Acting
Gene Tierney
Born 1920-11-19 · Brooklyn, New York, USA · Died 1991-11-06
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).
Known for

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Heaven Can Wait

Laura

Dragonwyck

The Razor's Edge

The Egyptian

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Night and the City

Leave Her to Heaven

The Return of Frank James

And the Oscar Goes to...

Tobacco Road

The Love Goddesses

The Shanghai Gesture

Advise & Consent

Plymouth Adventure

Way of a Gaucho

The Left Hand of God

Whirlpool

Black Widow

Belle Starr

The Secret of Convict Lake

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Hudson's Bay

Never Let Me Go

The Mating Season

Rings on Her Fingers

Sundown

The Pleasure Seekers

China Girl

The Iron Curtain

The Costume Designer

Personal Affair

Toys in the Attic

On the Riviera

Thunder Birds

Daughter of the Mind

Beautiful Like a Poem

That Wonderful Urge

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
