Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1931-07-01 (Age: 95)
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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.
Filmography (78)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025
A Christmas Carol
2020
Written on Water
2020
Gershwin: The American Classic
2018
Love, Cecil
2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
The Perfect Age
2017
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
2016
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
