Elizabeth Taylor

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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) would have been a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became among the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As the world's most well-known film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability as well as her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.

National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and he or she starred in Father from the Bride (1950), A location 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), totally 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 another Academy Award. From your mid-1970s, she appeared more infrequently in film, making occasional appearances in television and theatre.

Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and lots of life-threatening illnesses. In the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, as well as the Bette davis AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and also a Life Achievement Award through the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on the set of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure at the day of 79.

1 Formative years

2 Acting career

2.1 Child actress

2.2 Adolescent star

2.3 Transition into adult roles

2.4 1955–79

2.5 1980–2003

2.6 2003–11

3 Personal life

3.1 Marriages, romances, and children

3.2 Religion and identity

3.3 Friendship with Michael Jackson

3.4 Jewelry, perfume and fashion

4 Activism

4.1 HIV/AIDS

4.2 Jewish causes

5 Illnesses and death

6 Legacy

7 Awards and honors

8 Books

9 Filmography

10 Notes

11 References

12 Further reading

13 External links

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor came to be at Heathwood, her parents' home at 8 Wildwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb a northwestern suburb of London; the younger of two kids of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who have been Americans living in England. Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929 parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Francis Taylor was an art form dealer, and Sara would be a former actress whose stage name was "Sara Sothern". Sothern retired from the stage in 1926 when she married Francis in Nyc. Taylor's two first names have been in honor of her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Mary (Rosemond) Taylor.