Biography
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and 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. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.
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Awards & recognition
- Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award · 2011
- California Hall of Fame · 2007
- Britannia Awards · 2005
- GLAAD Vanguard Award · 2000
- Marian Anderson Award · 2000
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- BAFTA Fellowship · 1999
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1999
- Actor Awards · 1998
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award · 1998
- AFI Life Achievement Award · 1993
- Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award · 1993
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 1987
- Crystal Award · 1985
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award · 1984
- Theatre World Special Award · 1981
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year · 1977
- David di Donatello — Best Foreign Actress · 1972
- Silver Bear — Best Actress · 1972
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1967
- BAFTA Award — Best Actress in a Leading Role · 1966
- National Board of Review Award — Best Actress · 1966
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1961
- Golden Globe Award — Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama · 1960
- Golden Globe Awards · 1960
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Kennedy Center Honors
- Presidential Citizens Medal
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 1981 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1967 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1961 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1960 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1959 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1958 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
A Life in Ten Pictures
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
The Nanny
The Simpsons
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Bert Stern - Original Madman
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Genocide
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Giant
Paul Newman: The Restless
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
North and South
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
God, the Devil and Bob
That's Entertainment!
Little Women
Suddenly, Last Summer
A Place in the Sun
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Becket
National Velvet
Elizabeth Taylor - Rebel Superstar
Anne of the Thousand Days
Cleopatra
Quo Vadis
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
What's My Line?
Father of the Bride
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Chavela
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Poker Alice
The Taming of The Shrew
Jane Eyre
Children of 'Giant'
Ivanhoe
The Ed Sullivan Show
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Here's Lucy
Julia Misbehaves
Life with Father
Lassie Come Home
Rhapsody