Leslie Caron
Born: 1931-07-01 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2020
- A Christmas Carol as The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
- Written on Water as Pauline
2017
- Quand Jean devint Renoir as Self - Interviewee
- Love, Cecil as Self
- The Perfect Age as Marguerite
2016
- The Durrells as Countess Mavrodaki
- Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star as Herself
2011
- Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu » as Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
2010
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Fanny (archive footage)
- Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud as Simone Renaud (Voice)
2009
2008
2003
- Le Divorce as Suzanne de Persand
2002
2001
- Murder on the Orient Express as Miss Alvarado
2000
- Chocolat as Mrs. Audel
- The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Madeleine
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lorraine Delmas
- Passion's Way as Regine De Chantelle
- Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires as Self
1996
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
- The Ring as Madame de Saint Marne
1995
- Funny Bones as Katie Parker
- Let It Be Me as Marguerite
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- Normandy: The Great Crusade as Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)
1992
- Damage as Elizabeth Prideaux
1990
- Courage Mountain as Jane Hilary
- Warriors and Prisoners as Madame Yvonne
1988
- Lenin... The Train as Nadeschda 'Nadia' Krupskaja
- Lenin: The Train as Nedeshda Krupskaja
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self
- The Man Who Lived at the Ritz as Coco Chanel
1985
- Reel Horror as Nicole (archive footage)
1984
- Master of the Game as Solange Dunas
- Dangerous Moves as Henia Liebskind
1982
- The Contract as Penelopa Wilson
- Imperative as Mother
- The Unapproachable
1981
- Falcon Crest as Nicole Sauguet
- Chanel Solitaire as (uncredited)
1980
- All Stars as Lucille Berger
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Nathalie Vareille
- Goldengirl as Dr. Sammy Lee
1977
- The Love Boat as Mrs. Duvall
- Valentino as Alla Nazimova
- The Man Who Loved Women as Véra
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- Surreal Estate as Céleste
- Nicole as Nicole
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- James Dean: The First American Teenager as Self
1974
- QB VII as Angela Kelno
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
- Carola as Carola
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1971
- Chandler as Katherine Creighton
1970
- Madron as Sister Mary
1967
- The Head of the Family as Paola
1966
- Is Paris Burning? as Françoise Labé
- Promise Her Anything as Michele O'Brien
1965
- A Very Special Favor as Dr. Lauren Boullard
1964
- Father Goose as Catherine Freneau
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The L-Shaped Room as Jane Fosset
- The Four Truths as Annie (segment "Les deux pigeons")
- Guns of Darkness as Claire Jordan
1961
- Fanny as Fanny
1960
- The Battle of Austerlitz as Mlle de Vaudey
- The Subterraneans as Mardou Fox
1959
- The Man Who Understood Women as Ann Garantier
- The Doctor's Dilemma as Mrs. Dubedat
1958
- Gigi as Gilberte "Gigi"
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Gaby as Gaby
1955
- MGM Parade as self
- Daddy Long Legs as Julie Andre
- The Glass Slipper as Ella
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Lili as Lili Daurier
- The Story of Three Loves as Mademoiselle
1952
- Glory Alley as Angela
- The Million Dollar Nickel as Self
1951
- An American in Paris as Lise Bouvier
- The Man with a Cloak as Madeline Minot
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter