How many times was Hollywood actor Richard Burton married?

Hollywood actor, Richard Burton (1925-1984), famously married five times, including twice to the actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). In 1949, he married his first wife, the Welsh actress Sybil Williams (1929-2013), with whom he had two daughters, Kate and Jessica. A year after their divorce in 1963, Burton married Taylor. Their marriage lasted ten years until their divorce in 1974. Sixteen months later, they remarried, but this lasted less than a year.

A month after his second divorce from Taylor, Burton married the British model Suzy Miller (born 1949), which ended in divorce in 1982. In 1983, Burton married for the final time to makeup artist Sally Hay (1948), who he was still married to at the time of his death on 5th August 1984.

Richard Burton was a Welsh stage and film actor who starred in over 40 movies and received seven Academy Award nominations. In the late 1960s, Burton was the highest-paid actor in the world. As well as being one of the most popular actors of his time, his relationship with Elizabeth Taylor was rarely out of the news.

Burton starred with Taylor in the 1963 film 'Cleopatra' and in the Broadway musical 'Camelot'. He won a Golden Globe for his appearance in 'My Cousin Rachel' (1952) and 'Equus' (1977), a Tony Award for 'Camelot' (1959), and a British Academy Film Award for 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' (1965) and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1966).