Debbie Reynolds
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
165
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-04-01
Day of death
2016-12-28 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
El Paso, Texas, USA
Debbie Reynolds
Biography
Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 - December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words, and her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Golden Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie. She starred in How the West Was Won (1963), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Molly Brown. Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973), Mother (1996) (Golden Globe nomination), and In & Out (1997). Reynolds was also a cabaret performer. In 1979 she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. In 1969 she starred on television in the eponymous The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love (1999) and an Emmy Award for playing Grace's mother Bobbi on Will & Grace. At the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney's Halloweentown series. In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, Debbie: My Life. In 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable: A Memoir. Reynolds also had several business ventures, including ownership of a dance studio and a Las Vegas hotel and casino, and she was an avid collector of film memorabilia, beginning with items purchased at the landmark 1970 MGM auction. She served as president of The Thalians, an organization dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties. In January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016 she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In the same year, a documentary about her life was released titled Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds; the film premiered on HBO on January 7, 2017. On December 28, 2016, Reynolds was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a medical emergency, which her son Todd Fisher later described as a "severe stroke". She died that afternoon, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher.
Known For
Family Guy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
RuPaul's Drag Race
Great Performances
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares
The Carol Burnett Show
The One Show
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Tony Awards
Rugrats
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
The Bob Hope Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Hotel
Will & Grace
Touched by an Angel
The Golden Girls
Alice
Wings
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Penguins of Madagascar
Kim Possible
The Dick Cavett Show
Intimate Portrait
What's My Line?
Dinah!
This Is Your Life
The Reichen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Steve Allen Show
Kraft Music Hall
The 7D
Vicki!
The Oscars
How the West Was Won
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Entertainment Tonight
The Sonny and Cher Show
Madame's Place
American Bandstand
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Behind the Candelabra
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Halloweentown
Singin' in the Rain
Startime
In & Out
The George Gobel Show
Return to Halloweentown
The Andy Williams Christmas Show
Two Weeks with Love
The Bodyguard
The Brothers Warner
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Bracken's World
Sidewalks Entertainment
Halloweentown High
First Monday
Roseanne
My Six Loves
One for the Money
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Mother
Tammy and the Bachelor
Wedding Bell Blues
Wedding Bell Blues
Charlotte's Web
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Goodbye Charlie
Heaven & Earth
Cinerama Adventure
Virtual Mom
It Started with a Kiss
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
Mary, Mary
The People's Command Performance: '77
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
Battling for Baby
The Second Time Around
Connie and Carla
Three Little Words
The Debbie Reynolds Show
Aloha Paradise
Zack and Reba
The Singing Nun
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
The Catered Affair
The Pleasure of His Company
Mr. Imperium
Bundle of Joy
The Pearl Bailey Show
Keepers of the Frame
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Rat Race
The Christmas Wish
Pepe
Sadie and Son
The Mating Game
Jennifer Slept Here
Do It Debbie's Way
Skirts Ahoy!
Rugrats: Babies in Toyland
That's Dancing!
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
How Sweet It Is!
June Bride
Athena
Say One for Me
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
Hit the Deck
These Old Broads
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
I Love Melvin
Ford Star Jubilee
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
The DuPont Show of the Week
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment!
Give a Girl a Break
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
This Happy Feeling
Divorce American Style
The Gazebo
Tab Hunter Confidential
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
That's Entertainment! III
Susan Slept Here
In the Picture
The Tender Trap
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
The Best of Broadway
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
What's the Matter with Helen?
The Story of a Dress
Challenge the Wilderness
Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!
The Slippers
A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
Couples Do It Debbie's Way
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