Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron

Birthday: 1931-07-01

Place of birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Also known as: Лесли Карон, Leslie Claire Margaret Caron

imdb_id: nm0001989

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.

Played in movies:

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Score: 10.0

Normandy: The Great Crusade

Score: 10.0

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

Score: 8.0

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Score: 7.7

Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

Score: 7.7

A Christmas Carol

Score: 7.4

That's Entertainment!

Score: 7.3

Is Paris Burning?

Score: 7.2

The Man Who Loved Women

Score: 7.1

Father Goose

Score: 7.0

An American in Paris

Score: 7.0

'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

Score: 7.0

That's Entertainment! III

Score: 7.0

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Score: 7.0

Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'

Score: 7.0

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

Score: 7.0

Gaby

Score: 7.0

Chocolat

Score: 7.0

That's Entertainment, Part II

Score: 6.9

The Man with a Cloak

Score: 6.9

The L-Shaped Room

Score: 6.8

Fanny

Score: 6.8

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Score: 6.7

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Score: 6.7

The Head of the Family

Score: 6.7

Lili

Score: 6.7

The Battle of Austerlitz

Score: 6.6

Damage

Score: 6.6

Funny Bones

Score: 6.5

Courage Mountain

Score: 6.5

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

Score: 6.4

Love, Cecil

Score: 6.4

Daddy Long Legs

Score: 6.3

The Glass Slipper

Score: 6.3

Gigi

Score: 6.2

Lenin: The Train

Score: 6.2

The Doctor's Dilemma

Score: 6.1

Murder on the Orient Express

Score: 6.1

Carola

Score: 6.0

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Score: 6.0

Guns of Darkness

Score: 6.0

Dangerous Moves

Score: 5.9

Valentino

Score: 5.9

Glory Alley

Score: 5.8

A Very Special Favor

Score: 5.7

The Ring

Score: 5.7

Let It Be Me

Score: 5.6

The Story of Three Loves

Score: 5.6

Imperative

Score: 5.5

Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

Score: 5.4

The Contract

Score: 5.3

Madron

Score: 5.1

Written on Water

Score: 5.0

Le Divorce

Score: 5.0

Goldengirl

Score: 4.8

The Subterraneans

Score: 4.8

Chanel Solitaire

Score: 4.7

Surreal Estate

Score: 4.6

Chandler

Score: 4.5

The Four Truths

Score: 4.2

The Million Dollar Nickel

Score: 4.0

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

Score: 4.0

Passion's Way

Score: 4.0

Promise Her Anything

Score: 3.7

The Man Who Understood Women

Score: 3.3

Nicole

Score: 2.8

Reel Horror

Score: 2.4

Warriors and Prisoners

Score: 1.0

Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

The Perfect Age

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

All Stars

Score: 0.0

The Unapproachable

Score: 0.0

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

Score: 8.3

Cinépanorama

Score: 8.0

Le Grand Échiquier

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

QB VII

Score: 7.7

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Durrells

Score: 7.4

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

Lenin... The Train

Score: 6.0

Master of the Game

Score: 5.9

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 5.8

Falcon Crest

Score: 5.5

Reflets de Cannes

Score: 2.0

Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show

Score: 0.0