Elizabeth Taylor

Born

February 27, 1932

Died

March 23, 2011 (aged 79)

Known as

philanthropist, autobiographer, stage actor, television actor, writer, film actor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor 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.

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