Gene Tierney
Known for Acting
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).
Filmography
Night and the City
1950
as Mary Bristol
The Egyptian
1954
as Baketamon
Advise & Consent
1962
as Dolly Harrison
Laura
1944
as Laura Hunt
Dragonwyck
1946
as Miranda Wells
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
as Ellen Berent Harland
The Secret of Convict Lake
1951
as Marcia Stoddard
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)
China Girl
1942
as Haoli Young
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
as Lucy Muir
The Return of Frank James
1940
as Eleanor Stone
Belle Starr
1941
as Belle Starr
Whirlpool
1950
as Ann Sutton
That Wonderful Urge
1948
as Sara Farley
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
as Susan Miller / Linda Worthington
Heaven Can Wait
1943
as Martha Strabel Van Cleve
Daughter of the Mind
1969
as Lenore Constable
Plymouth Adventure
1952
as Dorothy Bradford
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
as Eve
A Bell for Adano
1945
as Tina Tomasino