Royalty · Film · Music · 1929–1982
Born: 12 November 1929 · Died: 14 September 1982 · Age at death: 52
Grace Kelly died aged 52. She was born on 12 November 1929 and died on 14 September 1982.
American film star of Rear Window and High Noon who won an Oscar, then left Hollywood to become Princess of Monaco
Did you know?She won an Academy Award for Best Actress before retiring from Hollywood at the age of twenty-six to marry into royalty.
Grace Kelly was Hollywood royalty who became real royalty. She starred in just 11 films in five years. Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. She won the Oscar for The Country Girl. In 1956, aged 26, she left films to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. As Princess Grace she worked for the arts and children's charities. She died after a car crash in 1982.
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s.
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American actress and Princess of Monaco, 1929–1982
Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia on 12 November 1929.
She starred in High Noon (1952).
She won the Oscar for The Country Girl (1954).
She married Prince Rainier III in 1956.
Career highlights
Did you know?A Hermès handbag was renamed the Kelly bag after her.
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