Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE was a British and American actress born on February 27, 1932, in London, England. Elizabeth started her acting career as a child in the 1940s, she was one of the popular stars of classical Hollywood Cinema in the 1950s and was the highest-paid actor in the 1960s. Elizabeth gained a lot of popularity and wealth at her peak. Out of her seven marriages, Taylor had four children and ten grandchildren who inherited her wealth.
The name of Elizabeth’s parents were Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Sothern. She spent her childhood days in London and was enrolled in Byron House School, a Montessori School in Highgate. After some time the Taylors were afraid of the European wars so they left for the U.S. in 1939. Taylor had dual citizenship because she was born in London but her parents were Americans.
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The actor created a collection of Fragrances that help her become more famous with her celebrity-branded perfume which also helped her make more money. She collaborated with Elizabeth Arden: Inc and created two best selling perfumes-Passion in 1987 and White Diamonds in 1991. Taylor was business-minded, so she established a jewelry company as well, House of Taylor with the help of Jack, Kathy Ireland, and Monty Abramov.
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As an actor, she received many awards and honors while she lived. Elizabeth got five nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for movies like “Raintree Country”(1957) “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”(1958), “Suddenly, Last Summer”(1959” and two other movies. Taylor was regarded, as the seventh-greatest female Actor by American Film Institute. She won awards from Outer Critics Circle Awards in 1981, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in “Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and British Academy Film Awards for Best British Actress in 1967.
Taylor was addicted to smoking and alcohol and this gave her a lot of health issues in addition to more already like backbone fracture and pneumonia. She died of congestive Heart Failure in 2011 which was diagnosed in her 2004.
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