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
Will & Grace
RuPaul's Drag Race
Rugrats
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Penguins of Madagascar
Tony Awards
Great Performances
Hotel
Kim Possible
Wings
The Golden Girls
The Merv Griffin Show
Touched by an Angel
The Carol Burnett Show
Alice
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Dick Cavett Show
Dinah!
Intimate Portrait
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares
What's My Line?
The Reichen Show
The 7D
The Steve Allen Show
The Bob Hope Show
The Oscars
How the West Was Won
The Ed Sullivan Show
This Is Your Life
The Colgate Comedy Hour
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Vicki!
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Kraft Music Hall
American Bandstand
The Bodyguard
Singin' in the Rain
Entertainment Tonight
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Roseanne
The People's Command Performance: '77
The Sonny and Cher Show
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Halloweentown High
The Gazebo
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Heaven & Earth
Madame's Place
Goodbye Charlie
Cinerama Adventure
Return to Halloweentown
The Andy Williams Christmas Show
How Sweet It Is!
Mary, Mary
Mother
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Sidewalks Entertainment
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
Virtual Mom
Mr. Imperium
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The George Gobel Show
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Bracken's World
In & Out
Athena
One for the Money
Charlotte's Web
Startime
Pepe
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
The Second Time Around
Three Little Words
First Monday
Skirts Ahoy!
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children
Meet Me in Las Vegas
What's the Matter with Helen?
The Singing Nun
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
June Bride
Halloweentown
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
Rugrats: Babies in Toyland
It Started with a Kiss
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
That's Dancing!
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
I Love Melvin
The Tender Trap
Two Weeks with Love
The Brothers Warner
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Aloha Paradise
The Debbie Reynolds Show
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Bundle of Joy
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
That's Entertainment!
Wedding Bell Blues
Wedding Bell Blues
The Christmas Wish
The Pearl Bailey Show
Connie and Carla
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
The Pleasure of His Company
Tab Hunter Confidential
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
The Catered Affair
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
My Six Loves
These Old Broads
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Behind the Candelabra
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Keepers of the Frame
Zack and Reba
Say One for Me
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Mating Game
Battling for Baby
The DuPont Show of the Week
Sadie and Son
The Rat Race
That's Entertainment! III
Jennifer Slept Here
Tammy and the Bachelor
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
This Happy Feeling
Hit the Deck
Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
Ford Star Jubilee
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Susan Slept Here
The Best of Broadway
Give a Girl a Break
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Divorce American Style
The Story of a Dress
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
Do It Debbie's Way
In the Picture
Committed
Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!
Challenge the Wilderness
Couples Do It Debbie's Way
The Slippers
