Debbie Reynolds
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
167
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 Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Rugrats
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Great Performances
RuPaul's Drag Race
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares
The Penguins of Madagascar
Kim Possible
Will & Grace
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
The Merv Griffin Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Touched by an Angel
Intimate Portrait
Alice
The Golden Girls
The Steve Allen Show
Wings
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Hotel
The Oscars
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Bob Hope Show
The Reichen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Heaven & Earth
The 7D
Dinah!
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Gazebo
This Is Your Life
Vicki!
Mr. Imperium
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The George Gobel Show
Skirts Ahoy!
Athena
Halloweentown High
The Bodyguard
Kraft Music Hall
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
June Bride
Connie and Carla
Entertainment Tonight
The Tender Trap
Singin' in the Rain
These Old Broads
Bundle of Joy
This Happy Feeling
I Love Melvin
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
Madame's Place
MGM Parade
That's Dancing!
Susan Slept Here
My Six Loves
How the West Was Won
First Monday
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
The Mating Game
The Christmas Wish
Pepe
Startime
Sidewalks Entertainment
The Rat Race
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
That's Entertainment! III
American Bandstand
In & Out
Roseanne
The Sonny and Cher Show
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Bracken's World
Tab Hunter Confidential
The DuPont Show of the Week
Mother
Behind the Candelabra
Aloha Paradise
One for the Money
The Catered Affair
Charlotte's Web
The Pearl Bailey Show
That's Entertainment!
The Debbie Reynolds Show
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
Do It Debbie's Way
Halloweentown
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Ford Star Jubilee
Return to Halloweentown
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Mary, Mary
Jennifer Slept Here
The Second Time Around
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Zack and Reba
How Sweet It Is!
Hit the Deck
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The Best of Broadway
Divorce American Style
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
The Slippers
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Singing Nun
Tammy and the Bachelor
The Pleasure of His Company
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
It Started with a Kiss
Three Little Words
Goodbye Charlie
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Keepers of the Frame
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
The Story of a Dress
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Mondo Hollywood
The People's Command Performance: '77
That's Entertainment, Part II
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Rugrats: Babies in Toyland
Wedding Bell Blues
Wedding Bell Blues
What's the Matter with Helen?
Committed
Sadie and Son
Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
Give a Girl a Break
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Say One for Me
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Two Weeks with Love
Battling for Baby
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Cinerama Adventure
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Virtual Mom
The Brothers Warner
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
In the Picture
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!
Couples Do It Debbie's Way
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
Challenge the Wilderness
