Leslie Caron
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: July 1, 1931
Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known For
Filmography
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
as The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
as Pauline
as Self
as Self - Interviewee
as Marguerite
as Herself
as Countess Mavrodaki
as Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
as Simone Renaud (Voice)
as Fanny (archive footage)
as Suzanne de Persand
as Miss Alvarado
as Mrs. Audel
as Madeleine
as Lorraine Delmas
as Regine De Chantelle
as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
as Madame de Saint Marne
as Marguerite
as Katie Parker
as (archive footage)
as Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)
as Elizabeth Prideaux
as Madame Yvonne
as Nedeshda Krupskaja
as Jane Hilary
as Nadeschda 'Nadia' Krupskaja
as Coco Chanel
as Nicole (archive footage)
as Henia Liebskind
as Solange Dunas
as Mother
as Penelopa Wilson
as Nicole Sauguet
as (uncredited)
as Lucille Berger
as Dr. Sammy Lee
as Nathalie Vareille
as Alla Nazimova
as Véra
as Nicole
as Céleste
as (archive footage)
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Angela Kelno
as Carola
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Katherine Creighton
as Sister Mary
as Paola
as Françoise Labé
as Michele O'Brien
as Dr. Lauren Boullard
as Catherine Freneau
as Annie (segment "Les deux pigeons")
as Jane Fosset
as Self
as Claire Jordan
as Fanny
as Mardou Fox
as Mlle de Vaudey
as Ann Garantier
as Mrs. Dubedat
as Gilberte "Gigi"
as Gaby
as Self
as Julie Andre
as Ella
as Self
as Mademoiselle
as Self
as Lili Daurier
as Angela
as Herself
as Madeline Minot
as Lise Bouvier
as Self
as Self - Nominee / Presenter