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Jean Simmons

American actress
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Jean Merilyn Simmons
Born:
January 31, 1929, London, England
Died:
January 22, 2010, Santa Monica, California, U.S. (aged 80)
Awards And Honors:
Emmy Award (1983)
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Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929, London, England—died January 22, 2010, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) was a British-born American actress who was known for her cool elegance. At age 14, soon after she entered the Aida Foster School of Dancing, Simmons was persuaded by a talent scout to audition for what would be her debut film role, in Give Us the Moon (1943). Over the next several years she appeared in more than a dozen British films, including Great Expectations (1946), Black Narcissus (1946), and Laurence Olivier’s production of Hamlet (1948), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for ...(100 of 244 words)

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