Elizabeth Taylor
British-American Actress
Full Name: Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor
Other Name: Liz Taylor
Date of Birth: February 27, 1932
Place of Birth: Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England
Date of Death: March 23, 2011 (aged 79) at Los Angeles, California, United States
Elizabeth Taylor became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.
National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963). Taylor won a second Academy Award for Virginia Woolf? (1966).
From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses.
Taylor died of congestive heart failure in March 2011 at the age of 79, having suffered many years of ill health.
