A screen goddess from the Golden Age of movies, she starred in "National Velvet," "A Place In The Sun" and "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" and was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards.
She won an two Oscars, one of them for "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?"
Taylor worked tirelessly to bring awareness and raise money to fight HIV/AIDS.
She was in a hospital in California when she died. She had been battling congestive heart failure.