Elizabeth Taylor

Biography

 Elizabeth Taylor emCleopatra, 1963Daughter of Americans, Leen Francis Taylor (1897-1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt Rosemond (1895-1994), moved to the United States in 1939. Film career began as a child, when she was discovered at age ten. Contracted by Universal Pictures filmed There's One Born Every Minute, but was renewed. Just as the personal friend Mickey Rooney, showed talent participating films for young people, as in the premiere in 1943 in a small role in the series Lassie. Since then, fell in love for the profession and stay in the studio became the biggest dream.
Evolving as a talented actress and respected by critics in the 1950 video tape dramas such as A Place in the Sun (br: A Place in the Sun), with actor Montgomery Clift; Giant (br: Human Behaviour), with Rock HudsonIn that decade would still The Last Time I Saw Paris (br: The Last Time I Saw Paris), alongside Van Johnson and Donna Reed.
Liz, it was better known, was revered as one of the most beautiful woman of all time, the trademark are the delicate features and eyes of blue-violet color, framed by thick eyebrows black. Intensoglamour and surrounded by celebrity diva of eternal golden years of American cinema, is a compulsive collector of jewels. Once, his friend, the magician David Copperfield invited her to one of the presentations and made to disappear from the hands of a favorite rings. Liz, sympathetically, and the screams, amused the audience by expressing a moment of desperation to see the ring disappear.



Taylor in 1981, an event in his honorHe was also famous for the many marriages (eight in all). Her first marriage was in 1950, but lasted only one year.
The most famous marriage was to British actor Richard Burton, notorious for alcoholism, he married twice and made several films in the doubles in 60 years, the anthology as Cleopatra, the drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Br: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), An adaptation of playwright Edward Albee's text for which she won her second Oscar, The Comedians (br: The fakes) and The Taming of the Shrew (br: Taming of the Shrew), version film of the famous Shakespeare play. Twice winner of the Oscar for best actress, the first in 1960 for the role of call-girl in Butterfield 8 (br: Butterfield 8 / ie: The number of Love). In this decade, recognizing the ultimate prize in world cinema, was acclaimed as the highest paid actress in the world.
Had two children with Michael Wilding Michael Wilding Howard Taylor, born 1953, and Christopher Edward Wilding Taylor, born in 1955. Michael Todd had a daughter in 1957, named Elizabeth Frances Todd Taylor. In 1975 Germany adopted a baby girl with her husband, Richard Burton, Maria Burton Taylor.
She was a friend of pop singer Michael Jackson, who dedicated to him several of his works, including the song "Liberian Girl".
In 1997 the actress went through a delicate surgery to remove a brain tumor. In the past, the star also had problems with addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Pioneered the development of philanthropy, raising money for campaigns against AIDS from the 1980s, shortly after the death of Rock Hudson. Despite having been born outside the U.S., in 2001 he received the American president Bill Clinton's second most important medal of recognition to an American citizen, the Presidential Citizens Medal, offered by his many philanthropic works. At this time worsened the health problems, gaining weight and being taken to hospital admissions applicants.
[Edit] Health problems and deathTaylor has dealt with several health problems over the years, including issues related to chronic heart failure. In 2009, she underwent a surgery to replace a faulty valve in his heart. She used a wheelchair was no more than five years to cope with her chronic pain.
In February 2011, new symptoms appeared related to their heart failure, which led to her being hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for treatment, where he died on the morning of March 23 after surgery, aged 79 old. His fortune, estimated at U.S. $ 600 million, was left to fight AIDS foundations. For this to succeed, your collection of jewelry will be sold at a charity auction.


FilmographyTaylor appeared in several films and television programs from 1942 to 2003.
Year
 Title
 Paper
 Remarks
 1942
 There's One Born Every Minute
 Gloria Twine
  1943
 Lassie Come Home
 Priscilla
  1944
 Jane Eyre
 Helen Burns
 uncredited
 The White Cliffs of Dover
 Betsy
 uncredited
 National Velvet
 Velvet Brown
  1946
 Courage of Lassie
 Katherine Eleanor Merrick
  1947
 Life with Father
 Mary Skinner
  Cynthia
 Cynthia Bishop
  1948
 A Date with Judy
 Carol Pringle
  Julia Misbehaves
 Susan Packett
  1949
 Little Women
 Amy
  Conspirator
 Melinda Greyton
  1950
 The Big Hangover
 Mary Belney
  Father of the Bride
 Kay Banks
 1951
 Father's Little Dividend
 Kay Dunstan
  A Place in the Sun
 Angela Vickers
  Quo Vadis
 Christian prisoner in arena
 uncredited
 1952
 Love Is Better Than Ever
 Anastacia "Stacie" Macaboy
  Ivanhoe
 Rebecca
  1953
 The Girl Who Had Everything
 Jean Latimer
  1954
 Rhapsody
 Louise Durant
  Elephant Walk
 Ruth Wiley
  Beau Brummell
 Lady Patricia Belham
  The Last Time I Saw Paris
 Helen Ellswirth / Willis
  1956
 Giant
 Leslie Benedict Lynnton
  1957
 Raintree County
 Susanna Drake
 Oscar nominated for best actress
 1958
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 Maggie the Cat
 Oscar nominated for best actress
 1959
 Suddenly, Last Summer
 Catherine Holly
 Oscar nominated for best actress
 1960
 Scent of Mystery
 The Real Sally
 uncredited
 Butterfield 8
 Gloria Wandrous
 Oscar winner for best actress
 1963
 Cleopatra
 Cleopatra
  The V.I.P.s
 Frances Andros
  1965
 The Sandpiper
 Laura Reynolds
  1966
 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 Martha
 Oscar winner for best actress
 1967
 The Taming of the Shrew
 Katharina
 producer (uncredited)
 Doctor Faustus
 Helen of Troy
  Reflections in a Golden Eye
 Lenora Penderton
  The Comedians
 Martha Pineda
  The Comedians in Africa
 herself
 documentary short film
 1968
 Boom!
 Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
  Secret Ceremony
 Lenora
  1969
 Anne of the Thousand Days
 courtesan
 uncredited
 1970
 The Only Game in Town
 Fran Walker
  Here's Lucy
 herself
 1 episode
 1972
 X, Y and Zee
 Zee Blakely
  Under Milk Wood
 Rosie Probert
  Hammersmith Is Out
 Jimmie Jean Jackson
 Silver Bear for best actress
 1973
 Divorce His, Divorce Hers
 Jane Reynolds
 film for TV
 Night Watch
 Ellen Wheeler
  Ash Wednesday
 Barbara Sawyer
  1974
 Identikit
 Lise
 Also known as The Driver's Seat
 That's Entertainment!
 Herself
 Co Host
 1976
 The Blue Bird
 Queen of Light / Mother / Witch / Maternal Love
  Victory at Entebbe
 Edra Vilonfsky
 film for TV
 1977
 A Little Night Music
 Desiree Armfeldt
  1978
 Return Engagement
 Dr. Emily Loomis
  1979
 Winter Kills
 Lola Comante
 uncredited
 1980
 The Mirror Crack'd
 Marina Rudd
  1981
 General Hospital
 Helena Cassadine # 1
 3 episodes
 1983
 Between Friends
 Deborah Shapiro
 film for TV
 1984
 Hotel (TV series)
 Katherine Cole
 1 episode
 All My Children
 Boardmember at the Chateau
  1985
 Malice in Wonderland
 Louella Parsons
 film for TV
 North and South
 Madame Conti
 TV miniseries
 1986
 There Must Be a Pony
 Marguerite Sydney
 film for TV
 1987
 Poke Alice
 Alice Moffit
 film for TV
 1988
 Young Toscanini
 Nadina Bulichoff
  1989
 Sweet Bird of Youth
 Alexandra Del Lago
 film for TV
 1992
 The Simpsons
 Maggie Simpson
 voice
 Captain Planet and the Planeteers
 Mrs Andrews
 voice
 1993
 The Simpsons
 herself
 voice
 1994
 The Flintstones
 Pearl Slaghoople
  1996
 The Nanny
 Herself
 1 episodes
 2000
 God, the Devil and Bob
 Sarah
 voice
 2001
 These Old Broads
 Beryl Mason
 film for TV