Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Caron started her career as a ballerina and made her film debut in the musical An American in Paris.

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Summary Leslie CaronLeslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress, dancer and writer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Caron started her career as a ballerina. She 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. She received critical acclaim for 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 Globes. In 2007, she won the Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for portaying a child molestation victim in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

She also starred in the successful musicals Lili, with Mel Ferrer; Daddy Long Legs, with Fred Astaire, and Gigi with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier. In 2003, Caron traveled to San Francisco to appear as the special guest star in The Songs of Alan Jay Lerner: I Remember I Remember It Well, a retrospective concert staged by San Francisco’s 42nd Street Company. Her other later credits include Funny Bones with Oliver Platt; The Last of the Bombshells with Judi Dench and Cleo Laine; and Le Divorce.