Elizabeth Taylor
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-02-27
Day of Death
2011-03-23 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Elizabeth Taylor
Biography
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.
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), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. 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. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed 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, who named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
Acting
(2024)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2019)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2017)
Chavela
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2015)
Children of 'Giant'
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
The Battle of Amfar
as self
(2011)
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
as (archive footage)
(2010)
Smash His Camera
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
A Letter to True
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies
as Self (archive footage)
(2002)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
(2002)
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self (uncredited)
(2001)
(2001)
These Old Broads
as Beryl Mason
(2001)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2001)
(2000)
(1997)
(1996)
Return to 'Giant'
as Self (archive footage)
(1995)
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self (archive footage)
(1995)
(1994)
The Flintstones
as Pearl Slaghoople
(1994)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1994)
The Jackson Family Honors
as Self
(1993)
(1993)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self
(1992)
(1990)
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give
as Self (archive footage)
(1989)
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Alexandra Del Lago
(1989)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
as Self - Introduction Speaker
(1988)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
(1988)
(1988)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self (archive footage)
(1988)
Young Toscanini
as Nadina Bulichoff
(1988)
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self (Archive Footage)
(1987)
Poker Alice
as Alice Moffit
(1987)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
as Self (archive footage)
(1986)
There Must Be a Pony
as Marguerite Sydney
(1986)
(1986)
Super Duper Bloopers
as Self
(1985)
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
(1985)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self (archive footage)
(1985)
Malice in Wonderland
as Louella Parsons
(1983)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1983)
Notre Dame de la Croisette
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1983)
Between Friends
as Deborah Shapiro
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1982)
Genocide
as Narrator (voice)
(1980)
The Mirror Crack'd
as Marina Rudd
(1979)
Winter Kills
as Lola Comante (uncredited)
(1978)
Return Engagement
as Dr. Emily Loomis
(1978)
A Death in Canaan
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
(1977)
A Little Night Music
as Desiree Armfeldt
(1976)
The Blue Bird
as Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love
(1976)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1976)
Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1976)
Victory at Entebbe
as Edra Vilnofsky
(1976)
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
(1975)
(1974)
That's Entertainment!
as Self - Host / Narrator
(1974)
Identikit
as Lise
(1973)
Night Watch
as Ellen Wheeler
(1973)
Ash Wednesday
as Barbara Sawyer
(1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1972)
Under Milk Wood
as Rosie Probert
(1972)
Hammersmith Is Out
as Jimmie Jean Jackson
(1971)
Zee and Co.
as Zee Blakeley
(1970)
The Only Game in Town
as Fran Walker
(1969)
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Masked Courtesan (uncredited)
(1968)
Secret Ceremony
as Leonora
(1968)
Boom!
as Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
(1968)
(1968)
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
as Self (uncredited)
(1967)
The Taming of the Shrew
as Katharina
(1967)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Leonora Penderton
(1967)
Doctor Faustus
as Helen of Troy
(1967)
The Comedians
as Martha Pineda
(1967)
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
(1966)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
as Martha
(1965)
The Sandpiper
as Laura Reynolds
(1965)
The Big Sur
as Self
(1965)
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
as Self
(1964)
Becket
as Blonde Village Woman (uncredited)
(1964)
On the Trail of the Iguana
as Self
(1963)
Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
(1963)
The V.I.P.s
as Frances Andros
(1963)
Elizabeth Taylor in London
as Herself
(1960)
BUtterfield 8
as Gloria Wandrous
(1960)
Scent of Mystery
as Woman of Mystery
(1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer
as Catherine Holly
(1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Maggie
(1957)
Raintree County
as Susanna Drake Shawnessy
(1957)
Operation Raintree
as Self
(1956)
Giant
as Leslie Lynnton Benedict
(1956)
(1954)
The Last Time I Saw Paris
as Helen Ellswirth
(1954)
Elephant Walk
as Ruth Wiley
(1954)
Beau Brummell
as Lady Patricia
(1954)
Rhapsody
as Louise Durant
(1954)
(1953)
The Girl Who Had Everything
as Jean Latimer
(1952)
Ivanhoe
as Rebecca
(1952)
Love Is Better Than Ever
as Anastacia (Stacie) Macaboy
(1951)
Quo Vadis
as Christian Prisoner in Arena (uncredited)
(1951)
A Place in the Sun
as Angela Vickers
(1951)
Father's Little Dividend
as Kay Dunstan
(1951)
Callaway Went Thataway
as Elizabeth Taylor (uncredited)
(1950)
Father of the Bride
as Kay Banks
(1950)
The Big Hangover
as Mary Belney
(1949)
Little Women
as Amy
(1949)
Conspirator
as Melinda Greyton
(1948)
A Date with Judy
as Carol Pringle
(1948)
Julia Misbehaves
as Susan Packett
(1947)
Cynthia
as Cynthia Bishop
(1947)
Life with Father
as Mary Skinner
(1946)
Courage of Lassie
as Kathie Eleanor Merrick
(1945)
National Velvet
as Velvet Brown
(1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Betsy Kenney at Age 10 (uncredited)
(1944)
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1943)
Jane Eyre
as Helen Burns
(1943)
Lassie Come Home
as Priscilla
(1942)
There's One Born Every Minute
as Gloria Twine
Crew
(1964)
The Caretaker
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