Elizabeth Taylor

 Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 - March 23 2011,), was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actor in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood film in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Taylor became the highest-paid movie actress in the world and remained an influential public figure throughout her lifetime. In 1999 the American Film Institute identified her as the seventh-highest screen hero in Classic Hollywood cinema.Born in London to prominent socially minded American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. After a year, Taylor made her acting debut in a minor role in the Universal Pictures film "There's One Born Every Minute (1942)," but the studio ended her contract. After her appearance in National Velvet (1944), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed her. In the 1950s she moved into more mature roles. Taylor was a part of the comedic Father of the Bride (1950) and was highly recognized for her performance in A Place in the Sun (1951). Despite being one of the MGM's most coveted actors, Taylor wished to end her career in the early 1950s. Taylor was unhappy with MGM's control , and was disapproving of the many films she was offered. Taylor began to be offered more appealing roles in the mid-1950s, starting with the epic film Giant (1956) as well as she appeared in a variety of critically and commercially successful films in the years following. They included two adaptations of the plays of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Taylor won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the latter. While she wasn't a fan of her role as the callgirl in BUtterfield 8 (1960), the last MGM film and her final film, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.