The Scottish actress Deborah Kerr, who won a Golden Globe award and remained in the movie history for her scene with Burt Lancaster from the movie From Here to Eternity, has died today. Her agent announced that the 86-year-old actress died in the eastern English county of Suffolk on Tuesday.

"Her family was with her at the time. She had suffered from Parkinson's disease for some time and had just had her 86th birthday and so was an elderly lady. She just slipped away.", her agent announced.

Deborah Kerr was born in 1921 in Scotland and she started her career on stage and entertained the British troops during the Second World War.

After the war she became a Hollywood diva, known for her roles alongside Burt Lancaster, Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum.

Deborah Kerr’s first major film role was Major Barbara in 1941, but she was noticed by Hollywood producers in 1947 for her performance in Black Narcissus.

Two years later she was nominated for an Oscar award for Best Actress for her role Edward, My Son. In 1953 she won a new nomination at the same award for the role Karen in From Here To Eternity. The American Film Institute named her love-making scene with Burt Lancaster as one of “AFI's top 100 Most Romantic Films".

The other Oscar nominations were for The King And I in 1956, Heaven Knows, Mr Allison in 1957, Separate Tables in 1958 and The Sundowners in 1960. For her role, Anna Leonowens, in The King And I, Deborah Kerr received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Deborah Kerr retired from the screen in 1969 after the movie The Arrangement but 16 years later she re-emerged for one last movie The Asam Garden.

In 1967, despite her age (46), Deborah Kerr appeared as a Bond Girl in Casino Royale. She received an honorary Academy Award in 1994 in recognition of the "perfection, discipline and elegance" and was appointed a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 1997.

She is survived by her second husband, novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel, two daughters and three grandchildren.