Actor
Vivien Leigh
November 5, 1913 · Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India]
Vivien Leigh (born November 5, 1913, Darjeeling, India—died July 8, 1967, London, England) was an English actress renowned for her roles in Hollywood and British theater. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, portraying Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), both performances that solidified her place among the greatest actresses of classic cinema.
Leigh was the only child of Ernest Hartley, a British broker, and Gertrude Yackjee, who had Anglo-Indian and Armenian ancestry. She spent her childhood between England and Europe, attending convent schools before enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in 1932, setting the stage for her acting career.
Notable work
Often works with
Robert Taylor
3 titles together
Waterloo Bridge, That's Entertainment, Part II, A Yank at Oxford
Laurence Olivier
3 titles together
That Hamilton Woman, Fire Over England, 21 Days
Cecil Parker
3 titles together
Caesar and Cleopatra, Dark Journey, Storm in a Teacup
Ronald Shiner
3 titles together
Caesar and Cleopatra, St. Martin's Lane, Gentlemen's Agreement
Robert Newton
3 titles together
Fire Over England, Dark Journey, 21 Days
Clark Gable
2 titles together
Gone with the Wind, That's Entertainment, Part II
Full filmography · 30
The Selznick Studios Retrospective Backlot Tour
as (in "Gone with the Wind") (archive footage)
2014
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
19947.1
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Marilyn Monroe
as archive footage
1986
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
19767
Ivanov
as Anna Petrovna
1966
Ship of Fools
as Mary Treadwell
19656.6
Tovarich
as Tatiana
1963
Antony and Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
1962
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Karen Stone
19616.9
The Skin of Our Teeth
as Sabina
1959
The Deep Blue Sea
as Hester Collyer
1955