Jean Simmons Net Worth is
$300,000

Mini Biography

Demure United kingdom beauty Jean Simmons was created January 31, 1929 in Crouch End, London. Being a 14-year-old dance pupil, she was plucked from her college to try out Margaret Lockwood’s precocious sister in Provide Us the Moon (1944), and she continued to produce a name for herself in such main United kingdom productions as Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Great Targets (1946) (as the spoiled, selfish Estella), Dark Narcissus (1947) (being a sultry indigenous beauty), Hamlet (1948) (playing Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s great Dane and getting a Best Helping Celebrity Oscar nomination), The Blue Lagoon (1949) therefore Long in the Good (1950), amongst others. In 1950, she wedded actor Stewart Granger, which same year, starred in the Frank Sinatra/Marlon Brando musical Guys and Dolls (1955); she utilized her own performing voice and gained her first Golden World Award. Simmons divorced Granger in 1960 and nearly immediately wedded writer-director Richard Brooks, who solid her as Sister Sharon reverse Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960), a memorable version from the Sinclair Lewis book. That same 12 months, she co-starred with Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960) and performed a would-be homewrecker reverse Cary Give in The Lawn Is usually Greener (1960). From the screen for a couple of years, Jean captivated moviegoers with an excellent performance as the mother in every just how Home (1963), a literate, tasteful adaptation of James Agee’s “A Death in the Family”. Nevertheless, from then on, she discovered quality projects relatively harder to come across, and took function in Life at the very top (1965), Mister Buddwing (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), Tough Evening in Jericho (1967), The Content Finishing (1969) (a Richard Brooks film that she was once again Oscar-nominated, this time around as Best Celebrity). Jean continued building films well in to the 1970s. In the 1980s, she made an appearance mainly in tv miniseries, such as for example North and South (1985) as well as the Thorn Wild birds (1983). She enjoyed a resurgence to movies in 1995 in Steps to make an American Quilt (1995) co-starring Winona Ryder and Anne Bancroft, & most lately played older people Sophie in the British edition of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Shifting Castle (2004). She right now resided in Santa Monica, California, with her doggie, Mr. Gates, and her two pet cats, Adisson and Megan. Jean Simmons passed away of lung malignancy on January 22, 2010, nine times before her 81st birthday.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Jean Simmons
Died	January 22, 2010, Santa Monica, California, United States
Place Of Birth	Tirat Carmel, Israel
Height	1.68 m
Profession	Actor, Teacher, Singer, Bassist, Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Record producer, Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Songwriter, Television producer, TV Personality
Education	SUNY Sullivan, College of Staten Island
Spouse	Richard Brooks, Stewart Granger
Children	Tracy Granger, Kate Brooks
Parents	Charles Simmons, Winifred Simmons
Siblings	Edna Simmons, Harold Simmons, Lorna Simmons
Awards	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Volpi Cup for Best Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, David di Donatello Golden Plate Award, Golden Globe Special Achievement Award
Music Groups	Kiss, Wicked Lester
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Movies	Spartacus, The Big Country, Guys and Dolls, The Robe, Elmer Gantry, Hamlet, Black Narcissus, Angel Face, The Actress, The Happy Ending, Désirée, Great Expectations, Young Bess, The Grass Is Greener, Until They Sail, Howl's Moving Castle, So Long at the Fair, Caesar and Cleopatra, Home Before Dark, Give Us the Moon, Footsteps in the Fog, The Egyptian, How to Make an American Quilt, Adam and Evelyne, Life at the Top, Rough Night in Jericho, Affair with a Stranger, Divorce American Style, The Clouded Yellow, This Could Be the Night, All the Way Home, Mister Buddwing, Uncle Silas, Androcles and the Lion, The Way to the Stars, Hilda Crane, Shadows in the Sun, This Earth Is Mine, She Couldn't Say No, Daisies in December, Say Hello to Yesterday, Hungry Hill, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Mr. Emmanuel, Cage of Gold, A Bullet Is Waiting, The Woman in the Hall, Meet Sexton Blake, Kiss the Bride Goodbye, The Dawning, Heidi
TV Shows	Mysteries of the Bible, North and South, Angel Falls, Dark Shadows, The Thorn Birds