After years of wowing audiences with her breath-taking beauty, adept acting, and tumultuous love life, Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure today, Wednesday March 23, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

On-screen since the age of 9, Taylor has long been in the Hollywood limelight. The actress is most famous for her roles in the movies Cleopatra, Father of the Bride, Butterfield 8, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She received two Oscars among five total Academy Award nominations, and was named a Dame Commander of the Order by the British Empire.

For more information on Taylor’s life, love, and film career, read this New York Times article released by the Associated Press this afternoon.