Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – July 7, 1967) was an English actress who was born Vivian Mary Hartley inside Darjeeling, India to Ernest Hartley (who was of English parentage) and Gertrude Robinson Yackje (of Irish descent). She & her parents late moved to England, where immature Leigh grew higher. She attended a Convent of the Sacred Heart around Roehampton, England, along with fellow actress-to-exist as Maureen O'Sullivan. She so went in to graduate from either a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

She was married within 1932 to Herbert Leigh Holman, and it experienced the girl, Suzanne, around 1933.

Leigh's career began on the stage. Her number one play was A Green Sash, though it was Mask of Virtue that really brought her to stardom. Around 1935, she began her film career with such picture show when A Village Squire, Items Come Shopping Higher, & Look Higher & Laugh.

Within 1937, Leigh starred in quaternity films: Fire All over England, Twenty-one Times paired first hubby Laurence Olivier (which was shelved until 1940), Dark Journey and Storm in the Teacup, paired Rex Harrison. Around 1938 Vivien gave two of a better performances of her motion picture career: the coquettish Elza within The Yank at Oxford & a wow & challenging street performing artist Libby inside ''St. Martin's Lane'', which co-starred Charles Laughton. Leigh is better known for her role when Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress. A film's producers went across an thorough talent look for to fill a very much-coveted role; actresses competing for the role paired Clark Gable included Jean Arthur, Lucille Ball, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Paulette Goddard, Jean Harlow, Olivia de Havilland, Susan Hayward, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, and Margaret Sullavan. Producer David O. Selznick had secretly selected Leigh for the role after seeing her in the MGM film A Yank at Oxford, but told no one until late 1938, when filming began.

Within 1940, Leigh arranged for the divorce from Holman and married Olivier, by getting whom she got been having the extremely publicised relationship for years. At a instance, each were married, Olivier to actress Jill Esmond, who was pregnant when the affair began.

Around 1944, Leigh was diagnosed as with the tuberculosis patch on her left lung. Though she continued her career by using such plays when Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, the 1945 film Caesar and Cleopatra, and a 1948 epic film Anna Karenina, her illness was inducing worse. Within 1952, however, Leigh won another Academy Award for her portrayal the last season of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Per early 1960s Leigh had suffered ii miscarriages, and a hardship of the t.b. was crippling. She experienced besides been plagued by manic-depression for some instance, which was believed to exist as the factor the failure to guide her ill. She received shock therapy in London for the depression. Inside 1960, she & Olivier divorced in purportedly friendly terms, despite a reported volatility in their marriage, and Leigh insisted in keeping a title Lady Olivier until her dying. Leigh continued to keep the framed photo of him in her bedside table, potentially when accept her companion, actor Jack Merivale.

the actress died of chronic t.b. inside her London at home at a age of 53, survived by her girl, grandchildren, & her have mother, Gertrude Hartley, a devout Roman Catholic who had to settle for the Requiem Mass rather than a Mass of Christian Burial.

Leigh was cremated, and her ashes were scattered on the flow of any stream at Tickerage Mill pool, touching Blackboys, Sussex, London.

Leigh has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6773 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography
Ship of Fools (1965) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1962) The Deep Blue Sea (1955) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Anna Karenina (1948) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) That Hamilton Woman (1941) Waterloo Bridge (1940) Gone with the Wind (1939) A Yank at Oxford (1938) ''St.Martin's Lane, aka Sidewalks of London (1938) Fire Over England (1937) Dark Journey (1937) Storm in a Teacup (1937) 21 Days (1940) (filmed in 1937) The Village Squire (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) Look Up and Laugh (1935) Gentleman's Agreement'' (1935)