Elizabeth Taylor
Born: 1932-02-27 in Hampstead, London, England, UK
Died: 2011-03-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a 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.
Filmography
2025
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius as Self (archive footage)
2024
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story as Self (archive footage)
- Elizabeth Taylor - Rebel Superstar as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- Freddie Mercury: The Final Act as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Superstar as Self (archive footage)
- A Life in Ten Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017
- Chavela as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Children of 'Giant' as Self (archive footage)
- The End of a Beautiful Epoch as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
- The Battle of Amfar as self
2011
- Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored as (archive footage)
2010
- Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop? as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
2004
- A Letter to True as Self (archive footage)
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Searching for Debra Winger as Self (uncredited)
- Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)
2001
- Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- These Old Broads as Beryl Mason
- George Stevens and His Place In The Sun as Self
- Bride of Trailer Camp as (archive footage)
- Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2000
- God, the Devil and Bob as Sarah (voice)
- Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
1998
1997
1996
- Return to 'Giant' as Self (archive footage)
- E! True Hollywood Story
1995
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
- Can't Hurry Love as Elizabeth Taylor
- How to Be Absolutely Fabulous as Self
- High Society as Elizabeth Taylor (voice)
- James Dean: A Portrait as Self (Archive footage)
1994
- The Flintstones as Pearl Slaghoople
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- The Jackson Family Honors as Self
1993
- The Nanny as Herself
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self
- Michael Jackson Talks... to Oprah as Self
1992
1990
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Mrs. Andrews
- Marilyn: Something's Got to Give as Self (archive footage)
1989
- The Simpsons as Maggie Simpson (voice)
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt as Self - Introduction Speaker
- Sweet Bird of Youth as Alexandra Del Lago
1988
- Murphy Brown as Elizabeth Taylor
- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
- Young Toscanini as Nadina Bulichoff
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton as Self (Archive Footage)
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
- Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues as Self
1987
- Poker Alice as Alice Moffit
- Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star as Self (archive footage)
1986
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self
- Super Duper Bloopers as Self
- There Must Be a Pony as Marguerite Sydney
1985
- North and South as Madam Conti
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
- Malice in Wonderland as Louella Parsons
1983
- Between Friends as Deborah Shapiro
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Notre Dame de la Croisette as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Hotel
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Genocide as Narrator (voice)
1980
- The Mirror Crack'd as Marina Rudd
1979
- Winter Kills as Lola Comante (uncredited)
1978
- Return Engagement as Dr. Emily Loomis
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- A Death in Canaan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
1977
- A Little Night Music as Desiree Armfeldt
1976
- Victory at Entebbe as Edra Vilnofsky
- Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- TVTV Looks at the Oscars as Self
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- The Blue Bird as Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love
1975
1974
- Identikit as Lise
- That's Entertainment! as Self - Host / Narrator
1973
- Ash Wednesday as Barbara Sawyer
- Night Watch as Ellen Wheeler
- Divorce His, Divorce Hers as Jane Reynolds
1972
- Under Milk Wood as Rosie Probert
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- Zee and Co. as Zee Blakeley
- Hammersmith Is Out as Jimmie Jean Jackson
1970
- The Only Game in Town as Fran Walker
1969
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Masked Courtesan (uncredited)
1968
- Here's Lucy as Elizabeth Taylor
- Boom! as Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
- Secret Ceremony as Leonora
- Around the World of Mike Todd as Self
- On Location: Where Eagles Dare as Self (uncredited)
1967
- Doctor Faustus as Helen of Troy
- The Comedians as Martha Pineda
- Reflections in a Golden Eye as Leonora Penderton
- The Taming of the Shrew as Katharina
- The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited)
1966
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha
1965
- The Sandpiper as Laura Reynolds
- A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' as Self
- The Big Sur as Self
1964
- Becket as Blonde Village Woman (uncredited)
- The Caretaker ... (Associate Producer)
- On the Trail of the Iguana as Self
1963
- Cleopatra as Cleopatra
- The V.I.P.s as Frances Andros
- Elizabeth Taylor in London as Herself
1962
1960
- BUtterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous
- Scent of Mystery as Woman of Mystery
1959
- Suddenly, Last Summer as Catherine Holly
1958
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Maggie
1957
- Raintree County as Susanna Drake Shawnessy
- Operation Raintree as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter
- Giant as Leslie Lynnton Benedict
- New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' as Self
1954
- Rhapsody as Louise Durant
- Beau Brummell as Lady Patricia
- The Last Time I Saw Paris as Helen Ellswirth
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- Elephant Walk as Ruth Wiley
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- The Girl Who Had Everything as Jean Latimer
1952
- Ivanhoe as Rebecca
- Love Is Better Than Ever as Anastacia (Stacie) Macaboy
1951
- Quo Vadis as Christian Prisoner in Arena (uncredited)
- A Place in the Sun as Angela Vickers
- Father's Little Dividend as Kay Dunstan
- Callaway Went Thataway as Elizabeth Taylor (uncredited)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Emily Loomis
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Father of the Bride as Kay Banks
- The Big Hangover as Mary Belney
1949
- Little Women as Amy
- Conspirator as Melinda Greyton
1948
- Bambi as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Julia Misbehaves as Susan Packett
- A Date with Judy as Carol Pringle
1947
- Cynthia as Cynthia Bishop
- Life with Father as Mary Skinner
1946
- Courage of Lassie as Kathie Eleanor Merrick
1945
- National Velvet as Velvet Brown
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- The White Cliffs of Dover as Betsy Kenney at Age 10 (uncredited)
1943
- Jane Eyre as Helen Burns
- Lassie Come Home as Priscilla
1942
- There's One Born Every Minute as Gloria Twine