Awards & Winners

Claudette Colbert

Date of Birth 13-September-1903
Place of Birth Saint-Mandé
(Val-de-Marne, ÃŽle-de-France, France)
Nationality United States of America, France
Also know as Lily Claudette Chauchoin, Emilie Claudette Chauchoin, Lily, Émilie Chauchoin, Emilie Chauchoin, Émilie "Lily" Chauchoin, Lily Emilie Chauchoin
Profession Actor, Comedian, Singer
Claudette Colbert was a French-born American actress, and a leading lady for two decades. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, Colbert later gradually shifted to working as a freelance actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night, and also received Academy Award nominations for Private Worlds and Since You Went Away. With her round apple-face, Colbert was known as an expert screwball comedienne, but her dramatic range enabled her to easily encompass melodrama and to play characters ranging from vamps to housewives. During her successful career, Colbert starred in more than sixty movies. She was the industry's biggest box-office star in 1938 and 1942. By the mid 1950s she had largely retired from the screen in favor of television and stage work, earning a Tony Award nomination for The Marriage-Go-Round in 1959. Her career tapered off during the early 1960s, but in the late 1970s she experienced a career resurgence in theater, earning a Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago theater work in 1980. For her television work in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination.

Awards by Claudette Colbert

Check all the awards nominated and won by Claudette Colbert.

1988


Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Honored for : The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
For playing \" Alice Grenville\"

1985


Drama Desk Special Award
(For the continuing pleasure of her company)

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play The Marriage-Go-Round

1944


Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress Since You Went Away
Role: Anne Hilton

1935


Nominations 1935 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress Private Worlds

1934


Academy Award for Best Actress
Honored for : It Happened One Night
(Role: Ellie Andrews)

Nominations 1934 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress It Happened One Night
Role: Ellie Andrews