Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011), often referred to as Liz Taylor, was an English-born American actress. Beginning as a child star then throughout her adulthood, she was known for her acting talent, glamour, beauty, and striking violet eyes; as well as a much publicized private life that included eight marriages, several life-threatening illnesses, and decades spent as a social activist, championing the cause of AIDS awareness, research and cure. Taylor, a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, is considered one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list.LIFE IN A GLANCE
Elizabeth Taylor was the idealisation movie star: violet-eyed, luminously beautiful, and bigger than life; nonetheless never the most means actress, she was the most magnetic, autocratic the spotlight with forlorn power. Born Feb 27, 1932, in London, Taylor literally grew up in public. At the commencement of World War II, her family relocated to Hollywood, and by the age of 10 she was already underneath stipulate at Universal. She done her shade entrance in 1942′s There’s One Born Every Minute followed a year after by a distinguished purpose in Lassie Come Home. For MGM, she co-starred in the 1944 instrumentation of Jane Eyre, afterwards appeared in The White Cliffs of Dover. With her initial lead purpose as a teenager equestrian in the 1944 family classical National Velvet, Taylor became a star. To their credit, MGM did not attainment her, notwithstanding her implausible beauty; she did not even reappear onscreen for dual some-more years, returning with Courage of Lassie. Taylor subsequent starred as Cynthia in 1947, followed by Life With Father. In Julia Misbehaves, she enjoyed her initial grown-up role, and afterwards portrayed Amy in the 1947 instrumentation of Little Women. Taylor’s initial regretful lead came conflicting Robert Taylor in 1949′s Conspirator. Her adore hold up was already opening up offscreen as well; which same year she began dating millionaire Howard Hughes, though pennyless off the attribute to marry road house successor Nicky Hilton when she was only seventeen years old. The matrimony done general headlines, and in 1950 Taylor scored a vital strike as Spencer Tracy’s daughter in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride; a sequel, Father’s Little Dividend, premiered a year later. Renowned as a single of the world’s most pleasing women, Taylor was though mostly discharged as an thespian prior to to an glorious opening in the George Stevens play A Place in the Sun; soon, she was earning upwards of 5,000 dollars a week.
Academy Award-winning thespian Elizabeth Taylor has died of congestive heart disaster at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She had been a studious there for some-more than 6 weeks prior to to succumbing to her illness. “She was surrounded by her children: Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton,” Sally Morrison, Taylor’s publicist, pronounced in a statement.
Starting out as a kid star, Taylor enjoyed a conspicuous career in film. She won dual Academy Awards for her thespian work in Butterfield 8 in 1960 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1965. In new decades, Taylor had stepped divided from behaving to concentration upon gift work. She determined the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. Married 8 times, Taylor additionally captivated a lot of media courtesy for her personal life. She even marry associate actor Richard Burton twice. Health issues additionally tormented the thespian over the years. She suffered a distressing tumble from a equine during the creation of her new thing movie National Velvet (1944). Most recently, Taylor underwent heart operation in 2009 to correct a valve.
Taylor died upon Mar 23, 2011, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 79 years old. Through all her triumphs and difficulties, she will regularly be remembered as a beautiful, much-beloved lady with a participation clearly incomparable than life, both upon and off the screen
