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This article is about the actress. There is also an article about the novelist of the same name.

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (born February 27, 1932), known also as Liz Taylor, is a American actress born in Hampstead, London, England. She is famed for her film work which won her an Academy Award, her multiple marriages (notably twice to the Welsh actor Richard Burton) and from the 1990s on for her charity fundraising.

Elizabeth Taylor was the daughter of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897-1968) and Sara Taylor (n�e Sara Viola Warmbrodt, 1896-1994). Her parents, an art dealer and a former stage actress, were American. She has an elder brother, Howard, and was named for her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Taylor (n�e Elizabeth Mary Rosemond).

At the age of three she began taking ballet lessons, and played in her first movie at the age of nine. Her first major role was as the lead in Clarence Brown's film National Velvet, in which a young girl, Velvet Brown, played by Taylor, trains a horse to win the Grand National.

She attended University High School in Los Angeles, California and received her high school diploma on January 26, 1950.

Taylor has devoted much time and energy to AIDS-related charities.

Awards

Elizabeth Taylor received an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1960 for Butterfield 8 and in 1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2002.

Filmography

1940s

1942 There's One Born Every Minute

1943 Lassie Come Home

1944 Jane Eyre, The White Cliffs of Dover, National Velvet

1946 Courage of Lassie

1947 Life with Father, Cynthia

1948 A Date with Judy, Julia Misbehaves

1949 Little Women, Conspirator

1950s

1950 The Big Hangover, Father of the Bride

1951 Quo Vadis, Father's Little Dividend

1951 A Place in the Sun, Callaway Went Thataway

1952 Love Is Better Than Ever, Ivanhoe

1953 The Girl Who Had Everything

1954 Rhapsody, Elephant Walk

1954 Beau Brummell, The Last Time I Saw Paris

1956 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars, Giant

1957 Raintree County, Operation Raintree

1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1959 Suddenly, Last Summer

1960s

1960 Butterfield 8, Scent of Mystery

1962 Lykke og krone

1963 Cleopatra, The V.I.P.s

1964 On the Trail of the Iguana

1965 The Sandpiper, The Love Goddesses, The Big Sur

1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

1967 La Bisbetica domata, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Comedians, Doctor Faustus, The Comedians in Africa

1968 Around the World of Mike Todd, Boom, Secret Ceremony, On Location: 'Where Eagles Dare'

1969 Anne of the Thousand Days

1970s

1970 The Only Game in Town

1972 Zee and Co, Hammersmith Is Out

1973 Night Watch, Ash Wednesday, Under Milk Wood

1974 The Driver's Seat, That's Entertainment

1976 The Blue Bird, That's Entertainment, Part II

1977 A Little Night Music

1979 Winter Kills

1980s

1980 The Mirror Crack'd

1981 Genocide

1983 Montgomery Clift

1985 North and South

1988 Il Giovane Toscanini

1990s

1994 The Flintstones

1997 The Fifties

1999 The Visit

In addition to her movies, she has also appeared in a number of TV series, including General Hospital, All My Children, and The Simpsons (as the voice of Maggie).

Marriages and Children

Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight times: