Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well known public figure for the rest of her life. The American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend in 1999.

Taylor's personal life and especially her eight marriages drew a large amount of media attention and public disapproval throughout her adult life. According to biographer Alexander Walker, "whether she liked it or not ... marriage is the matrix of the myth that began surrounding Elizabeth Taylor from [when she was sixteen]".

Taylor was married to Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton twice, John Warner and Larry Fortensky. Mike Todd died in a plane crash on March 22, 1958 whilst still married to Taylor. The other seven marriages all ended in divorce.

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