Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh was a famous British film and stage actress, and a classic star, born in England on November 5, 1913, and died of tuberculosis on July 7, 1967. Her representative works include "Gone with the Wind", "Blue Bridge", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Mrs. Hamilton", etc. Her major achievements include: in 1938, she won the 12th Best Actress Award for "Gone with the Wind", becoming the first British actress to win this honor; in 1951, she won the 16th Volpi Cup Best Actress Award for "A Streetcar Named Desire"; in 1952, she won the Oscar for Best Actress for the second time. In 1952, she won the second Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first actress to go from the Venice Film Festival to the Oscar; in 1953, she became the first British actress to win the British Film Institute Award (known as the British "Oscar"); in 1963, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.