Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress and humanitarian (died 2011)

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was an English-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its greatest female screen legends list.

February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 307 days remain until the end of the year.