Leslie Caron

Acting · 2.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: July 1, 1931
From: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

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.

Works

79 films

Damage

19926.6

Chocolat

20007.0

Le Divorce

20034.9

Is Paris Burning?

19667.2

An American in Paris

19517.0

Gigi

19586.2

Funny Bones

19956.6

Father Goose

19647.0

Valentino

19775.8

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

Austerlitz

19606.6

The Story of Three Loves

19536.0

Nicole

19763.8

Daddy Long Legs

19556.4

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

Lenin: The Train

19886.4

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

20006.9

Lili

19536.8

Surreal Estate

19764.9

The Man Who Loved Women

19777.1

Goldengirl

19795.4

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

20027.8

The Ring

19965.8

A Christmas Carol

20207.5

Chandler

19714.6

The Four Truths

19624.2

Passion's Way

19995.0

Murder on the Orient Express

20016.1

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

The Man with a Cloak

19516.8

Courage Mountain

19905.9

All Stars

19808.0

Quand Jean devint Renoir

201710.0

Let It Be Me

19955.4

Fanny

19616.7

Madron

19705.1

A Very Special Favor

19655.9

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

20256.5

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

19884.3

The L-Shaped Room

19626.8

Normandy: The Great Crusade

199410.0

Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

20167.7

The Unapproachable

19828.0

The Subterraneans

19605.1

Promise Her Anything

19664.1

The Glass Slipper

19556.3

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

19887.0

The Doctor's Dilemma

19596.5

The Man Who Understood Women

19593.9

Chanel Solitaire

19815.0

Written on Water

20204.0

Carola

19736.5

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

19737.0

Reel Horror

19853.3

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

20088.0

The Head of the Family

19676.7

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

2009

The Million Dollar Nickel

19526.0

Dangerous Moves

19845.8

Gershwin: The American Classic

2018

Gaby

19567.3

James Dean: The First American Teenager

19757.5

Imperative

19826.2

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

2009

Guns of Darkness

19626.2

Glory Alley

19525.9

Warriors and Prisoners

19903.7

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

2008

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

20028.0

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires

19999.0

Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud

2010

'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

20086.5

The Contract

19825.5

Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »

2011

Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'

20087.0

Love, Cecil

20176.4

The Perfect Age

2017

Private Screenings: Leslie Caron

1998