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Born in London in 1932, Elizabeth Taylor began acting in the movies aged ten, after her American art-dealing parents moved back to the States at the onset of war. Signed to Universal Studios, Taylor achieved international stardom with the 1944 classic National Velvet as a keen teen equestrian. Highlights from her illustrious acting career (which garnered five Oscar nominations and two awards) include Ivanhoe, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Cleopatra - the most expensive picture ever to be made at that time - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd (1977). Married eight times, most famously twice to Richard Burton, she is most famous now for her tireless fund-raising and AIDS awareness campaigning.
