Acting

Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney is best known for The Oscars, Biography, What's My Line? and The F.B.I.. Gene Tierney was born on November 19, 1920. Gene Tierney died on November 6, 1991 at the age of 70.

Born: November 19, 1920
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: November 6, 1991 (70 years old)

Biography

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 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).