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Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts
British Actress
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For her lifetime achievements, Taylor was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the BAFTA Fellowship, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and a medallion at the Kennedy Center Honors. Her humanitarian commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS was also recognized with several honors, including the ...
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1968 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best British Actress. The Taming of The Shrew. 1967 Winner BAFTA Film Award. Best British Actress. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1959 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best Foreign Actress. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- February 27, 1932
- March 23, 2011
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Elizabeth Taylor (born February 27, 1932, London, England—died March 23, 2011, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an American motion picture actress noted for her unique beauty and her portrayals of volatile and strong-willed characters. Courage of Lassie. Elizabeth Taylor in Courage of Lassie (1946). National Velvet.
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Jan 25, 2022 · President Bill Clinton awarded Taylor the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2001. Queen Elizabeth II knighted her in 2000, honoring the actress as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and France bestowed its highest civilian or military honor on her, the Legion of Honor, in 1987 (via The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation ).
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Taylor was born on February 27, 1932 in London, England. Although she was born an English subject, her parents, Sara Taylor (née Sara Viola Warmbrodt) and Francis Taylor, were Americans, art dealers from St. Louis, Missouri. Her father had moved to London to set up a gallery prior to Elizabeth's birth.
Apr 3, 2014 · Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in One Born Every Minute (1942) and achieved stardom with National Velvet (1944). ... Taylor received numerous awards for her body of work. In 1993, she ...