Elizabeth Taylor

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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was an actress born in London to American parents, who rose to prominence in Hollywood as a child star in films including Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944) before establishing herself as a leading adult performer in dramas such as A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Cleopatra (1963). and the emotionally volatile Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). that year and launched the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991 to fund treatment and support for those affected.(

In brief

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) 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. Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939 at the age of seven. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the Universal Pictures film There's One Born Every Minute (1942), but the studio ended her contract after a year.