Vivien Leigh
Similar to some people on this list, Vivien Leigh also said that her natural beauty overshadowed her acting skills a lot and that she had to overcome that. True enough, she was once described by a director as a “consummate actress, hampered by beauty.” She gained the most popularity by starring in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, but her career onstage was actually more prolific. In the last decades of her life, she fought tuberculosis but ultimately succumbed to the disease in 1967.
Vivien Leigh
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