Vivien Leigh
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1913-11-05 (54 years old)
Deathday
1967-07-07
Place of Birth
Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India]
Also known As
Вів'єн Мері Гартлі
Vivian Mary Hartley
Vivian Leigh
ویوین لی
Vivien Leigh
Biography
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, British India) 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 R...
Acting
1951
as Blanche DuBois
1939
as Scarlett O'Hara
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1965
as Mary Treadwell
1937
as Cynthia
1945
as Cleopatra
1948
as Anna Karenina
1961
as Karen Stone
1941
as Emma, Lady Hamilton
1940
as Myra
1940
as Wanda
1937
as Madeleine Goddard
1937
as Victoria Gow
1972
as Self (archive footage)
1938
as Liberty
1938
as Elsa Craddock
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1935
as Rose Venables
1935
as Schoolgirl
1955
as Hester Collyer
1935
as Marjorie Belfer
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
as Self (archive footage)
1961
as Scarlett O'Hara (archive footage) (uncredited)
1951
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
as (archive footage)
2004
as Herself (archive footage)
1935
as Phil Stanley
1940
1975
as Self (archive footage)
1940
1976
as (archive footage)
1998
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
as Self (archive footage)
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1996
as Self (archive footage)
2009
as Self (archive footage)
1959
as Sabina
1990
as Self (archive footage)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
1998
as Self (archive footage)
1969
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
as Self ( Archive footage )
1958
as Self- film actress
1940
as Amanda Prynne
1950
as Mrs. de winter
1966
as Anna Petrovna
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