Jean Simmons Dead

Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 6:42 pm under Entertainment News Jean Simmons Dead

LOS ANGELES: British actress Jean Simmons, an Emmy Award winner whose career included roles in “Hamlet” and “Spartacus,” died in California Friday.
The Times said Simmons, who earned two Oscar nominations during a long career that spanned seven decades, died at her home in Santa Monica after losing a battle to lung cancer.

The movie star’s manager could not immediately be reached for comment.

Although she worked mostly in television in her later years, appearing in the hit 1983 mini-series “The Thorn Birds,” for which she obtained an Emmy Award, Simmons gained fame in the 1950s and 1960s after starring in several hit films.

Her career took off after she appeared as the doomed Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier in the legendary actor’s 1948 production of “Hamlet.” Simmons’s performance earned her the first of two Academy Award nominations.

Among her notable early roles were playing the young Estella in David Lean’s classic 1946 adaptation of “Great Expectations.”

Later films included “Guys and Dolls,” “Spartacus” and 1969’s “The Happy Ending,” which earned her a second Oscar nod for her portrayal of an alcoholic wife.

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