She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life.

She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.