Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor was a multi-award winning British-American actress who became 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 named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.

Taylor was known for Father of the Bride (1950),  A Place in the Sun (1951), Ivanhoe (1952) with Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine, the epic drama Giant (1956), Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).

Taylor won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), Cleopatra (1961), The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) for which she won her second Academy Award for Best Actress.

She has a Star on the Hollywoof Walk of Fame.