Jean Simmons

Born: 1929-01-31

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.


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as Varinia
Released: 1960-10-13

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer...

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The Robe

as Diana
Released: 1953-09-16

Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to...

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Great Expectations

as Young Estella
Released: 1946-12-26

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious...

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The Big Country

as Julie Maragon
Released: 1958-09-30

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a...

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The Egyptian

as Merit
Released: 1954-08-25

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his...

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as Council Member (voice)
Released: 2001-07-02

Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of...

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Hamlet

as Ophelia - His Daughter
Released: 1948-12-10

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s...

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Black Narcissus

as Kanchi
Released: 1947-05-26

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The...

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How to Make an American Quilt

as Em
Released: 1995-10-06

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is...

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Guys and Dolls

as Sarah Brown
Released: 1955-12-23

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to...

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Désirée

as Desiree Clary
Released: 1954-11-16

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with...

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Elmer Gantry

as Sister Sharon Falconer
Released: 1960-07-07

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a...

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Discovering Hamlet

as Ophelia (archive footage)
Released: 2011-11-01

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors...

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Heidi

as Frl. Rottenmeier
Released: 1968-11-17

Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order...

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Angel Face

as Diane Tremayne Jessup
Released: 1953-01-02

An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

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Young Bess

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
Released: 1953-05-29

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

as Harpist (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-11

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard...

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The Dawning

as Aunt Mary
Released: 1988-06-08

An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win...

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Footsteps in the Fog

as Lily Watkins
Released: 1955-09-14

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have...

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The Actress

as Ruth Gordon Jones
Released: 1953-09-25

The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

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Winter Solstice

as Countess Lucinda Rhives
Released: 2003-12-25

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very...

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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold
Released: 1991-12-29

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is...

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Mister Buddwing

as The Blonde
Released: 1966-07-15

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

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The Grass Is Greener

as Hattie Durant
Released: 1960-12-23

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

as Laura Robertson
Released: 1987-02-23

Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.

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She Couldn't Say No

as Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)
Released: 1954-02-15

An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.

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Dominique

as Dominique Ballard
Released: 1980-03-06

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

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Rough Night in Jericho

as Molly Lang
Released: 1967-08-01

The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't...

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Going Undercover

as Maxine de la Hunt
Released: 1988-06-17

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de...

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Hilda Crane

as Hilda Crane Burns
Released: 1956-05-08

After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.

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Mr. Emmanuel

as Sally Cooper
Released: 1944-08-02

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young...

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Beggarman, Thief

as Gretchen Jordache Burke
Released: 1979-11-26

In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen...

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Androcles and the Lion

as Lavinina
Released: 1952-12-01

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian...

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Midas Valley

as Molly Hammond
Released: 1985-06-27

Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the...

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Mr. Sycamore

as Estelle Benbow
Released: 1975-12-12

Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.

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Laker Girls

as Connie Harrison
Released: 1990-04-03

Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for...

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Decisions! Decisions!

as Phoebe Masterson
Released: 1971-09-11

A precedent-setting comedy-drama special in which a salesman (Bob Newhart) and a sexologist...

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Home Before Dark

as Charlotte Bronn
Released: 1958-11-16

A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.

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The Happy Ending

as Mary Wilson
Released: 1969-12-21

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife...

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Trio

as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)
Released: 1950-10-10

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

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Life at the Top

as Susan Lampton
Released: 1965-12-14

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives...

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A Bullet Is Waiting

as Cally Canham
Released: 1954-09-04

A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California...

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Cage of Gold

as Judith
Released: 1950-10-23

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged,...

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Divorce American Style

as Nancy Downes
Released: 1967-06-21

After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new...

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The Clouded Yellow

as Sophie Malraux
Released: 1950-11-21

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work...

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Golden Gate

as Jane Kingsley
Released: 1981-09-25

A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between...

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The Way to the Stars

as A Singer
Released: 1945-06-16

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of...

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Uncle Silas

as Caroline Ruthyn
Released: 1947-10-08

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke...

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Until They Sail

as Barbara Leslie Forbes
Released: 1957-10-08

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

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Shadows in the Sun

as Hannah
Released: 2009-06-15

A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots...

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On Cukor

as Narrator
Released: 2000-11-22

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with...

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Hungry Hill

as Jane Brodrick
Released: 1947-01-07

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

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Inherit the Wind

as Lucy Brady
Released: 1988-03-20

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science...

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This Could Be the Night

as Anne Leeds
Released: 1957-05-14

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner...

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December Flower

as Etta Marsh
Released: 1984-12-23

Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's...

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Say Hello to Yesterday

as Woman
Released: 1971-01-14

Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows...

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So Long at the Fair

as Vicky Barton
Released: 1950-05-31

Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They...

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People Like Us

as Peach Prindible Bailey
Released: 1990-05-13

When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the...

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Adam and Evelyne

as Evelyne Wallace
Released: 1949-05-31

The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with...

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A Friendship in Vienna

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1988-08-27

Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that...

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All the Way Home

as Mary Follet
Released: 1963-10-17

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden,...

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The Blue Lagoon

as Emmeline Foster
Released: 1949-03-01

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After...

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The Woman in the Hall

as Jay Blake
Released: 1947-10-27

Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by...

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Affair with a Stranger

as Carolyn Parker
Released: 1953-06-20

Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her...

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Give Us the Moon

as Heidi
Released: 1944-07-31

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at...

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Soldier in Love

as Sarah Jennings
Released: 1967-04-26

The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.

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The Lady Is My Wife

as Ruth Bannister
Released: 1967-02-01

After the Civil War ends, a rich horse rancher out West hires the Bannisters, a married Southern...

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A Small Killing

as Margaret Lawrence
Released: 1981-11-24

A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug...

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The Easter Promise

as Constance Payne
Released: 1975-03-26

Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a...

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Daisies in December

as Katherine Palmer
Released: 1995-12-03

A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons...

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye

as Molly Dodd
Released: 1945-01-28

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys...

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This Earth Is Mine

as Elizabeth Rambeau
Released: 1959-07-08

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide...

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Sensibility and Sense

as Older Elinor
Released: 1990-01-24

Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming...

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Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

as Helen Lawson
Released: 1981-10-19

Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very...

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Meet Sexton Blake

as Eva Watkins
Released: 1945-02-05

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find...

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Fun in the Big Country

as Self (narrator)
Released: 1958-01-01

Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."

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A Moment in Time

as Deidre Mackay
Released: 1983-01-01

Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in...

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Down at the Hydro

as Diedre
Released: 1983-09-04

Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Admiral Nora Satie
First aired: 1987-09-28

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Terri O'Brien
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Eudora McVeigh Shipton
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Margaret Lowen
First aired: 1985-09-29

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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The Odd Couple

as Princess
First aired: 1970-09-24

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual....

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Hotel

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Danny Kaye Show

as Self
First aired: 1963-09-25

The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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North and South

as Clarissa Main
First aired: 1985-11-03

The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of...

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Bambi Awards

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-01-01

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...

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Miss Marple

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold
First aired: 1984-12-26

Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...

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The Thorn Birds

as Fiona 'Fee' Cleary
First aired: 1983-03-27

The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary...

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The Thorn Birds

as Fee Cleary
First aired: 1983-03-27

The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Sarah
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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The Dain Curse

as Aaronia Haldorn
First aired: 1978-05-22

Hard-boiled private dick Hamilton Nash is hired to investigate a case of stolen diamonds, which...

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Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
First aired: 1991-01-13

Dark Shadows is a primetime television series which aired on NBC from January to March 1991. A...

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Winter Solstice

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-12-25

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Angel Falls

as Irene Larson
First aired: 1993-08-26

Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise...

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