Jean Simmons
Biography
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
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Movie Appearances
Spartacus
as Varinia
1960
Angel Face
as Diane Tremayne Jessup
1953
Guys and Dolls
as Sarah Brown
1955
Elmer Gantry
as Sister Sharon Falconer
1960
Hamlet
as Ophelia
1948
How to Make an American Quilt
as Em
1995
The Egyptian
as Merit
1954
The Grass Is Greener
as Hattie Durant
1960
The Big Country
as Julie Maragon
1958
Great Expectations
as Young Estella
1946
The Robe
as Diana
1953
Désirée
as Desiree Clary
1954
The Clouded Yellow
as Sophie Malraux
1950
Young Bess
as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
1953
The Way to the Stars
as A Singer
1945
A Bullet Is Waiting
as Cally Canham
1954
Footsteps in the Fog
as Lily Watkins
1955
Black Narcissus
as Kanchi
1947
Rough Night in Jericho
as Molly Lang
1967
Shadows in the Sun
as Hannah
2009
TV Appearances
Murder, She Wrote
as Eudora McVeigh Shipton
1984
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Admiral Nora Satie
1987
The Odd Couple
as Princess
1970
Hawaii Five-O
as Terri O'Brien
1968
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Margaret Lowen
1985
Hotel
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarah
1951
Mysteries of the Bible
1994
Dark Shadows
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
1991
Angel Falls
as Irene Larson
1993
The Oscars
as Self
1953
North and South
as Clarissa Main
1985