
Gene Tierney
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-11-19 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died
1991-11-06
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).
Most Known For

What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest

The Oscars
as Self

The F.B.I.
as Faye Simpson

Biography
as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self

Belle Starr
as Belle Starr

Dragonwyck
as Miranda Wells

Laura
as Laura Hunt

China Girl
as Haoli Young

The Egyptian
as Baketamon

The Costume Designer
as Self (archive footage)

Thunder Birds
as Kay Saunders

Night and the City
as Mary Bristol

Scruples
as Harriet Toppingham

Advise & Consent
as Dolly Harrison

Heaven Can Wait
as Martha Strabel Van Cleve

The Razor's Edge
as Isabel Bradley

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Lucy Muir

Where the Sidewalk Ends
as Morgan Taylor

Leave Her to Heaven
as Ellen Berent Harland