Vivien Leigh
Name
Vivian Mary Hartley
Birthplace
Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India
Birth date
November 5, 1913
Death place
New York City, United States
Death date
January 25, 1993 (aged 79)
Occupation
actress
Active Years
1935–1993
Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – January 25, 1993; born Vivian Mary Hartley and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947) was a British stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End theatre in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway theatre musical version of Tovarich (1963).
Selected filmography[]
- Sidewalks of London (1938)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Waterloo Bridge (1940)
- That Hamilton Woman (1941)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
- Anna Karenina (1948)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Ship of Fools (1965)