Deborah Kerr


Deborah Kerr CBE was a Scottishborn film, theatre and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy . She was also a threetime winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

Deborah Jane KerrTrimmer was born in a private nursing home in Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose and Capt. Arthur Charles KerrTrimmer, a World War I veteran who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. She spent the first three years of her life in the nearby town of Helensburgh, where her parents lived with Deborahs grandparents in a house on West King Street. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund , who became a journalist. He was killed in a road rage incident in 2004.

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