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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 1, 1931
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Also Known As
- Лесли Карон
- Leslie Claire Margaret Caron
Leslie Caron
1.3 Popularity
Biography
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Caron started her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in the musical An American in Paris (1951), followed by roles in The Man with a Cloak (1951), Glory Alley (1952) and The Story of Three Loves (1953), before receving critical acclaim for her role as an orphan in Lili (also 1953), which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. As a leading lady, Caron went on to star in films such as The Glass Slipper, Daddy Long Legs (both 1955), Gigi (1958), Fanny (1961), both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations, Guns of Darkness (1962), The L-Shaped Room (both 1962), Father Goose (1964) and A Very Special Favor (1965). For her role of a single pregnant woman in The L-Shaped Room, Caron, in addition to receiving a second Academy Award nomination, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a second BAFTA Award. Caron's other roles include Is Paris Burning? (1966), That's Entertainment! (1974), The Man Who Loved Women, Valentino (both 1977), Damage (1992), Funny Bones (1995), Chocolat (2000) and Le Divorce (2003). In 2007, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance of a child molestation victim in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Caron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.4
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025
7.5
The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
A Christmas Carol
2020
4.0
Pauline
Written on Water
2020
0.0
Gershwin: The American Classic
2018
6.4
Self
Love, Cecil
2017
10.0
Self - Interviewee
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017
0.0
Marguerite
The Perfect Age
2017
7.7
Herself
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
2016
7.4
Countess Mavrodaki
The Durrells
2016
0.0
Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
Credits
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2025
6.4
A Christmas Carol
as The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
2020
7.5
Written on Water
as Pauline
2020
4.0
Gershwin: The American Classic
2018
0.0
Love, Cecil
as Self
2017
6.4
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Self - Interviewee
2017
10.0
The Perfect Age
as Marguerite
2017
0.0
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
as Herself
2016
7.7
The Durrells
as Countess Mavrodaki
2016
7.4
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
as Self (actrice et amie de Jean Renoir)
2011
0.0
Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
as Simone Renaud (Voice)
2010
0.0
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Fanny (archive footage)
2010
6.6
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
as Self
2009
0.0
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
as Self (archive)
2009
0.0
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
as Self
2008
8.0
🎬
Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'
as Herself
2008
7.0
🎬
'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris
2008
7.0
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
as Self
2008
0.0
Le Divorce
as Suzanne de Persand
2003
5.0
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
as Self
2002
7.7
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
as Self
2002
7.0
Murder on the Orient Express
as Miss Alvarado
2001
6.1
Chocolat
as Mrs. Audel
2000
7.0
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
as Madeleine
2000
6.7
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Lorraine Delmas
1999
7.9
Passion's Way
as Regine De Chantelle
1999
4.0
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
as Self
1999
0.0
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
1996
8.2
The Ring
as Madame de Saint Marne
1996
5.2
Let It Be Me
as Marguerite
1995
5.0
Funny Bones
as Katie Parker
1995
6.5
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Normandy: The Great Crusade
as Mary-Louise Osmont (voice)
1994
10.0
Damage
as Elizabeth Prideaux
1992
6.6
Warriors and Prisoners
as Madame Yvonne
1990
1.0
Lenin: The Train
as Nedeshda Krupskaja
1990
6.2
Courage Mountain
as Jane Hilary
1990
5.7
Lenin... The Train
as Nadeschda 'Nadia' Krupskaja
1988
6.0
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
as Coco Chanel
1988
3.3
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self
1988
7.0
Reel Horror
as Nicole (archive footage)
1985
2.4
Dangerous Moves
as Henia Liebskind
1984
5.8
Master of the Game
as Solange Dunas
1984
5.9
The Unapproachable
1982
0.0
Imperative
as Mother
1982
5.5
The Contract
as Penelopa Wilson
1982
5.0
Falcon Crest
as Nicole Sauguet
1981
5.5
Chanel Solitaire
as (uncredited)
1981
4.4
All Stars
as Lucille Berger
1980
0.0
Goldengirl
as Dr. Sammy Lee
1979
4.8
Tales of the Unexpected
as Nathalie Vareille
1979
6.7
Valentino
as Alla Nazimova
1977
5.7
The Man Who Loved Women
as Véra
1977
7.1
Nicole
as Nicole
1976
2.8
Surreal Estate
as Céleste
1976
4.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
James Dean: The First American Teenager
as Self
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
1974
7.4
QB VII
as Angela Kelno
1974
7.7
Carola
as Carola
1973
6.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
1973
0.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Chandler
as Katherine Creighton
1971
4.3
Madron
as Sister Mary
1970
5.1
The Head of the Family
as Paola
1967
6.5
Is Paris Burning?
as Françoise Labé
1966
7.2
Promise Her Anything
as Michele O'Brien
1966
3.5
A Very Special Favor
as Dr. Lauren Boullard
1965
5.7
Father Goose
as Catherine Freneau
1964
7.0
The Four Truths
as Annie (segment "Les deux pigeons")
1962
3.9
The L-Shaped Room
as Jane Fosset
1962
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Guns of Darkness
as Claire Jordan
1962
6.0
Fanny
as Fanny
1961
6.7
The Subterraneans
as Mardou Fox
1960
4.8
The Battle of Austerlitz
as Mlle de Vaudey
1960
6.6
The Man Who Understood Women
as Ann Garantier
1959
3.0
The Doctor's Dilemma
as Mrs. Dubedat
1959
6.1
Gigi
as Gilberte "Gigi"
1958
6.3
Gaby
as Gaby
1956
7.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Daddy Long Legs
as Julie Andre
1955
6.4
The Glass Slipper
as Ella
1955
6.1
Reflets de Cannes
as Self
1954
2.0
The Story of Three Loves
as Mademoiselle
1953
5.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Lili
as Lili Daurier
1953
6.6
Glory Alley
as Angela
1952
5.5
The Million Dollar Nickel
as Herself
1952
4.0
The Man with a Cloak
as Madeline Minot
1951
6.9
An American in Paris
as Lise Bouvier
1951
7.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2