Birthday: January 31, 2029
A luminous beauty, Jean Simmons was a star in her native Britain and in the U.S. who first appeared onscreen at age 14 in Give Us the Moon (1944), but did not become a true star until she played Estella in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). In 1948, she was handpicked by Laurence Olivier to play the doomed Ophelia in his classic version of Hamlet and won a Best ...more- 1983
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture
- The Thorn Birds
- nom
- 1969
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- The Happy Ending
- nom
- 1969
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Actress
- The Happy Ending
- nom
- 1960
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Elmer Gantry
- nom
- 1958
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Home Before Dark
- nom
- 2049
- Adam and Evelyne
- Evelyne Wallace
- 2049
- The Blue Lagoon
- Emmeline Foster
- 2048
- Hamlet
- Ophelia
- 2048
- The Woman in the Hall
- Jay Blake
- 2047
- Black Narcissus
- Kanchi










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