Vivien Leigh
(1913-1967), ActressSitter associated with 147 portraits
Born Vivian Hartley in Darjeeling, India, and educated in England and on the Continent, Leigh made her British film debut in Things Are Looking Up (1934). Her appearance opposite Laurence Olivier in Fire Over England (1937) led to a well-publicised romance. A household name following her Oscar-winning role as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), Leigh's marriage to Olivier in 1940 placed her at the centre of British theatre.
Vivien Leigh as Viola in 'Twelfth Night'
by Angus McBean
vintage print, 1955
NPG x137982
Vivien Leigh as Hester Collyer in 'The Deep Blue Sea'
by Unknown photographer
vintage publicity still, 1955
NPG x139802
Vivien Leigh as Hester Collyer and Kenneth More as Freddie Page in 'The Deep Blue Sea'
by Unknown photographer
vintage publicity still, 1955
NPG x139803
Vivien Leigh; Laurence Olivier; Marilyn Monroe; Arthur Asher Miller
by Unknown photographer, for Associated Press
bromide press print, 11 October 1956
NPG x135981
Vivien Leigh; Kay Kendall; Sir Noël Coward; Lauren Bacall
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage press print, 29 January 1959
NPG x139808
Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty in 'The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone'
by Unknown photographer
vintage film still, 1961
NPG x139804
Jeremy Spenser as young man and Vivien Leigh as Karen Stone in 'The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone'
by Unknown photographer
vintage film still, 1961
NPG x139805
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1961
NPG x76232
Vivien Leigh as Marguerite in 'The Lady of the Camellias'
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1961
NPG x76233
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1961
NPG x76234
Vivien Leigh as Marguerite in 'The Lady of the Camellias'
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1961
NPG x76290
Vivien Leigh and Ringo Starr at London Airport
by Unknown photographer
vintage press print, June 1964
NPG x139809
Vivien Leigh as Mary Treadwell in 'Ship of Fools'
by Unknown photographer
vintage film still, 1965
NPG x139806
by Unknown photographer
vintage press print, 1965
NPG x139807
Vivien Leigh at a reading of 'La Contessa'
by Unknown photographer
vintage press print, 9 March 1965
NPG x139811
Vivien Leigh at the French Crystal Dove Award, Paris
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage press print, 2 November 1966
NPG x139810
by Unknown photographer
vintage press print, 1966
NPG x139812
Diners at Denham Studios Restaurant
by Anthony Wysard
watercolour and pencil, published 1937
NPG D312
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet; Vivien Leigh
by Anthony Wysard
pencil and watercolour, 1949
NPG D291
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 'Romeo and Juliet'
by John Swope
tear sheet, 1940
NPG x137669
Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle and Cyril Francis Maude as Sir Peter in 'The School for Scandal'
by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x897
Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle and Cyril Francis Maude as Sir Peter in 'The School for Scandal'
by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x899
Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle and Cyril Francis Maude as Sir Peter in 'The School for Scandal'
by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x900
Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle and Cyril Francis Maude as Sir Peter in 'The School for Scandal'
by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x901
Vivien Leigh as Lavinia in 'Titus Andronicus'
by Angus McBean
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 17 April 1957
NPG x193418
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