Leslie Caron
Biography
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.
Known For
Mrs. Audel
Chocolat
Véra
L'Homme qui aimait les femmes
Lise Bouvier
An American in Paris
Nedeshda Krupskaja
Lenin: The Train
Françoise Labé
Paris brûle-t-il?
Elizabeth Prideaux
Damage
Catherine Freneau
Father Goose
Miss Alvarado
Murder on the Orient Express
Suzanne de Persand
Le Divorce
Julie Andre
Daddy Long Legs
Katie Parker
Funny Bones
Alla Nazimova
Valentino
Lili Daurier
Lili
Henia Liebskind
La Diagonale du fou
Gilberte "Gigi"
Gigi
Mlle de Vaudey
Austerlitz
Madame de Saint Marne
The Ring
Nicole
Nicole
Madeline Minot
The Man with a Cloak
Fanny
Fanny
Jane Fosset
The L-Shaped Room
Penelopa Wilson
Kontrakt
Céleste
Sérail
Katherine Creighton
Chandler
Michele O'Brien
Promise Her Anything
Gaby
Gaby
Dr. Lauren Boullard
A Very Special Favor
Mademoiselle
The Story of Three Loves
Annie (segment "Les deux pigeons")
Les Quatre Vérités
Ella
The Glass Slipper
Mrs. Dubedat
The Doctor's Dilemma
Regine De Chantelle
Passion's Way
Paola
Il padre di famiglia
Nicole (archive footage)
Reel Horror
Self
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
Angela
Glory Alley
Mardou Fox
The Subterraneans
Ann Garantier
The Man Who Understood Women
Sister Mary
Madron
Claire Jordan
Guns of Darkness
Herself
Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Madeleine
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Coco Chanel
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Die Unerreichbare
Lucille Berger
Tous vedettes !
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
Self
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Mother
Imperativ
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Dr. Sammy Lee
Goldengirl
Marguerite
Let It Be Me
Herself
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
Self
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Jane Hilary
Courage Mountain
Self
Love, Cecil
Self
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Carola
Carola
Herself
The Million Dollar Nickel
The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
A Christmas Carol
Madame Yvonne
Guerriers et Captives
Marguerite
The Perfect Age
Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)
Normandy: The Great Crusade
'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris
Self - Interviewee
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Fanny (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Pauline
Written on Water
Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Self (archive)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Gene Kelly mène la danse
Simone Renaud (Voice)
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
(uncredited)
Chanel Solitaire
Self
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
Gershwin, le classique américain
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
78
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-07-01
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Also Known As
Лесли Карон