Elizabeth Taylor

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Two time Best Actress winner and Cleopatra star

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Overview

Child star of National Velvet 1944 who won Best Actress Academy Awards for Butterfield 8 1960 and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966. Cleopatra 1963 was the most expensive film yet made. Giant 1956 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 are classics. She received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993 and ranks seventh among female screen legends in the 1999 American Film Institute list.

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