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Acting

Jean Simmons

Career: Active from 1944 to 2009, busiest in 1953 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 53
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Elmer Gantry
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 56 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jean Simmons Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.2, average 5.4
Adrenaline
3.6, average 4.8
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Violence
3.1, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 7
Character-Driven 5
Romantic Drama 5
Political Intrigue 4
Classic Hollywood 4
Romantic Comedy 3
Love Triangle 3
Melancholic Tone 3
Romance 3
Social Commentary 3
Psychological Drama 3
Psychological Thriller 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

96

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

Discovering Hamlet

as Ophelia (archive footage)

2000s

5 titles · average score 55

Shadows in the Sun

52

as Hannah

Winter Solstice

54

TV show

Winter Solstice

65

as Countess Lucinda Rhives

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

51

as Council Member (voice)

On Cukor

as Narrator

1990s

10 titles · average score 62

Her Own Rules

57

as Katherine Stratton

How to Make an American Quilt

62

as Em

Daisies in December

69

as Katherine Palmer

Mysteries of the Bible

TV show

TV show · as Irene Larson

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

70

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold

Dark Shadows

63

TV show · as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins / Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

Sensibility and Sense

as Older Elinor

Laker Girls

53

as Connie Harrison

People Like Us

59

as Peach Prindible Bailey

1980s

21 titles · average score 63

Great Expectations

73

TV show · as Miss Havisham

Going Undercover

34

as Maxine de la Hunt

The Dawning

54

as Aunt Mary

Star Trek: The Next Generation

68

TV show · as Admiral Nora Satie

North and South

80

TV show · as Clarissa Main

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Eudora McVeigh Shipton

December Flower

as Etta Marsh

Hotel

65

TV show · as Jessica Daniels / Milly Toland

Golden Gate

as Jane Kingsley

A Small Killing

as Margaret Lawrence

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"

47

as Helen Lawson

Dominique

52

as Dominique Ballard

1970s

7 titles · average score 56

Beggarman, Thief

TV show · as Gretchen Jordache Burke

The Dain Curse

66

TV show · as Aaronia Haldorn

Mr. Sycamore

52

as Estelle Benbow

The Easter Promise

as Constance Payne

Say Hello to Yesterday

54

as Woman

Decisions! Decisions!

as Phoebe Masterson

The Odd Couple

52

TV show · as Princess

1960s

13 titles · average score 65

The Happy Ending

62

as Mary Wilson

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Terri O'Brien

Heidi

64

as Frl. Rottenmeier

Rough Night in Jericho

61

as Molly Lang

Divorce American Style

79

as Nancy Downes

Soldier in Love

as Sarah Jennings

Mister Buddwing

55

as The Blonde

Life at the Top

44

as Susan Lampton

All the Way Home

68

as Mary Follet

Spartacus

84

as Varinia

Elmer Gantry

86

as Sister Sharon Falconer

The Grass Is Greener

59

as Hattie Durant

1950s

24 titles · average score 63

This Earth Is Mine

64

as Elizabeth Rambeau

The Big Country

81

as Julie Maragon

Until They Sail

61

as Barbara Leslie Forbes

Guys and Dolls

77

as Sarah Brown

Footsteps in the Fog

70

as Lily Watkins

Désirée

42

as Desiree Clary

The Robe

70

as Diana

The Actress

60

as Ruth Gordon Jones

Angel Face

75

as Diane Tremayne Jessup

Young Bess

58

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

Androcles and the Lion

47

as Lavinina

So Long at the Fair

67

as Vicky Barton

1940s

15 titles · average score 67

The Blue Lagoon

55

as Emmeline Foster

Adam and Evelyne

51

as Evelyne Wallace

Hamlet

83

as Ophelia

Black Narcissus

85

as Kanchi

Uncle Silas

51

as Caroline Ruthyn

The Woman in the Hall

63

as Jay Blake

Hungry Hill

59

as Jane Brodrick

Great Expectations

86

as Young Estella

Caesar and Cleopatra

69

as Harpist (uncredited)

The Way to the Stars

69

as A Singer

Sports Day

as Peggy

Give Us the Moon

62

as Heidi