Gene Tierney

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1920-11-19 (71 years old)

Deathday

1991-11-06

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Gene Tierney

Biography

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).  Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).

Acting

1944

Laura

as Laura Hunt

1947

1954

The Egyptian

as Baketamon

1946

Dragonwyck

as Miranda Wells

1948

The Iron Curtain

as Anna Gouzenko

1951

The Secret of Convict Lake

as Marcia Stoddard

1950

Whirlpool

as Ann Sutton

1969

Daughter of the Mind

as Lenore Constable

1951

On the Riviera

as Lili Duran

1941

The Shanghai Gesture

as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")

1940

1954

Black Widow

as Iris Denver

1955

The Left Hand of God

as Anne 'Scotty' Scott

1953

Never Let Me Go

as Marya Lamarkina

1962

Advise & Consent

as Dolly Harrison

1950

Where the Sidewalk Ends

as Morgan Taylor

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Ellen Berent Harland

1941

Tobacco Road

as Ellie May Lester

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Martha Strabel Van Cleve

1950

Night and the City

as Mary Bristol

1942

China Girl

as Haoli Young

1941

Belle Starr

as Belle Starr

1952

Plymouth Adventure

as Dorothy Bradford

1946

The Razor's Edge

as Isabel Bradley

1941

Sundown

as Graham 'Zia' Fletcher

1964

The Pleasure Seekers

as Jane Barton

1942

Rings on Her Fingers

as Susan Miller / Linda Worthington

1942

Thunder Birds

as Kay Saunders

1953

Personal Affair

as Kay Barlow

1941

Hudson's Bay

as Barbara Hall

1951

The Mating Season

as Maggie Carleton

1963

Toys in the Attic

as Albertine Prine

1948

That Wonderful Urge

as Sara Farley

1945

A Bell for Adano

as Tina Tomasino

1951

Close to My Heart

as Midge Sheridan

1952

Way of a Gaucho

as Teresa Chavez

1999

Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

as Self (archive footage)

1950

The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

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