Gene Tierney, an American actress, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920.
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress who was born on November 19, 1920. She rose to prominence as a leading lady after being praised for her beauty. Tierney is best known for her role as Laura in the 1944 film Laura, and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
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