Leslie Caron

Known for ActingBorn 1931-07-01 (age 94)Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Quand Jean devint Renoir

Normandy: The Great Crusade

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires

MGM Parade

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

Cinépanorama

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star

The Unapproachable

All Stars

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Le Grand Échiquier

A Christmas Carol

The Durrells

QB VII

James Dean: The First American Teenager

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

That's Entertainment!

Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'

Chocolat

That's Entertainment! III

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Man Who Loved Women

Gaby

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Is Paris Burning?

That's Entertainment, Part II

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood

Father Goose

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Golden Globe Awards

'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris

Love, Cecil

Tales of the Unexpected

The Oscars

An American in Paris

Funny Bones

Damage

The L-Shaped Room

The Man with a Cloak

The Ed Sullivan Show

Fanny

Lili

Lenin: The Train

The Head of the Family