Leslie Caron

Acting

Born Jul 01, 1931

From Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

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.

Leslie Caron

Known For

Chocolat

Damage

An American in Paris

Gigi

Is Paris Burning?

Father Goose

Le Divorce

Goldengirl

Lili

Murder on the Orient Express

Filmography — Acting

Chocolat

Damage

An American in Paris

Gigi

Is Paris Burning?

Father Goose

Le Divorce

Goldengirl

Lili

Murder on the Orient Express

Valentino

Promise Her Anything

Fanny

The Ring

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Four Truths

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

That's Entertainment!

Madron

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Daddy Long Legs

The Battle of Austerlitz

Chandler

The Story of Three Loves

The Glass Slipper

Funny Bones

Gaby

Imperative

The L-Shaped Room

The Man Who Loved Women

Surreal Estate

A Christmas Carol

A Very Special Favor

Dangerous Moves

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Courage Mountain

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Nicole

The Head of the Family

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

Lenin: The Train

Reel Horror

Normandy: The Great Crusade

That's Entertainment! III

The Man with a Cloak

The Man Who Understood Women

Let It Be Me

The Doctor's Dilemma

Glory Alley

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

Passion's Way

James Dean: The First American Teenager

The Contract

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

The Subterraneans

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

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

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Chanel Solitaire

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

Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud

Carola

Love, Cecil

Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

Guns of Darkness