People
Elizabeth Taylor
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a European British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes. National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre. Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Flintstones
As Pearl Slaghoople
Jane Eyre
As Helen Burns
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
As Self
A Place in the Sun
As Angela Vickers
The Last Time I Saw Paris
As Helen Ellswirth
Lassie Come Home
As Priscilla
Suddenly, Last Summer
As Catherine Holly
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023 · Self
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration
2001 · Self
The Flintstones
1994 · Pearl Slaghoople
Young Toscanini
1988 · Nadina Bulichoff
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Martha
Suddenly, Last Summer
1959 · Catherine Holly
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 · Helen Ellswirth
A Place in the Sun
1951 · Angela Vickers
Life with Father
1947 · Mary Skinner
Jane Eyre
1943 · Helen Burns
Lassie Come Home
1943 · Priscilla