Elizabeth Taylor was born 84 years ago today – here is a photo tribute to her legendary movie career

Elizabeth Taylor, born 84 years ago today, spent decades as a movie goddess before transitioning to AIDS activist for the last 25 years of her legendary life.

She won Academy Awards for best actress for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Butterfield 8, was nominated three other times for Raintree County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer, and received the Academy’s humanitarian Oscar in 1993 for her tireless work on behalf of HIV/AIDS.

Other films included A Place in the Sun, Giant, National Velvet, Cleopatra, Father of the Bride, Little Women, Elephant Walk, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Ash Wednesday, A Little Night Music and The Mirror Crack’d, among many others.

Her final feature film appearance was in 1994’s The Flintstones.