Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967) was an English actress. She is most famous for playing Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind in 1939, and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951. Leigh won Academy Awards for both of these roles.
Leigh was married to Laurence Olivier and often acted in plays and films with him.
Leigh was considered to be very beautiful and this sometimes meant that she thought that she was not taken seriously as an actress. However her ill health was often a bigger problem. Leigh suffered from bipolar disorder and often had tuberculosis. These meant that her career went through period of decline and that she was sometimes considered difficult to work with.