Elizabeth Taylor
Name
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
Birthplace
London, England, U.K.
Birth date
February 27, 1932
Death place
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Death date
March 23, 2011 (aged 79)
Occupation
actress, businesswoman
Active Years
1942–2007
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English-American actress and businesswoman. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend.
Selected filmography[]
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Jane Eyre (1943)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Quo Vadis (1951)
- Giant (1956)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
- Ash Wednesday (1973)