Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 05. November 1913 |
Geburtsort | Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Todesort | Belgravia |
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Beschreibung | Vivien Leigh (/liː/ LEE; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967; born Vivian Mary Hartley), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963). Although her career had periods of inactivity, in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as the 16th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema. |
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Life is too short to work so hard.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
