Jean Simmons

(jeansimmons.net - a fan website) (http://www.jeansimmons.net). In tribute, David Lynch dedicated his film Mulholland Dr. to her memory. In 1989, she again starred in a miniseries version of Great Expectations, where she performed the role of Miss Havisham, Estella's adopted mother. Jennifer Symes was buried next to her daughter. For her appearance in the mini-series, The Thorn Birds, she won an Emmy award. Syme's relationship with Reeves ended shortly after the child's death but they remained friends until her own untimely passing as a result of an automobile accident in the spring of 2001 in Los Angeles. in "A little night music," then took the show to London. The photo depicted here is of Syme and Reeves attending the internment at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Fortunately, the screen's loss was the stage and television's gain: to glowing reviews, Simmons toured the U.S. In December of 1999 she was expecting their daughter, to have been named Eva Archer Syme-Reeves, when the infant was still-born a few weeks premature. By the 70s, her screen career had tapered off. Syme had performed in a few minor film roles including for Lynch in his Lost Highway. Among her best-known leading roles are Guys and Dolls (1955), Elmer Gantry (directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks) and Spartacus, and The Happy Ending, again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination. Born Jennifer Maria Syme in Pico Rivera, California, she was working as an assistant to film director David Lynch when she began dating actor Keanu Reeves. In 1950, she married the British actor, Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transition to Hollywood. Jennifer Syme, (December 7, 1972 – April 2, 2001), was an entertainment industry employee, best known as the companion of actor Keanu Reeves.

In 1948, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Laurence Olivier. Her first major film was Great Expectations, in which she played the young Estella. She was born in Crouch End, London and began acting while still in her teens. Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929) is a British actress.