Since she was little she showed a great interest in art and acting, she loved to perform in the various theatrical productions that were made in her schools and later she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to become an actress.
It would be the year 1934, when Vivien debuted with the play “The Green Sash and twelve months later, she would be seen on the big screen in the film. Things are looking up.
She was a very beautiful and quite educated young woman, apart from acting, she really liked languages, speaking French quite fluently. On several occasions he served as a model, but was ashamed of his hands, which he said were huge and he lived trying to hide them.
In 1932 he met Leigh holman, a man thirteen years older than her with whom she fell in love, and with whom she married that same year.
The following year she gives birth to her daughter Suzzanne and her home seemed to be the best, but at a theater performance she meets Laurence oliver and Vivien left her family to live a relationship with the actor, getting married for the second time in 1940.
She did not have enough experience but was chosen to play the role of Ophelia in the play of Shakespeare Hamlet, in this work he worked under the direction of Olivier and later he would act alongside Maureen O’Sillivan, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore in A Yank at Oxford in 1938. Before the end of the year, he was in St. Marti’ns Lane, these film productions being very suitable for his career, since they would give him the popularity he sought in the United States. United.
But fame around the world, he got it thanks to the role of Scarlett O’Hara in the film gone With the Wind 1939, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell and directed by Victor fleming.
Thanks to this unforgettable role of Scarlet O’Hara, Vivien gained much recognition worldwide and was awarded a Academy Oscar Award.
But after a tremendous performance and the many recognitions she obtained, the actress continued to prefer to be a theater actress than a film actress and after some time, she would return in A Streetcar Named Desire from 1951, a film with which he also won a new statuette.
He acted with Olivier in the plays “Antony and Cleopatra” and in “César y Cleopatra”, obtaining the best reviews for his participation.
In early 1953, Vivien traveled to Sri Lanka to shoot the film Elephant walk with Peter finch, but in the middle of filming she became ill and had to be replaced by Elizabeth taylor.
On Broadway she was awarded a Tony for her performance in Tovarich. Unfortunately, his health was not the best and he had to stay away from the performance for a while. In the same way, her marriage to Olivier had turned into something terrible, which caused the couple to divorce in 1960. After the final separation, Leigh would go to live with the actor John merivale.
But not much happened and the actress is diagnosed with tuberculosisShe had suffered from this disease for some years and she thought she was completely cured, but again she would return with more strength, leaving her very weak and tired. He was advised to stop acting and expose himself to changes in the weather.
Vivien dedicated herself to being calm and resting as she prepared to return to the stage, but sadly that day never came.
For a long time he lived in agony from his incurable disease, and on the night of July 7, 1967, passed away alone in her bedroom at the age of 53.