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Leslie Caron (born July 1, 1931) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning film actress and dancer. Caron has said of herself: "I'm not a ballerina. I'm a hoofer".She was born Leslie Claire Margaret Caron in Boulogne-Billancourt, France to Claude Caron (French chemist) and Margaret Petit (American dancer). Caron was prepared for a performing career from childhood by her mother. Caron's mother briefly made it to Broadway, but gave up her career for marriage, and eventually took her own life.After dancing in the Ballets de Champs Elysses for three years, her talent as a dancer had been already noticed (in 1946) by Gene Kelly in Roland Petit's ballet on the theme of Orpheus. But neither Kelly or P... read more