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Leslie Caron
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 BAF…
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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.
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2025
Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood
Movie Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
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2020
A Christmas Carol
Movie The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
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2020
Written on Water
Movie Pauline
- 2018
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2017
Love, Cecil
Movie Self
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2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2017
The Perfect Age
Movie Marguerite
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2016
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
Movie Herself
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2016
The Durrells
TV show Countess Mavrodaki
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2011
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
Movie Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
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2010
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
Movie Simone Renaud (Voice)
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2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie Fanny (archive footage)
- 2009
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
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2008
Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'
Movie Herself
- 2008
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2003
Le Divorce
Movie Suzanne de Persand
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2002
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Movie Self
- 2002
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2001
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie Miss Alvarado
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2000
Chocolat
Movie Mrs. Audel
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2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Movie Madeleine
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Lorraine Delmas
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1999
Passion's Way
Movie Regine De Chantelle
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1999
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
Movie Self
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1996
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
TV show Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
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1996
The Ring
Movie Madame de Saint Marne
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1995
Let It Be Me
Movie Marguerite
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1995
Funny Bones
Movie Katie Parker
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1994
Normandy: The Great Crusade
Movie Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)
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1992
Damage
Movie Elizabeth Prideaux
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1990
Warriors and Prisoners
Movie Madame Yvonne
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1990
Courage Mountain
Movie Jane Hilary
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1988
Lenin: The Train
Movie Nedeshda Krupskaja
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1988
Lenin... The Train
TV show Nadeschda 'Nadia' Krupskaja
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1988
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Movie Coco Chanel
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1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Movie Self
