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 Un homme dans la foule (1957). Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in Les feux de l'été (1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim in Autopsie d'un meurtre (1959). And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Le jour du vin et des 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.
