Vivien Leigh

Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Facts

• Born: 1913
• Country: United Kingdom
• Field: Film
• Era: Golden Age

Overview

Won Academy Awards for Best Actress for Gone with the Wind 1939 and A Streetcar Named Desire 1951. She also played Blanche DuBois in the 1949 London stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire to wide acclaim. That Hamilton Woman 1941 and Waterloo Bridge 1940 are among her other films. She ranked sixteenth among female screen legends in the 1999 American Film Institute list.