Leslie Caron
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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Promise Her Anything
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
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as Annie (segment "Les deux pigeons")"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments,...
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as SelfFrom Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck...
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as SelfStacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic...
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as Coco ChanelIn this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn...
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as MotherPolish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the...
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Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
as HerselfLeslie Caron, beloved star of Gigi and An American in Paris, is one of the last witnesses to the...
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All Stars
as Lucille BergerThree music students decide to create a science-fiction musical.
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as AngelaA New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
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Normandy: The Great Crusade
as Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing...
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The Million Dollar Nickel
as HerselfShort subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie...
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Carola
as CarolaNorman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking...
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as NicoleNicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and...
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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
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Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
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as Lorraine DelmasIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
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as Nicole SauguetFalcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...
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as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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as Nathalie VareilleA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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as Countess MavrodakiIn 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move...
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as Solange DunasElderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie...
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The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on...
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as Angela KelnoA physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
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Lenin... The Train
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