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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh

Acting
05 Nov 1913
07 Jul 1967
Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India]

Biography

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 Yackj...

Also Known As

Вів'єн Мері Гартлі, Vivian Mary Hartley, Vivian Leigh, ویوین لی, Вивиан Мэри Хартли

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