Debbie Reynolds
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.
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.
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Movies (110)
Elizabeth Taylor: Las Cintas Pérdidas
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self
Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Luces Brillantes: Con Debbie Reynolds y Carrie Fisher
2016 · Self
The Slippers
2016
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015 · Self
Committed
2014 · Self
Detrás del candelabro
2013 · Frances
In the Picture
2012 · Aunt Lilith
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012 · Self
Solo por dinero
2012 · Grandma Mazur
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009 · Self
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009 · Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009 · Self
The Brothers Warner
2008 · Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008 · Self
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
2008
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007 · Self
Regreso a Halloweentown
2006 · Aggie Cromwell
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Preparatoria Halloween
2004 · Aggie Cromwell
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004 · Self
Connie y Carla
2004 · Herself
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003 · Herself
Rugrats: Babies in Toyland
2002 · Lulu Pickles (voice)
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002 · Self
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
2002 · Self
Cinerama Adventure
2002 · Self
Halloweentown II: La venganza de Kalabar
2001 · Aggie Cromwell
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001 · Self (archive footage)
These Old Broads
2001 · Piper Grayson
Rugrats en París
2000 · Lulu Pickles (voice)
Virtual Mom
2000 · Gwen
A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story
1999 · Shirlee Allison
Keepers of the Frame
1999 · Herself
The Christmas Wish
1998 · Ruth
Halloweentown
1998 · Aggie Cromwell
Zack & Reba
1998 · Beulah Blanton
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
1998 · Mrs. Claus / Mitzi / Mrs. Prancer (voice)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · Debbie Reynolds (voice)
In & Out
1997 · Berniece Brackett
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997 · Self
Mother
1996 · Beatrice Henderson
Wedding Bell Blues
1996 · Debbie Reynolds, Self
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Self - Host
Heaven & Earth
1993 · Eugenia
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
1993 · Self
The Bodyguard
1992 · Debbie Reynolds
Battling for Baby
1992 · Helen
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
1989 · Amanda Cody
Couples Do It Debbie's Way
1988
Sadie and Son
1987 · Sadie
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 · Self
The Best of Broadway
1985 · Herself
That's Dancing!
1985
Do It Debbie's Way
1983 · Self
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982 · Self (archive footage)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1981 · Alice
Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!
1978 · Herself
The People's Command Performance: '77
1977 · Self
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · (archive footage)
Bob Hope's Bicentennial Star-Spangled Spectacular
1976 · Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974 · Self - Host / Narrator
Charlotte's Web
1973 · Charlotte (voice)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Self (archive footage)
What's the Matter with Helen?
1971 · Adelle
Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children
1969 · Self
How Sweet It Is!
1968 · Jenny
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Divorce American Style
1967 · Barbara Harmon
The Singing Nun
1966 · Sister Ann
Goodbye Charlie
1964 · Charlie Sorel / Virginia Mason
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964 · Molly Brown
The Story of a Dress
1964 · Self
Mary, Mary
1963 · Mary McKellaway
My Six Loves
1963 · Janice Courtney
How the West Was Won
1962 · Lilith Prescott
The Second Time Around
1961 · Lu Rogers
The Pleasure of His Company
1961 · Jessica Poole
Pepe
1960 · Debbie Reynolds
The Rat Race
1960 · Peggy Brown
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960 · Self
The Gazebo
1959 · Nell Nash
It Started with a Kiss
1959 · Maggie Putnam
Say One for Me
1959 · Holly LeMaise
The Mating Game
1959 · Mariette Larkin
This Happy Feeling
1958 · Janet Blake
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957 · Tammy
Bundle of Joy
1956 · Polly Parish
The Catered Affair
1956 · Jane Hurley
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956 · Debbie Reynolds (uncredited)
The Tender Trap
1955 · Julie Gillis
Hit the Deck
1955 · Carol Pace
Athena
1954 · Minerva
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954 · Self
Susan Slept Here
1954 · Susan Beaurgard Landis
Give a Girl a Break
1953 · Suzy Doolittle
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953 · Pansy Hammer
I Love Melvin
1953 · Judy LeRoy
Skirts Ahoy!
1952 · Debbie Reynolds (uncredited)
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Kathy Selden
Challenge the Wilderness
1951 · Narrator (uncredited)
Mr. Imperium
1951 · Gwen
Two Weeks with Love
1950 · Melba Robinson
Three Little Words
1950 · Helen Kane
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950 · Maureen O'Grady
June Bride
1948 · Boo's Girlfriend at Wedding
TV shows (57)
Los 7E
2014 · Grandmommers Whimsical (voice)
The Talk
2010 · Self
RuPaul: Carrera de drags
2009 · Self - Guest Judge
Los Pingüinos de Madagascar
2008 · Granny Squirrel (voice)
The Reichen Show
2005 · Self - Guest
Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
Kim Possible
2002 · Nana Possible (voice)
First Monday
2002
Padre de Familia
1999 · Mrs. Wilson (voice)
Will & Grace
1998 · Bobbi Adler
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Self - Panelist
Bravo Profiles
1998 · Self
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Betty Poplovich
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
Vicki!
1992 · Self
Rugrats
1991 · Lulu Pickles (voice), Lulu Johnson (voice)
Wings
1990 · Deedee Chappel
Roseanne
1988
Sidewalks Entertainment
1988
The Golden Girls
1985 · Truby
Jennifer Slept Here
1983 · Alice Farrell
Madame's Place
1982 · Self
Hotel
1982
Late Night with David Letterman
1982 · Self - Guest
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Self
Aloha Paradise
1981 · Sydney Chase
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
1980 · Self
The Love Boat
1977 · Sheila Evans, Doris Talbert
Alice
1976
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976
Dinah!
1974 · Self
Great Performances
1971 · Self
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971 · Self
Bracken's World
1969
The Debbie Reynolds Show
1969 · Debbie Thompson
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969 · Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Self, Self (uncredited)
The Carol Burnett Show
1967 · Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self, Self - Guest Host
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The DuPont Show of the Week
1961 · Self
Kraft Music Hall
1958
American Bandstand
1957 · Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self - Recipient
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee, Self - Memoriam (archive footage)
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
MGM Parade
1955
The George Gobel Show
1954 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
This Is Your Life
1952 · Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Self
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Presenter, Self - Hostess, Self - Nominee