thanks to From Here to Eternity. You could see Deborah also in The King and I, Separate Tables.
Is Deborah Kerr gay ?
She is known to be straight.
How did Deborah Kerr die
She died on on Tuesday 16th of October 2007 when he was 86 years old at Suffolk. Deborah Kerrs death was caused by parkinson`s disease. It happend like natural causes.
Awards and competitions
Deborah Kerr's Awards
- Similar to her losing streak at the Oscars, she was finally awarded a BAFTA "Special Award" in 1991 after being nominated four times. She did, however, win the New York Film Critics Award three times and the Golden Globe Award for The King and I (1956).
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1998 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama.
- Received one of the longest standing ovations of all Honorary Oscar recipients when she was awarded an Honorary Oscar for her body of work in 1994.
Deborah Kerr's Nominations
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Edward, My Son in 1950
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work From Here to Eternity in 1953
- She was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for work Edward, My Son in 1949
- Deborah was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work The King and I in 1956
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in 1957
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The King and I in 1956
- Deborah was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for work Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in 1957
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Separate Tables in 1958
- Deborah was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for work Separate Tables in 1958
- Deborah was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work The Sundowners in 1960
- She was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for work A Woman of Substance in 1985
- She was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress for work The Assam Garden in 1987
What else you don't know about Deborah Kerr ?
Her middle name is Jane.
What Deborah Kerr has done for a first time
- Her aunt Phyllis Smale, running the Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol, became her first acting coach.
Deborah Kerr's quotes
- All the most successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me--for being so confoundedly normal.
- I came over here [Hollywood] to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.
- I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
- When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. You have higher standards of what's really good; you're fearful that you wont live up to what's expected of you.
- [on John Wayne] He's a warm, kind-hearted, loving, generous, intellectual genius.
- [on Alan Ladd] He was awfully good in putting across what he had, in looks and in manner; he had something very attractive--a definite film personality which he had worked very hard to perfect.
- I was mad about ballet, but I grew too tall, and when I eventually realized I'd never become the second Margot Fonteyn, I auditioned for a play instead and got the part.
- [about her work in From Here to Eternity (1953)] I don't think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.
- I'd rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of The King and I (1956).
- [after completing her first Hollywood film, The Hucksters (1947)] I always wondered what it would be like. You come 6,000 miles and then, suddenly, you've done it. It's like having a tooth out.
- [on her marriage] We are in perfect balance. [Peter Viertel] is very compulsive about sports and I couldn't care less. It's his fantastic humor that I love most.
- [on Robert Mitchum] I admire Mitchum very much for the simple reason that he happens to be a super actor and contrary to public opinion, he is the most amazingly sensitive and poetic man.
Deborah Kerr's height, body shape, eye color
Lets describe how Deborah Kerr looks. We will focus on her height, body shape, eye color and hair color. She is tall as 5' 7" (170 cm). Body build is slim. Deborah´s eyes are tinted blue. Her hair is shade of red.