Leslie Caron

Acting

Born 1931-07-01 Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France 100 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 2 BAFTA Awards 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 Commander of the Legion of Honour 1 Officer of the Legion of Honour 1

Awards

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 nominated

1964 Best Actress Nominated The L-Shaped Room
1954 Best Actress Nominated Lili

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

2007 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Won Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Golden Globe Awards 2 won

1964 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The L-Shaped Room
1963 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The L-Shaped Room

BAFTA Awards 2 won

1963 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won The L-Shaped Room
1954 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won Lili

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

2019 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won

Commander of the Legion of Honour 1 won

2013 Commander of the Legion of Honour Won

Officer of the Legion of Honour 1 won

2004 Officer of the Legion of Honour Won

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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.