Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
86.6 TOPICAL actor score · #52 of 1,977 actors
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) has a TOPICAL actor score of 86.6 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are acting honours and career standing. They've won 8 acting honours from 9 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Their best ten-year run was 1950-1959. Best films: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours99
Prime93
Their movies83
Credits73
Career standing96
- Acting honours8 wins, 9 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actress; AFI Life Achievement Award; Kennedy Center Honors
- Prime1950-1959
- Credits73 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 19 scored films (13 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 145 languages
“In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 8/10
Elizabeth Taylor's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | 1 |
| 300 | Giant | 1956 | 1 |
| 356 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | 2 |
| 387 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | 1 |
| 740 | National Velvet | 1944 | 3 |
| 1,093 | Cleopatra | 1963 | 1 |
| 1,279 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | 1 |
| 1,731 | Father of the Bride | 1950 | 3 |
| 1,869 | Lassie Come Home | 1943 | 7 |
| 1,967 | Life with Father | 1947 | 3 |
| 2,431 | The Taming of the Shrew | 1967 | 1 |
| 2,483 | Ivanhoe | 1952 | 2 |
| 3,054 | Little Women | 1949 | 4 |
| 3,456 | BUtterfield 8 | 1960 | 1 |
| 3,894 | Genocide | 1982 | 1 |
| 4,402 | Raintree County | 1957 | 1 |
| 5,404 | The V.I.P.s | 1963 | 1 |
| 5,764 | A Little Night Music | 1977 | 1 |
| 6,384 | The Flintstones | 1994 | 7 |