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Elizabeth Taylor

1932 - 2011

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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. 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 continued her career successfully into the 1960s and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Taylor has received more than 16,693,873 page views. Her biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Elizabeth Taylor is the 29th most popular actor (down from 26th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Actor.

Elizabeth Taylor is most famous for her acting career, which spanned six decades and won her two Academy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards.

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  • 106

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 29 out of 10,030. Before her are Jackie Chan, Judy Garland, Bud Spencer, Sarah Bernhardt, Yul Brynner, and Danny DeVito. After her are Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Swayze, Romy Schneider, Terence Hill, James Dean, and Debbie Reynolds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 2. Before her is Umberto Eco. After her are Johnny Cash, Debbie Reynolds, Jacques Chirac, Andrei Tarkovsky, Omar Sharif, Miloš Forman, Luc Montagnier, François Truffaut, John Williams, and Cesare Maldini. Among people deceased in 2011, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 4. Before her are Steve Jobs, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-il. After her are Václav Havel, Osama bin Laden, Peter Falk, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Sathya Sai Baba, Wangari Maathai, and Joe Frazier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 69 out of 6,924. Before her are George VI (1895), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), Henry VII of England (1457), Mary Shelley (1797), Paul McCartney (1942), and James VI and I (1566). After her are Herbert Spencer (1820), Guy Fawkes (1570), Edward III of England (1312), Edward I of England (1239), John Dee (1527), and William of Ockham (1285).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Taylor ranks 5. Before her are Charlie Chaplin (1889), Anthony Hopkins (1937), Sean Connery (1930), and Richard Burton (1925). After her are Roger Moore (1927), Ian McKellen (1939), Maggie Smith (1934), Christopher Lee (1922), Michael Caine (1933), Alan Rickman (1946), and Liam Neeson (1952).

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