Elizabeth Taylor: Two-Time Oscar Winner and Hollywood Legend Dies at 79

Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress and activist. Born on February 27, 1932, in London to American parents, she became a child star in National Velvet (1944).

She won Academy Awards for Best Actress for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). She starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Place in the Sun, Giant and Cleopatra, and was one of the highest-paid stars. She was married eight times, twice to Richard Burton.

She was a pioneering AIDS activist and co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Taylor died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on March 23, 2011, at age 79.

Achievements: Two Academy Awards, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Birth: February 27, 1932 - London, England.

Profession: Actress and activist.

Interesting Facts: She co-founded amfAR in 1985.