| Elizabeth Taylor  AKA Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
Born: 27-Feb-1932
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor sang a duet with "Little Rascal" Carl Switzer in There's One Born Every Minute (1942). It was her first scene in her first film, a small role at age 10. That performance earned her a supporting role opposite young Roddy McDowall in the original Lassie Come Home (1943). After that, she wanted the lead in National Velvet (1944) so much she reportedly had two teeth pulled to accommodate the braces the role required. She landed the part, and she has been the quintessential movie star ever since.
Liz won her first Oscar for playing a hooker in Butterfield 8 (1960), a movie she has said she despised. Cleopatra (1963) won her Richard Burton -- they married and co-starred in eight movies and a TV mini-series (Divorce His, Divorce Hers) before divorcing, remarrying, and divorcing again. Most of the Taylor/Burton movies were duds, but Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won her another Oscar.
More recently, she spoke Maggie's only word on The Simpsons, and played Fred's mother-in-law in The Flintstones (1994). She describes Michael Jackson as her dearest friend; she is his son's godmother, and she married her eighth husband, Larry Fortensky, at Jackson's Neverland Ranch. Mattel made an Elizabeth Taylor Butterfield 8 doll, possibly the company's only prostitute product.
Father: Francis Lenn Taylor (art dealer, b. 1897, d. 1968)
Mother: Sara Sothern (aka Sara Viola Warmbrodt, stage actress)
Husband: Nicholas Conrad Hilton Jr. (hotel magnate, m. 1950, div. 1951)
Husband: Michael Wilding (actor, m. 1952, div. 1956)
Husband: Michael Todd (producer, m. 1957, d. 1958, one daughter)
Daughter: Liza Todd Burton (b. 6-Aug-1957)
Husband: Eddie Fisher (4th, actor-singer, m. 1959, div. 1964)
Husband: Richard Burton (5th and 6th, actor, m. 1964, div. 1974, m. 1975, div. 1976, d. 1984)
Husband: John Warner (7th, US Senator, m. 1976, div. 1982)
Husband: Larry Fortensky (teamster, m. 1991, div. 1996)
Boyfriend: Victor Luna (Mexican attorney, b. circa 1929, dated in 1993, purportedly dated 2004)
Boyfriend: Jason Winters (businessman, dating as of 2007)
High School: University High School, Los Angeles, CA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Alcoholics Anonymous
amfAR Founding International Chairman
Oscar for Best Actress 1961 for Butterfield 8
Oscar for Best Actress 1967 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Golden Globe 1960 for Suddenly, Last Summer
Golden Globe 1974 World Film Favorite, Female
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award 1993
Dame of the British Empire 2000
Kennedy Center Honor 2002
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6336 Hollywood Blvd.
Converted to Judaism prior to marrying Eddie Fisher
Tracheotomy Jul-1968
Appendectomy Los Angeles, CA Dec-1957
Tonsillectomy
Hysterectomy London Jul-1968
Suicide Attempt Feb-1962
Drug Overdose Feb-1962
Intervention
Betty Ford Center Dec-1983
Betty Ford Center Nov-1988
Wedding: Larry Fortensky and Elizabeth Taylor (1991)
Hip Replacement Surgery 23-Mar-1994
Wedding: David Gest and Liza Minnelli (2002)
Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Diabetes, Obesity, Bulimia, Appendicitis
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
These Old Broads (12-Feb-2001)
The Flintstones (27-May-1994)
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (20-Apr-1992) Herself
Sweet Bird of Youth (1-Oct-1989)
North and South (3-Nov-1985)
The Mirror Crack'd (19-Dec-1980)
A Little Night Music (1977)
Victory at Entebbe (13-Dec-1976)
The Blue Bird (5-Apr-1976)
That's Entertainment! (23-May-1974) Herself
Ash Wednesday (1-Nov-1973)
Night Watch (10-Aug-1973)
Hammersmith Is Out (12-May-1972)
Under Milk Wood (27-Jan-1972)
Zee and Co. (21-Jan-1972)
The Only Game in Town (21-Jan-1970)
Secret Ceremony (23-Oct-1968)
Boom (26-May-1968)
The Comedians (31-Oct-1967)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (11-Oct-1967)
Doctor Faustus (10-Oct-1967)
The Taming of the Shrew (27-Feb-1967)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (21-Jun-1966)
The Sandpiper (23-Jun-1965)
The V.I.P.'s (1-Sep-1963)
Cleopatra (12-Jun-1963)
Butterfield 8 (4-Nov-1960)
Suddenly, Last Summer (22-Dec-1959)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (18-Sep-1958)
Raintree County (4-Oct-1957)
Giant (10-Oct-1956)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (18-Nov-1954)
Beau Brummell (1-Oct-1954)
Elephant Walk (21-Apr-1954)
Rhapsody (11-Mar-1954)
Ivanhoe (31-Jul-1952)
A Place in the Sun (28-Aug-1951)
Father's Little Dividend (12-Apr-1951)
Father of the Bride (16-Jun-1950)
The Big Hangover (26-May-1950)
Little Women (10-Mar-1949)
Julia Misbehaves (8-Aug-1948)
A Date with Judy (21-Jun-1948)
Life with Father (15-Aug-1947)
Courage of Lassie (8-Nov-1946)
National Velvet (14-Dec-1944)
Lassie Come Home (10-Oct-1943)
Appears on the cover of:
Life, 14-Jul-1947, DETAILS: (headshot by Robert Landry)
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