Merle Oberon
Actor
- Born
- February 19, 1911 · Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
- Died
- November 23, 1979 (age 68)
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Sri Lankan Burgher origin. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Oberon's other notable roles included A Song to Remember (1945), Berlin Express (1948), and Désirée (1954). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that nearly ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973.
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Known for
Acting59
- 2028Charmed Lives: A Family Romance as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self (archive footage)
- 2002The Trouble with Merle as Self
- 1993Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One as Self
- 1973Interval as Serena Moore
- 1969The Epic That Never Was as Self - Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
- 1967Hotel as The Duchess Caroline
- 1966The Oscar as Merle Oberon
- 1963Of Love and Desire as Katherine Beckmann
- 1956
