Originally named Vivian Mary Hartley, she is a British film actress. She successfully played Scarlett O 'Hara in Gone with the Wind, and played Blanche Du Boyce in A Streetcar Named Desire, and won two Oscars. 1999, she was selected as the greatest actress in16th century by the American Film Institute.
Vivien Leigh is a prolific actress. She cooperated with her husband Lawrence Olivier many times on the screen. Oliver directed many films starring her. During her 30-year acting career, she has played various roles, from the heroine in the comedies of No?l Coward and Bernard Shaw to the role in the classic Shakespeare plays.
Vivien Leigh is famous for her beauty, which sometimes makes her not taken seriously, but her health is her biggest obstacle. Bipolar disorder has been with her almost all her life, and she has gained a reputation of being difficult to get along with, and her acting career has experienced ups and downs. 1940s Mid-term, she was diagnosed with chronic pulmonary tuberculosis, and her condition became weaker and weaker due to repeated attacks. From 65438 to 0960, she divorced Oliver. Until she died of tuberculosis, she rarely appeared on the screen and stage. The English name of this paragraph of personal data editing: Vivien Leigh.
Original name: Vivian Mary Hartley
Chinese name: Vivien Leigh (Vivien Leigh translated from Hongkong)
Chinese full name: Vivian Mary Hartley
Nicknames: Viv, V, Vivling, Bibbs, Puss.
Birthday:191311.5.
Memorial Day:1July 7, 967
Place of birth: Darjeeling, India
Place of birth: England
Constellation: Scorpio
Height:160cm
Language: English, French, German, Italian.
Education: studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Oscar achievements: Best Actress in the 12 and 24th Oscars.
Marital status: 1932 married holman, the first husband's lawyer; 1933 gave birth to daughter Susanna; 1938 divorced in August. Married laurence olivier two days later, 1960 divorced.
Unforgettable thing: playing Scarlett in Gone with the Wind.
Frequently visited place: lake.
Favorite animals: cats, especially siamese cats.
Hobbies: planting gardens, guessing riddles, partying, collecting modern art and walking.
Bad habits: smoking (it is reported that she smoked four packs of cigarettes a day when filming Gone with the Wind) and swearing (she learned "fuck" from laurence olivier).
Favorite flower: white rose
Favorite country: France
Favorite dish: French food
Disadvantages: a pair of big hands and a high-frequency voice that is extremely disproportionate to a beautiful figure.
Favorite movie: Broken Blue Bridge
Favorite character: Mara Lester in Waterloo Bridge (1940).
Love: Even after she divorced laurence olivier and moved in with an actor named Jack Merriwa, she still told her that his picture was on the dresser beside her bed. She used the signature of "Mrs Oliver" until her death.
Personal clues:
It's easier to make the audience cry than laugh. Vivien Leigh's views on her second stage play Hypocrisy (1935).
Some comments described me as a great actress. I think it's stupid because they put the burden and responsibility on me, and I can't just accept it.
Elegant people have their own principles. Half of a woman's charm comes from her fantasy. Edit the main stage works of this paragraph on behalf of the works:
1935-the mask of morality
1937- hamlet
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1945- "narrow escape"
1950- A streetcar named Desire
Caesar and Cleopatra/Anthony and Cleopatra
Titus and the Laonix team
196 1- La Traviata
1963- Comrade
1966- ivanov
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1934- The situation is improving (gradually improving)
1935- country squire
1935- gentleman's agreement
1935-Look up and laugh
1937- Fire over England-English War/Burning England
1937- Journey to the Dark (Journey to the Dark)
1937- Make a mountain out of a molehill
1937-2 1 day
An American in Oxford
1938-St. Martin Lane
1939- Gone with the Wind (Best Actress at the Oscar)
1940- Waterloo Bridge (blue broken bridge)
1941-that Hamilton woman (that Hamilton woman).
1946- Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar and Cleopatra)
1947- anna karenine-Anna Karelina
1951-A Streetcar Named Desire (Best Actress at the Oscar)
1955-Deep blue sea
196 1- Madame Si Tong's Rome Spring (Rome Spring)
This paragraph 1965- Fool's Ship Editing Film Awards and Main Honors:
■ Oscar/Oscar Award
1940 Award-winning best actress Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
1952 Best Actress "A Streetcar Named Desire" shows that Vivien Leigh did not attend the award ceremony, and the award was won by greer garson.
■ Golden Globe Award
1952 Best Actress (Drama) nominated "A Streetcar Named Desire"
■ British Film Academy Award
1953 Best sasha jackson "A Streetcar Named Desire"
■ New York Film Critics Association Award NYFCC Award
1939 Best Actress Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
195 1 Best Actress "A Streetcar Named Desire"
San Jodi Award, San Houdi Award of Spain
1957 Grand Prize "A Streetcar Named Desire"
■ Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award Venice Film Festival volpi Cup
Best actress A Streetcar Named Desire
Other performance awards:
■ Tony Award Drama Award
1963 Award-winning Best Actress (Music) Comrade Tovarich
Other honors:
■ Avenue of Stars Avenue of Stars
6773 Hollywood Boulevard Memorial Star.
■ 100 of American Film Academy ...
1999 was selected as the classic video editor of the greatest female star of the American Film Association in the past century 16. Scarlett's sly eyes in Gone with the Wind, Mara's innocent smiling face in Broken Blue Bridge and the helplessness and madness of the dying beauty in A Streetcar Named Desire are the immortal images left by Vivien Leigh to the world movies.
When she won the Oscar for Gone with the Wind, the judges read out: "She is so beautiful that she doesn't need such acting skills at all;" She is such a good actress that she doesn't need to look so good at all. "12 years later, the crazy woman in A Streetcar Named Desire lost her years and beauty, making her a queen again. From this perspective, time can pass, but beauty will not be late.