Shining Through Scandal: The Incredible Life Of Elizabeth Taylor

The Most Critically Acclaimed Performance Of Her Entire Career

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In 1966, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The comedy featured the stars as a middle-aged couple in the middle of a marital crisis. The film is considered the most critically acclaimed performance of Taylor’s career—she even gained 30 pounds for the role, wearing wigs and prosthetics to look more convincing as a frumpy woman in her fifties, while Taylor herself was only in her thirties. The role was a huge contrast from Taylor’s otherwise glamorous public image and she ended up winning her second Oscar for Best Actress at the 1967 Academy Awards.