Lee Remick

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Birthday:

14 December 1935, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

Birth Name:

Lee Ann Remick

Height:

170 cm

Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy Southern majorette in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in The Long, Hot Summer (1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim in Anatomy of a Murder (1959). And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses (1962). After more work in TV and movies, she moved to England in 1970, making more movies there. In 1988 she formed a production company with partners James Garner and Peter K. Duchow. Show less «

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike.

[on Laurence Harvey] The tales I can tell of working with him (in [The Running Man (1963)]) are too horrendous to repeat.

I find it terribly depressing that 54 million people watch The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) - just about the same number who didn't take the t...Show more »

I find it terribly depressing that 54 million people watch The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) - just about the same number who didn't take the trouble to vote in the Presidential election. Show less «

[on Wild River (1960)] It's the kind of movie I love, a major subject done in a personal way...it was the best work I had done and I think i...Show more »

[on Wild River (1960)] It's the kind of movie I love, a major subject done in a personal way...it was the best work I had done and I think it stands up well today. Show less «

[on Montgomery Clift] He did inspire in me, as he did in most women I suppose, the feeling of wanting to look after him. He was like a wound...Show more »

[on Montgomery Clift] He did inspire in me, as he did in most women I suppose, the feeling of wanting to look after him. He was like a wounded bird -- so vulnerable. Show less «

My interpretation of the role in Wild River (1960) was the truest in my experience, and it was Kazan [director Elia Kazan] who enabled me to...Show more »

My interpretation of the role in Wild River (1960) was the truest in my experience, and it was Kazan [director Elia Kazan] who enabled me to make it true. Show less «

[on Jack Lemmon] He has extraordinary instinct. He's almost infallible.

I do like to have control. I like to have my say about who directs things or who's going to be in them.

This is a strange business. You can train for something that never happens, or you can get discovered and turned into a star because you hap...Show more »

This is a strange business. You can train for something that never happens, or you can get discovered and turned into a star because you happen to be in the right spot at the right moment. That's really no way to prepare for anything. Certainly you cannot plan or map out a career. Show less «

I don't quite know what stardom means. It was never something I went after, as such. I love to work; I always have, and I love trying to do ...Show more »

I don't quite know what stardom means. It was never something I went after, as such. I love to work; I always have, and I love trying to do the best. I suppose it means power basically -- and I'm not good at that. On a sense, he (Kazan) was right. And claws, I don't have. Show less «

She says she did "The Hallelujah Trail" "because my agent said I needed to be in a big picture."

I'm really a housewife who is incidentally an actress.