Awards & Winners

Vivien Leigh

Date of Birth 05-November-1913
Place of Birth Darjeeling
(West Bengal, Darjeeling district, India)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Vivian Mary Hartley, Vivling, Vivien, Lady Olivier, Lady Olivier, Lady Vivien Leigh Olivier, Vivian Leigh, Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier, Вивьен Ли, леди Оливье, Вивиан Мэри Хартли, 薇薇安·瑪麗·哈特萊
Profession Actor, Singer
Vivian Mary Hartley, later known as 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 in 1949. She won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway version of Tovarich. After an education in drama school, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935, and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England. Lauded for her beauty, 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 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. To the public at the time, Leigh was strongly identified with her second husband Laurence Olivier, to whom she was married from 1940 to 1960. Leigh and Olivier starred together in many stage productions, with Olivier often directing, and in three films. 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 16th greatest female movie star of all time.

Awards by Vivien Leigh

Check all the awards nominated and won by Vivien Leigh.

1963


Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Honored for : Tovarich

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Tovarich

1953


BAFTA Award for Best British Actress
Honored for : A Streetcar Named Desire

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress A Streetcar Named Desire

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama A Streetcar Named Desire
role: Blanche DuBois

1951


Academy Award for Best Actress
Honored for : A Streetcar Named Desire
(Role: Blanche DuBois)
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Honored for : A Streetcar Named Desire
(Role: Blanche DuBois)
Volpi Cup
Honored for : A Streetcar Named Desire

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress A Streetcar Named Desire
Role: Blanche DuBois

1939


New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Honored for : Gone with the Wind
Academy Award for Best Actress
Honored for : Gone with the Wind
(Role: Scarlett O'Hara)

Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress Gone with the Wind
Role: Scarlett O'Hara