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)