Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began as a child actress in the early 1940s and became one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. The American Film Institute named her the seventh greatest female screen legend in 1999.
Taylor was born in London to American parents and moved to Los Angeles in 1939. She debuted in film in 1942 and rose to fame with National Velvet (1944). She transitioned to adult roles in the early 1950s, starring in Father of the Bride (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951). Taylor won a Golden Globe for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8 (1960). She was paid $1 million for Cleopatra (1963), where she began a famous relationship with Richard Burton. They married in 1964 and starred in eleven films together, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which she won her second Academy Award. Taylor's career declined in the late 1960s but continued into the mid-1970s, after which she supported the career of her husband Senator John Warner. In the 1980s, she acted on stage and television and launched a perfume brand. Taylor co-founded amfAR in 1985 and The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991, dedicating herself to philanthropy until her death. She was married eight times to seven men and died from congestive heart failure at age 79 in 2011.
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