- Born: 27 February 1932
- Birthplace: London, England
- Died: 23 March 2011 (congestive heart failure)
- Best Known As: The much-married star of Cleopatra
One of the great Hollywood stars of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor had three fairly distinct career personas: as the winsome child star of movies like
National Velvet (1944); as a fiery prima donna, the acknowledged "world's most beautiful woman" and star of movies like
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and
Butterfield 8 (1960); and as an older Hollywood
grande dame, tabloid favorite, AIDS activist and friend to pop stars like
Elton John and
Michael Jackson. Her tempestuous marriage to Welsh actor Richard Burton made them Hollywood's reigning couple in the 1960s: they starred together as lovers in the big-budget epic
Cleopatra (1963, with Taylor as
Cleopatra and Burton as
Marc Antony) and then played bitterly battling spouses in the 1966 film
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor had seven husbands and eight marriages in all: hotelier Nicky Hilton (1950-51, divorced), actor Michael Wilding (1952-57, divorced), producer Mike Todd (1957 until his 1958 death in a plane crash), singer Eddie Fisher (1959-64, divorced), actor Richard Burton (1964-74, divorced), Burton again (1975-76, divorced again), politician John Warner (1976-82, divorced), and construction worker Larry Fortensky (1991-96, divorced). Elizabeth Taylor won best actress Oscars for
Butterfield 8 and
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 2000 by
Queen Elizabeth II. She died in Los Angeles in 2011 of congestive heart failure.
Elizabeth Taylor had two sons with Michael Wilding: Michael Howard Wilding (b. 1953) and Christopher Edward Wilding (b. 1955)... Elizabeth Taylor was the first actress to earn a million dollars for one film, for 1963's
Cleopatra... Taylor was born in London but her parents were American: her father was an art dealer, her mother an actress.
Eight husbands?????? hmmmmmmmmmmm
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