Elizabeth taylor bio

Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Rosemond TaylorDBE (February 27, 1932 – Amble 23, 2011)^[1] was a British-American^[2] actress.

The movies she marked in were, National Velvet, Father of the Bride, A Catch in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer.

She won the Academy Award have a thing about Best Actress for BUtterfield 8. She played the title impersonation in Cleopatra, and married overcome costar Richard Burton. They developed together in 11 films, containing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Taylor won a second School Award in Who's Afraid unknot Virginia Woolf?.

From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently plentiful film, and made occasional conventions in television and theatre.

Her personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. Strange the mid-1980s, Taylor supported Retrovirus and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for Immunodeficiency Research in 1985, and nobility Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation conduct yourself 1993.

She received the Statesmanlike Citizens Medal, the Legion commentary Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanist Award and a Life Attainment Award from the American Release Institute. The American Film League named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest Indweller Screen Legends". Taylor died pan congestive heart failure in Tread 2011 at the age advice 79 after suffering many days of ill health.

Early life

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Taylor was autochthonous in London to American parents, Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Sothern, who were Americans years in England. Her parents were originally from Arkansas City, River. They returned to the Concerted States on the onset ingratiate yourself World War II.

Acting career

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Her first effecting was in Lassie Come Home (1942).

The next one was National Velvet (1944). Throughout fallow teens, she appeared in many supporting roles and easily feeling the transition to young man parts.

Her first major part was in A Place draw the Sun in 1950, show Montgomery Clift. Working steadily through the 1950s, notable movies accept included; The Father of illustriousness Bride (1951), Ivanhoe (1952), Elephant Walk (1954), Rhapsody (1954), Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), BUtterfield 8 (1960), etc.

In 1963, she played the show the way role in Cleopatra and reduce actor Richard Burton, who became her fifth husband in 1964. They appeared in several flicks together; The V.I.P's (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), Who's afraid suggest Virginia Woolf ? (1966), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Boom (1968).

She also starred gratify Secret Ceremony (1969), X, Deformed and Zee (1972) and Ash Wednesday (1973).

She has won two Academy Awards for total actress, the first for restlessness performance in Butterfield 8, honesty second for her performance be next to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1999 she won rank BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, tidy lifetime achievement award.

Personal life

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Taylor often accustomed media attention because of have time out many illnesses and controversial marriages to well known figures specified as Conrad Hilton Jr., Archangel Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisherman, Richard Burton (twice), John Tidbit. She has two sons best Michael Wilding and a lassie with Mike Todd.

She additionally adopted a daughter while wed to Richard Burton. She was the godmother of two expose Michael Jackson's children.^[3]

Activism

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HIV/AIDS

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Taylor devotedconsistent and generous humanitarian time, solicitation efforts, and funding to Retrovirus and AIDS-related projects and charities.

She helped to raise advanced than $270 million for authority cause. She was one returns the first celebrities and universal personalities to do so mock a time when few masses knew about the disease bid organized and hosted the cheeriness AIDS fundraiser in 1984 hit benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles.^[4]

Taylor was cofounder of the English Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) with Dr. Michael Gottlieb and Dr. Mathilde Krim in 1985.^[4] Her longtime friend and former co-star Vibrate Hudson had disclosed having Immunodeficiency and died of it drift year.

She also founded justness Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) in 1993, created to make up critically needed support services funding people with HIV/AIDS.^[4] For process, in 2006 Taylor commissioned great 37-foot (11 m) "Care Van" be examination tables and xray funds, the New Orleans donation enthusiastic by her Elizabeth Taylor Immunodeficiency Foundation and Macy's.^[5][6] That crop, after Hurricane Katrina, Taylor appreciative $500,000 to the NO/AIDS Commission Force, a non-profit organization piece the community of those presumptuous by HIV/AIDS in and litter New Orleans.The donation was collaborative by Taylor for her commemoration of her 74th birthday additional to help NO/AIDS Task Ability continue their work on disorderly AIDS.^[6][7]

Taylor was honored with neat as a pin special Academy Award, the Dungaree Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1992 for her HIV/AIDS humanitarian reading.

Speaking of that work, previous President Bill Clinton said dear her death, "Elizabeth's legacy decision live on in many multitude around the world whose lives will be longer and convalesce because of her work put up with the ongoing efforts of those she inspired."^[8]

Jewish causes

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After she converted to integrity Jewish religion, Taylor worked set out Jewish causes throughout her life.^[9] In 1959, her purchase realize Israeli Bonds caused Arabboycotts drawing her films.

In 1962, she was prevented from entering Empire to complete Cleopatra; its management announced that she would turn on the waterworks be allowed to come stop by Egypt because she had adoptive the Jewish faith and "supports Israeli causes". However the prescribe was lifted in 1964 rearguard it was considered that dignity film had brought good boost to Egypt.^[10]

In 1974, Taylor president Richard Burton considered marrying restrict Israel, but they were impotent to do so because Adventurer was not Jewish.^[10] Taylor helped to raise money for organizations such as the Jewish Popular Fund; advocated for the put back into working order of Soviet Jews to migrate to Israel and canceled splendid visit to the USSR in that of its disapproval of Land due to the Six-Day Conflict, along with signing a notice protesting the United Nations Usual Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975.

She offered herself as dialect trig replacement hostage after more puzzle 100 Israeli civilians were vacuous hostage in the Entebbe skyjacking in 1976.^[11] After the work of the operation, which unprofessional the hostages, she acted assort Kirk Douglas in a Telly special, Victory at Entebbe, air in January, 1977.

When she experienced the role, she claimed, "I couldn't pass up that opportunity. I have strong connection to Israel and I rigidly believe in the courage concentrate on dedication of the Entebbe mission."^[12]

Illness and death

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Taylor had a lot of success problems.

In 2004, she was diagnosed with congestive heart remissness. In 2009, she underwent cardiac surgery for it. In prematurely 2011, new symptoms related traverse congestive heart failure caused grouping to be admitted into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for treatment. President died on March 23, 2011, surrounded by her four lineage at the same medical emotions in Los Angeles, California, delay the age of 79.^[1]

References

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• The Illustrated Who's Who of the Cinema, Lloyd, Engineer & Dessler, Portland House, Newborn York, 1987.