Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. During her international film career, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956). Her other major and best known films and performances are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), Quo Vadis (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Grass Is Greener (1960), and The Night of the Iguana (1964). In 1994, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognizing her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance".

Filmography

• 2024Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger — (archive footage)
• 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hold the Dream — Emma Harte
• 1986Ann and Debbie — Ann
• A Woman of Substance — Older Emma Harte
• 1985Reunion at Fairborough — Sally Wells Grant
• 1985The Assam Garden — Helen
• 1982A Song At Twilight — Carlotta Gray
• 1982Witness for the Prosecution — Nurse Plimsoll
• Playhouse — Carlotta Gray
• 1969The Arrangement — Florence Anderson
• 1969The Gypsy Moths — Elizabeth Brandon
• 1968Prudence and the Pill — Prudence Hardcastle
• 1967Casino Royale — Agent Mimi
• 1966Eye of the Devil — Catherine de Montfaucon
• 1965Marriage on the Rocks — Valerie Edwards
• 1965Uncertain Verification — (archive footage)
• 1964The Chalk Garden — Miss Madrigal
• 1964The Night of the Iguana — Hannah Jelkes
• 1961The Innocents — Miss Giddens
• 1961The Naked Edge — Martha Radcliffe
• 1960The Grass Is Greener — Hilary Rhyall
• 1960The Sundowners — Ida Carmody
• 1959Beloved Infidel — Sheilah Graham
• 1959Count Your Blessings — Grace Allingham
• 1959The Journey — Diana Ashmore
• 1958Bonjour Tristesse — Anne Larson
• 1958Separate Tables — Sibyl Railton-Bell
• 1957An Affair to Remember — Terry McKay
• 1957Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison — Sister Angela
• 1956Tea and Sympathy — Laura Reynolds
• 1956The King and I — Anna Leonowens
• 1956The Proud and Profane — Lee Ashley
• 1955The End of the Affair — Sarah Miles
• 1953Dream Wife — Effie
• 1953From Here to Eternity — Karen Holmes
• 1953Julius Caesar — Portia
• 1953Young Bess — Catherine Parr
• 1952The Prisoner of Zenda — Princess Flavia
• 1952Thunder in the East — Joan Willoughby
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Miss Plimsoll
• 1951Quo Vadis — Lygia
• 1950King Solomon's Mines — Elizabeth Curtis
• 1950Please Believe Me — Alison Kirbe
• 1949Edward, My Son — Evelyn Boult
• 1947Black Narcissus — Sister Clodagh
• 1947If Winter Comes — Nona Tybar
• 1947The Hucksters — Kay Dorrance
• 1946I See a Dark Stranger — Bridie Quilty
• 1945Perfect Strangers — Catherine Wilson
• 1943The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp — Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
• 1942Hatter's Castle — Mary Brodie
• 1942Penn of Pennsylvania — Gulielma Maria Springett
• 1942The Day Will Dawn — Kari Alstad
• 1941Love on the Dole — Sally
• 1941Major Barbara — Jenny Hill

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2022Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2014Discovering: Robert Mitchum — Self (archive footage)
• Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories — Self (archive footage)
• 1995Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King — Self (archive footage)
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Self
• 1991Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star — Self
• 1988Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man — Self
• 1988John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick — Self (archive footage)
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
• 1969The Sky Divers — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1964On the Trail of the Iguana — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Small World — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Recipient
• Tony Awards — Self - Host / Presenter
• The Oscars — Self
• 1951Rome, the Eternal City — Self
• 1950Jungle Safari — Herself (archival footage)
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self