一、邁克爾·傑克遜：30周年慶典委員會
（Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration Committee）
（一）這場盛事的委員會名單如下，他們將出席演唱會並參加會後的晚宴：
納斯達克交易所主席阿爾弗雷德R.柏克萊（Alfred R. Berkeley, III, Nasdaq）
納斯達克交易所執行副主席大衛·維爾德（David Weild IV）
亞馬遜公司創始人兼首席執行官傑夫·貝索斯（Jeff Bezos）
哥倫比亞廣播公司總裁兼首席執行官萊斯利·穆恩維斯（Leslie Moonves）（Columbia Broadcasting System CBS）
惠特尼·休斯頓（Whitney Houston）
小野洋子（Yoko Ono）
肖恩·列儂（Sean Lennon）
萊莎·明奈利（Liza Minnelli）
連姆·約翰·尼森（Liam John Neeson）
格裏高利·派克（Gregory Peck）
伊麗莎白·泰勒（Elizabeth Taylor）
（二）委員會成員介紹：
委員會成員：阿爾弗雷德 R.柏克萊（Alfred R. Berkeley, III）
阿爾弗雷德·柏克萊先生擁有弗吉尼亞大學的學士學位，並在賓夕法尼亞大學的沃頓商學院獲得了工商管理碩士學位。伯克利先生1972年加入了亞曆克斯布朗父子公司，是該公司一名研究分析師。他成為亞曆克斯的普通合夥人。之後他擔任亞曆克斯布朗父子公司的首席信息官，他成為一家公共電信軟件公司的首席執行官。1996年，他被任命為納斯達克總裁，他將市場的資源集中，將傳統實踐轉變為更高效的數字範式。伯克利於2003年從納斯達克退休。
Mr. Alfred Berkeley holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Berkeley joined Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated in 1972 as a research analyst. He became general partner of Alex. After serving as Alex. Brown and Sons' Chief Information Officer, he became CEO of a public telecommunications software company. In 1996, he was named President of Nasdaq where he focused the market's resources on transforming traditional practices into more efficient digital paradigms. Mr. Berkeley retired from Nasdaq in 2003.
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委員會成員：大衛·維爾德（David Weild IV）
大衛·維爾德是一位股票市場專家，以他在納斯達克的副主席的位置而聞名。他目前是Weild & Co. Inc.的創始人、董事長和首席執行官，該公司是投資銀行Weild Capital LLC的母公司，也被稱為《就業法案》（JOBS Act）的“父親”，並參與起草了美國國會的立法。1974年，維爾德畢業於霍奇基斯學校（Hotchkiss School），之後又從衛斯理大學（Wesleyan）獲得了文學學士學位，並獲得了紐約大學斯特恩商學院的工商管理碩士學位。在他的職業生涯的前十四年裏，他在保德信證券（Prudential Securities）擔任高級管理職務渡過的。上世紀九十年代中期，他是全球股票交易的負責人。1999年，他從技術投資銀行業務的負責人轉到經營保德信證券。隨後，他轉變到融資型反向收購上市（FTO）運營著保德信金融的客戶聯合網絡服務業務。
David Weild IV is a stock market expert best known for his position as Vice Chairman of NASDAQ. He is currently the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Weild & Co. Inc., parent company of the investment banking firm Weild Capital, LLC (dba Weild & Co.) Weild is also known as the "father" of the JOBS Act, and has been involved in drafting legislation for the US Congress. Weild graduated from Hotchkiss School preparatory in 1974, then went on to earn a B.A. from Wesleyan and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Weild spent the first fourteen years of his career in senior management positions at Prudential Securities. In the mid-1990s he was head of its global equity transactions. In 1999 he moved from the head of its technology investment banking business to run Prudential Securities. com. He then transitioned fto running the combined customer - facing internet services businesses of Prudential Financial.
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委員會成員：傑夫·普雷斯頓·貝索斯（Jeffrey Preston Bezos）
傑夫·貝索斯（生於1964年1月12日），他是美國科技企業家、投資家和慈善家，最著名的創始人、董事長和首席執行官，亞馬遜是全球最大的在線購物零售商。貝索斯出生在新墨西哥州的阿爾伯克基，在德克薩斯州的休斯頓長大。1986年，他畢業於普林斯頓大學，獲得電氣工程和計算機科學學位。從1986年到1994年初，他在華爾街從事各種相關領域的工作。1994年底，他在從紐約到西雅圖的跨國公路旅行中創建了亞馬遜。該公司最初是一個互聯網圖書商，現已擴展到各種產品和服務，包括視頻和音頻流媒體。它目前是全球最大的互聯網銷售網絡公司，同時也是全球最大的雲基礎設施服務提供商。貝索斯在2000年創立了航空航天公司“藍色起源（Blue Origin）”，這增加了他的商業利益。“藍色起源”於2015年開始測試太空飛行，並計劃於2018年開始商業亞軌道載人航天飛行。2013年，他以2.5億美元的現金收購了《華盛頓郵報》。貝索斯通過他的風險投資基金——貝索斯探險公司（Bezos）來管理其他的商業投資。在2017年7月27日，他短暫地成為世界上最富有的人，他積累了大約900多億美元的淨資產。11月24日，在亞馬遜股價上漲超過2.5%之後，他的財富首次超過了1000億美元。他於2018年3月6日正式成為世界上最富有的人，他的個人淨資產為1120億美元，成為第一個億萬富翁。
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964), is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online shopping retailer. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an Internet merchant of books and has expanded to a variety of products and services, including video and audio streaming. It is currently the world's largest Internet sales online company, as well as the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services via its Amazon Web Services arm. Bezos added to his business interests by founding aerospace company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin started test flights to space in 2015 and has planned to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight in 2018. He purchased The Washington Post newspaper in 2013 for US$250 million in cash. Bezos manages other business investments through his venture capital fund, Bezos Expeditions. On July 27, 2017, he briefly became the world's wealthiest person when he accumulated an estimated net worth of just over $90 billion. His wealth surpassed $100 billion for the first time on November 24 after Amazon's share price increased by more than 2.5%. He was formally designated the wealthiest person in the world on March 6, 2018 with a registered net worth of $112 billion by Forbes, becoming the first centi-billionaire.
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委員會成員：萊斯利·羅伊·穆恩維斯（Leslie Roy Moonves ）
萊斯利·穆恩維斯（1949年10月6日出生）是哥倫比亞廣播公司董事會主席、總裁兼首席執行官。從2004年到2005年12月31日，他一直擔任維亞康姆公司的聯席總裁兼聯席首席運營官。在此之前，他從1995年7月開始在哥倫比亞廣播公司擔任一系列行政職務。自1999年以來，他一直擔任ZeniMax Media的董事。他於2016年2月成為哥倫比亞廣播公司的董事長。
萊斯利·穆夫斯也在紐約市劇院的社區劇場學校學習表演。穆恩維斯出生在紐約的一個猶太家庭，他是約瑟芬和赫爾曼穆恩維斯的兒子，在紐約穀溪鎮長大。他的母親是一名護士。他有一個弟弟，娛樂行業律師喬納森·穆夫斯；還有一個姐姐梅麗莎·莫夫斯·科隆。他就讀於穀溪鎮中心高中，並於1971年畢業於巴克內爾大學。在他大二的時候，他從醫學預科轉到西班牙語，並在幾部戲劇中表演；1971年畢業後，他搬到了曼哈頓，從事演員生涯，但在他出演了幾部“容易忘記”的電視角色後，他決定轉而從事電視業務。在他的商業生涯早期，穆夫斯有較高的管理經驗。他掌管著20世紀福克斯電視臺的第一次聯合和付費/有線電視節目。在20世紀福克斯電視臺，他是電影和迷你劇的副總裁。其他職位包括索爾威爾遜制作公司的發展副總裁（與哥倫比亞電影電視公司合作）和卡特琳娜制片公司的發展主管。
Leslie Roy Moonves (born October 6, 1949) is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation. Moonves served as Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005. Prior to that, he had a series of executive positions at CBS, since July 1995. He has been a Director at ZeniMax Media since 1999. He became Chairman of CBS in February 2016.
Leslie Moonves also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. Moonves was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Josephine (Schleifer) and Herman Moonves, and grew up in Valley Stream, New York. His mother was a nurse. He has one brother, entertainment attorney Jonathan Moonves; and one sister Melissa Moonves Colon. He attended Valley Stream Central High School and went to Bucknell University, graduating in 1971. In his sophomore year he switched his major from pre-med to Spanish and acted in a few plays; following graduation in 1971 he moved to Manhattan to pursue a career as an actor, but after he played a few "forgettable" TV roles he decided to pursue the business side of television instead. Moonves had upper management experience early in his business career. He was in charge of first-run syndication and pay/cable programming at 20th Century Fox Television. Also at 20th Century Fox Television he was vice president of movies and mini-series. Other positions included vice president of Development at Saul Wilson Productions (in association with Columbia Pictures Television) and development executive for Catalina Productions.
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委員會成員：惠特尼·伊麗莎白·休斯頓（Whitney Elizabeth Houston）
惠特尼·休斯頓，1963年8月9日出生在新澤西州的紐沃克市一個音樂家庭，她是她的母親福音之星茜茜·休斯頓（Cissy Houston）的女兒，她是歌星狄昂·華薇克（Dionne Warwick）的表姐妹，也是美國著名黑人靈歌歌手艾瑞莎·富蘭克林（Aretha Franklin）的教女。當她還是個十一歲孩子的時候，開始在當地紐瓦克的新希望浸信會教堂唱詩班演唱，十五歲的時候，她就和媽媽一起同臺獻藝，在1978年查卡·卡恩（Chaka Khan）演唱的《風情萬種》（I'm Every Woman）中進行專業地伴唱。她繼續為盧·羅爾斯（Lou Rawls）、邁克爾·傑克遜的哥哥傑梅因·傑克遜（Jermaine Jackson）和她自己的母親提供聲樂上的支持，他還在1981年的“十七”雜志封面上做過短暫的模特。
她開始在紐約放克樂隊的音樂作品中擔任主唱，這是她聲樂作品的音質吸引了主要唱片公司的注意，包括在1983年被克萊夫·戴維斯發掘，與她簽約的阿裏斯塔唱片公司，以及她成為該公司演唱藝人之後全部演藝生涯。她的首張專輯《惠特尼·休斯頓》於1985年2月14日發行，其在專輯排行榜上奪得十四周冠軍，成為最暢銷的處女專輯。在專輯中有幾首熱門單曲，包括：《把我所有的愛都留給你》（Saving All My Love For You）、《我該如何知道》（How Will I Know）、《戀戀情深》（You Give Good Love）和《至高無上的愛》（The Greatest Love of All）等，都從這張專輯中被釋放出來，讓她成為一個連續七屆的美國冠軍。這張專輯在美國發行的第一年就賣出了三百萬張，並在全球賣出了二千五百萬張，使她第一次贏得了六個格萊美獎。
1987年發行第二張專輯《惠特尼》（Whitney），其中包括了《傷心何處去》（Where Do Broken heart Go）和《與愛人共舞》（I Wanna Dance With Somebody），這是她成功的基礎，1992年的拍攝的電影《保鏢》（1992）卻讓她成為有史以來最暢銷的藝術家之一。雖然這部電影本身和她的表演沒有受到高度贊揚，但是《我將永遠愛你》（I Will Always Love You）的背景音樂專輯和她的《我將永遠愛你》在世界各地的單曲和專輯排行榜上高居榜首，銷量達四千四百萬張。
同年，她嫁給了上世紀八十年代末到九十年代初最耀眼R&B明星，新版（新克傑搖擺舞曲）歌手鮑比·布朗（Bobby Brown），她和他只有一個孩子，是1993年3月4日出生的波比·克裏斯蒂娜·布朗（Bobbi Kristina Brown）。就在這個時候，她開始大量吸食毒品，到1996年，她每天都要使用這些毒品。
她在1998年發行的專輯《我的愛就是你的愛》（My Love Is Your Love）得到了很好的評價，但藥物濫用開始影響她的聲譽，當時的媒體報道稱，如果她真的出現了，她將很難再度更好地演唱。她在第七十二屆奧斯卡頒獎典禮（2000年）的演出中被淘汰，因為她在排練時“不在狀態”。她的體重波動很大，她在2001年的邁克爾·傑克遜的悼念儀式上讓人看到她明顯地消瘦了，第二天就有傳言說她去世了，她的聲音開始讓大家感到失望。2010年，她曾兩次被送進戒毒所，並宣布自己不吸毒，但在2011年5月重返戒毒中心。
她在2009年複出之後又發行了一張專輯《我期待著你》（I Look To You）得到了好評，銷量也不錯，但她那虛弱的嗓音對這張專輯的推廣和宣傳產生了一些影響。她的最後演唱的一首歌曲是1976年電影《閃耀的火花》（Sparkle）主題曲由她翻唱的《火花》（2012），在她去世之後上映。
美國洛杉磯時間2012年2月11日，惠特妮在比弗利山莊希爾頓酒店因藥物過量，導致心髒病發滑入浴缸溺水而意外逝世，年僅48歲。
Born: August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died: February 11, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California, USA (accidental drowning caused by heart disease and cocaine use)
Birth Name: Whitney Elizabeth Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin. She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, as a young child and by the age of 15 was singing backing vocals professionally with her mother on Chaka Khan's 1978 hit, 'I'm Every Woman'. She went on to provide backing vocals for Lou Rawls, Jermaine Jackson and her own mother and worked briefly as a model, appearing on the cover of 'Seventeen' magazine in 1981.
She began working as a featured vocalist for the New York-based funk band Material and it was the quality of her vocal work with them that attracted the attention of the major record labels, including Arista with whom she signed in 1983 and where she stayed for the rest of her career. Her debut album, 'Whitney Houston', was released in 1985 and became the biggest-selling album by a debut artist. Several hit singles, including 'Saving All My Love For You', 'How Will I Know', 'You Give Good Love', and 'The Greatest Love of All', were released from the album, setting her up for a Beatles-beating seven consecutive US number ones. The album itself sold 3 million copies in its first year in the US and went on to sell 25 million worldwide, winning her the first of her six Grammies.
The 1987 follow-up album, 'Whitney', which included the hits 'Where Do Broken Hearts Go' and 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody', built on her success but it was the 1992 film The Bodyguard (1992) that sealed her place as one of the best-selling artists of all time. While the movie itself and her performance in it were not highly praised, the soundtrack album and her cover of the Dolly Parton song 'I Will Always Love You' topped the singles and albums charts for months and sold 44 million copies around the world.
That same year she married ex-New Edition singer Bobby Brown with whom she had her only child, their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in March 1993. It was about this time that her much documented drug use began and by 1996 she was a daily user.
Her 1998 album, 'My Love Is Your Love' was well reviewed but the drug abuse began to affect her reputation and press reports at the time said that she was becoming difficult to work with, if she turned up at all. She was dropped from a performance at The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) because she was "out of it" at rehearsals. Her weight fluctuated wildly - she was so thin at a 'Michael Jackson' tribute in 2001 that rumors circulated the next day that she had died - and her voice began to fail her. She was twice admitted to rehab and declared herself drug-free in 2010 but returned to rehab in May 2011.
Her 2009 comeback album 'I Look To You' was positively received and sold well, but promotional performances were still marred by her weakened voice. Her final acting performance was in Sparkle (2012) (a remake of the 1976 movie, Sparkle (1976)), released after her death.
She was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room on 11 February 2012.
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委員會成員：小野洋子（Yoko Ono）
小野洋子，1933年2月18日出生於日本東京的一個貴族家庭。是一名日本多才多藝的藝術家、歌手、詞曲作家和和平活動家，她在表演藝術和電影制作方面也很出名。她的英語和日語都很好。眾所周知，她是披頭士樂隊創作歌手約翰·列儂的第二任妻子和遺孀。
小野在東京長大，之後來到紐約，她在那裏度過了幾個形成期。她在學習院大學學習，但在兩年後她退出了學習的課程，並於1953年搬到紐約和她的家人住在一起。她曾在莎拉·勞倫斯學院待過一段時間，後來又參與了紐約市中心的藝術家現場演出，其中包括了激浪派（Fluxus）樂隊。1966年，她在倫敦自己的畫展上第一次見到了列儂，兩人於1968年結為夫妻，並於次年結婚。1969年，在阿姆斯特丹和蒙特利爾，他們憑借床宣揚兩人的“和平之床”。小野和列儂在阿姆斯特丹希爾頓酒店度過了他們的蜜月之旅，以此作為公開抗議越南戰爭的舞臺。她的音樂的女權主義主題影響了像美國B-52s樂隊和美國女歌手梅芮迪斯·蒙克（Meredith Monk）這樣的音樂家。1980年，她憑借專輯《雙重幻想》（Double Fantasy）獲得了商業和評論界的好評，這是列儂在被謀殺前三周發行的專輯。
公眾對小野洋子作品的欣賞隨著時間的推移而發生了變化，1989年在惠特尼博物館舉辦了一次她的作品回顧展，在1992年她有發行了六盤盒裝音頻，這些都對引起人們再次注意有很大的幫助。她的作品回顧展也於2001年在紐約的日本協會、德國的比勒費爾德、英國的法蘭克福、西班牙的畢爾巴鄂、2013年的西班牙畢爾巴鄂和2015年的紐約現代藝術博物館進一步公開展出。2009年，她獲得了威尼斯雙年展的終身成就獎，並獲得了奧地利應用當代藝術最高獎項奧斯卡·科科斯卡獎。
作為列儂的遺孀，小野的作品是為了保存他的遺產。她資助了憑吊紀念約翰·列儂的曼哈頓中央公園的草莓園，冰島的“夢想和平塔”是小野洋子為亡夫約翰·列儂樹立的紀念塔，以及位於日本埼玉縣的約翰·列儂博物館（2010年關閉）。她為藝術、和平以及菲律賓和日本賑災等慈善事業做出了重大貢獻。2012年，小野洋子收到了萊納·希爾德布蘭特博士（Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt）的人權獎。該獎項每年頒發一次，以表彰對人權的非凡的和非暴力的承諾。她於2002年創立了兩年一次的“列儂洋子和平獎”（獎金五萬美元），並繼續她的社會活動。2012年，她還與她的兒子肖恩·列儂共同創立了“藝術家對水力壓裂法”的藝術家協會組織。她有一個女兒杏子·禪·考克斯（Kyoko Chan Cox），自從她與安東尼·考克斯（Anthony Cox）的婚姻中，她們有一個兒子，她與列儂的婚姻中有了肖恩·列儂。她和肖恩合作音樂的制作。
1964年，小野洋子在卡耐基誦廳第一次表演了她最為出名的行為作品《切片》（Cut Piece）：隨機挑選上臺的幾位觀眾被要求用剪刀將她的衣服裁成碎片，直至全身赤裸。那年，她32歲。（《切片》（1964）。這幅作品是小野洋子在64年中的表演照片。作品是一種參與性的藝術表演，小野坐在舞臺上，她的衣服被觀眾從她的身體上剪下。這一表演因其強有力的女性主義信息而廣為人知。）（Cut Piece (1964). The piece was presented as photos of Ono’s performance from ’64. The work is a participatory art performance where Ono sits on a stage and has her clothes cut from her body by the audience. The performance is widely recognized for it’s powerful feministic message. - By: Katrine Granholm 25-06-2013）
Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking. She performs in both English and Japanese. She is known for being the second wife and widow of singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles.
Ono grew up in Tokyo and also spent several formative years in New York City. She studied at Gakushuin, but withdrew from her course after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family. She spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College and then became involved in New York City's downtown artists scene, which included the Fluxus group. She first met Lennon in 1966 at her own art exhibition in London, and they became a couple in 1968 and wed the following year. With their performance Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal in 1969, Ono and Lennon famously used their honeymoon at the Hilton Amsterdam as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War. The feminist themes of her music have influenced musicians as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith Monk. She achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder.
Public appreciation of Ono's work has shifted over time and was helped by a retrospective at a Whitney Museum branch in 1989 and the 1992 release of the six-disc box set Onobox. Retrospectives of her artwork have also been presented at the Japan Society in New York City in 2001, in Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008, Frankfurt, and Bilbao, Spain, in 2013 and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2015. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.
As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded Strawberry Fields in Manhattan's Central Park, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan (which closed in 2010). She has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace, Philippine and Japan disaster relief, and other causes. In 2012 Ono received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award. The award is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, nonviolent commitment to human rights. Ono continued her social activism when she inaugurated a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002. She also co-founded the group Artists Against Fracking in 2012. She has a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from her marriage to Anthony Cox and a son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, from her marriage to Lennon. She collaborates musically with Sean.
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委員會成員：肖恩·太郎·小野·列儂（Sean Taro Ono Lennon）
肖恩·列儂（日語：小野太郎，出生於1975年10月9日）美國歌手、詞曲作者和演員。他是約翰·列儂（John Lennon）和小野洋子（Yoko Ono）的兒子。
肖恩·列儂於1975年10月9日出生在紐約市，是在他父親三十五歲生日那天。他的父親是愛爾蘭人，他是英國人，母親是日本人。朱利安·列儂（Julian Lennon）是他的同父異母兄弟。艾爾頓·約翰（Elton John）是他的教父。在肖恩出生後，約翰·列儂成為了家庭的好男人，一直照顧他年幼的兒子，直到1980年12月8日被謀殺。肖恩在東京的幼兒園上學，在瑞士羅萊的私立寄宿學校裏接受教育，早些時候在紐約的私立倫理文化菲爾德斯頓學校和道爾頓學校接受教育。他曾在哥倫比亞大學讀了三個學期，之後輟學專注於自己的音樂事業。
1984年1月，當史蒂夫·喬布斯訪問曼哈頓時，他參加了肖恩的母親（小野洋子）為列儂舉辦的派對，喬布斯給了他一臺麥金塔電腦。他的父母開啟了他在音樂方面的天賦：他在五歲時首次進入音樂世界，當時他在他母親1981年的專輯《玻璃季節》（Season of Glass）中朗誦了一段故事。從孩提時期到少年時代，列儂一直與母親合作，在她的個人專輯《這很正常》（It's Alright）和《星際和平與小野合子》（Starpeace and Onobox）中獻唱，並獲得了隆重的榮譽。在十六歲的時候，列儂和萊尼·克拉維茨（Lenny Kravitz）共同創作了這首歌曲《全我所求》（All I Ever Wanted），並放在了1991年發行的專輯《對媽媽說》（Mama Said）中。到1995年，列儂組建了一支IMA樂隊，樂隊由他本人和山姆·科佩爾曼（Sam Koppelman）和蒂莫·埃利斯（Timo Ellis）三人構成，列儂在專輯《崛起》（Rising）中與他的母親一起扮演了角色。列儂還在電影中露面，在1988年的邁克爾·傑克遜的《月球漫步者》中扮演了一個角色，並在1990年由M. C. Escher制作的索尼宣傳短片《無限的埃舍爾》（Infinite Escher）中塑造了一名青少年，體驗著各種埃舍爾創作的漫畫場景。
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (Japanese:小野 太郎 born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. He is of Irish and English descent on his father's side, and Japanese descent on his mother's side. Julian Lennon is his half-brother. Elton John is his godfather. After Sean's birth, John Lennon became a house husband, caring for his young son until his murder on December 8, 1980. Sean attended kindergarten in Tokyo and was educated at the exclusive private boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton School. He attended Columbia University for three semesters before dropping out to focus on his music.
In January 1984, when Steve Jobs was visiting Manhattan, he attended a party that Sean's mother (Yoko Ono) was throwing for Lennon, and Jobs gave him one of the very first Macintosh computers. His parents kick-started his musical career: his debut into the music world came at age five, when he recited a story on his mother's 1981 album, Season of Glass. From childhood into his teen years, Lennon continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving production credit on her solo albums It's Alright, Starpeace and Onobox.
At 16 Lennon co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Lennon had formed the band (with Sam Koppelman and Timo Ellis) to play alongside his mother on her album Rising. Lennon also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jackson's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various M. C. Escher prints in Sony's 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher.
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委員會成員：萊莎·瑪麗·明奈利（Liza May Minnelli）
萊莎·明奈利（1946年3月12日出生）是美國著名演員和歌手。她主要以奧斯卡獲獎影片《歌舞青春》（Cabaret 1972）中飾演莎莉·鮑爾斯（Sally Bowles）而聞名，她以充滿活力的舞臺表演和強大的女低音歌喉讓世人為之歎服。她是朱迪·加蘭（Judy Garland）和文森特·明奈利（Vincente Minnelli）的女兒。
[卡巴萊（Cabaret）是一種流行於歐洲的，集喜劇、歌曲、跳舞及話劇等元素的於一體的娛樂表演式樣，興起於十九世紀末的法國，後傳入德國和歐洲其他國度。譯者注]
二十世紀六十年代初，她來到了紐約，開始了她的演藝生涯，她是一名音樂劇演員、夜總會演員和傳統的流行音樂歌手，在1963年的非百老匯舞臺劇《淩波仙子》（Best Foot Forward）中首次登臺演出。1965年，她憑借《紅色威脅》（Red Menace）獲得托尼獎最佳女演員獎，她仍然是這一獎項中最年輕的獲獎者。《植物志》（Flora marked）標志著她與約翰·坎德（John Kander）和弗瑞德·鮑德（Fred Ebb）的畢生合作的開始，後者將撰寫、制作或指導明奈利的許多未來舞臺表演和電視節目。他們幫助創造了明奈利的生存主義者風格化的舞臺角色，這些包括在她的整個職業也生涯中對生存主義賦予的贊歌：如《紐約，紐約》（New York, New York）、《歌舞青春》（Cabaret）和《也許是這次》（Maybe This Time）。
她憑借在電影《何日卿再來》（The Sterile Cuckoo 1969）中的非音樂性戲劇表演獲得了評論界的贊譽，她憑借《歌舞青春》（Cabaret）和《Z》（Z 1972）獲得了艾美獎最佳電視專輯獎，這些獎項的獲得使她一躍成為國際巨星。但是她的大部分電影作品——包括《幸運女神》（Lucky Lady 1975）、紐約、紐約（New York, New York 1977）、《業餘警察》（Rent-a-Cop 1988）、《影舞追夢》（Stepping Out 1991）——全都受到了負面評論的褒貶，商業上也失敗了，除了1981年的浪漫喜劇《阿瑟》（Arthur）之外，她再沒有其他主要的電影作品了。此外，她還參與電視劇的拍攝，主演過幾部音樂特輯、非音樂電影，比如《活著的時候》（A Time to Live 1985）和《平行生活》（Parallel Lives 1994），並在2003年至2013年的情景喜劇《發展停滯》（Arrested Development）中廣受好評。明奈利成功地重返百老匯，並在約翰·坎德和弗瑞德·鮑德的《藝術人生》（The Act 1977）和《溜冰場》（The Rink 1984）的劇目中成功扮演了不同角色，以及在2008年參加了各種音樂會的節目包括萊莎在皇宮的演出...
從上世紀七十年代末開始，明奈利的工作主要集中在巡回演唱會和夜總會表演方面。1979年和1987年，她在卡內基音樂廳進行了個人演唱會並獲得了高度評價，1991年和1992年在位於美國紐約曼哈頓區的世界最大的劇場“無線電城音樂廳”進行演出。1988年至1990年，她與“鼠幫”樂隊的美國歌手及演員弗蘭克·辛納特拉（Frank Sinatra）和小薩米·戴維斯（Sammy Davis Jr.）一起參加了弗蘭克，萊莎和薩米的演出：《終極事件》（The Ultimate Event）巡回演出。實際上最出名的是她演唱的流行音樂的標准，明奈利的專輯從1968到1977包含許多當代歌手的演唱資料，和她在1989發布的電子流行專輯《結果》（Results）。2014年，在一份名為“有史以來最偉大的十二位女性同性戀偶像”的榜單上，她被提名為同性戀的偶像。
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972), she is noted for her energetic stage presence and her powerful contralto singing voice. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli.
Moving to New York City in the early 1960s, she began her career as a musical theatre actress, nightclub performer and traditional pop recording artist, giving her professional stage debut in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward. In 1965 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Flora the Red Menace, still remaining the youngest ever recipient in this category. Flora marked the start of her lifelong collaboration with John Kander and Fred Ebb, who would write, produce or direct many of Minnelli's future stage acts and TV shows. They helped creating Minnelli′s stage persona of a stylized survivalist, including her career-defining performances of anthems of survival ("New York, New York", "Cabaret", "Maybe This Time").
Critically lauded for her non-musical dramatic performance in the film The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), she rose to international stardom with Cabaret and the Emmy Award-winning TV special Liza with a Z (1972). Most of her following film projects—including Lucky Lady (1975), New York, New York (1977), Rent-a-Cop (1988), Stepping Out (1991)—received mixed to negative reviews and failed commercially, and she had no more major movie hits except the 1981 romantic comedy Arthur. She additionally worked on television, starring several variety musical specials, non-musical films like A Time to Live (1985) and Parallel Lives (1994) and has been an acclaimed guest star in the sitcom Arrested Development between 2003 and 2013. Minnelli successfully returned to Broadway in Kander and Ebb′s The Act (1977) and The Rink (1984) as well as various concert shows including Liza's at The Palace.... in 2008.
From the late 1970s onwards, Minnelli's work has predominantly focused on concert tours and nightclub performances. She gave highly regarded performances at Carnegie Hall in 1979 and 1987, and at Radio City Music Hall in 1991 and 1992. Between 1988 and 1990 she toured alongside Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event. Actually best known for her renditions of pop standards, Minnelli′s albums from 1968 to 1977 contained much of the contemporary singer-songwriter material, and in 1989 she released the electronic pop album Results. In 2014, Out named Minnelli a gay icon in a list titled The 12 Greatest Female Gay Icons of All Time.
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委員會成員：連姆·約翰·尼森（Liam John Neeson）
連姆·尼森（生於1952年6月7日），是一位來自北愛爾蘭的演員。1976年，兩年來他成為貝爾法斯特劇院的抒情性演員。然後他在電影《亞瑟王的神劍》（Excalibur 1981）中扮演了角色。
1982年至1987年之間，尼森主演了五部電影，其中最引人注目的是好萊塢演員、制片人和導演梅爾·吉布森（Mel Gibson）和安東尼·霍普金斯（Anthony Hopkins）制作的電影《賞金獵手》（The Bounty），以及好萊塢老牌男星羅伯特·德尼羅（Robert De Niro）和好萊塢非常活躍的英國知名影星傑瑞米·艾恩斯（Jeremy Irons）制作的電影《戰火浮生》（The Mission）。他在電影《血海翻天》（Next of Kin 1989年）中在派屈克·史威茲（Patrick Swayze）的帶領下一起成為了主角。
當尼森在史蒂芬·斯皮爾伯格（Steven Spielberg）執導的奧斯卡獲獎影片《辛德勒的名單》（Schindler's List 1993）中擔任主角時，這使他聲名鵲起。此後他又主演了其他成功的影片，包括曆史傳記片帶有標題角色的《邁克爾·科林斯》（ Michael Collins 1996），1998年根據維克多·雨果改編的電影《悲慘世界》（Les Misérables），史詩般的太空歌劇星球大戰：幽靈的威脅（Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999），傳記電影《性學教授金賽》（Kinsey 2004），超級英雄電影《蝙蝠俠：俠影之謎》（ Batman Begins 2005），動作驚悚系列片《颶風營救》（Taken 2008-2014），驚悚片《人狼大戰》（The Grey 2011）以及曆史劇《沉默》（Silence 2016）。他還在《納尼亞傳奇三部曲》（The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy 2005-2010）和《怪物呼喚》（A Monster Calls 2016）中提供了阿斯蘭的配音。
他曾獲得多項獎項提名，其中包括奧斯卡最佳男演員獎、英國電影學院獎最佳男主角獎、以及三項金球獎最佳男演員獎。《帝國》雜志將尼森評為“電影史上100位最性感的明星”和“史上百強電影明星”。
Liam John Neeson, (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast for two years. He then acted in the Arthurian film, Excalibur (1981). Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty (1984), and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in The Mission (1986). He landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin (1989).
Neeson rose to prominence when he starred in the title role in Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film, Schindler's List (1993). He has since starred in other successful films, including the title role in the historical biopic Michael Collins (1996), the 1998 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the epic space opera Star Wars: Episode I– The Phantom Menace (1999), the biographical drama Kinsey (2004), the superhero film Batman Begins (2005), the action thriller series Taken (2008–2014), the thriller-survival film The Grey (2011), and the historical drama Silence (2016). He also provided the voices of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy (2005–2010) and the titular monster in A Monster Calls (2016).
He has been nominated for a number of awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. Empire magazine ranked Neeson among both the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" and "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time".
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委員會成員：埃爾德雷德·格裏高利·派克（Eldred Gregory Peck）
格裏高利·派克（1916年4月5日- 2003年6月12日）是一位美國演員，他是二十世紀四十年代至六十年代最受歡迎的電影明星之一。在二十世紀八十年代後期之前，派克一直扮演著重要的電影角色。他在1962年的電影《殺死一只知更鳥》（To Kill a Mockingbird）中飾演阿提克斯·芬奇（Atticus Finch），這為他贏得了奧斯卡最佳男演員獎。派克還在《國王的關鍵》（Kingdom 1944）、《鹿苑長春》（The Yearling 1946）、《君子協定》（Gentleman's Agreement 1947）和《晴空血戰史》（Twelve O'Clock High 1949）中擔任主角，獲得了奧斯卡提名。他參演的其他著名電影包括：《意亂情迷》（Spellbound 1945）、《羅馬假日》（Roman Holiday 1953）、《白鯨記》（Moby Dick 1956年和1998年的迷你劇）、《豬排山爭奪戰》（Pork Chop Hill 1959）、《納瓦隆的槍聲》（The Guns of Navarone 1961）、《海角驚魂》（Cape Fear 1962，1991重新拍攝）、《西部開拓史》（How the West Was Won 1962）、《天魔》（The Omen 1976）和《來自巴西的男孩》（The Boys from Brazil 1978）。1969年，美國總統林登·約翰遜（Lyndon Johnson）為派克頒發了總統自由勳章，這是表彰他畢生的人道主義的努力。1999年，美國電影協會將派克列為好萊塢經典電影中最偉大的男星之一，排在第十二位。
格裏高利·派克1916年4月5日，出生於加利福尼亞聖地亞哥的拉霍亞，派克是他的父親一位出生紐約的化學家和藥劑師格雷戈裏·珀爾·派克（Gregory Pearl Peck）和出生在密蘇裏州他的母親伯尼斯·瑪麗（Bernice Mary'Bunny' 原名艾爾斯）的兒子。在他身上繼承了父親英國人和母親愛爾蘭人的血統，當他母親嫁給他的父親時，母親她皈依了她丈夫的宗教——羅馬天主教。派克的祖母凱瑟琳·阿西婭（Catherine Ashe）一直生活在愛爾蘭，派克與托馬斯·阿西婭（Thomas Ashe，譯者注：是蓋爾聯盟的成員，愛爾蘭共和黨兄弟會和愛爾蘭志願者的創始成員。）舉辦的活動有關，在派克出生後不到三周的時間裏，他參加了托馬斯的複活節抗議活動，在1917期間被迫絕食。
派克的父母在他五歲的時候就離婚了，他由祖母撫養他長大，他的祖母每周都帶他去看電影。當他十歲時，被送進了洛杉磯聖約翰軍事學院的一所天主教軍事學校學習。當他還是個學生的時候，他的祖母去世了。十四歲時，他搬回聖地亞哥與父親同住，就讀於聖地亞哥高中，畢業後在聖地亞哥州立師範學院注冊一年（現在被稱為聖地亞哥州立大學）。在那裏，他加入了田徑隊，第一次參加了戲劇和公共演講課程，並且加入了Epsilon Eta兄弟會。然而，派克渴望成為一名醫生，第二年他就被加利福尼亞大學伯克利的英語專業和醫學預科學生的錄取。他的身高1.91米，參加了大學的劃船運動隊，雖然他的學費每年只有二十六美元，但派克仍舊交不起，於是他就尋找到一份為大學圖書館女同學聯誼會提供餐飲的廚師工作。在伯克利的鼓勵下，表演教練看到了他具備了完美的大學劇院演出的素質，這時派克對表演變得越來越感興趣。他是由大學小劇院的主任埃德溫·杜爾（Edwin Duerr）推薦的，他在大四的時候出演了五部戲劇。派克後來對伯克利說，“這對我來說是一次非常特別的經曆，也是我生命中最偉大的三年。它喚醒了我，讓我成為了一個真正的人。”1997年，派克向伯克利的劃船隊捐贈了兩萬五千美元，以紀念他的教練——著名的肯·埃布萊特（Ky Ebright）。
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916– June 12, 2003) was an American actor who was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck continued to play major film roles until the late 1980s. His performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Peck also received Oscar nominations for his roles in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and welve O'Clock High (1949). Other notable films he appeared in include Spellbound (1945), Roman Holiday (1953), Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 miniseries), Pork Chop Hill (1959), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), How the West Was Won (1962), The Omen (1976) and The Boys from Brazil (1978). U.S. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema, ranking him at No. 12.
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, San Diego, California, the son of Gregory Pearl Peck, a New York-born chemist and pharmacist, and his Missouri-born wife Bernice Mary "Bunny" (née Ayres). His father was of English (paternal) and Irish (maternal) heritage and his mother of English and Scots ancestry. She converted to her husband's religion, Roman Catholicism, when she married his father, and Peck was raised as a Catholic. Through his Irish-born paternal grandmother Catherine Ashe, Peck was related to Thomas Ashe, who participated in the Easter Rising less than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while being force fed during his hunger strike in 1917.
Peck's parents divorced when he was five and he was brought up by his maternal grandmother, who took him to the movies every week. At the age of 10 he was sent to a Catholic military school, St. John's Military Academy in Los Angeles. While he was a student there, his grandmother died. At 14, he moved back to San Diego to live with his father, attended San Diego High School, and after graduating enrolled for one year at San Diego State Teacher's College (now known as San Diego State University). While there he joined the track team, took his first theatre and public-speaking courses, and pledged the Epsilon Eta fraternity. Peck however had ambitions to be a doctor and the following year gained admission to the University of California, Berkeley, as an English major and pre-medical student. Standing 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he rowed on the university crew. Although his tuition fee was only $26 per year, Peck still struggled to pay, and took a job as a "hasher" (kitchen helper) for the Gamma Phi Beta sorority in exchange for meals.
At Berkeley, encouraged by the acting coach, who saw in him perfect material for university theatre, Peck became more and more interested in acting. He was recruited by Edwin Duerr, director of the university's Little Theater, and appeared in five plays during his senior year. Peck would later say about Berkeley that, "it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being."[9] In 1997, Peck donated $25,000 to the Berkeley rowing crew in honor of his coach, the renowned Ky Ebright.
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伊麗莎白·羅斯蒙德·泰勒爵士（Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor）
伊麗莎白·泰勒（1932年2月27日- 2011年3月23日），她是英國裔美國演員，女商人，人道主義者。二十世紀四十年代初，她作為一名兒童女演員開始了自己的職業生涯，並成為二十世紀五十年代最受歡迎的好萊塢經典電影明星之一。在二十世紀六十年代她成功地繼續了自己的事業，在她的餘生中一直是一個著名的公眾人物。1999年，美國電影協會將她命名為“第七大女性銀幕傳奇”。
伊麗莎白生於倫敦富有的家庭，她的父母都是美國上流社會有地位的傑出人物，1939年，伊麗莎白和家人搬到洛杉磯，她很快就獲得了環球影業公司的電影合同。1942年，九歲的伊麗莎白出演了自己的處女作電影喜劇片《每分鐘出生一個孩子》（There's One Born Every Minute 1942），但是環球公司在一年後終止了她的合同。伊麗莎白隨後被米高梅公司簽約，1944年，十二歲的她主演了美國體育題材的電影《玉女神駒》（National Velvet 1944），並在此部電影中獲得了突破性的角色，成為制片廠中最受歡迎的十幾歲的明星。二十世紀五十年代初，她出演了喜劇《新嶽父大人》（Father of the Bride 1950），並獲得評論界的好評，之後伊麗莎白·泰勒作為女主角與蒙哥馬利·克利夫特聯袂主演了電影《郎心如鐵》（A Place in the Sun 1951）她所出演的角色人繼續獲得了評論界的贊譽。
盡管伊麗莎白是米高梅公司最賣座的明星之一，但她還是希望在二十世紀五十年代這段時期早點結束自己的演藝生涯，因為她對制片廠對自己的控制感到十分不滿，並且不喜歡她被安排更多電影中充當不同角色。在二十世紀五十年代中期，她開始接受她喜歡的電影角色，從史詩劇《巨人》（Giant 1956）開始，並在接下來的幾年中出演了幾部評論性和商業性都非常成功的電影。
其中包括兩部由二戰後美國最為傑出的南方劇作家田納西·威廉姆斯（Tennessee Williams）改編的電影：《熱鐵皮屋頂上的貓》（Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958）和《夏日癡魂》（Suddenly, Last Summer 1959）；由此伊麗莎白獲得了金球獎最佳女演員獎。盡管她不喜歡她在《青樓豔妓 8》（BUtterfield 8 1960）中的角色，但是她還是在米高梅拍攝的最後一部電影，憑借自己的表演獲得了第三十三屆奧斯卡最佳女主角獎。
隨後，伊麗莎白在史詩級電影《埃及豔後》（Cleopatra 1963）中扮演主角，這部影片獲得了破一百萬美元票房收入的記錄，這也是當時票價最昂貴的電影。在該部影片拍攝過程中，伊麗莎白與聯合主演理查德·伯頓（Richard Burton）開展了婚外情，這引起了她們二人的一場醜聞。盡管受到公眾的反對，但伯頓和她繼續堅持他們之間的這種關系，並於1964年結婚。他們二人被媒體稱為“莉斯和迪克”，隨後由他們二人一起主演了十一部電影，這包括：《一代情侶》（The V.I.P.s 1963）、《春風無限恨》（The Sandpiper 1965）、《馴悍記》（The Taming of the Shrew 1967）和《誰怕弗吉尼亞·沃爾夫？》（Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966）。伊麗莎白獲得了她職業生涯最好的評價，為伍爾夫贏得了她的第二個奧斯卡獎和其他幾個獎項。她和伯頓於1974年離婚，但不久後就和解了，並於1975年再婚。第二次婚姻於1976年以離婚告終。
二十世紀六十年代末，伊麗莎白的演藝事業開始走下坡路，盡管她一直主演電影，直到二十世紀七十年代中期，之後她一直致力於支持她的第六任丈夫、參議員約翰·華納（John Warner）的事業。二十世紀八十年代，她出演了第一部重要的舞臺劇，同時還出演了幾部電視劇和系列劇，她成為第一位推出香水品牌的名人。伊麗莎白也是最早參與艾滋病運動的名人。她於1985年與人共同創立了美國艾滋病研究基金會，並於1991年創立了伊麗莎白·泰勒艾滋病基金會。從上世紀九十年代初到她去世，她一直致力於慈善事業。她獲得了包括總統公民獎章在內的多項榮譽。
在她的一生中，伊麗莎白的私生活一直受到媒體的關注。在她一生中她與七個男人結婚八次，忍受著嚴重的疾病，並過著引領噴氣式飛機的生活方式，包括組裝一個最昂貴的私人珠寶收藏。在多年的健康不佳之後，伊麗莎白於2011年因充血性心力衰竭去世，享年79歲。
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (27 February 1932– 23 March 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. 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 continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend.
Born in London to wealthy, socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939, and she soon was given a film contract by Universal Pictures. She made her screen debut in a minor role in There's One Born Every Minute (1942), but Universal terminated her contract after a year. Taylor was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and had her breakthrough role in National Velvet (1944), becoming one of the studio's most popular teenaged stars. She made the transition to adult roles in the early 1950s, when she starred in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and received critical acclaim for her performance in the drama A Place in the Sun (1951).
Despite being one of MGM's most bankable stars, Taylor wished to end her career in the early 1950s, as she resented the studio's control and disliked many of the films to which she was assigned. She began receiving roles she enjoyed more in the mid-1950s, beginning with the epic drama Giant (1956), and starred in several critically and commercially successful films in the following years. These included two film adaptations of plays by Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Taylor won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the latter. Although she disliked her role as a call girl in BUtterfield 8 (1960), her last film for MGM, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
Taylor was then paid a record-breaking $1 million to play the title role in the historical epic Cleopatra (1963), the most expensive film made up to that point. During the filming, Taylor and co-star Richard Burton began an extramarital affair, which caused a scandal. Despite public disapproval, Burton and she continued their relationship, and were married in 1964. Dubbed "Liz and Dick" by the media, they starred in 11 films together, including The V.I.P.s (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Taylor received the best reviews of her career for Woolf, winning her second Academy Award and several other awards for her performance. She and Burton divorced in 1974, but reconciled soon after, and re-married in 1975. The second marriage ended in divorce in 1976.
Taylor's acting career began to decline in the late 1960s, although she continued starring in films until the mid-1970s, after which she focused on supporting the career of her sixth husband, Senator John Warner. In the 1980s, she acted in her first substantial stage roles and in several television films and series, and became the first celebrity to launch a perfume brand. Taylor was also one of the first celebrities to take part in HIV/AIDS activism. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. From the early 1990s until her death, she dedicated her time to philanthropy. She received several accolades for it, including the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Throughout her life, Taylor's personal affairs were subject to constant media attention. She was married eight times to seven men, endured serious illnesses, and led a jet set lifestyle, including assembling one of the most expensive private collections of jewelry. After many years of ill health, Taylor died from congestive heart failure at the age of 79 in 2011.
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