Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932 to 2011) was a British and American actress and healthcare activist. Born in London to American parents, she moved to Los Angeles in 1939 and began as a child actress in the early 1940s, becoming a popular MGM star after National Velvet in 1944. She was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s and the highest-paid film star of the 1960s, notably for Cleopatra in 1963. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 and again for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Her private life drew intense press scrutiny, and she later co-founded major AIDS foundations. This entry draws on the lead of her English Wikipedia article.