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

Is Paris Burning?

19667.2

Le Divorce

20034.9

Funny Bones

19956.6

Gigi

19586.2

An American in Paris

19517.0

Valentino

19775.8

Father Goose

19647.0

Austerlitz

19606.6

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

Daddy Long Legs

19556.4

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

20006.9

Lili

19536.8

Lenin: The Train

19886.4

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

The Story of Three Loves

19536.0

The Man Who Loved Women

19777.1

Nicole

19763.8

Goldengirl

19795.4

Murder on the Orient Express

20016.1

A Very Special Favor

19655.9

The Man with a Cloak

19516.8

Chandler

19714.6

Quand Jean devint Renoir

201710.0

The Ring

19965.8

The Subterraneans

19605.1

Passion's Way

19995.0

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

20027.8

Fanny

19616.7

The Glass Slipper

19556.3

The Four Truths

19624.2

Promise Her Anything

19664.1

Courage Mountain

19905.9

Surreal Estate

19764.9

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

20088.0

Chanel Solitaire

19815.0

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

20167.7

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

19884.3

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

19887.0

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

20256.5

Let It Be Me

19955.4

The L-Shaped Room

19626.8

The Man Who Understood Women

19593.9

Written on Water

20204.0

A Christmas Carol

20207.5

Madron

19705.1

The Unapproachable

19828.0

Reel Horror

19853.3

All Stars

19808.0

Carola

19736.5

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

2009

Normandy: The Great Crusade

199410.0

The Head of the Family

19676.7

The Doctor's Dilemma

19596.5

Dangerous Moves

19845.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

19737.0

James Dean: The First American Teenager

19757.5

Warriors and Prisoners

19903.7

Glory Alley

19525.9

Guns of Darkness

19626.2

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires

19999.0

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

2009

Love, Cecil

20176.4

Gaby

19567.3

Imperative

19826.2

Gershwin: The American Classic

2018

'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

20086.5

The Contract

19825.5

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

20028.0

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

2008

The Million Dollar Nickel

19526.0

Private Screenings: Leslie Caron

1998

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

2011

Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'

20087.0

Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud

2010

The Perfect Age

2017