Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films The King and I, An Affair to Remember and From Here to Eternity.
<p>Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance".
<p>She was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, by the Firth of Clyde, and originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress.
<p>Her debut in the British film Contraband in 1940 was left on the cutting room floor. But that was followed by a series of other films, including the triple role of the hero's loves in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. It was her role as a troubled nun in Powell and Pressburger's ...
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