Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor is an iconic Academy Award winning British-American actress. Taylor first caught America's attention in the 1944 film National Velvet. She continued her big screen appearances, starring in more than fifty films. In 1963, Taylor became the first actress to earn $1 million for a film.PBS: Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth

78-year-old Taylor is scheduled to marry for the ninth time in 2010. She is engaged to Jason Winters, a 49-year-old manager whose company, Sterling Winters Management, represents Janet Jackson. (Taylor was a lifelong friend of Jackson's late brother, singer Michael Jackson). Taylor's eighth husband was construction worker Larry Fortensky. They divorced in 1996 after having been married for 5 years.http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/09/report-elizabeth-taylor-engaged-to-49-year-old-hollywood-manager/

Elizabeth Taylor's film career has spanned decades. From her film debut in 1942 in There's One Born Every Minute, to being signed for an eighteen year contract with MGM producer Sam Marx. During that time, Taylor starred in the 1944 film National Velvet alongside Angela Lansbury, and garnered herself national attention. Soon after she starred alongside Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun and in the 1957 film Raintree Country. It was her roles as Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8 and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? that would garner Taylor Best Actress Oscars. Along with Oscars, Taylor has received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her commitment to fighting the AIDS epidemic.PBS: Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth

• Her TWITTER page http://twitter.com/DameElizabeth

• TWITTER about Bocelli concert "My mind, my soul were transported by his beauty, his voice, his inner being. God has kissed this man and I thank God for it." June 9, 2009

• Note:A few of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• February 27, 1932: Born London, England

• 1942: There's One Born Every Minute

• 1944: National Velvet

• 1947: Life with Father

• 1949: Little Women

• 1950: Father of the Bride

• 1951: A Place in the Sun

• 1958: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• 1960: Academy Award for BUtterfield 8

• 1963: Cleopatra

• 1966: Academy Award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

• 1973: Divorce His - Divorce Hers

• 1992: The Simpsons

• 1993: The American Film Institute honors the star with its Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2000: Britain's Queen Elizabeth pronounces Taylor Dame Commander of British Empire, the female equivalent of Knighthood

• 2006: Introduces jewelry line "House of Taylor"