Jean Simmons, the English actress known primarily for her role alongside Marlon Brando in the 1955 musical Guys and Dolls, has recently passed away. She was 80 years old, and her death has been attributed to lung cancer. Simmons made her film debut when she was 14 years old, with the British production of Give Us the Moon. Two years later, she landed the role of Estella in 1946’s Great Expectations. A number of films led her to her next big role in Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet in 1948, for which she won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. The actress then moved from Britain to Hollywood in 1950, where she garnered another Oscar nomination for best actress for The Happy Ending in 1969, and ended up winning an Emmy Award for The Thorn Birds, a 1980s miniseries.

“Simmons is one of the most quietly commanding actresses Hollywood has ever trashed,” film critic Pauline Kael said of her performance in Elmer Gantry. In 1950, Simmons married Stewart Granger, and they had a daughter, Tracy Granger. The couple divorced ten years later, and Simmons was remarried to Richard Brooks in the same year. The couple had a daughter, Kate Brooks, and were divorced in 1977. Throughout her lifetime, the actress accumulated two BAFTA nominations and six Golden Globe nominations, one of which she won for her role in Guys and Dolls. Many will miss the transcendental screen presence of Jean Simmons. But one thing’s for sure; she will not be forgotten.