ACTOR
Leslie Caron
- Known for
- An American in Paris (1951), L'homme qui aimait les femmes (1977), Paris brûle-t-il? (1966), Funny Bones (1995)
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Leslie Caron is an actor best known for An American in Paris, L'homme qui aimait les femmes and Paris brûle-t-il?.
All facts (26)
- #001
She and her daughter Jennifer Caron Hall appeared together as mother and daughter in the episodes The Christmas Cruise: Part 1 (1986) and The Christmas Cruise: Part 2 (1986) of The Love Boat (1977), playing a mother-and-daughter pair of con artists busy robbing millionaires.
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She is one of the few actresses to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on film. Other actresses to have done so include Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Vera-Ellen, Debbie Reynolds, Rita Hayworth and Ann Miller.
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Her first marriage, to the musician, composer and heir to the meat-packing fortune (Hormel Foods) Geordie Hormel, ended three years later. Her second marriage, to the famous stage director Peter Hall, also ended in divorce, and resulted in her naming his Promise Her Everything (1966) co-star Warren Beatty as co-respondent. A London court ordered Beatty to pay the court costs.
- #004
Her talent as a dancer was spotted in 1948 by Gene Kelly and his wife Betsy Blair at Roland Petit's Oedipus-themed ballet, but they were unable to meet her at the end of the show because she had gone home like a good girl.
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Three months after giving birth to her son Christopher Hall, she returned to work to begin shooting Gigi (1958).
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She appeared in two films that won the Best Picture Oscar: An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958), as well as the Best Picture nominees Fanny (1961) and Chocolat (2000).
- #007
After Olivia de Havilland's death in 2020, she became, as of 2021, the earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination. She was nominated in 1953 for her role in Lili (1953).
- #008
Peter Hall's 30th birthday present was simply a Rolls Royce.
- #009
She once had a romantic relationship with the handsome "Laredo" actor Robert Wolders (1995-1996). He married the older actress Merle Oberon and was the companion of the older actress Audrey Hepburn until her death in 1993. Leslie was five years older than Wolders.
- #010
On 8 December 2009 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6153 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
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She is one of 13 French actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar. The others, in chronological order, are Claudette Colbert, Colette Marchand, Simone Signoret, Anouk Aimée, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Bérénice Bejo, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.
- #012
On 21 September 1958 she gave birth to her second child, Jennifer Caron Hall, at the age of 27. The child's father is her second ex-husband, Peter Hall.
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On 30 March 1957 she gave birth to her first child, Christopher Hall, at the age of 25. The child's father is her second ex-husband, Peter Hall.
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She trained in ballet in Paris at the age of 9.
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She was 24 and had a child when she made Gigi.
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She served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1980.
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At the age of 23 she met her second husband, Peter Hall, who was earning £21 a week and staging a new play every six weeks while making films at the Arts Theatre Club. Over their nine-year marriage they had two children.
- #018
She currently lives between Paris, London and New York City.
- #019
Leslie Caron, then a 17-year-old dancer, was seen in the photo auditions held for the ballet sequence in An American in Paris and was given a role.
- #020
She was nominated for the 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Guest Artist for her performance in the play "13 Rue De L'Amour" at the Arlington Park Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Leslie Caron's parents were Claude and Margaret Caron. She has an older brother named Aimery Caron.
- #022
Her first marriage, to George Hormel, an heir to a fortune, lasted six months.
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Her third marriage was to the American producer Michael Laughlin.
- #024
She is the grandmother of Stephanie Clive (b. 1985), Freddie Hall and Ben Hall.
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In 1989 she was the jury president at the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin.
- #026
She is the mother-in-law of Glenn Wilhide and Jane Studd.
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