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Gene Tierney

Acting Born Nov 19, 1920 Brooklyn, New York, USA 24 credits

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).

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Known for

Film

Laura

as Laura Hunt
Film

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Lucy Muir

Full filmography

  • The F.B.I. (1965) as Faye Simpson
  • What's My Line? (1950) as Self
  • The Oscars (1953) as Self
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
  • Biography (1987) as Self
  • General Electric Theater (1953) as Ellen Galloway
  • Laura (1944) as Laura Hunt
  • Scruples (1980) as Harriet Toppingham
  • The Egyptian (1954) as Baketamon
  • The Razor's Edge (1946) as Isabel Bradley
  • Dragonwyck (1946) as Miranda Wells
  • Leave Her to Heaven (1945) as Ellen Berent Harland
  • The Iron Curtain (1948) as Anna Gouzenko
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) as Lucy Muir
  • Black Widow (1954) as Iris Denver
  • Night and the City (1950) as Mary Bristol
  • China Girl (1942) as Haoli Young
  • Tobacco Road (1941) as Ellie May Lester
  • Belle Starr (1941) as Belle Starr
  • Thunder Birds (1942) as Kay Saunders
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) as Morgan Taylor
  • The Shanghai Gesture (1941) as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")
  • Heaven Can Wait (1943) as Martha Strabel Van Cleve
  • Whirlpool (1950) as Ann Sutton