She rolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in veral of her roles. During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of No?l Coward and Gee Bernard Shaw edies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.
Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken riously as an actress. However, ill health proved to be her greatest obstacle. For much of her adult life Leigh had what is now known as bipolar disorder. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career suffered periods of inactivity. She also suffered recurrent bouts of ic tuberculosis, first diagnod in the mid-1940s. Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967.
費雯·麗成功地飾演《亂世佳人》的斯佳麗·奧哈拉和《欲望號街車》的布蘭奇·杜波依斯，兩度獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角獎。1999年，她被美國電影學會選為百年來最偉大的女演員第16名。《亂世佳人》中斯佳麗狡黠的眼神，《魂斷藍橋》中瑪拉純真無邪的笑臉、《欲望號街車》中遲暮美人經典劇照的無奈與瘋狂，是費雯·麗留給世界影壇的不朽形象。
費雯·麗被認為是她所處時代最美麗的女演員之一，導演們在她的大部分影片中強調了這一點。當問及她是否認為她的美貌成為障礙時，她說：“人們認為如果你看起來相當不錯，你不能表演，而我隻在乎表演。我認為美貌是一個很大的障礙，如果你真的希望看起來像你飾演的角色，而那個角色不一定像你。”
She rolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in veral of her roles. During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of No?l Coward and Gee Bernard Shaw edies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.
Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken riously as an actress. However, ill health proved to be her greatest obstacle. For much of her adult life Leigh had what is now known as bipolar disorder. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career suffered periods of inactivity. She also suffered recurrent bouts of ic tuberculosis, first diagnod in the mid-1940s. Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967.