Jean Simmons

Birth Name: Jean Merilyn Simmons

Date of Birth: 31 January, 1929

Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, U.K.

Date of Death: 22 January, 2010

Place of Death: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Ethnicity: English

Jean Simmons was an English actress and singer. Her roles included the films Give Us the Moon, Mr. Emmanuel, Sports Day, Kiss the Bride Goodbye, Meet Sexton Blake!, The Way to the Stars, Great Expectations (1946), Hungry Hill, Black Narcissus (1947), Uncle Silas, The Woman in the Hall, Hamlet (1948), Adam and Evelyne, The Blue Lagoon (1949), So Long at the Fair, Trio, Cage of Gold, The Clouded Yellow, Androcles and the Lion (1952), Angel Face, Young Bess, Affair with a Stranger, The Robe, The Actress (1953), She Couldn’t Say No, The Egyptian, A Bullet Is Waiting, Désirée, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Footsteps in the Fog, Guys and Dolls (1955), Hilda Crane, This Could Be the Night, Until They Sail, The Big Country, Home Before Dark (1958), This Earth Is Mine, Elmer Gantry, Spartacus (1960), The Grass Is Greener, All the Way Home, Life at the Top, Mister Buddwing, Divorce American Style, Rough Night in Jericho, The Happy Ending, Say Hello to Yesterday, Mr. Sycamore, Dominique (1978), The Dawning, How to Make an American Quilt, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Howl’s Moving Castle, Thru the Moebius Strip, and Shadows in the Sun; the made-for-tv movies Heidi (1968), The Dain Curse, Beggarman, Thief; December Flower, Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love, and Inherit the Wind (1988); the mini-series Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls (1981), The Thorn Birds, North and South, North and South Book II, and Great Expectations (1989); and the series Dark Shadows and Mysteries of the Bible.

Jean was the daughter of Winifred Aida (Loveland) and Charles Simmons, a gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Jean became a U.S. citizen in 1956.

She had a daughter with her former husband, English actor Stewart Granger; and a daughter with her former husband, American director Richard Brooks.