Gene Tierney (Born November 19, 1920) was an American film and stage actress.
Birth Name: Gene Eliza Tierney
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5' 7"
Nickname: "The Get Girl"
Quote: "Jealousy .... makes a victim of both parties."
Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
Tierney's other 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).
With difficult events in her personal life, Tierney struggled for years with episodes of manic depression. Tierney consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments, intended to alleviate severe depression, Tierney fled the facility, but was caught and returned. She later became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.
Tierney made a screen comeback in Advise and Consent (1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone.Tierney's career as a solid character actress seemed to be back on track as she played Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964), but then she suddenly retired. Her final performance was in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980)
Tierney died of emphysema on November 6, 1991 in Houston, thirteen days before her 71st birthday.
Birth Name: Gene Eliza TierneyHair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5' 7"
Nickname: "The Get Girl"
Quote: "Jealousy .... makes a victim of both parties."
Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
Tierney's other 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).
With difficult events in her personal life, Tierney struggled for years with episodes of manic depression. Tierney consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments, intended to alleviate severe depression, Tierney fled the facility, but was caught and returned. She later became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.
Tierney made a screen comeback in Advise and Consent (1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone.Tierney's career as a solid character actress seemed to be back on track as she played Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964), but then she suddenly retired. Her final performance was in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980)
Tierney died of emphysema on November 6, 1991 in Houston, thirteen days before her 71st birthday.
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