Jean Simmons
Gender: Female
Born: 31st January 1929
Died: 22nd January 2010
Nationality: England, United Kingdom, United States of America
TV programs: Dark Shadows, Angel Falls, The Thorn Birds, North and South, Mysteries of the Bible, Great Expectations
Movies: Angel Face, Black Narcissus, Great Expectations, Hamlet, Howl's Moving Castle, Spartacus, The Big Country, The Blue Lagoon, The Grass Is Greener, The Robe, Great Expectations, So Long at the Fair, Désirée, Young Bess, Androcles and the Lion, The Robe, Life at the Top, The Egyptian, Mister Buddwing, Guys and Dolls, Hilda Crane, Elmer Gantry, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Actress, Demetrius and the Gladiators, How to Make an American Quilt, The Way to the Stars, The Happy Ending, The Dawning, Footsteps in the Fog, Trio, She Couldn't Say No, Adam and Evelyne, Rough Night in Jericho, This Could Be the Night, All the Way Home, The Clouded Yellow, Divorce American Style, Howl's Moving Castle: Bonus Material, Affair with a Stranger, Until They Sail, Say Hello to Yesterday, December Flower, Heidi, Shadows in the Sun, Inherit the Wind, Hungry Hill, Thru the Moebius Strip, This Earth Is Mine, Dominique, Home Before Dark, Meet Sexton Blake, The Woman in the Hall, Uncle Silas, On Cukor, Mysteries of the Bible: The Bible's Greatest Secrets, Mysteries of the Bible: Apocalypse: The Puzzle of Revelation, Mysteries of the Bible: Prophets: Soul Catchers
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Simmons was born in Lower Holloway, London, England, to Charles Simmons and his wife, Winifred (Loveland) Simmons. Jean was the youngest of four children with siblings Edna, Harold and Lorna. She began acting at the age of 14. During the war, the Simmons family was evacuated to Winscombe in Somerset. Her father, a physical education teacher (who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow". Returning to London and just enrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance, she was spotted by the director Val Guest, who cast her in the Margaret Lockwood vehicle Give Us the Moon. Small roles in several other films followed including the high profile Caesar and Cleopatra, produced by Gabriel
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