Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE 30 September 1921 16 October 2007 known professionally as Deborah Kerr was a British actress She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress During her international film career Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I 1956 Her other major and best known films and performances are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Black Narcissus 1947 Quo Vadis 1951 From Here to Eternity 1953 Tea and Sympathy 1956 An Affair to Remember 1957 Heaven Knows Mr Allison 1957 Bonjour Tristesse 1958 Separate Tables 1958 The Sundowners 1960 The Innocents 1961 The Grass Is Greener 1960 and The Night of the Iguana 1964 In 1994 having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognizing her as an artist of impeccable grace and beauty a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection discipline and elegance Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Kerr licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia