Known within childhood when "Eggy" & purportedly innate inside County Down, Ireland, inside 1908, she was actually natural inside London, a simply little one of George Garson (1865-1906), the clerk from either the Orkney Islands, who was himself the boy of a Protestant Irish-born cabinetmaker, & his Scottish wife, Nancy ("Nina") Sophia Greer.

She was educated at a University of London, where she earned degrees inside French & 18th-century literature. She meant to be the teacher, however instead began working using an ad agency, & appeared around local theatrical productions. She likewise appeared in television during the 1930s, most notably within the xxx-microscopic production of an selection of Twelfth Night in May 1937, alongside Peggy Ashcroft, which was the 1st known case of the Shakespeare play being performed in television. She was found by Louis B. Mayer while he was in London looking for new talent. Garson was signed to the locate MGM and appeared in her number 1 Our contries film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in 1939. She received her number one Oscar nomination for the role.

She won a Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a British matron pluckily surviving in the midst of war in Mrs. Miniver, and she received more nominations during the 1940s. Around 1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Per prevent of the decade, & through the 1950s, however, her roles were becoming less appreciated. Inside 1960, however, she once again received an Oscar nomination for Sunrise at Campobello, in which she played Eleanor Roosevelt.

A actress was married 3 days: Her foremost married man, whom she married within September 28, 1933, was Edward (late Sir Edward) Alec Abbot Snelson (1904-1992), a British civil servant world health organization became the noted judge & adept in Indian & Pakistani affairs; the very marriage reportedly lasted simply two or three weeks, however was non formally dissolved until the Forties. Her 2nd married man, whom she married withwithwithin 1943, was Richard Ney (innate in either 1914, 1915, 1917, or even 1918, sources differ), a immature actor world health organization played her boy in "Mrs. Miniver"; it divorced inside 1949, by having Garson claiming that Ney got known as her the "has-been" & belittled her age. Ney one of these days became the respected futures-market analyst & fiscal advisor. That equivalent season (1949) she married the millionaire Texas oilman & horse stock breeder, E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson (died 1987), & within 1967, a few retired to the Forked Lightning Ranch in New Mexico. It as well sleep in Dallas, Texas, where Garson funded the Greer Garson Theater facility at Southern Methodist University (SMU).

She died of coronary failure within Dallas in April 6, 1996, at the age of 91, & is interred there in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery.

Academy Awards and Nominations
1961 Nominated Sunrise at Campobello 1946 Nominated The Valley of Decision 1945 Nominated Mrs. Parkington 1944 Nominated Madame Curie 1943 Won Mrs. Miniver 1942 Nominated Blossoms In the Dust 1940 Nominated Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Filmography

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Remember? (1939) The Miracle of Sound (1940) (short subject) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) Mrs. Miniver (1942) Random Harvest (1942) The Youngest Profession (1943) (cameo) Madame Curie (1943) Mrs. Parkington (1944) The Valley of Decision (1945) Adventure (1945) Desire Me (1947) Julia Misbehaves (1948) That Forsyte Woman (1949) Screen Actors (1950) (short subject) The Miniver Story (1950) The Law and the Lady (1951) Scandal at Scourie (1953) Julius Caesar (1953) Her Twelve Men (1954) Strange Lady in Town (1955) Sunrise at Campobello (1960) Pepe (1960) (cameo) The Singing Nun (1966) The Happiest Millionaire (1967) Directed by William Wyler (1986) (documentary)

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