Gene Tierney

Born

November 19, 1920

Died

November 6, 1991 (aged 70)

Known as

actor, autobiographer, character actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor

Gene Eliza Tierney was an American stage and film actress. Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She starred as Laura Hunt in Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), a film noir classic, and as Ellen Berent in John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history."

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