Gene Tierney
Gender: Female
Born: 19th November 1920
Died: 6th November 1991
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Scruples
Movies: Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, Night and the City, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Razor's Edge, The Return of Frank James, The Secret of Convict Lake, The Shanghai Gesture, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Whirlpool, Plymouth Adventure, The Left Hand of God, Dragonwyck, Never Let Me Go, The Pleasure Seekers, The Mating Season, The Egyptian, Toys in the Attic, On the Riviera, Heaven Can Wait, China Girl, A Bell for Adano, Rings on Her Fingers, Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, Tobacco Road, Sundown, Thunder Birds, The Iron Curtain, Advise and Consent, Black Widow, Close to My Heart, Personal Affair, That Wonderful Urge, Hudson's Bay, Belle Starr, Way of a Gaucho, Four Nights of the Full Moon, Daughter of the Mind, Rings on Her Fingers
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 fragments 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.
Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood “Butch” Tierney, Jr., and a younger sister, Patricia “Pat” Tierney. Her father was a prosperous insurance broker of Irish descent, her mother a former physical education instructor.
Tierney attended St. Margaret’s School in
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