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"Elizabeth Rosamond Taylor" (born February 27, 1932) is a British actress born in London as the daughter of the art dealer Francis Taylor and the actress Sara Taylor. Her parents are American. She has one older brother, Howard.

Sometimes known as "Liz Taylor", she became an actress as a child. She played in her first movie at the age of nine; her first important role was playing the lead in Clarence Brown's film

''National Velvet'', in which a young girl, Velvet Brown, played by Taylor, trains a horse to win the Grand National.

At the age of 3 she began taking ballet lessons. Later, she attended University High School in Los Angeles, California and received her high school diploma January 26, 1950.

Taylor has devoted much time and energy to AIDS-related charities.

Filmography

:1942 ''There's One Born Every Minute''

:1943 ''Lassie Come Home''

:1944 ''Jane Eyre''

:1944 ''The White Cliffs of Dover''

:1944 ''National Velvet''

:1946 ''Courage of Lassie''

:1947 ''Life with Father''

:1947 ''Cynthia''

:1948 ''A Date with Judy''

:1948 ''Julia Misbehaves''

:1949 ''Little Women''

:1949 ''Conspirator''

:1950 ''The Big Hangover''

:1950 ''Father of the Bride''

:1951 ''Quo Vadis?''

:1951 ''Father's Little Dividend''

:1951 ''A Place in the Sun''

:1951 ''Callaway Went Thataway''

:1952 ''Love Is Better Than Ever''

:1952 ''Ivanhoe''

:1953 ''The Girl Who Had Everything''

:1954 ''Rhapsody''

:1954 ''Elephant Walk''

:1954 ''Beau Brummell''

:1954 ''The Last Time I Saw Paris''

:1956 ''Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars''

:1956 ''Giant''

:1957 ''Raintree County''

:1957 ''Operation Raintree''

:1958 ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''

:1959 ''Suddenly, Last Summer''

:1960 ''Butterfield 8'' (awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role

:1960 ''Scent of Mystery''

:1962 ''Lykke og krone''

:1963 ''Cleopatra''

:1963 ''The V.I.P.s''

:1964 ''On the Trail of the Iguana''

:1965 ''The Sandpiper''

:1965 ''The Love Goddesses''

:1965 ''The Big Sur''

:1966 ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role

:1967 ''La Bisbetica domata''

:1967 ''Reflections in a Golden Eye''

:1967 ''The Comedians''

:1967 ''Doctor Faustus''

:1967 ''The Comedians in Africa''

:1968 ''Around the World of Mike Todd''

:1968 ''Boom''

:1968 ''Secret Ceremony''

:1968 ''On Location: 'Where Eagles Dare'''

:1969 ''Anne of the Thousand Days''

:1970 ''The Only Game in Town''

:1972 ''Zee and Co.''

:1972 ''Hammersmith Is Out''

:1973 ''Night Watch''

:1973 ''Ash Wednesday''

:1973 ''Under Milk Wood''

:1974 ''The Driver's Seat''

:1974 ''That's Entertainment!''

:1976 ''Blue Bird, The''

:1976 ''That's Entertainment, Part II''

:1977 ''A Little Night Music''

:1979 ''Winter Kills''

:1980 ''The Mirror Crack'd''

:1963 ''General Hospital''

:1981 ''Genocide''

:1970 ''All My Children''

:1983 ''Montgomery Clift''

:1985 ''North and South''

:1988 ''Il Giovane Toscanini''

:1994 ''The Flintstones''

:1997 ''The Fifties''

:1999 ''The Visit''

In addition to her movies, she has also appeared in a number of TV series, including as the voice of Maggie from The Simpsons.

Awards

Most notably, Elizabeth Taylor received an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and in 1960 for Butterfield 8.

Marriages and Children

Elizabeth Taylor was married 8 times:

* May 6, 1950 - January 29, 1951, to Nicholas Conrad Hilton (also: Nicky Hilton)

* February 21, 1952 - October 4, 1956, to Michael Wilding, actor

** Son: Michael Wilding, born January 6, 1953

** Son: Christopher Wilding, born February 27, 1955

* February 2, 1957 - March 23, 1958, to Mike Todd (also: Michael Todd), producer, promoter, showman. He died during a plane crash in New Mexico.

** Daughter: Elizabeth Frances Todd, born August 6, 1957

* 1959 - March 6, 1964, with Eddie Fisher, singer, actor

* March 15, 1964 - June 26, 1974, to Richard Burton, actor

** Daughter: Maria Carson, adopted 1964, born 1961

* October 1975 - summer 1976, again to Richard Burton

* December 4, 1976 - November 7, 1982, to John Warner, politician, U.S. Senator

* October 6, 1991 - November 1996, to Larry Fortensky (also: Lawrence Lee Fortensky), teamster, construction-equipment operator

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