Fact file
Name: Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (Dame)
Date of birth: 27th February 1932
Date of death: 23 March 2011 (aged 79)
Height: 1.60 m
Place of birth: Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Parents: Francis Lenn Taylor, Sara Sothern
Nationality: British/American (of Scottish, Irish, Swiss, German, English, Welsh, Danish, and Dutch descent)
Religion: Born into Christian Science, converted to Judaism in 1959
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Lavender/violet
Occupation: Actress, activist/humanitarian
Famed For: Her marriages, films, beauty, campaign against AIDs
Nickname: Liz (which she hated being called)
Children:
Michael Wilding Jr (born 1953)
Christopher Edward Wilding (born 1955)
Liza Todd Burton (born 1957)
Maria Burton (adopted; born 1961)
Favourite Colour: Purple
Favourite Flower: White gardenia
Favourite Drink: Jack Daniels or champagne
Favourite Food: Chasen's chili
Marriages:
- Conrad 'Nicky' Hilton (1950-1951)
- Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
- Mike Todd (1957-1958)
- Eddie Fisher (1959-1964)
- Richard Burton (1964-1974, 1975-1976)
- John Warner (1976-1982)
- Larry Fortensky (1991-1996)
Films/TV shows:
- There's One Born Every Minute 1942
- Lassie Come Home 1943
- Jane Eyre 1944
- The White Cliffs of Dover 1944
- National Velvet 1944
- Courage of Lassie 1946
- Life With Father 1947
- Cynthia 1947
- A Date With Judy 1948
- Julia Misbehaves 1948
- Little Women 1949
- Conspirator 1949
- The Big Hangover 1950
- Father of the Bride 1950
- Father's Little Dividend 1951
- A Place In The Sun 1951
- Quo Vadis 1951 (uncredited role as Christian prisoner in an arena)
- Love Is Better Than Ever 1952
- Ivanhoe 1952
- The Girl Who Had Everything 1953
- Rhapsody 1954
- Elephant Walk 1954
- Beau Brummell 1954
- The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954
- Giant 1956
- Raintree County 1957
- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 1958
- Suddenly, Last Summer 1959
- Scent of Mystery 1960 (uncredited role)
- BUtterfield 8 1960
- Cleopatra 1963
- The V.I.Ps 1963
- The Sandpiper 1965
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
- The Taming of the Shrew 1967
- Doctor Faustus 1967
- Reflections In A Golden Eye 1967
- The Comedians 1967
- The Comedians In Africa 1967
- Boom! 1968
- Secret Ceremony 1968
- Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 (uncredited role)
- The Only Game In Town 1970
- Here's Lucy 1970
- X, Y and Zee 1972
- Under Milk Wood 1972
- Hammersmith Is Out 1972
- Divorce His, Divorce Hers 1973
- Night Watch 1973
- Ash Wednesday 1973
- Identikit 1974
- That's Entertainment! 1974
- The Blue Bird 1976
- Victory at Entebbe 1976
- A Little Night Music 1977
- Hallmark Hall of Fame 1978
- Winter Kills 1979 (uncredited role)
- The Mirror Crack'd 1980
- General Hospital 1981
- Between Friends 1983
- Hotel 1984
- All My Children 1984
- Malice in Wonderland 1985
- North and South 1985
- Poker Alice 1987
- Young Toscanini 1988
- Sweet Bird of Youth 1989
- The Simpsons 1992 (voice of Maggie)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers 1992
- The Simpsons 1993 (as herself)
- The Flintstones 1994
- Murphy Brown 1996
- The Nanny 1996
- God, The Devil and Bob 2000
- These Old Broads 2000
- Born with a mutation that gave her a double set of eyelashes, was also born with scoliosis
- Born with hypertrichosis
- First actress to receive a million dollars for a film role (as Cleopatra, 1963)
- Broke her back 5 times
- Her Jewish name was Elishiba Rachel
- Godmother of Paris and Prince Jackson
- Died leaving four children, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren
- Friends and strangers urged her mother to let her audition for the role of Bonnie in Gone With The Wind, yet her mother refused to do so