
Leslie Caron
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.
98 acting credits
Acting · 98

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Damage
1992

Falcon Crest
1981

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Love Boat
1977

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

The Oscars
1953

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Cinépanorama
1956

MGM Parade
1955

The Durrells
2016

Chocolat
2000

Reflets de Cannes
1954

Master of the Game
1984

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996

Gigi
1958

QB VII
1974

Is Paris Burning?
1966

An American in Paris
1951

Le Divorce
2003

Father Goose
1964

Lenin... The Train
1988

Valentino
1977

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010

Goldengirl
1979

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008

The Story of Three Loves
1953

Lili
1953

That's Entertainment!
1974

Murder on the Orient Express
2001

Fanny
1961

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002

The Glass Slipper
1955

That's Entertainment! III
1994

Reel Horror
1985

The Man Who Loved Women
1977

Daddy Long Legs
1955

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000

Chandler
1971

Funny Bones
1995

Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025

The L-Shaped Room
1962

Normandy: The Great Crusade
1994

The Ring
1996

Gaby
1956

Lenin: The Train
1988

Let It Be Me
1995

The Doctor's Dilemma
1959

Chanel Solitaire
1981

The Battle of Austerlitz
1960

The Head of the Family
1967

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009

Mother of Normandy: The Story of Simone Renaud
2010

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
2002

James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975

Promise Her Anything
1966

A Christmas Carol
2020

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008

Madron
1970

The Man with a Cloak
1951

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988

Courage Mountain
1990

Nicole
1976

Surreal Estate
1976

A Very Special Favor
1965

The Million Dollar Nickel
1952

The Man Who Understood Women
1959

Dangerous Moves
1984

The Subterraneans
1960

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973

Carola
1973

Guns of Darkness
1962

Glory Alley
1952

Imperative
1982

Warriors and Prisoners
1990

All Stars
1980

Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017

The Four Truths
1962

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
1999
'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris
2008

The Contract
1982

Love, Cecil
2017

Passion's Way
1999

The Unapproachable
1982

The Perfect Age
2017

Written on Water
2020

Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star
2016

Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
Thank Heaven! The Making of 'Gigi'
2008

Gershwin: The American Classic
2018
Private Screenings: Leslie Caron
1998