Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh fascinates me because her legend rests on so few roles, yet two of them, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois, are arguably the most demanding female parts Hollywood ever wrote, and she won Oscars for both. Born in Darjeeling and forever fighting the perception that her beauty outshone her craft, she pushed herself through stage work, bipolar disorder and chronic tuberculosis with a ferocity I find genuinely moving. What stays with me is the contrast: the porcelain image versus the raw, almost reckless commitment she brought to broken characters. Few careers that brief cast a shadow that long, and I believe hers will keep growing.

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Name (English)

Vivien Leigh

Name (Japanese)

ヴィヴィアン・リー

Reading

ゔぃゔぃあん・りー

Born

November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967

Origin

Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

Awards & achievements

• 1940 Academy Award for Best Actress
• 1952 Academy Award for Best Actress
• 1963 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien%20Leigh
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129429

Tags

• West Bengal
• film actor
• stage actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.