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1. Leigh, Vivien Leighnoun

   English film actress (1913-1967)

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1. vivien leigh

   Vivien Leigh was a renowned British stage and film actress known for her award-winning performances in two iconic films, "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951). Born in British India as Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, she moved to England at a young age, where she pursued an acting career. For her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", she received two Academy Awards for Best Actress. She was also noted for her tumultuous relationship with actor Laurence Olivier, whom she was married to from 1940 to 1960. Leigh struggled with bipolar disorder and tuberculosis throughout her life, passing away from the latter on July 8, 1967. Despite the brevity of her career, her dramatic talent and beauty have left a lasting legacy in the world of cinema.

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1. Vivien Leigh

   Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was a British stage and film actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for her performances as "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she had also played on stage in London's West End. She won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway version of Tovarich. After taking an education in drama school, Leigh appeared with small roles in four films in 1935, and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England. Lauded for her beauty until 1950, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. Despite her fame as a screen actress, Leigh was primarily a stage performer. During her prolific 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth. Later in life, she played character roles in a few films. Leigh was greatly associated with her second husband, the well-known actor Laurence Olivier, to whom she was married from 1940 to 1960. Leigh and Olivier starred together in many films and stage productions, with Olivier often directing. For much of her adult life she suffered from bipolar disorder. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career suffered periods of inactivity. She suffered recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, first diagnosed in the mid-1940s, which ultimately claimed her life at the age of 53. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as the sixteenth greatest female movie star of all time.

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   The numerical value of Vivien Leigh in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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