Elizabeth Taylor (born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor) 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 figure for the rest of her life.
After many years of ill health, Taylor died from congestive heart failure in 2011, at the age of 79.
