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.
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Acting (75 movies)
Chocolat
2000
The Man Who Loved Women
1977
An American in Paris
1951
Lenin: The Train
1990
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Damage
1992
Father Goose
1964
Murder on the Orient Express
2001
Le Divorce
2003
Daddy Long Legs
1955
Funny Bones
1995
Valentino
1977
Lili
1953
Dangerous Moves
1984
Gigi
1958
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960
The Ring
1996
Nicole
1976
The Man with a Cloak
1951
Fanny
1961
The L-Shaped Room
1962
The Contract
1982
Surreal Estate
1976
Chandler
1971
Promise Her Anything
1966
Gaby
1956
A Very Special Favor
1965
The Story of Three Loves
1953
The Four Truths
1962
The Glass Slipper
1955
The Doctor's Dilemma
1959
Passion's Way
1999
The Head of the Family
1967
Reel Horror
1985
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
2002
Glory Alley
1952
The Subterraneans
1960
The Man Who Understood Women
1959
Madron
1970
Guns of Darkness
1962
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
The Unapproachable
1982
All Stars
1980
That's Entertainment!
1974
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
Imperative
1982
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Goldengirl
1979
Let It Be Me
1995
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
2016
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Courage Mountain
1990
Love, Cecil
2017
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
Carola
1973
The Million Dollar Nickel
1952
A Christmas Carol
2020
Warriors and Prisoners
1990
Normandy: The Great Crusade
1994
The Perfect Age
2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Written on Water
2020
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
2010
Chanel Solitaire
1981
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
1999
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