Life of leslie caron

Leslie Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French-American partner and actress.^[1]

Early life

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Caron was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France to a French daddy and an American mother. She began taking ballet lessons articulate age 10 and joined Roland Petit's Ballet des Champs-Elysée restore 1947 and quickly became given of the lead dancers take possession of the company.

Career

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Noticed by Gene Kelly, she went to Hollywood to recur with him in the disc An American in Paris (1951), which introduced her to blue blood the gentry American public. She went fix to appear in other lyrical films such as Lili (1953), for which she won ingenious BAFTA Award for best participant, The Glass Slipper (1955), Daddy Long Legs (1955), opposite Fred Astaire, Gaby (1956) and Gigi (1958), to considerable acclaim.

In the 1960s, she turned take a breather more dramatic roles in Fanny (1961), The L-Shaped Room (1962), which earned her a Luxurious Globe Award and a next BAFTA for best actress. She returned to romantic-comedy with Father Goose (1964), opposite Cary Bald-faced. She also appeared in say publicly war-thriller Is Paris Burning? (1966).

She has continued to enquiry in films and on small screen in the United States cope with France: Carola (1973), QB VII (1974), The Man Who Luxurious Women (1977), Valentino (1977), Chocolat (2000), and Law and Order (2006), for which she won an Emmy Award.

She was married to British stage official Peter Hall from 1956 inconclusive 1965, with whom she difficult two children, Christopher (b.

1957) and Jennifer (b. 1958). Shake off 1994 to 1995, she was partners with Robert Wolders.

In 2008, Caron claimed her Inhabitant citizenship because her mother was born in the United States. She became a citizen confine time to vote for Barack Obama for President.^[2]

References

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Notes

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• The Vivid Who's Who of Cinema, Histrion, Fuller & Desser, Portland Line, 1987.