Job Actress
Years active 1942-1985
Top Roles Alice Aisgill, Elsa Fennan, La Condesa, Arkadina, an actress, Denise Vernon
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance, Crime, War, Thriller/Suspense
Top TopicsBook-Based, World War II, Period Piece
Top Collaborators (Director), , ,
Shares birthday with David Lean, Binnie Barnes, Ed Begley  see more..

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The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair

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Room at the Top

Room at the Top

Fan rating: 9.00
Gunman in the Streets

Gunman in the Street...

Fan rating: 7.00

Simone Signoret Overview:

Actress, Simone Signoret, was born Henriette Charlotte Simone Kaminker on Mar 25, 1921 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Signoret died at the age of 64 on Sep 30, 1985 in Autheuil-Anthouillet, Eure and was laid to rest in Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.

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Simone Signoret was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Room at the Top (as Alice Aisgill) in 1959.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1959Best ActressRoom at the Top (1959)Alice AisgillWon
1965Best ActressShip of Fools (1965)La CondessaNominated
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Book Review: and Her Garden of Dreams

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Best Actress Oscar 1959
WINNER

(as Alice Aisgill)
in Room at the Top
Nominee
Doris Day
(as Jan Morrow)
in Pillow Talk
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(as Sister Luke)
in The Nun's Story
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Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Venable)
in Suddenly, Last Summer
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(as Catherine Holly)
in Suddenly, Last Summer
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Simone Signoret Facts
The spring and summer of 1960, Signoret and Montand were neighbors in a three-apartment bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel with Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller across the hall and Howard Hughes upstairs. Monroe told her dresser, who wrote a biography, that Miller liked to talk to Signoret because she was so intelligent and that after Signoret went back to France to make a film and Miller went to New York to work on a play that Monroe and Montand did indeed have the affair that was speculated about in the press.
First woman to win an Oscar for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" for a non-American film.
Published her autobiography "La nostalgie n'est plus qu'elle était" ("Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be") in 1976.
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