Gene Tierney

Acting · Born 1920-11-19 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

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).

Filmography

• Laura as Laura Hunt
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Lucy Muir
• The Egyptian as Baketamon
• Dragonwyck as Miranda Wells
• The Iron Curtain as Anna Gouzenko
• The Secret of Convict Lake as Marcia Stoddard
• Whirlpool as Ann Sutton
• Daughter of the Mind as Lenore Constable
• On the Riviera as Lili Duran
• The Shanghai Gesture as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")