Greer garson actress biography

British-American actress (–)

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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent, Garson displayed no early interest in becoming an actress. Educated at the University of London intending to become a teacher, she opted instead to take a job at an advertising agency. During her off hours she appeared in local theatrical productions, gaining a reputation as an extremely talented and charismatic performer. During a stage production of "Old Music," Garson was offered a studio contract by MGM Vice President of Production Louis B. Mayer while he was on a visit to London looking for new talent. Garson's very first film under that arrangement was the immensely popular Goodbye, Mr. Chips (), earning her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress - the first of six she would receive. The following year would see Greer in the highly acclaimed Pride and Prejudice () as "Elizabeth Bennet". saw her earn a second nomination for her role as Edna Gladney in Blossoms in the Dust (), but it was the moving, if propagandist, Mrs. Miniver (), in a role that she would forever be known by, that actually brought her the Oscar statuette as Best Actress.

As Marie Curie in Madame Curie

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Though EILEEN EVELYN GARSON claimed all her life to have been born to George and Nina Sophia Garson in County Down, North Ireland on September 29, , her birth certificate (discovered shortly before her death) revealed she had been fooling the world for decades. Actually, her birth took place four years earlier, in , and in a small house in London. Her father died when she was only four months old however, and little Eileen remained with her mother in London where money was tight and she was frequently sick with chronic bronchitis. As a youngster, she proved a very capable student and eventually received a scholarship from the University of London where she earned a B.A. degree with honors in French and 18th century literature. Young Greer (a name derived from her mother's Scottish clan's name, MacGregor) was expected to go into teaching, yet had caught the acting bug at an early age and began to attend amateur dramatic society meetings in the evening while she worked day-time jobs for Encyclopedia Britannica and a market research firm.

After finally joining the Birmingham Repertory Theatre full-time, in Greer made her stage debut in "Street Scene" and was acclaimed by the critics as a promising newcomer. Two years later she made her London debut at the Open A