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Taylor, Elizabeth
(1932)
American actress
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
--Interview, 1980
Elizabeth Taylor became as famous for her diamonds, diets, and husbands as for her beauty and acting ability.
Born in London of American parents, she moved to Los Angeles at the outbreak of World War II and made her film debut there at the age of ten in There's One Born Every Minute. Her fourth film, National Velvet (1944), based on Enid Bagnold's novel about a girl who wins the Grand National, made her a household name. Despite further juvenile parts in two "Lassie" films (1943, 1946) and in Little Women (1949), she successfully made the transition to an adult role in The Father of the Bride (1950). Giant (1956) confirmed her reputation.
Taylor's performances in Raintree County (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly Last Summer (1959) all gained her Academy Award nominations. In 1960 she finally won her first Oscar for Butterfield 8. Her starring role in Cleopatra (1962), the most expensive film made to that date, boosted her to superstar status and led to a high-profile romance with the actor Richard Burton, whom she was to marry in 1964, divorce (1974), remarry (1975), and divorce again in 1976. Together they made a number of films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), for which Taylor won a second Oscar. In the 1980s she made her stage debut in New York in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1981) and also successfully worked in television. She made a hilarious big-screen comeback as the mother-in-law from hell in The Flintstones (1994).
Liz Taylor has also played a leading part in the campaign to assist sufferers from Aids. Both before and after Burton she has had other husbands: the hotelier Nick Hilton (1950), the British actor Michael Wilding (1952), the producer Mike Todd (1957), who was killed in a plane crash, singer Eddie Fisher (1959), U.S. Senator John Warner (1978), and a builder, Larry Fortensky (1991), from whom she separated in 1995.
The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women, © Market House Books Ltd 1998
