Jean Simmons



Jean Merilyn Simmons ( London , January 311929 - Santa Monica ( California ), January 222010 ) was an English - American actress. She is best known for the television series The Thorn Birds, where she also an Emmy Award was for.



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[ hide ]  *1 Career  ==Career [ edit] == When Jean Simmons as a teenager actress all garnered acclaim in films like Kiss the Bride Goodbye , Caesar and Cleopatra, and Great Expectations , it was clear for film critics that she had a future in the film industry.
 * 2 Award
 * 3 Filmography
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In 1950 Jean Simmons week to the United States, where she Stewart Granger met and later married him. He helped her to a two-year contract with the film company of Howard Hughes . In her role as murderess in Angel Face in 1952they broke through to the general public. With Marlon Brando, they played in Desiree directed by Henry Koster , the daughter of a French trader who falls in love with Napoleon Bonaparte . Although her ​​future seemed promising, Simmons was not really a star, although some claim that her problems in her private life there also had something to do with it. Between her and Stewart Granger not hit it off and left in 1960 to express the separation. She later remarried with film director Richard Brooks, with whom she had a daughter.

Jean Simmons died in early 2010 at the age of eighty in her home in Santa Monica. She was suffering from lung cancer . ==Distinction [ edit] == ==Filmography [ edit] ==
 * Officer of the Order of the British Empire
 * Angel Face (1952)
 * Young Bess (1953)
 * The robe (1953)
 * Desiree (1954)
 * Guys and Dolls (1955)
 * Home before dark (1958)
 * The Big Country (1958)
 * Spartacus (1960)