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Known in childhood as "Eggy" and supposedly born
in County Down, Ireland, in 1908, she was actually
born in London, the only child of George Garson
(1865-1906), a clerk from the Orkney Islands who
was himself the son of an Irish cabinetmaker, and
his Scottish wife, Nancy ("Nina") Sophia Greer.

She was educated at the University of London,
where she earned degrees in French and
18th-century literature. She intended to become a
teacher, but instead began working with an
advertising agency. She appeared in local
theatrical productions, and was discovered by
Louis B. Mayer while he was in London looking for
new talent. Garson was signed to a contract with
MGM and appeared in her first American film,
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips,
in 1939. She received her first Oscar nomination
for the role.

She won the 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. In
1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the
United States. By the end of the decade, and
through the 1950s, however, her roles were
becoming less appreciated. In 1960, however, she
again received an Oscar nomination for Sunrise at
Campobello, in which she played Eleanor Roosevelt.

The actress was married three times. 
*Her first husband, whom she married on September
28, 1933, was Edward (later Sir Edward) Alec Abbot
Snelson (1904-1992), a British civil servant who
became a noted judge and expert in Indian and
Pakistani affairs; the real marriage reportedly
lasted only a few weeks, but was not formally
dissolved until the 1940s.  
*Her second husband, whom she married in 1943, was
Richard Ney (born 1914, 1915, 1917, or 1918,
sources differ), the young actor who played her
son in "Mrs. Miniver"; they divorced in 1949, with
Garson claiming that Ney had called her a has-been
and belittled her age.  Ney eventually became a
respected stock-market analyst and financial
consultant. 
*That same year 1949 she married a millionaire
Texas oilman and horse breeder, E. E. "Buddy"
Fogelson (died 1987), and in 1967, the couple
retired to the Forked Lightning Ranch in New
Mexico.  They also lived in Dallas, Texas, where
Garson funded the Greer Garson Theater facility at
Southern Methodist University. 

She died of heart failure in Dallas on 6 April
1996 and 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 (film)|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 (film)|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)