Eliza Taylor, neither at the beginning of her cinematic career, nor now, did not like that, having barely heard her name, those around her drew an analogy with a Hollywood diva. In any other situation, it would be flattering, but it is important for an actress to become a separate person.
Childhood and youth
Eliza Jane Taylor-Cotter (Eliza is sometimes found in Russian transcription) was born in Melbourne in October 1989. In the family, besides her, 3 more children grew up - a boy and 2 girls. The mother of the actress was engaged graphic design, father- cafe owner The only one who was somehow connected with art was his stepfather, a stand-up comedian. Eliza planned to study marine life when she grew up. However, at the age of 13, she began acting in episodes of television series.
The first notable works were Rosie from the "Night party" and Sarah from the "Pirate Islands". Then, starting in 2005, for 3 seasons, the young actress played in the large-scale project "Neighbors", in which different time and lit up, Jason Donovan and Natalie Imbruglia. Eliza received two Inside Soap Awards nominations for her portrayal of Janai Timmins before leaving for England.
Movies
At home in Australia, Eliza managed to star in minor role in the detective drama "On the Edge", family comedy"Meet the Rafters", nominated for the AFI Awards and TV Week Logie Awards in 2009, in the rating "Big Wave". In the short melodrama "Automatic Wash" Taylor has already played leading role.
Talking about the UK page in creative biography Eliza, sources point to theatrical production Snow White on stage at the Weymouth Pavilion. Soon the actress moved across the ocean and settled in the United States, periodically visiting the Green Continent. During this period, Taylor became a nurse in a psychiatric clinic in the thriller "Patrick", a Woman in the short film "Natural", a journalist in the action movie "Nikita", based on the painting. In the image of a super agent, she appeared in him.
The first notable American work in Taylor's filmography is television project"A hundred". The girl in it has the main role, inherited immediately after the producers watched the video resume. The character of the actress is a prisoner of the space colony Clark Griffin, who is sent to Earth after nuclear war.
Apocalypse provoked artificial intelligence, whose computer processor was disabled by the heroine Eliza, but the danger of a new attack remains. It soon becomes clear that people have survived on the planet.
From the "Neighbors" to the "Hundred" migrated, who played the official leader of the expedition. In the image of his cold-blooded assistant, he spoke. In the leader of the clan of earthlings, Lexu reincarnated, with whom Taylor is friends in real life.
The surprise for the artists was the news that romantic feelings would flare up between their characters in the film. But in the future, Lexa dies, and this fact caused discontent on the part of the LGBT community. Another heroine in love with Clarke was Naila. The role was played by Harmon's sister, Jessica.
The director of the film, Jason Rothenberg, on his Twitter page, noted that it is not necessary to give the characters bisexuality, as well as gender or nationality, great importance. The colonists and earthlings do not think about it, they face a more important task - to survive, prejudices in the post-apocalyptic world are dangerous.
The series was nominated four times for the Saturn and Teen Choice Awards, three times for the Canadian Leo Awards, and twice for the Motion Picture Sound Editors award for special effects. Two awards film crew received - for the best sci-fi film and the audience award.
In the fall of 2014, the film "November Man" was released, where, in addition to Eliza, and appeared. The heroine Taylor is the daughter of a former CIA agent who owns valuable information, which is being hunted by the special services of America and Russia.
In the drama "Blank Lies," the actress appeared as an undercover police officer embedded in a teenage community whose members are involved in the distribution of drugs.
Personal life
Eliza Taylor's personal life is closely connected with her professional one. The first hobby of the actress was compatriot Brett Tucker, who also starred in the TV series Neighbors, and later in Lost world and the sequel to Spartacus.
While working on season 5 of The 100, Eliza met Paxton McCreary, who plays the role of the head of the criminal community. The couple does not cover how the relationship develops. Fans are left to be content with what the paparazzi will publish, and wonder if Miller will become the husband of their favorite.
The press attributed to the actress an affair with two more "colonists" - Bob Morley and Thomas McDonell. With the first in the story, the heroine Taylor, although a strained relationship, but the passion is visible to the naked eye. And the second one did play the lover of the leader of the "Hundreds". However, the rumors remained just rumors. The information that the girl was seen in a restaurant was not confirmed, and supposedly Eliza has all the signs of pregnancy.
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Childhood
Little Elizabeth's parents were people creative professions: her father had his own art gallery, and her mother tried to reach heights in acting, but for the most part she suffered only failures in this. The outbreak of World War II forced the family to move away from the theater of operations - they moved to the United States, to Hollywood. There, Elizabeth entered the Byron School and, while still at school, was able to taste success. When the girl was only 10 years old, she made her debut in the film industry - she starred in the film "National Velvet" and even got a small role in one of the adaptations of the novel "Jane Eyre".
Filmography of Elizabeth Taylor
From the very beginning, Elizabeth's career went uphill, many producers and directors appreciated her beauty and talent. Therefore, she was offered to conclude a long-term contract with the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film studio. Along with the age of actress Elizabeth Taylor, the nature of the roles that she received also changed - if earlier she starred in good-natured films like Lassie Come Home, then later she was offered to create romantic female images. This stage in her work began with the film "Date with Judy", after which not only employers, but also the audience stopped perceiving her as a young, frivolous actress. At the same time, actress Elizabeth Taylor did not have a professional acting education, but it was difficult to argue about her talent.
She also succeeded in difficult psychological roles, such as in the films "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" or "Suddenly, Last Summer." Glory in Once again hit the favorite of the audience after the appearance of the film "Cleopatra", and to this day the actress is remembered by the public in her image. Soon, Elizabeth "grew" to the highest praise that can be awarded to a representative of the world of cinema. Taylor received her first Oscar for participating in the filming of Butterfield 8. Soon, in 1966, she became the owner of the second Oscar figurine, this time the award was worthy of Elizabeth's performance in the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth not only acts in films, but also performs at theater stage since 1982. In the same year, her services to the world of cinema were again noted - she was awarded an honorary award for her invaluable contribution to the development of world cinema. At the same time, Taylor did not continue to act until the end of her life - the last film with her participation ("The Flintstones") appeared on the screens in 1994. The great actress passed away on March 23, 2011 due to heart failure.
Height and weight of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor is 157 cm tall and weighs 75 kg.
Personal life of Elizabeth Taylor
All the love dramas that played out in Elizabeth's life had a strong influence on the work of the actress. At 17, Elizabeth meets billionaire Howard Hughes. Relationships connected them with each other for a very short time - Elizabeth finds another lover, the owner of the famous hotel chain Nick Hilton becomes him. Young Elizabeth marries him, but their marriage does not last long. Moreover, their family relationships do not even end successfully, the divorce is accompanied by a loud scandal.
After such a shock, the impressionable actress found solace in love for her next husband, Michael Wilding. It was to him that she gave birth to her first child. In this marriage, the spouses also failed to maintain an idyll, 24-year-old Elizabeth was left alone again and again for a very short time. Producer Mike Todd appeared in her field of vision at the right time and became the third husband of the actress after so many love failures. The relationship in this couple was held together by true love, although Mike was much older than the girl, but fate soon separated them in the most dramatic way: in 1958, Todd was in a plane crash.
It took Elizabeth a long time to recover from this blow, but later in her life there appears new man- Singer Eddie Fisher, the fourth husband of the actress. Then - according to a familiar scenario: again a divorce. And again a new husband, this time Richard Burton, with whom she spent about 20 years together. Further
A hundred is not love story. While the plot of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series focuses on the war on Earth, Clarke's bisexuality has become increasingly discussed by both critics and fans, especially after her kiss with Lexa in season 2.
After this kiss executive producer Jason Rothenberg has been open about Clarke's bisexuality, thus making Clarke the first openly bisexual leader. This move helped the series achieve high popularity on Twitter. “It was a big turning point,” Taylor recalls. "The introduction of Lexa and the announcement of Clarke's orientation definitely got a lot of respect [from the critics] for breaking the box, which I think is ridiculous, because these boxes shouldn't exist these days."
Rotenberg has the same opinion on this matter. For him, Clarke's bisexuality did not mean a desire to please LGBT fans, a desire to somehow manipulate viewers, or a desire to deliver a message about civil rights. This decision and subsequent ones were only a necessity for further development World "Hundreds".
“Sexual orientation occupies the same place as gender and racial identity in the world of our series, - says Rotenberg. The characters on the show don't care about that sort of thing. They only care about whether they will live or not. No one ever categorizes anyone like this: 'She's a female leader' or 'He's a gay soldier'. Our show doesn't have that kind of vocabulary."
“I understand the importance of labels in the world we live in,” he adds, “so it seems to me that by depicting this universe where such things don’t matter, I reflect my desire that real world was the same."
The characters of the series do not care about their orientation, but the audience does it for them. As an avid Twitter user, Rothenberg noticed fans' enthusiasm for some of the on-screen pairings. He uses some hashtags but says he tries not to be influenced by them - it doesn't matter if he has to speak out for or against the #Clexa tag. "I never thought about it, 'OK, I have to please people if they want to see this couple,'" Rothenberg says. - Shipping is like a double-edged sword in that what people are really into and it makes them watch the show, but I don't like it when it leads to conflict between different groups of people. It's unusual. And this new thing for me to watch."
But for Taylor, Clarke's sexuality is no problem. "People want to be loved and they need a connection to someone to survive in this world, and it doesn't matter if it's from a man or a woman," she says. “I think it was great to play.”
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on February 27, 1932 in London. Her parents were a couple American actors working in the British capital. In 1939, when Europe began big war, her parents returned home to Los Angeles, which opened up great opportunities for their daughter.
In 1942, Universal offered 10-year-old Liz a contract to shoot in the film A Man Born Every Minute, where she played the role of Gloria Twine. This film is the first in an extensive filmography great actress. In the next two years, she starred in the films of two more companies that today have become the main force of Hollywood - MGM (Lassie Comes Home) and 20th Century Fox (Jane Eyre with the great Orson Welles).
Taylor got her first "adult" role in 1950 in the film "Father of the Bride", and her role in the film "A Place in the Sun" (1951) made critics talk about her.
Movies
Already in those years, Elizabeth showed her difficult character. She did not like many of the films in which she starred, she was annoyed by the total control by the company. She even wanted to break the contract with MGM and end her career that had not really begun yet. However, things got better, and in the mid-50s, Taylor began to get the main roles in serious films.
The films based on the works of Tennessee Williams - "Cat on a Hot Roof" (1958) and "Last Summer" (1959) brought her wide recognition. For a scene as "Cat" Maggie Pollitt in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" laying in a silk nightgown, Taylor drew comparisons to her role in the cult film "The Seven Year Itch" when the air from the NYC subway vent blows up her skirt. heroine Monroe. And for her role in Once Upon a Last Summer, Elizabeth Taylor received her first major award - the Golden Globe for Best Actress.
And the following year, Taylor received her first Oscar for her role in Butterfield 8, which was the last in the history of her collaboration with MGM. Elizabeth Taylor was waiting world fame.
1963 was an eventful year for cinema. The comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was released, the picture "Birds" was revealed to the world, Ingmar Bergman released his "Silence". In the same year, Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, was released. For her, she received a colossal fee of one million dollars for those times. The film turned out to be so expensive that it paid off only after 4 years, when the rights to show it were sold to television companies. This work turned the life of the actress. She became a star, conquering millions of viewers with her rare beauty and her bright talented game.
Elizabeth Taylor won her second Oscar for her role as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? For the sake of this role, the actress made great sacrifices - she had to gain significant weight, which she then could not lose for a long time. This work was the last truly big for Taylor in the movie. She continued to act a lot, but there was no previous success. The viewer from the CIS should remember the picture " Blue bird Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, filmed in 1976 jointly by Lenfilm and 20th Century Fox, in which Taylor played several roles at once.
In the 80s, Elizabeth Taylor starred mainly in television films and serials, the names of which will tell little to the domestic audience. She got busy social activities and business. So, she was the first Hollywood star to launch a perfume line under her own name. Taylor devoted much attention to the fight against HIV infection, becoming a co-founder of the American Foundation for HIV Research, as well as opening a foundation in her own name. She devoted a lot of time and energy to charity, for which she was awarded the US President's Medal in 2001.
IN last time Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the big screen in 1994 in an unacclaimed great glory feature film"The Flintstones". In addition, it should be noted that Maggie Simpson from famous series"The Simpsons" said her first and only word in the voice of Elizabeth Taylor.
In 1993, the actress received her third Oscar "for outstanding individual contribution to the cause of humanism", and the last public appearance took place in 2007 at events at Paramount Pictures, dedicated to the problems HIV and AIDS.
Personal life
The personal life of Elizabeth Taylor attracted and still attracts, perhaps, more attention than her work. And this is not surprising, because a woman with such a bright and unusual appearance, who finds herself at the pinnacle of fame, cannot have a boring, gray life of a simple layman.
It is worth saying a few words about one feature of Taylor's appearance. The actress had a rare genetic mutation - distichiasis, and simply put - had two rows of eyelashes, which gave her eyes and her gaze a special beauty and expressiveness. Moreover, the color of her eyes is defined by many as purple, which is the rarest case.
Elizabeth Taylor has been married 9 times to 8 men. For one of them - Richard Burton - she was married twice.
18-year-old Nicky Hilton became the husband of the actress when she was 23 years old. The heir to a gigantic empire, Hilton turned out to be an ardent lover, but a useless husband who allowed himself to drink, have a good time and even raise a hand against his pregnant wife. The marriage ended tragically - Elizabeth lost the child.
Actor Michael Wilding, who was her father, Taylor took away from the family, and it seemed that their marriage should have been perfect. Taylor gave birth to her husband two children, but this marriage also fell apart.
Liz did not grieve for long and three days later she married producer Michael Todd, who was 24 years older than her. According to the memoirs of the actress, this marriage was the happiest, she sincerely and passionately loved Michael. And she could have been on the same plane with him on March 22, 1958 (which later crashed), if not for the malaise. Edwin "Eddie" Fisher, a friend of Taylor's deceased husband, was in right time V right place and, putting a shoulder to the inconsolable widow, became the husband of the actress for as much as 5 years.
Everyone mixed up the shooting of the famous "Cleopatra". Richard Burton, who played Mark Antony in this film, became a fatal man in the life of Elizabeth Taylor. When he publicly acknowledged their romance, specifying that he was not going to divorce his wife, she attempted suicide. Many said at the time that Burton just wanted to bask in the glory of his co-star. film set, however, the actor really fell madly in love with Taylor and all of them life together showered her with expensive gifts.
The stormy emotions and vivid passions that reigned around their family for almost 10 years failed. Burton took to drink, films with their participation ceased to collect cash. Divorce followed. However, Taylor and Burton a year later tried to restore their former idyll by remarrying, but everything was in vain.
Virginia Senator John Warner, who became Liz's next husband, had to owe much to his wife for the successful election campaign, which she actively supported in 1978. Perhaps this is all that interested Warner in Taylor. He was neither a fan of her talent, nor a connoisseur of her beauty, which by that time had begun to fade due to the actress's passion for alcohol.
The last official marriage of our heroine seems like a farce from the outside. A simple worker Larry Fortensky was in no way suitable as the husband of a great actress. Even the ceremony, which was held in the famous Neverland, who was the best man at the wedding, did not happy sign for this, already the last in the life of Elizabeth Taylor, a marriage union.
After the collapse of her last marriage, Liz said that she was tired of weddings and devoted the rest of her life to the cause of charity and philanthropy.
One of Elizabeth Taylor's closest friends was the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. There were rumors about their romance and imminent wedding, but all this remained only rumors. Most likely, it really was a great friendship of two lonely people who were loved by millions, but who never knew happiness in their personal lives.
Death
On March 23, 2011, sad news spread around the world: Elizabeth Taylor passed away. The actress who conquered more than one generation of moviegoers around the world, the actress whose very name became synonymous with cinema in the 20th century, is gone. The woman who conquered millions of men's hearts with her beauty, the woman who conquered millions of movie lovers with her bright talent, the woman whose personal life interested many more than their own, is gone. After her death, Michael Wilding Jr. - the son of an actress - said:
“She was an extraordinary woman who lived to the fullest every day. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, her love will live forever in our hearts."
Elizabeth Taylor died among her family on March 23, 2011 at the Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 79, from heart failure. The funeral took place the next day according to Jewish custom. Not without curiosity. The ceremony was delayed by 15 minutes when Rabbi Jerome Cutler said:
“She even decided to be late for her funeral.”
The actress had the right to this even after her death. Because she is Elizabeth Taylor.
Quotes:
“I only slept with people I was married to. How many women can boast of the same?
"I - faithful wife. Probably too faithful, having been married eight times.”
"The conscience of most people is nothing more than a fear of the opinions of others."
"If a director is stupid enough to offer me a million dollars for a film, then I'm not stupid enough to refuse."
Filmography
- 1942 - Every minute a person is born
- 1950 - Father of the bride
- 1951 - A place in the sun
- 1956 - Giant
- 1958 - Cat on a Hot Roof
- 1960 - One day last summer
- 1960 - Butterfield 8
- 1963 - Cleopatra
- 1966 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1976 - Blue bird
Elizabeth Taylor is an actress whose name has become synonymous with Hollywood. With the release of her films, the "golden age" of the American film industry began, which is why this bright woman often called the "queen" of overseas cinema.
For many years of shows and filming, Elizabeth Taylor has become one of the most bright stars Europe and USA. Newspapers wrote about her; TV news releases were dedicated to her. But how much do we really know about her? What secrets hides the past of this great film actress? To understand all this, our article today, dedicated to one of the first Hollywood stars, will help you.
The early years, childhood and family of Elizabeth Taylor
The future celebrity was born in English London. Her parents - US citizens - came here to shoot new films, but subsequently stayed here for many years. It was only with the outbreak of World War II that they decided to leave English cinema and move back across the ocean. Having moved to their historical homeland, the mother of our today's heroine continued to act in films, but she never managed to truly become famous in her whole life. But the father of Elizabeth Taylor decided to leave the cinema and some time later opened his own art gallery. In this field, he managed to achieve good success, but, of course, he could not compare with the success of his daughter.In one of her interviews, Elizabeth Taylor said that she does not remember the time when she was still not famous. And it's easy enough to believe. For the first time, the young actress appeared on the set in 1942, when she was only ten years old. The debut work of the actress was a small role of a young horsewoman in the film "National Velvet", which later became her stepping stone to the world of big cinema. The first role was followed by others. "Lassie Comes Home", "Jane Eyre", "Life with Father", "Date with Judy" - each of these paintings became a significant milestone in early career our today's heroine. Each time her film roles became more and more significant, and she herself slowly turned into a full-fledged Hollywood star.
The film The Conspirator, in which she played one of the main roles, allowed Elizabeth Taylor to finally establish herself in this capacity. The picture was a success at the worldwide box office and very soon brought young Elizabeth fame and glory.
Fame and success Elizabeth Taylor, filmography
It is noteworthy that at the very beginning, critics and recognized figures of American cinematography saw in the actress only a pretty beauty. However, later Elizabeth Taylor managed to change the idea of \u200b\u200bherself. Her bright performance in the films A Place in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly, Last Summer made the whole Hollywood talk about this talented London native as a strong character actress.Myths and legends. Elizabeth Taylor
During this period, not a single newspaper in New York and Los Angeles was published without news on the life and work of Elizabeth Taylor. Everyone was talking about her. The topic of discussion was her personal life, new roles, and later her fees. The thing is that our today's heroine is the first actress in world cinema, whose fee has reached a million dollars. In this context, it is also worth noting that in the 60s, due to a different exchange rate for the American currency, this amount was completely sky-high. With this money, several films could be made at once. However, the directors preferred to spend them on the fees of Elizabeth Taylor.
For the first time, such an amount appeared in the salary sheet of an Anglo-American actress in 1961, when the film Cleopatra was released. At this moment, the actress was at the pinnacle of fame and already had one golden Oscar statuette in her personal collection (for the film Butterfield 8). However, despite this, the film Egyptian queen never paid off at the worldwide box office. The film studio suffered considerable losses, although it managed to get hold of several significant cinematic awards.
In the mid-sixties, the actress played her main role in her career, starring in the psychological film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? For this role, the actress scored excess weight, and such efforts did not go unnoticed by American critics. In 1967, the "Queen of Hollywood" received her second Oscar. However, the consequences of filming in this picture haunted Elizabeth Taylor for a long time. The gained weight still did not go away, and therefore very soon the actress began a protracted depression. To top it off, there were problems with alcohol and drugs. The actress was treated a lot, but breakdowns and relapses were by no means uncommon for her.
During this period, problems began in the professional field. Public interest in the person of Elizabeth Taylor began to decline rapidly, and films with her participation increasingly remained unprofitable. Thus, by the age of forty-five, the career of the former "Queen of Hollywood" began to go downhill. In the eighties, she began to act less frequently in films and appear more often in the theater. This state of affairs continued in the future. In the nineties, only one film with her participation was released. In 2001, the once popular Anglo-American actress starred in her last movie- Comedy "American old nags".
The Last Years of Elizabeth Taylor
In the 2000s, a woman began to collect special awards American film academies, as well as appearing on various show projects as a special guest. During this period, Elizabeth Taylor began to make frequent political statements supporting Democratic Party USA and protecting the rights of national and sexual minorities.point in dizzying career celebrity put a serious heart disease. In 2011, the woman began to frequently go to the hospital. However, all efforts of doctors were in vain. On March 23, 2011, the "Queen of Hollywood" died of heart failure.
Hollywood legend Elizabeth Tylor dies
Personal life of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight times in her life. To some extent, this fact was due to the constant interest in her person from journalists and ordinary people.Most significant men actors Richard Burton and Michael Wilding became her fate. With the first, the actress lived together for twenty years and even managed to marry him twice. The marriage with the second of these men lasted somewhat less, but gave the world two children - the sons of Howard and Christopher.
Subsequently, from her marriage to producer Michael Todd, she also had a daughter, Elizabeth. In addition to three own children, the "Queen of Hollywood" also had one adopted child- a girl named Maria, whom Taylor adopted when she was married to Richard Burton.
