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Jean Simmons
Highest Rated: 100% Divorce American Style (1967)
Lowest Rated: 20% Desiree (1954)
Birthday: Jan 31, 1929
Birthplace: Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
A graceful leading lady of British and American film for over six decades, Jean Simmons was an Oscar-winning actress whose outward fragility belied an emotional power wielded with skill and precision in such film as "Great Expectations" (1946), "Hamlet" (1948), "Spartacus" (1960) and countless others. A novice when she made her debut in 1943, she quickly blossomed into a talented dramatic performer under the direction of such noted filmmakers as David Lean. After leaving the UK for America, she starred in a wide variety of features, ranging from musicals like "Guys and Dolls" (1956) to stark dramas like "The Happy Ending" (1969), directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks. Though her screen appearances diminished in the 1970s, she remained active on television, where her star power illuminated productions like the epic miniseries "The Thorn Birds" (ABC, 1983). Still active in films and television in her eighth decade, she remained an enduring talent from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25% | 32% | Shadows in the Sun | Hannah (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Thru the Moebius Strip | Shepway (Voice) | - | 2005 |
| 87% | 93% | Howl's Moving Castle | Old Sophie (Voice) | $4.7M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winter Solstice | Countess Lucinda Rhives (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 44% | 48% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member #2 (Voice) | $32.1M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Own Rules | Katherine Stratton (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 63% | 63% | How to Make an American Quilt | Em Reed (Character) | $23.6M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daisies in December | Katherine Palmer (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One More Mountain | Sarah Keyes (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laker Girls | Connie Harrison (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Inherit the Wind | Lucy Brady (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Dawning | Aunt Mary (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Undercover | Maxine de la Hunt (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love | Laura Robertson (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midas Valley | Molly Hammond (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Golden Gate | Jane Kingsley (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Small Killing | Margaret Lawrence (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beggarman, Thief | Gretchen Jordache Burke (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Dominique | Dominique Ballard (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Avenging Spirit | Dominique Ballard (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Easter Promise | Constance Payne (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Mr. Sycamore | Estelle Benbow (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Say Hello to Yesterday | Woman (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 33% | 38% | The Happy Ending | Mary Wilson (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Heidi | Frl. Rottenmeier (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Rough Night in Jericho | Molly Lang (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 100% | 59% | Divorce American Style | Nancy Downes (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soldier in Love | Sarah Churchill (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Mister Buddwing | The Blonde (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 20% | 80% | Life at the Top | Susan Lampton (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crazier Than Cotton | Suzy (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All the Way Home | Mary Follet (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 89% | 64% | The Grass Is Greener | Hattie Durant (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 94% | 87% | Spartacus | Varinia (Character) | $1.7M | 1960 |
| 94% | 87% | Elmer Gantry | Sister Sharon Falconer (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Earth Is Mine | Elizabeth Rambeau (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Home Before Dark | Charlotte Bronn (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 100% | 91% | The Big Country | Julie Maragon (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Voice of the Big Country | Unknown (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 67% | 62% | Until They Sail | Barbara Leslie Forbes (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | This Could Be the Night | Anne Leeds (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hilda Crane | Hilda Crane Burns (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Footsteps in the Fog | Lily Watkins (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 91% | 83% | Guys and Dolls | Sarah Brown (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 20% | 68% | Desiree | Desiree Clary (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | The Egyptian | Merit (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | A Bullet Is Waiting | Cally Canham (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | She Couldn't Say No | Corby Lane (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Young Bess | Young Bess (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 38% | 69% | The Robe | Diana (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 60% | 51% | The Actress | Ruth Gordon Jones (later known as Ruth Gordon) (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Affair With a Stranger | Carolyn Parker (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 77% | 77% | Angel Face | Diane Tremayne Jessup (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 43% | 48% | Androcles and the Lion | Lavinia (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Clouded Yellow | Sophie Malraux (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | So Long at the Fair | Vicky Barton (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Trio | Evie Bishop (in segment Sanitorium) (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cage of Gold | Judith Moray (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Adam and Evelyne | Evelyne Wallace (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Blue Lagoon | Emmeline Foster (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 96% | 80% | Hamlet | Ophelia, Daughter of Polonius (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Inheritance | Caroline Ruthyn (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 87% | Black Narcissus | Kanchi (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hungry Hill | Jane Brodrick (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman in the Hall | Jay Blake (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 100% | 88% | Great Expectations | Estella (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Give Us the Moon | Heidi (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Olivier's Shakespeare | Unknown (Character) | - | 1944 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Expectations | Miss Havisham (Character) | 1991 |
| 92% | 89% | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Adm. Nora Satie (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| 50% | No Score Yet | Dark Shadows |
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1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | People Like Us | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Eudora McVeigh (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | North and South, Book II | Clarissa Main (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | North and South | Clarissa Main (Character) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thorn Birds | Fiona "Fee" Cleary (Character) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dain Curse | Aaronia Haldorn (Character) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Guest | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1955 |