Viven Leigh

Vivien Leigh, styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and …

Vivien Leigh was a British actress who achieved fame and acclaim for her roles in stage and film. She is best known for her portrayal of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, and of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), for which she won another Academy Award. She was also a celebrated theatre performer, working with her husband Laurence Olivier in several productions, such as Romeo and Juliet (1940), Antony and Cleopatra (1951), and Macbeth (1955). She had a complex and turbulent personal life, marked by bipolar disorder, chronic tuberculosis, and a series of affairs. She died at the age of 53 from complications of tuberculosis.