Vivien Leigh
Birthday
1913/11/05
Day of death
1967/07/07 (53 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India]
Also know as
Вів'єн Мері Гартлі, Vivian Mary Hartley, Vivian Leigh, ویوین لی, Вивиан Мэри Хартли, леди Оливье
Biography
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, British India) was an English actress renowned for her roles in Hollywood and British theater. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, portraying Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), both performances that solidified her place among the greatest actresses of classic cinema. Leigh was the only child of Ernest Hartley, a British broker, and Gertrude Yackje...Read more
Acting
(1951) A Streetcar Named Desire
as Blanche DuBois
(1939) Gone with the Wind
as Scarlett O'Hara
(2000) Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
(1965) Ship of Fools
as Mary Treadwell
(1937) Fire Over England
as Cynthia
(1945) Caesar and Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
(1948) Anna Karenina
as Anna Karenina
(1961) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Karen Stone
(1941) That Hamilton Woman
as Emma, Lady Hamilton
(1940) Waterloo Bridge
as Myra
(1940) 21 Days Together
as Wanda
(1937) Dark Journey
as Madeleine Goddard
(1937) Storm in a Teacup
as Victoria Gow
(1972) Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1938) St. Martin's Lane
as Liberty
(1938) A Yank at Oxford
as Elsa Craddock
(2018) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) The Village Squire
as Rose Venables
(1935) Things Are Looking Up
as Schoolgirl
(1955) The Deep Blue Sea
as Hester Collyer
(1935) Look Up and Laugh
as Marjorie Belfer
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2001) Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
as Self (archive footage)
(1951) The Screen Director
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(2004) Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Herself (archive footage)
(1935) Gentlemen's Agreement
as Phil Stanley
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1998) Glorious Technicolor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(2005) Jornal Português (1938-1951)
as Self (archive footage)
(2009) 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
(1959) The Skin of Our Teeth
as Sabina
(1990) Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self (archive footage)
(2021) Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent
as Self (archive footage)
(1969) The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1982) Laurence Olivier: a life
as Self ( Archive footage )
(1958) Small world: Vivien Leigh
as Self- film actress
(1940) Private lives
as Amanda Prynne
(1950) Rebecca
as Mrs. de winter
(1966) Ivanov
as Anna Petrovna
(1988) Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as ---
(2023) Flashing Images of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando
as Blanche Du Bois/Self
(1993) Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(2015) Iconic Couples of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1958) Small World
as Self