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Dame Elizabeth Taylor has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress. She won the first in 1961 for Butterfield 8 and the second in 1967 for Mike Nichols' drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
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Elizabeth Taylor received an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1960 for Butterfield 8 and in 1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2002.
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Born on 27th February 1932, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, is one of the most beautiful and graceful actresses of her time, in Hollywood. She was born in Hamstead, London and the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor and Sara Viola Warmbrodt. She was born with American nationality, since both her parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. This violet-blue eyed beauty has a passion for jewelry, and fragrances. She has launched three perfumes - “white diamonds”, “Passion”, and “Black Pearls”, which have become a craze among young and older women worldwide.
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In May 2000 Taylor was dubbed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the female version of a knight. Queen Elizabeth (1926–) presented her with the award for services to the entertainment industry and to charity. That same year she was given the Marian Anderson Award for her efforts on behalf of the AIDS community. She ... returned to the hospital briefly after coming down with pneumonia. Taylor is a beautiful, much-beloved woman with a larger-than-life presence, both on and off the screen.
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born February 27 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award -winning actress. She was long considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and, arguably, the most beautiful actress of all time.
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Film legend DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR celebrated her 75th birthday with 75 friends and family in Las Vegas on Tuesday night (27FEB07). The CLEOPATRA actress arrived in a wheelchair at Sin City's Medici Cafe and Terrace at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, escorted by her son CHRISTOPHER, who turned 52 on the same day as his famous mother. Guests included her other children MICHAEL WILDING, ELIZABETH TODD and MARIA BURTON, actress DEBBIE REYNOLDS, her daughter CARRIE FISHER, magicians SIEGFRIED FISCHBACHER and ROY HORN, and model KATHY IRELAND. The media had speculated Taylor's longtime friend MICHAEL JACKSON would attend, but the actress said he would not be arriving, but she had spoken to him on the phone earlier that day.
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