Vivien Leigh

Highest Rated:
100% That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Lowest Rated:
80% Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Birthday:
Nov 5, 1913
Birthplace:
Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India. [now India]
Bio:
Born in India to a British stockbroker and his Irish wife, Vivien Leigh first appeared on stage in convent-school amateur theatricals. Completing her education in England, France, Italy, and Germany, she studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; not a particularly impressive pupil, Leigh…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 80% - 100%
Number of Movies: 24
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2009 The Many Faces of Cleopatra
  • Actor
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2001 21 Days
  • Actor
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1992 Mgm Story: When The Lion Roars
  • Actor
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1991 Hollywood Remembers - Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
  • Actor
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1965 81% Ship of Fools
  • Mary Treadwell
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1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
  • Karen Stone
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1955 The Deep Blue Sea
  • Hester Collyer
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1951 98% A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Blanche Dubois
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1948 Anna Karenina
  • Anna Karenina
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1946 Caesar and Cleopatra
  • Cleopatra
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1941 100% That Hamilton Woman
  • Lady Hamilton
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1940 21 Days
  • Wanda
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1940 80% Waterloo Bridge
  • Myra
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1939 96% Gone With the Wind
  • Scarlett O'Hara
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1938 21 Days Together
  • Actor
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1938 A Yank at Oxford
  • Elsa Craddock
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1938 Sidewalks of London
  • Libby
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1937 Dark Journey
  • Madeleine
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1937 Storm in a Teacup
  • Victoria Gow
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1937 Fire Over England
  • Cynthia
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1935 Gentlemen's Agreement
  • Phil Stanley
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1935 The Village Squire
  • Rose Venables
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1935 Look Up and Laugh
  • Boss's daughter
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1934 Things Are Looking Up
  • schoolgirl
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Vivien Leigh Trivia

Is the first British actress to win an Academy Award (for her role in "Gone With the Wind").
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (2 years ago)
Vivien is a heavy smoker; during filming of "Gone With the Wind", she was smoking almost four packs of cigarettes a day.
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (2 years ago)

Quotes from Vivien Leigh's Characters

    1. Scarlett O'Hara: As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
    From Gone With the Wind. Submitted by Dutch E (57 days ago)
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