Leslie Caron
Date of birth: 1931-07-01
Place of birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Лесли Карон, Leslie Claire Margaret 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.
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Chocolat
2000-12-22
A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religi
The Man Who Loved Women
1977-04-27
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas
An American in Paris
1951-09-26
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter
Lenin: The Train
1990-04-30
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian
Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be
Damage
1992-12-02
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse
Father Goose
1964-12-10
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over
Murder on the Orient Express
2001-04-22
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule
Le Divorce
2003-08-08
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p
Daddy Long Legs
1955-05-05
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-y
Funny Bones
1995-09-20
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t
Valentino
1977-09-07
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem
Lili
1953-03-10
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. T
Dangerous Moves
1984-04-15
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and politica
Gigi
1958-05-15
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Pa
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960-06-17
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
The Ring
1996-10-20
During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After b
Nicole
1976-12-30
Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauf
The Man with a Cloak
1951-11-27
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of
Fanny
1961-06-28
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'
The L-Shaped Room
1962-11-20
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling w
The Contract
1982-03-03
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" c
Surreal Estate
1976-11-17
An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbli
Chandler
1971-12-01
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
Promise Her Anything
1966-02-22
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll b
Gaby
1956-05-09
A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the e
A Very Special Favor
1965-08-02
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy
The Story of Three Loves
1953-03-26
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
The Four Truths
1962-12-21
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all
The Glass Slipper
1955-03-24
In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of
The Doctor's Dilemma
1959-01-01
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them
Passion's Way
1999-07-25
Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he
The Head of the Family
1967-09-29
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fat
Reel Horror
1985-10-01
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
2002-08-25
From Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an
Glory Alley
1952-06-06
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
The Subterraneans
1960-06-23
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.
The Man Who Understood Women
1959-10-02
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Madron
1970-12-01
A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old g
Guns of Darkness
1962-07-19
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a
Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'
2008-09-16
Documentary on the making of Gigi
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973-01-01
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000-08-26
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988-11-28
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe wh
The Unapproachable
1982-08-01
A once celebrated, still famous actress lives an "unreachable" and secluded life in a villa in Berli
All Stars
1980-01-16
Three music students decide to create a science-fiction musical.
That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988-06-05
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and inter
Imperative
1982-04-01
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense o
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi
Goldengirl
1979-10-06
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised &
Let It Be Me
1995-11-17
Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
2016-06-28
Leslie Caron, beloved star of Gigi and An American in Paris, is one of the last witnesses to the gol
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011-09-09
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002-09-24
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he forme
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Courage Mountain
1990-02-14
At the beginning of World War I, a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school.
Love, Cecil
2017-12-01
A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, a
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975-09-30
Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic broo
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008-10-14
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by S
Carola
1973-02-03
Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place
The Million Dollar Nickel
1952-01-01
Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron an
A Christmas Carol
2020-12-04
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary
Warriors and Prisoners
1990-09-05
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colon
Normandy: The Great Crusade
1994-01-01
Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries
The Perfect Age
2017-04-22
One night, a little boy is forced to spend the evening at his grandmother's, an eighty-year-old stag
'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris
2008-09-16
This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017-04-30
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "s
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad
Written on Water
2020-12-01
A choreographer must face an unresolved romantic encounter from her past as she creates a new dance
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008-01-10
The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sou
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009-03-10
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009-08-11
In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025-01-02
Gene Kelly is a legend of the heyday of the Hollywood musical. His name stands for masterpieces such
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
2010-05-15
Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of France on June 6, 1944 from a very unique viewpoint
Chanel Solitaire
1981-10-16
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and b
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
1999-05-03
A doumentary of the life and career of French actor, Jean-Pierre Aumont.