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Leslie Caron

1st July 1931 Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France Acting

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Caron started her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in the musical An American in Paris (1951), followed by roles in The Man with a Cloak (1951), Glory Alley (1952) and The Story of Three Loves (1953), before receving critical acclaim for her role as an orphan in Lili (also 1953), which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. As a leading lady, Caron went on to star in films such as The Glass Slipper, Daddy Long Legs (both 1955), Gigi (1958), Fanny (1961), both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations, Guns of Darkness (1962), The L-Shaped Room (both 1962), Father Goose (1964) and A Very Special Favor (1965). For her role of a single pregnant woman in The L-Shaped Room, Caron, in addition to receiving a second Academy Award nomination, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a second BAFTA Award. Caron's other roles include Is Paris Burning? (1966), That's Entertainment! (1974), The Man Who Loved Women, Valentino (both 1977), Damage (1992), Funny Bones (1995), Chocolat (2000) and Le Divorce (2003). In 2007, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance of a child molestation victim in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Caron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

76 Movies 21 TV Shows 100 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Ring poster
The Ring 20th October 1996 as Madame de Saint Marne
Damage poster
Damage 2nd December 1992 as Elizabeth Prideaux
Nicole poster
Nicole 30th December 1976 as Nicole
Carola poster
Carola 3rd February 1973 as Carola
Chandler poster
Chandler 1st December 1971 as Katherine Creighton
Madron poster
Madron 1st December 1970 as Sister Mary
Fanny poster
Fanny 28th June 1961 as Fanny
Gigi poster
Gigi 15th May 1958 as Gigi
Gaby poster
Gaby 9th May 1956 as Gaby
Lili poster
Lili 10th March 1953 as Lili Daurier
QB VII poster
QB VII 29th April 1974 as Angela Kelno