Debbie Reynolds to get SAG Life Achievement Award

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is honouring Debbie Reynolds for her professional and humanitarian accomplishments.

The guild announced on Monday that the 82-year-old entertainer will receive the 2014 SAG Life Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony in January. The award is the union’s highest accolade.

Reynolds is a star of stage and screen, with more than 50 films, two Broadway shows and two TV series to her credit. In 1955, she and other young stars established a charity called The Thalians to fight the stigma of mental illness. The Thalians has since raised more than $30 million (Dh110.2 million).

Reynolds published her first memoir in 1987 and updated it with 2013’s Unsinkable: A Memoir.

The 21st annual SAG Awards will be presented on January 25 at Los Angeles’ Shrine Exhibition Center.