Jean Simmons played her first film role at age 14 as a sister of Margaret Lockwood in Give Us the Moon. Two years later, she was Great Expectations by the role of the young Estella in David Lean's adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel. Their popularity grew thanks to its depiction of a frivolous girl in Black Narcissus alongside Deborah Kerr. Laurence Olivier chose them from the play Ophelia in his adaptation of Hamlet on. Simmons was nominated for her intense representation for the Oscar as best supporting actress.

In 1950, she married her colleague Stewart Granger, and both went to Hollywood, where Jean Simmons one non-exclusive contract with Howard Hughes signed on each $ 66,666 for three films. Both did not get along with each other and from anger Simmons cut hours off before filming of Otto Preminger's film noir Angel Face, the hair, so that the role of a rich morally depraved woman with her sexual desire their chauffeur, played by Robert Mitchum, tears to his death, had to play with a wig. In addition, she established herself in 20th Century-Fox as the star in epics like The Robe, The Egyptian and Spartacus in particular.

In 1958 she starred with Gregory Peck, the female lead in the "anti-Western Western," The Big Country. 1960 could be Stewart Granger Simmons of divorced and married the film director Richard Brooks. Brooks gave her a role in his adaptation of Elmer Gantry, for which she received excellent reviews. In the 1960s, Simmons was increasingly difficult roles that were appropriate to their talents. Exception was the comedy The Grass Is Greener, 1960, they brought with Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum together, and the role of a grieving widow in the film adaptation of James Agee's novel All the Way Home. For her performance in the bedroom farce frivolous happy ending to a marriage from 1969, Jean Simmons was the second time nominated for an Oscar.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Jean Simmons was seen only sporadically in film productions, and worked mainly for television, among other things, she worked in multi Bürgerkriegsepos North and South, and in a multi-part, from the Disney Corporation for television produced version of Great Expectations with, in which she took on the role of Miss Havisham.
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