Grace Kelly 1929 – 1982

Biography

Grace Kelly was an American actress who became Princess of Monaco. Born in Philadelphia in 1929 to a wealthy family, she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and broke into films in the early 1950s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Country Girl in 1954, and starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief, as well as High Noon and High Society. At the height of her fame she retired from acting to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956, in a wedding watched around the world. As Princess Grace she devoted herself to charity and the arts, founding the Princess Grace Foundation. She died in 1982 after a car crash on a mountain road above Monaco.