
Debbie Reynolds
Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 - December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words, and her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Golden Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie. She starred in How the West Was Won (1963), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Molly Brown. Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973), Mother (1996) (Golden Globe nomination), and In & Out (1997). Reynolds was also a cabaret performer. In 1979 she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. In 1969 she starred on television in the eponymous The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love (1999) and an Emmy Award for playing Grace's mother Bobbi on Will & Grace. At the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney's Halloweentown series. In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, Debbie: My Life. In 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable: A Memoir. Reynolds also had several business ventures, including ownership of a dance studio and a Las Vegas hotel and casino, and she was an avid collector of film memorabilia, beginning with items purchased at the landmark 1970 MGM auction. She served as president of The Thalians, an organization dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties. In January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016 she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In the same year, a documentary about her life was released titled Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds; the film premiered on HBO on January 7, 2017. On December 28, 2016, Reynolds was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a medical emergency, which her son Todd Fisher later described as a "severe stroke". She died that afternoon, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher.
164 acting credits
Acting · 164

Family Guy
1999

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Love Boat
1977

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009

Rugrats
1991

Will & Grace
1998

Great Performances
1971

Hollywood Squares
1998

Wings
1990

Kim Possible
2002

Hotel
1982

Touched by an Angel
1994

The Golden Girls
1985

Tony Awards
1956

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

The Penguins of Madagascar
2008

Late Night with David Letterman
1982

Alice
1976

What's My Line?
1950

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Intimate Portrait
1993

The Oscars
1953

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

The Reichen Show
2005

Dinah!
1974

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The 7D
2014

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

The Bob Hope Show
1950

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Kraft Music Hall
1958

This Is Your Life
1952

MGM Parade
1955

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969

Madame's Place
1982

Entertainment Tonight
1981
Vicki!
1992

Singin' in the Rain
1952

Bracken's World
1969

The Bodyguard
1992

American Bandstand
1957
The George Gobel Show
1954

Roseanne
1988

First Monday
2002

The Sonny and Cher Show
1976

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
Sidewalks Entertainment
1988

Aloha Paradise
1981

How the West Was Won
1962

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
1980
The Debbie Reynolds Show
1969

In & Out
1997

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000

The DuPont Show of the Week
1961

Behind the Candelabra
2013

Heaven & Earth
1993

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998

Halloweentown
1998

One for the Money
2012
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021

Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
2001

Halloweentown High
2004

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987

Skirts Ahoy!
1952

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007

Mother
1996

Jennifer Slept Here
1983
Ford Star Jubilee
1955

Charlotte's Web
1973

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
1989

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009

Connie and Carla
2004

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008

The Singing Nun
1966

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024

Return to Halloweentown
2006

Divorce American Style
1967

Tab Hunter Confidential
2015

That's Dancing!
1985

That's Entertainment!
1974

The Gazebo
1959

The Mating Game
1959

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983

Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003

Pepe
1960

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002

A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972

It Started with a Kiss
1959

That's Entertainment! III
1994

These Old Broads
2001

The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964

Three Little Words
1950

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

Goodbye Charlie
1964

Hit the Deck
1955

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009

Two Weeks with Love
1950

June Bride
1948

Commitment to Life
2023

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012

The Pleasure of His Company
1961

Mondo Hollywood
1967

What's the Matter with Helen?
1971

Susan Slept Here
1954

Mary, Mary
1963

The Second Time Around
1961

Wedding Bell Blues
1996

The Catered Affair
1956

Rugrats: Babies in Toyland
2002

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953

Mr. Imperium
1951

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960

The Rat Race
1960
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976

Athena
1954

Zack and Reba
1998

The Christmas Wish
1998
A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
1999

Give a Girl a Break
1953

The Tender Trap
1955

Tammy and the Bachelor
1957

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
1993

How Sweet It Is!
1968

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017

I Love Melvin
1953

Say One for Me
1959

Virtual Mom
2000

The Brothers Warner
2008

This Happy Feeling
1958

What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
2002

My Six Loves
1963

The People's Command Performance: '77
1977

Bundle of Joy
1956

Do It Debbie's Way
1983

Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
2021

Cinerama Adventure
2002

The Story of a Dress
1964

Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
2005

Battling for Baby
1992

Committed
2014

Sadie and Son
1987

The Best of Broadway
1985

Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children
1969

Couples Do It Debbie's Way
1988

Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!
1978

Challenge the Wilderness
1951

The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
2008

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1981
Keepers of the Frame
1999
The Slippers
2016

In the Picture
2012