Lee Vivien (Vivien Leigh)

Vivien Leigh (real name - Vivian Mary Hartley) was born November 5, 1913 in the family of a successful English businessman in the Indian town of Darjeeling, near Kolkata. At the age of six years Vivien was sent to England to school at the convent of the Sacred Heart in Rohemptone, where she studied until 1927.

In 1932 she entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, married to Lee Holman and bore a daughter, Susanne. In 1935, Vivien Leigh produces a sensation role in the play `The mask of virtue 'and will debut a small role in the film, in 1936 she signed a contract with the producer Alexander Korda, . and about the same time while filming 'Fire Over England `fastened her affair with the famous English actor Sir Laurence Olivier,
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In 1938, Vivien Leigh gets the role of Scarlett O `Hara in the film, which has become legendary - in 'Gone with the Wind' by David O. Selznick, for which she was awarded the 'Oscar' for best actress. In 1940, Vivian was married to Olivier, and their marriage lasted until 1960.

For the role of Blanche Dubois in receiving more than one movie awards movie Elia Kazan `Streetcar 'Desire' Vivien Leigh in 1951, gets a second` Oscar `. Among other works of the great actresses of Winston Churchill's favorite movie 'Lady Hamilton' (1941), `Caesar and Cleopatra '(1946),` Waterloo Bridge' (1940), `Anna Karenina '(1948). Her last film was the picture of Stanley Kramer's 'ship of fools'. Vivien Leigh died of chronic tuberculosis July 7, 1967, the actress was scattered ashes over the lake in her estate in Tikereydzhe 8 October the same year.