# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:00:47.923Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-taylor"
name: "Elizabeth Taylor"
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description: "She went from MGM's most bankable star to the world's highest-paid actress, then turned her tabloid-level fame into a platform for AIDS activism when few celebrities would touch it."
tagline: "British-American actress (1932–2011)"
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birthDate: "1932-02-27"
deathDate: "2011-03-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in London in 1932 to socially prominent American parents, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor moved to Los Angeles at seven and signed with MGM after a false start at Universal. National Velvet made her a teen star in 1944; by the 1950s she'd transitioned to mature roles in Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and Giant, resenting the studio's control but becoming one of its top earners. She won her first Oscar for BUtterfield 8 in 1960, a role she disliked, then starred in the lavish Cleopatra in 1963, where she met Richard Burton and began a relationship that detonated both their marriages. The two married in 1964, made eleven films together including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—which earned her a second Academy Award in 1966—and divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, then divorced again in 1976. Her film career faded by the mid-1970s, but in 1985 she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research and spent her final decades in philanthropy until her death in 2011.