Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French and American actress and dancer.
21 Facts About Leslie Caron
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Leslie Caron is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.
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Leslie Caron is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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Leslie Caron made her film debut in the musical An American in Paris, followed by roles in The Man with a Cloak, Glory Alley and The Story of Three Loves, before her role of an orphan in Lili, which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Leslie Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine, the daughter of Margaret, a Franco-American dancer on Broadway, and Claude Leslie Caron, a French chemist, pharmacist, perfumer and boutique owner.
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Claude Leslie Caron was the founder of the artisanal perfumier Guermantes.
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Leslie Caron became depressed and an alcoholic and, at age 67, killed herself.
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Leslie Caron had lived in Paris during the German occupation, which left her malnourished and anemic.
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Leslie Caron later remarked how nice people were in comparison to wartime Paris, in which poverty and deprivation had caused people to be bitter and violent.
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Leslie Caron had a friendly relationship with Kelly, who nicknamed her "Lester the Pester" and "kid".
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Dissatisfied with her career despite her success, Leslie Caron studied the Stanislavski method.
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Sometime in 1970, Leslie Caron was one of the many actresses considered for the lead role of Eglantine Price in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, losing the role to British actress Angela Lansbury.
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Leslie Caron returned to France in the early 1970s, which she later said was a mistake.
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On June 30,2003, Leslie Caron traveled to San Francisco to appear as the special guest star in The Songs of Alan Jay Lerner: I Remember It Well, a retrospective concert staged by San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Company.
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In 2016, Leslie Caron appeared in the ITV television series The Durrells as the Countess Mavrodaki.
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In September 1951, Caron married American George Hormel II, a grandson of George A Hormel, the founder of the Hormel meat-packing company.
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Leslie Caron's son-in-law, married to Jennifer, is Glenn Wilhide, a producer and screenwriter.
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In 1969, Leslie Caron married Michael Laughlin, the producer of the film Two-Lane Blacktop; the couple divorced in 1980.
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Leslie Caron was romantically linked to Dutch television actor Robert Wolders from 1994 to 1995.
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Leslie Caron's mother had committed suicide in her 60s; suffering from a lifetime of depression, Leslie Caron considered doing so in 1995.
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Leslie Caron was hospitalized for a month and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous.