Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was on 27 February 1932 Born in London's Hampstead. She was the second child of the American art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor (1897-1968) and American mother Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895-1994). Her older brother is Howard Taylor was born in 1929. In addition to U.S. citizenship Taylor has since birth, the British.

Even as a toddler Taylor was taught in ballet and horse riding. At the age of three years, it has already been given a real horse. At that time it should have occurred with her ballet group in front of the British royal family at Buckingham Palace.

In 1939, the Taylor family moved to California, where Taylor, the Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills, the University High School in Hollywood, and later the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio School.

The first and only film of Taylor, whom she turned for the film studio Universal came in 1942 under the title There's One Born Every Minute in the cinemas. Universal declined to further cooperation with Taylor, the little girl because they were "too old". 1942 their parents subsequently joined from an exclusive contract with MGM, and Taylor was hired as a child star for several film productions. The first MGM film homesick, who is also the birth of the world's most famous dog, Lassie, meant in the cinema.

Taylor himself was extremely popular in a short time and was on her image as a child star in the movie Little girl, build big heart. During this busy filming Taylor retired permanent damage to the spine, which is at an advanced age should not affect. Little girl, big heart gave Taylor the final breakthrough and allowed her the difficult transition to teenage roles, and later into adult subject. In the next Lassie movie Lassie - Lassie she also received the first time a Spitzengage who had herausgehandelt their parents.

At the age of 15 years, Taylor stood for her first pin-up model and photographs in Robert Z. Leonard Cynthia received her first screen kiss.

Like many other young actresses of the time (Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, Doris Day) Taylor, married very early. At the age of eighteen, she became the wife of Conrad ( "Nicky") Hilton Jr., who at that time of the Hilton-war legacy. But the marriage was divorced after only nine months. The studio used the publicity about the marriage between Taylor and Hilton as advertising for the two films Father of the bride, and a gift from heaven.

1952 Taylor married the twenty-year old British actor Michael Wilding. The couple had two sons: Michael Howard Wilding Jr. and Christopher Edward Wilding. This marriage failed. 1957 Taylor married the film producer Mike Todd, for whose sake they transgressed the Jewish faith. Todd and Taylor had a daughter named Elizabeth Frances. Todd died in 1958 in a plane crash. Taylor turned to her little later witnesses, the singer Eddie Fisher, who was married at that time with Debbie Reynolds. The "unseemly" relationship between Taylor and Fisher sparked a scandal in the United States. Taylor and Fisher were married 1959th In 1964, she ushered in the adoption proceedings for a daughter, Maria Heisig, daughter of a worker from Mering in Augsburg, which was later adopted by Richard Burton and Maria Burton began as one mannequin career.

Elizabeth Taylor was the first critical acclaim for her role in A Place in the Sun (1951) alongside Montgomery Clift, with whom she is up to his death was very close.

Elizabeth Taylor has benefited in the studio in 1956 by the resignation of Grace Kelly who gave up acting after her marriage.

At the side of James Dean Taylor played in giant, this role should have been made for Grace Kelly. Giants finally made Elizabeth Taylor a superstar. Between 1956 and 1959, Taylor made four important films and blockbusters: Giants, The Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer. The last three main roles brought Taylor, one a nomination for the Oscar. At this time, Elizabeth Taylor was regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world.

The Oscar was awarded Taylor 1960 for her role in Butterfield 8 and Telephone in 1966 for her portrayal of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1963, at the height of her career, turned Taylor with Richard Burton to date the most expensive epic: Cleopatra. She suffered a life-threatening pneumonia and could be saved from suffocation only through a tracheotomy.

For Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor received the highest salary that was paid up to date, ever a movie star.

The pop-art artist Andy Warhol Taylor devoted some of his works.

The private affair that developed between Taylor and her fellow actor Richard Burton at the edge of the filming of Cleopatra, will remain as one of the biggest scandals in the history of cinema and the media age in memory (Richard Burton: I've had affairs before - how did I know the woman was so fucking famous?). In 1964 after Taylor's divorce from Fisher married Taylor and Richard Burton in Canada. Taylor and Burton were shooting in the 1960s, seven more films together, including Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, and Mike Nichols' film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Taylor and Burton worried for her marital over ten years for headlines in the tabloids. In 1974, she divorced, but in 1975 they were married again in great anticipation of the public / media in Africa. The second marriage lasted only until 1976. That same year, Taylor married attorney and later U.S. Senator John Warner, for whom she was involved in the campaign. The marriage ended in divorce 1982nd

In the 1970s, Taylor retired from the film business increasingly back and filled from now on with their affairs and their alcohol excesses, parties at the legendary New York's Studio 54, diamonds (including the Krupp diamond), drug rehabilitation clinics, weight problems, the gossip columns of tabloids . Elizabeth Taylor is one of the most photographed women of the world.

Only in 1980 she starred alongside Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson in Murder in the Mirror (a film adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie again) an appropriate roll of film. 1981 Taylor pulled it to the London stage. With The Little Foxes, they celebrated there, and later in the U.S., one for acting comeback. In 1983 she was again in Private Lives in Boston and on Broadway on stage once again with Richard Burton. In 1985 she founded under the impact of AIDS-death American world stars such as Rock Hudson, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She made friends with Michael Jackson and the billionaire Malcolm Forbes. Taylor played in Nicholas Roeg's 1989 TV production Sweet Bird of Youth, the main role. At that time, she underwent an alcohol detoxification in the Betty Ford Center where he made the acquaintance of twenty years her junior construction worker Larry Fortensky, who became her lifelong companion. From 1991 to 1996 Taylor and Fortensky were married.

1992 Elizabeth Taylor said in the television series "The Simpsons" (Season 4, Episode # 9F08), the baby Maggie Simpson.It is merely the word "Daddy". Also in 1992 she had a cameo appearance in the same show (Season 4, Episode # 9F19).

1997 Taylor was removed a brain tumor. On her 65th Birthday, she was with a TV gala (which includes Madonna) appeared honored, lectured at the Michael Jackson of the song written specially for them, Elizabeth, I Love You. This song has not been commercially released.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Taylor caught a perfume named after her collection of fashion jewelry collections and attention.

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