Name: Elizabeth

Surname: Taylor



Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, also known as Liz Taylor (London, 27 February 1932 – West Hollywood, 23 March 2011), was a British actress with US citizenship, considered the last great diva of the golden era of Hollywood for his acting skills and one of the most singular cinematic beauties. She reached the height of her success in the 1950s and 1960s, during which she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and received enormous critical acclaim. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice (out of five nominations): in 1961 for Venus in the Mink and in 1967 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; in 1993 she won the Oscar Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her charitable activities, particularly for the fight against AIDS. In addition to three Oscars, Taylor won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA award and three David di Donatello. In 1999 the American Film Institute placed her in seventh place among the greatest stars in the history of cinema, behind her Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe. His other famous roles played in adulthood are those in the films Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954), The Giant (1956), The Tree of Life (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Cleopatra (1963), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1968), Zi (1972) and The Mirror Crack'd (1980).

Liz has always been described as "the purple-eyed diva". When interviewed one day about this, she replied: «My eyes are navy blue, but they have red streaks (visible capillaries); when illuminated by the right light the mix makes them appear purple."

Autograph type: Autograph on photograph