Jean Simmons

Also known as Jean Merilyn Simmons

British-American actress (1929–2010)

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Jean Simmons (1929–2010) was a British and American film, television, and child actor who also worked as a dancer. Born in London, she began her professional career in 1944 and continued working until 2009. Her acting career included receiving the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She was also an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Simmons was married to Stewart Granger and Richard Brooks. She resided in Crouch End, London, and Santa Monica. She died of lung cancer in Santa Monica in 2010 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. Her father was Charles Simmons.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 8

Top works

Dash Diet Cookbook
Hamlet (the Criterion Collection)
Prospectives
5 Ingredient Slow Cooker Cookbook
The Easy Renal Diet Cookbook

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Film & TV

Acting · Crouch Hill, London, England, UK

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.

Known for

Discovering Hamlet — Ophelia (archive footage)2011
Shadows in the Sun — Hannah2009
Winter Solstice — Countess Lucinda Rhives2003
Winter Solstice2003
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within — Council Member (voice)2001
On Cukor — Narrator2000
Her Own Rules — Katherine Stratton1998
How to Make an American Quilt — Em1995
Daisies in December — Katherine Palmer1995
Mysteries of the Bible1994

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Japan
Active from: 1929
Active to: 2010

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Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,409
Total plays: 5,077

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,877x
Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,538x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,222x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,660x
The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,709x

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Quotes

“No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Merilyn Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.

Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Among her other films were Great Expectations (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Blue Lagoon (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), Angel Face (1953), Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), The Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), Spartacus (1960), and The Happy Ending (1969), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won an Emmy Award for the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

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