Portrait of Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney

Acting

Biography

Gene Eliza Tierney 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 for Best Actress 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).

Born: November 19, 1920

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Filmography

2017
Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

as Self (archive footage)

1999
Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

as Self (archive footage)

1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987
Biography

as Self

1980
Scruples

as Harriet Toppingham

1969
Daughter of the Mind

as Lenore Constable

1965
The F.B.I.

as Faye Simpson

1964
The Pleasure Seekers

as Jane Barton

1963
Toys in the Attic

as Albertine Prine

1962
Advise & Consent

as Dolly Harrison

1955
The Left Hand of God

as Anne 'Scotty' Scott

1954
Black Widow

as Iris Denver

1954
The Egyptian

as Baketamon

1953
Personal Affair

as Kay Barlow

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1953
Never Let Me Go

as Marya Lamarkina

1953
General Electric Theater

as Ellen Galloway

1952
Plymouth Adventure

as Dorothy Bradford

1952
Way of a Gaucho

as Teresa Chavez

1951
Close to My Heart

as Midge Sheridan

1951
The Secret of Convict Lake

as Marcia Stoddard

1951
On the Riviera

as Lili Duran

1951
The Mating Season

as Maggie Carleton

1950
The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)

1950
Where the Sidewalk Ends

as Morgan Taylor

1950
Night and the City

as Mary Bristol

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1950
Whirlpool

as Ann Sutton

1948
That Wonderful Urge

as Sara Farley

1948
The Iron Curtain

as Anna Gouzenko

1947
1946
The Razor's Edge

as Isabel Bradley

1946
Dragonwyck

as Miranda Wells

1945
Leave Her to Heaven

as Ellen Berent Harland

1945
A Bell for Adano

as Tina Tomasino

1944
Laura

as Laura Hunt

1943
Heaven Can Wait

as Martha Strabel Van Cleve

1942
China Girl

as Haoli Young

1942
Thunder Birds

as Kay Saunders

1942
Rings on Her Fingers

as Susan Miller / Linda Worthington

1941
The Shanghai Gesture

as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")

1941
Sundown

as Graham 'Zia' Fletcher

1941
Belle Starr

as Belle Starr

1941
Tobacco Road

as Ellie May Lester

1941
Hudson's Bay

as Barbara Hall

1940