Kerima (actress)

To create more publicity for Kerima and the movie Outcast, an exotic-island-girl image consistent with her role was created by the film's executive producer, Alexander Korda. He claimed she was born in Algeria. A search of birth records in Algerian newspapers was conducted around 2006 which did not find any record of her birth. Her husband Guy Hamilton, an assistant director of Outcast, was then contacted and asked about Kerima's background. He confirmed that she was born in France to French parents, is a French citizen, and that Korda created the stage name Kerima (which means 'Noble' in Arabic) and the associated persona of an exotic Javanese native to promote the movie.

In January 1953, Kerima secretly married Greek actor Alexis Revidis in Rome; the couple did not publicize the marriage until October. They were later divorced. Her second marriage was to Guy Hamilton, who was an assistant director for Outcast of the Islands, after they met again in Rome many years after the filming of Outcast. They lived in a villa in Andratx on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca from the mid-1970s. Hamilton died in April 2016.

Kerima was active in film throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, working with Italian and American directors including Joseph Mankiewicz and Howard Hawks and at one time under contract to Dino De Laurentiis. Her last known work was in minor parts in 1972, the last being a bellydancer in one episode of The Adventurer, a British TV series.

Kerima (born 10 February 1925) is a French former actress best known for her role in the 1951 British film Outcast of the Islands. For publicity reasons, she was portrayed as having exotic origins including claims that she was Javanese or Algerian.