Jean Simmons

(jeansimmons.net - a fan website) (http://www.jeansimmons.net). She won a Tony Award in 1990 for Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. In 1989, she again starred in a miniseries version of Great Expectations, where she performed the role of Miss Havisham, Estella's adopted mother. She played the title character in the stage production of Alan Bennett's Lady in the Van and starred as Peter Pan in Sir J.M.Baries fairytale story "Peter Pan". For her appearance in the mini-series, The Thorn Birds, she won an Emmy award. She has two sons by Stephens, actors Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. in "A little night music," then took the show to London. She has been married twice, first to Robert Stephens (divorced) and then to Beverley Cross (his death).

Fortunately, the screen's loss was the stage and television's gain: to glowing reviews, Simmons toured the U.S. In 1969 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. By the 70s, her screen career had tapered off. She started her career at the Oxford Playhouse Theatre with Frank Shelley, and first appeared on the movie screen in 1956. Among her best-known leading roles are Guys and Dolls (1955), Elmer Gantry (directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks) and Spartacus, and The Happy Ending, again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination. She received numerous honours throughout her career, culminating in a DBE in 1990. In 1950, she married the British actor, Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transition to Hollywood. Dame Margaret Natalie Smith Cross DBE (born December 28, 1934 in Ilford, Essex), better known as Maggie Smith, is a British film, stage, and television actress.

In 1948, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Laurence Olivier. Her first major film was Great Expectations, in which she played the young Estella. She was born in Crouch End, London and began acting while still in her teens. Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929) is a British actress.