Deborah Kerr was born in London on September 6, 1932. At the age of 19 she was discovered by filmmaker Alexander Korda, who cast her in his film The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954). Kerr's career was at its peak in the 1960s, when she won an Academy Award for her performance in The King and I (1956) alongside Rex Harrison, and for her role as Queen Victoria in David Lean's epic film Victoria & Abdul (1971). She also garnered an Oscar nomination for Pride & Prejudice (1940) and won a BAFTA award for her performance in The King and I
During the 1960s Kerr played another monarch, Elizabeth I, in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). Kerr has since starred in numerous films and television shows including The Sea Hawk (1962), Camelot (1967) and Man About the House (1979). She received Emmy nominations for her starring roles on the 1971 miniseries The Blue Lamp and an episode of Hawaii Five-O (1980).
Kerr is most perhaps best known for her role as Marion Crane, the ill-fated protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).
He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]Deborah Kerr
I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.Deborah Kerr
