Despite a short acting career, Grace Kelly has achieved the status of one of the highest paid actresses of her time and victory in the Academy Award. In 1956, she became the Princess of Monaco and the mother of the current ruling Prince of Monaco.
Biography
The future princess and the owner of the Oscar statuette was born in Philadelphia in 1929. Grace Patricia Kelly became the third child in a family of wealthy and secular parents. His father was engaged in the construction industry, his mother was a successful fashion model in her youth. Children were brought up in strict Catholic traditions, they attended school at the church.
Kelly first appeared on the stage in her early childhood, when she was invited to participate in a Christmas scene for a Catholic school. At the age of 6, she played the role of the Virgin Mary and from then on she began to understand what she wanted to do in the future.
After leaving school, the girl, contrary to the opinion of her parents, moved to New York and began to study theatrical skills. As a teenager, Grace Kelly was unsurpassed in beauty, so in her free time she worked as a model. She began to go to auditions, but for some time she achieved only advertising work.
In the period from 1950 to 1951 she played episodic and secondary roles in not the most popular series. The debut, but still secondary work in the big movie was the film "Fourteen Hours."
The next four years were filled with exceptionally successful feature films. In 1952, she was first nominated for an Oscar for the film Mogambo, and in 1954 she received a figurine for her work in the film Country Girl.
1956 was the final year in the film career Grace Kelly. She played Tracy Lord in the movie "High Society" and left the cinema since she married the Prince of Monaco. For 6 years spent in this industry, Grace Kelly has reached astounding heights.
