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Elizabeth Taylor - Liz Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, often referred to as Liz Taylor, was an English-born American actress. She born on February 27, 1932 and died on March 23, 2011 at the age of 79 by cause of Congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Beginning as a child star then throughout her adulthood, she was known for her acting talent, glamour, beauty, and striking violet eyes; as well as a much publicized private life that included eight marriages, several life-threatening illnesses, and decades spent as a social activist, championing the cause of AIDS awareness, research and cure. Taylor, a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, is considered one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list. She married eight times (twice to legendary actor Richard Burton) and became infamous for breaking up other people's marriages. Taylor showed off her unique beauty in films like BUtterfield 8 (1960) and Cleopatra (1963) -- one of the most expensive productions up to that time. She received three Academy Award nominations for Best Actress between 1957-1959, and although she didn't take home Oscar himself, the best was yet to come for the beautiful starlet.

During the 1960s, she won the coveted Oscar for Best Actress twice; for her role as a call girl in 1960's BUtterfield 8, and for her portrayal of the loudmouth, alcoholic Martha in 1966's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, which also earned her the British Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as a New York Film Critics Circle prize. She also made history as the first actress to earn a cool million for a single movie appearance, for 1963's Cleopatra.

Taylor became a leader in the fight against AIDS following the diagnosis of close friend and Giant (1956) co-star Rock Hudson in 1985. She was presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1992 Oscar ceremony for her support of AIDS research. A year later, she received the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award.

The London-born actress was made a Dame by none other than Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. Dame Elizabeth became a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center Honors in 2002.

In 2008, Elizabeth Taylor was hospitalized with congestive heart failure and pneumonia and was briefly on a life support machine. In 2009, she underwent heart surgery in October 2009 to repair a leaky valve.

Taylor was hospitalized again in early 2011, and her celebrated life came to an end the morning of Wednesday, March 23rd, in a hospital in Los Angeles. She is survived by 10 grandchildren and four great-grand children.

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