Taylor, Elizabeth (Rosemond) (1932– )

Elizabeth Taylor, English-born US film star. She is shown here on the beach, wearing a white swimsuit, in a promotional photograph for the film Suddenly Last Summer, c. 1959.

Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Richard Burton. They are shown in costume between scenes on the set of Becket, in 1964.

English-born US actor Elizabeth Taylor. She first starred in Lassie Come Home in 1943, when she was 11 years old; by the mid-1950s, when this picture was taken, she had already appeared in some 20 films. Over the next decade she developed into one of the most glamorous and highly-paid movie performers in the world.

English-born US actor. She graduated from juvenile leads to dramatic roles, becoming one of the most glamorous stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films include National Velvet (1944), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), BUtterfield 8 (1960; Academy Award), Cleopatra (1963), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966; Academy Award).

Her other films include Lassie Come Home (1942), Father of the Bride (1950), Giant (1956), and Raintree County (1957). She appeared on Broadway in The Little Foxes in 1981, and was the recipient of the American Film Institute's life achievement award in 1993. She received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2002.

Her eight husbands have included the actors Michael Wilding (1912–1979), Eddie Fisher (1928– ), and Richard Burton, with whom she made seven films.