
Elizabeth Taylor
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.
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Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American philanthropist, autobiographer, and actor who worked in stage and television. Born in Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1932, she began her work period in 1942. She was a member of the Republican Party and held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. Her religious worldview included Judaism and Christianity. She was married to Conrad Hilton, Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, and Eddie Fisher.
Taylor received several awards, including the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the BAFTA Fellowship, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She is recognized in the Academy Award Best Actress collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. She died of natural causes in Los Angeles in 2011 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Her mother was Sara Sothern.
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- 1912
- Died
- 1975
- Works
- 126
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- Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
- Soul of Kindness
- The Sleeping Beauty
- A Wreath of Roses
- Mossy Trotter
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- 1932
- Active to
- 2011
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