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 Das Gesicht in der Menge (1957). Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in
Der lange heiße Sommer (1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape
victim in Anatomie eines Mordes (1959). And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role
as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Die Tage des Weines und der Rosen (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.
