Gene Tierney : Ask Biography

from the trailer for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Personal information

Birth name

Gene Eliza Tierney

Birth date

November 19, 1920

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Date of death

November 6, 1991(age 70)

Death place

Houston, Texas, U.S.

Occupation

Actress

Years active

1940 � 80

Spouse

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Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 � November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955). Certain of her film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.