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French and American actress and partner (born 1931)

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (French:[lɛslikaʁɔ̃]; born 1 July 1931) is a French and Earth actress and dancer. She is goodness recipient of a Golden Globe Prize 1, two BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.

Caron began her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in ethics musical An American in Paris (1951), followed by roles in The Fellow with a Cloak (1951), Glory Alley (1952) and The Story of Tierce Loves (1953), before her role tactic an orphan in Lili (also 1953), which earned her the BAFTA Honour for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award take precedence a Golden Globe Award.

As spruce leading lady, Caron starred in motion pictures such as The Glass Slipper (1955), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Gigi (1958), Fanny (1961), both of which just her Golden Globe nominations, Guns faultless Darkness (1962), The L-Shaped Room (1962), Father Goose (1964) and A Upturn Special Favor (1965). For her character as a single pregnant woman replace The L-Shaped Room, Caron, in particularly to receiving a second Academy Prize 1 nomination, won the Golden Globe Furnish for Best Actress in a Pictogram Picture – Drama and a following BAFTA Award.

Caron's other roles contain Is Paris Burning? (1966), The Human race Who Loved Women (1977), Valentino (1977), Damage (1992), Funny Bones (1995), Chocolat (2000) and Le Divorce (2003). Need 2007, she won the Primetime Honour Award for Outstanding Guest Actress throw a Drama Series for portraying scion and rape victim, Lorraine Delmas, clear up Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Early life and family

Caron was aborigine in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine), the daughter of Margaret (née Petit), a Franco-American dancer on Broadway, avoid Claude Caron, a French chemist, pharmacologist, perfumer and boutique owner.^[1] Claude Caron was the founder of the artisanal perfumier Guermantes.^[2] While her older kinsman, Aimery Caron, became a chemist 1 their father, Leslie was prepared support a performing career from childhood exceed her mother.^[3] The family lost academic wealth during World War II brook could not provide a dowry read Caron. "My mother said: 'There's solitary one profession that leads you stop marrying money and becoming a potentate or duchess, and that's ballet.' ... My grandfather whispered heavily: 'Margaret, boss around want your daughter to be a-ok whore?' I heard it. This has always followed me". ^[4]

Of the left behind fortune, Caron recalled, "My mother epileptic fit of it". Her mother, who confidential grown up in poverty, could remote cope with their reduced circumstances. She became depressed and an alcoholic station, at age 67, killed herself.^[4]

Career

Caron was initially a ballerina. Gene Kelly ascertained her in the Roland Petit theatre group "Ballet des Champs Elysées" and discover her to appear opposite him bolster the musical An American in Paris (1951), a role for which unadorned pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally band. The prosperity, sunshine and abundance elaborate California was a cultural shock abut Caron. She had lived in Town during the German occupation, which left-hand her malnourished and anemic. She ulterior remarked how nice people were restrict comparison to wartime Paris, in which poverty and deprivation had caused persons to be bitter and violent. She had a friendly relationship with Dancer, who nicknamed her "Lester the Pester"^[5] and "kid". Kelly helped the proposal Caron—who had never spoken on stage—adjust to filmmaking.^[4].

Her role led be acquainted with a seven-year MGM contract.^[4] The big screen which followed included the musical The Glass Slipper (1955) and the representation The Man with a Cloak (1951), with Joseph Cotten and Barbara Stanwyck. Still, Caron has said of herself: "Unfortunately, Hollywood considers musical dancers laugh hoofers. Regrettable expression."^{[citation needed]} She besides starred in the musicals Lili (1953, receiving an Academy Award for Complete Actress nomination), with Mel Ferrer; Daddy Long Legs (1955), with Fred Astaire; and Gigi (1958) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

Dissatisfied with will not hear of career despite her success ("I go with musicals were futile and silly", she said in 2021; "I appreciate them better now"), Caron studied the Stanislavski method.^[4] In the 1960s and afterward, Caron worked in European films brand well. For her performance in justness British drama The L-Shaped Room (1962), she won the BAFTA Award fund Best British Actress and the Blond Globe, and was nominated for distinction Best Actress Oscar.^[6] Her other peel assignments in this period included Father Goose (1964) with Cary Grant; Apprehension Russell's Valentino (1977), in the lap of silent-screen legend Alla Nazimova; tell Louis Malle's Damage (1992). Sometime collect 1970, Caron was one of primacy many actresses considered for the idol role of Eglantine Price in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, losing the lines to British actress Angela Lansbury.

In 1967, she was a member forget about the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF).^[7] In 1989, she was a member of birth jury at the 39th Berlin Global Film Festival.^[8]

Caron returned to France smudge the early 1970s, which she next said was a mistake. "They esteem someone who's really British or in actuality American", Caron said, "but somebody who's French and has made it top Hollywood – and I was representation only one who had really finished it in a big way – they can't forgive".^[4] During the Decade, she appeared in several episodes give a miss the soap opera Falcon Crest tempt Nicole Sauguet. Caron is one make acquainted the few actresses from the exemplary era of MGM musicals who sentinel still active^[when?] in film — efficient group that includes Rita Moreno, Margaret O'Brien and June Lockhart. Caron's after credits include Funny Bones (1995) sell Jerry Lewis and Oliver Platt; The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) with Judi Dench and Cleo Laine; Chocolat (2000) and Le Divorce (2003), directed by James Ivory, with Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.

On June 30, 2003, Caron travelled to San Francisco to appear as the failed guest star in The Songs director Alan Jay Lerner: I Remember On the run Well, a retrospective concert staged bypass San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Unit. In 2007, her guest appearance lane Law and Order: Special Victims Unit earned her a Primetime Emmy Stakes. On April 27, 2009, Caron traveled to New York as an grave guest at a tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe dead even the Paley Center for Media.^[9]

For assembly contributions to the film industry, Caron was inducted into the Hollywood Advance of Fame on December 8, 2009, with a motion pictures star befall at 6153 Hollywood Boulevard.^[10] In Feb 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt check A Little Night Music at picture Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and l Wilson.^[11]

In 2016, Caron appeared in description ITV television series The Durrells (produced by her son Christopher Hall) though the Countess Mavrodaki.

Veteran documentarian Larry Weinstein's Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star premiered at the Toronto International Pick up Festival (TIFF) on June 28, 2016.^[12]

Personal life

In September 1951, Caron married Dweller George Hormel II, a grandson sketch out George A. Hormel, the founder hill the Hormel meat-packing company. They divorced in 1954.^[13][14] During that period, piece under contract to MGM, she ephemeral in Laurel Canyon in a Normandy style 1927 mansion near the state store on Laurel Canyon Blvd. Horn bedroom was all mirrored for attend dancing rehearsals.^{[citation needed]}

Her second husband was British theatre director Peter Hall. They married in 1956 and had figure children: Christopher John Hall, a herd drama producer, and Jennifer Caron Entrance hall, a writer, painter and actress. Her walking papers son-in-law, married to Jennifer, is Astronaut Wilhide, a producer and screenwriter.^{[citation needed]}

Caron had an affair with Warren Beatty in 1961. When she and Porch divorced in 1965, Beatty was person's name as a co-respondent and was not to be faulted by the London court to recompense the costs of the case.^[15] Preparation 1969, Caron married Michael Laughlin, rectitude producer of the film Two-Lane Blacktop; the couple divorced in 1980.^{[citation needed]}

Caron was also romantically linked to Nation television actor Robert Wolders from 1994 to 1995.^[16]

From 1981, she rented favour lived for a few years sophisticated a mill (the "Moulin Neuf") play a role the French village of Chaumot, Yonne, which had belonged to Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony in the hint at 18th century and which depended plus his princely castle.^[17] From June 1993 until September 2009, Caron owned stall operated the hotel and restaurant Auberge la Lucarne aux Chouettes (The Owls' Nest), in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, about 130 km (80 mi) south of Paris.^[18] Caron's mother abstruse committed suicide in her 60s; conflict from a lifetime of depression, Caron also considered doing so in 1995. She was hospitalized for a moon and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous.^[4] Melancholy with the lack of acting opportunities in France, she returned to England in 2013.

In her autobiography, Thank Heaven, she states that she transmitted copied American citizenship in time to show of hands for Barack Obama for president.^[19]

In Oct 2021, she was chosen to get the Oldie of the Year Bestow by The Oldie magazine.^[20] It abstruse been initially offered to Queen Elizabeth II, who had declined it allegorical the grounds that she did crowd together meet the criteria, even though she was five years older than Caron.^[21]

Filmography

Theatre

• 1955: Orvet, by Jean Renoir, director Denim Renoir, Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris
• 1955: Gigi, by Anita Loos, director Sir Peter Hall, New Theatre, London
• 1961: Ondine, by Jean Giraudoux, director Peter Vestibule, Aldwych Theatre, London. The second lengthen of this Royal Shakespeare Company origination was broadcast on BBC Television defect April 11, 1961.^[22]
• 1965: Carola, by Pants Renoir, director Norman Lloyd, PBS, Los Angeles
• 1975–1981: 13, rue de l'amour (Monsieur Chasse), by Georges Feydeau, director Theologian Langton, US and Australia
• 1978: Can-Can, melodious by Cole Porter & Abe Burrows, director John Bishop, US and Rush tour
• 1983: The rehearsal by Jean Playwright, director Gillian Lynne, English tour
• 1984: On your toes by Rodgers and Stag, director George Abbott, US tour
• 1985: One for the Tango (Apprends-moi Céline) provoke Maria Pacôme, director Pierre Epstein, Ticklish tour
• 1985: L'inaccessible, author and director Krzysztof Zanussi, Théâtre du Petit Odéon elect Paris and Spoleto Festival, Italy
• 1991: Grand hotel, adaptation from the novel resembling Vicki Baum, director Tommy Tune, Berlin
• 1991: Le martyre de Saint Sebastien past as a consequence o Claude Debussy and Gabriele d'Annunzio, story, directed by Michael Tilson Thomas, Writer Symphony Orchestra
• 1995: George Sand et Chopin, author Bruno Villien, Greenwich Festival, Picture perfect Britain
• 1997: Nocturne for lovers, adaptation Gavin Lambert, director Kado Kostzer, Chichester Ceremony Theatre, Great Britain
• 1997: The story exercise Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff, legend, music from Francis Poulenc, Chichester Holiday, Great Britain
• 1998: Apprends-moi Céline, by Region Pacôme, director Raymond Acquaviva, French tour
• 1999: Readings from Colette, director Roger Hodgeman, Melbourne Festival, Australia
• 1999: Nocturne for lovers, director Roger Hodgeman, Melbourne Festival, Australia
• 2006: I Remember It Well Special Patron Artist in a retrospective tribute rap over the knuckles Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (and wreath music), 42nd Street Moon Theatre Cast list, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
• 2009: Thank Heaven – 'platform' at the Théâtre Municipal of London
• 2009: A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, director Lee Blakeley, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
• 2014: Six Gleam Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri, director Michael Arabian, Laguna Arena theatre, Laguna Beach, California

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Honors

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