Gene Tierney

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Blvd. Her credits include:. Howard Lee. In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre. She had two daughters by Oleg Cassini -- Daria, who was born mentally handicapped, and Christina -- and miscarried one child while married to W. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Land Girls (1998), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). His previous wife had been the film star Hedy Lamarr. Having already worked for television, Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty.

Howard Lee, whom she married in 1963. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. She is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, next to her second husband, oilman W. During her college years she already appeared in various student productions, mainly as part of Cambridge Footlights. Gene Tierney died from emphysema in Houston, Texas at age 70. Weisz read English Literature at Cambridge. Kennnedy and Prince Aly Khan -- had taken their toll. She returned to the screen in 1963 in Advise and Consent. Both her mother and her father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to England to escape persecution by the Nazis.

A failed marriage to fashion designer Oleg Cassini, the premature birth of a partially blind and mentally retarded daughter (Tierney had contracted German measles from one of her fans while pregnant), and several failed love affairs -- the men included John F. Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. By 1955, Tierney was in a hospital, being treated for depression. Stealing Beauty (1996). Muir (1947). The Land Girls (1998). Tierney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the following year's Leave Her to Heaven, and later starred in Dragonwyck, The Razor's Edge (both 1946), and The Ghost and Mrs. The Mummy (1999).