Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Rosamond Taylor (often also: Liz Taylor), born February 27, 1932 in London as daughter of the art dealer Francis Taylor and the actress Sara Taylor. Her parents are American. She has one older brother, Howard.
Liz Taylor became an actress as a child. She played in her first movie at the age of nine, her first important engagement was playing the leading role in Clarence Brown's film National Velvet.
At the age of 3 she began taking ballet lessons. Later, she visited the University High School in Los Angeles, California and received her high school diploma January 26, 1950.
Filmography
- Unkown: Around the World of Mike Todd
- 1942 There's One Born Every Minute
- 1943 Lassie Come Home
- 1944 Jane Eyre
- 1944 The White Cliffs of Dover
- 1944 National Velvet
- 1946 Courage of Lassie
- 1947 Life with Father
- 1947 Cynthia
- 1948 A Date with Judy
- 1948 Julia Misbehaves
- 1949 Little Women
- 1949 Conspirator
- 1950 The Big Hangover
- 1950 Father of the Bride
- 1951 Quo Vadis?
- 1951 Father's Little Dividend
- 1951 A Place in the Sun
- 1951 Callaway Went Thataway
- 1952 Love Is Better Than Ever
- 1952 Ivanhoe
- 1953 The Girl Who Had Everything
- 1954 Rhapsody
- 1954 Elephant Walk
- 1954 Beau Brummell
- 1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris
- 1956 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars
- 1956 Giant
- 1957 Raintree County
- 1957 Operation Raintree
- 1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- 1959 Suddenly, Last Summer
- 1960 Butterfield 8
- 1960 Scent of Mystery
- 1962 Lykke og krone
- 1963 Cleopatra
- 1963 The V.I.P.s
- 1964 On the Trail of the Iguana
- 1965 The Sandpiper
- 1965 The Love Goddesses
- 1965 The Big Sur
- 1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1967 La Bisbetica domata
- 1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye
- 1967 The Comedians
- 1967 Doctor Faustus
- 1967 The Comedians in Africa
- 1968 Boom
- 1968 Secret Ceremony
- 1968 On Location: 'Where Eagles Dare'
- 1969 Anne of the Thousand Days
- 1970 The Only Game in Town
- 1972 Zee and Co.
- 1972 Hammersmith Is Out
- 1973 Night Watch
- 1973 Ash Wednesday
- 1973 Under Milk Wood
- 1974 The Driver's Seat
- 1974 That's Entertainment!
- 1976 Blue Bird, The
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
- 1977 A Little Night Music
- 1979 Winter Kills
- 1980 The Mirror Crack'd
- 1963 General Hospital
- 1981 Genocide
- 1970 All My Children
- 1983 Montgomery Clift
- 1985 North and South
- 1988 Il Giovane Toscanini
- 1994 The Flintstones
- 1997 The Fifties
- 1999 The Visit
In addition to her movies she also appeared in a number of TV-series, e.g. she gave her voice to Maggie from The Simpsons.
Awards
Beyond other awards, Elizabeth Taylor received an Oscar as |Best Actress in 1966 for Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Biography
Elizabeth Taylor was married 8 times (Talk:Elizabeth Taylor):
- May 6, 1950 - January 29, 1951, with Nicholas Conrad Hilton (also: Nicky Hilton)
- February 21, 1952 - October 4, 1956, with Michael Wilding, actor
- Son: Michael Wilding, born January 6, 1953
- Son: Christopher Wilding, born February 27, 1955
- February 2, 1957 - March 23, 1958, with Mike Todd (also: Michael Todd), producer, promoter, showman. He died during a plane crash in New Mexico.
- Daughter: Elizabeth Frances Todd, born August 6, 1957
- 1959 - March 6, 1964, with Eddie Fisher, singer, actor
- March 15, 1964 - June 26, 1974, with Richard Burton, actor
- Daughter: Maria Carson, adopted 1964, born 1961
- October 1975 - summer 1976, again with Richard Burton* December 4, 1976 - November 7, 1982, with John Warner, politician, U.S. Senator
- October 6, 1991 - November 1996, with Larry Fortensky (also: Lawrence Lee Fortensky), teamster, construction-equipment operator