Leslie Caron
Birthday: 1931-07-01 | Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, SeineLeslie 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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as Pauline
as The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
as Self
as Miss Alvarado
as Madeleine
as Mrs. Audel
as Madame de Saint Marne
as Katie Parker
as Elizabeth Prideaux
as Nedeshda Krupskaja
as Coco Chanel
as Henia Liebskind
as Solange Dunas
as Dr. Sammy Lee
as Nicole
as Alla Nazimova
as (archive footage)
as Céleste
as Angela Kelno
as Sister Mary
as Françoise Labé
as Dr. Lauren Boullard
as Catherine Freneau
as Fanny
as Mlle de Vaudey
as Gilberte "Gigi"
as Ella
as Julie Andre
