Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE was a British-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.
Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most iconic actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. She starred in over 50 films, including classics such as Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and was nominated for four more. She was also known for her beauty, her humanitarian work, and her tumultuous personal life. She married eight times, twice to actor Richard Burton, and had many affairs and scandals. She was a close friend of Michael Jackson and a vocal advocate for AIDS research and awareness. She died in 2011 at the age of 79, leaving behind a legacy of glamour, talent, and compassion.