Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 01, 1931
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Credits
100 titles
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
Filmography
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
A Christmas Carol
The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
Written on Water
Pauline
Gershwin: The American Classic
Love, Cecil
Self
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self - Interviewee
The Perfect Age
Marguerite
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
Herself
The Durrells
Countess Mavrodaki
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
Simone Renaud (Voice)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Fanny (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Self
'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris
Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'
Herself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Self
Le Divorce
Suzanne de Persand
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Self
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
Self
Murder on the Orient Express
Miss Alvarado
Chocolat
Mrs. Audel
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Madeleine
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Lorraine Delmas
Passion's Way
Regine De Chantelle
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
Self
Private Screenings: Leslie Caron
Self
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
The Ring
Madame de Saint Marne
Let It Be Me
Marguerite
Funny Bones
Katie Parker
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Normandy: The Great Crusade
Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)
Damage
Elizabeth Prideaux
Warriors and Prisoners
Madame Yvonne
Courage Mountain
Jane Hilary
Lenin... The Train
Nadeschda 'Nadia' Krupskaja
Lenin: The Train
Nedeshda Krupskaja
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Coco Chanel
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self
Reel Horror
Nicole (archive footage)
Dangerous Moves
Henia Liebskind
Master of the Game
Solange Dunas
The Unapproachable
Imperative
Mother
The Contract
Penelopa Wilson
Falcon Crest
Nicole Sauguet
Chanel Solitaire
(uncredited)
All Stars
Lucille Berger