Stage Name: Viven Leigh (AKA Lady Olivier)
Birth Name: Vivian Mary Hartley
Occupation: Stage and Movie Actress
Years Active: 1933–1967
Notable Works: Viven Leigh is most remembered for her romance with Laurence Olivier, which started during the filming of the 1937 movie Fire Over England. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in a movie that has become one of the most celebrated in the annals of cinema, Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
Date/Place Birth: November 5, 1913 (1913-11-05) Darjeeling, West Bengal, British Raj
Date/Death/Cause: Vivian Leigh died of chronic tuberculosis at the yong age of 53 July 7,1967 in Eaton Square, London England, her ashaes were scattered on the lake at her home, Tickerage Mill, near Blackboys, East Sussex, England.
Spouse(s) & Children:Herbert Leigh Holman a barrister 13 years older than Leigh (1932–1940 divorced) 1 child a daughter Suzanne; actor Laurence Olivier (1940–1960); Domestic partner John Merivale (1960–1967)
Short Biography: Viven Leigh was a talented British actress born 1913 who was more at home on the stage than the film set but that didn’t stop her from winning two Academy Awards for Best Actress. She became famous for her adulterous romantic affair with Laurence Olivier whom she eventually marries. Her relationships, career and life are all regretfully limited by bipolar disorder and chronic tuberculosis which eventually took her life; still she lived a full and interesting life, the Viven Leigh biography at IMDb is quite good.