Jean Simmons
Jean Simmons (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010)[1] was an Anglo-American actress. She was active in movies, television and theatre.
Life and career
Jean Simmons was born in London, England. She began her acting career very young, and appeared in films like David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948) while still a teenager.[1]
As a very promising young actress, she came to Hollywood in 1950, where she appeared in such films as The Robe (1953), Young Bess (1953), Désirée (1954), The Egyptian (1954), The Big Country (1958), Spartacus (1960), Elmer Gantry (1960), Life at the Top (1965), A Rough Night in Jericho (1967), etc.[1]
In the 1970s, she gradually turned to television work, notably in the highly successful miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983), for which she won an Emmy Award for best supporting actress, and North and South (1985).[1]
Simmons was married twice. Her first was to actor Stewart Granger from 1950 to 1960, with whom she had a daughter, Tracy (born 1956). Simmons and Granger became American citizens in 1956. The second was to film director Richard Brooks from 1960 to 1977, with whom she had a second daughter, Kate (born 1961). Both marriages ended in divorce.[1]
Simmons died at the age of 80 of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California.
Jean Simmons Media
Simmons at the 1948 Academy Awards, where she received her first Oscar nomination
Simmons in Black Narcissus (1947)
Publicity portrait of Simmons for MGM
Simmons by Ernest Bachrach, 1955
Simmons with her first husband Stewart Granger in 1955
Grave of Jean Simmons in Highgate Cemetery, London
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References
- Actors from London
- Actors from Los Angeles
- American child actors
- American movie actors
- American stage actors
- American television actors
- American voice actors
- British child actors
- Cancer deaths in the United States
- Deaths from lung cancer
- English movie actors
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- English voice actors
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- 1929 births
- 2010 deaths
- Emmy Award winning actors