Elizabeth Taylor

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AKA:
Dame , Elizabeth Taylor , Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
Nationality:
British
Birthdate:
02/27/1932
Birthplace:
Hampstead, London, England
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biography
With the arguable exception of Marilyn Monroe, no other star from Hollywood’s Golden Age exerted a more enduring hold on the public’s imagination than Elizabeth Taylor. For nearly 70 years, the press chronicled every element of Taylor’s very public private life, which was fraught with more melodrama, romantic intrigue, and scandal than the collected works of Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins combined. The eight marriages (and counting), medical crises, and headline-grabbing meltdowns all but eclipsed the fact that Taylor twice won the Best Actress Academy Award, for “Butterfield 8” (1960) Continued
Credits
Herself
2004
(TV Show)
1992-1992
Maggie Simpson
1992
Rosie Probert
1973
Laura Reynolds
1965
Cleopatra
1963
Maggie Pollitt
1958
Leslie Lynnton Benedict
1956
Helen Ellswirth
1954
Angela Vickers
1951
funding
Pearl Slaghoople
Herself
Actor
Leonora Penderton
Lady Patricia
Susanna Drake
Helen of Troy
Martha Pineda
Catherine Holly
1959
Barbara Sawyer
Ellen Wheeler
Actor
Zee
Fran Walker
Jimmie Jean Jackson
Narration
Louise Durant
Gloria Wandrous
Mother
Leonora
Nadia Bulichoff
Ruth Wiley
Frances Andros
Flora Goforth
Desiree Armfeldt
milestones
Year
Milestone
1939 
Family left London at the start of WWII and moved to Los Angeles, CA
1941 
Signed a contract with Universal Pictures
1942 
Made screen debut at the age of nine in "There's One Born Every Minute"
1942 
Signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer eight months after Universal cancelled her contract
1943 
First film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "Lassie Come Home"; also first film opposite Roddy McDowall
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