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Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)[1] was a British-American[2] actress.
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Born | Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-02-27)February 27, 1932 London, England |
Died | March 23, 2011(2011-03-23) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Cause of death | Congestive heart failure |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
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Other names | Liz Taylor |
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Years active | 1942–2007 |
Title | Dame (2000) |
Spouses | Conrad Hilton Jr.
(m. 1950; div. 1951)Michael Wilding
(m. 1952; div. 1957)
(m. 1975; div. 1976)Larry Fortensky
(m. 1991; div. 1996) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Francis Lenn Taylor Sara Sothern |
Awards | Full list |
Website | elizabethtaylor |
The movies she starred in were, National Velvet, Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8. She played the title role in Cleopatra, and married her costar Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Taylor won a second Academy Award in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
Her personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor supported HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. The American Film Institute named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure in March 2011 at the age of 79 after suffering many years of ill health.