MUMBAI: Celebrity actress Elizabeth Taylor passed away on Wednesday due to congestive heart failure.

In a career that spanned more than 70 years and fifty movies, the 79-year old Taylor won two Academy awards for best actress - for her performances as a call girl in the 1960 film Butterfield 8 and as Martha in 1966 in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Taylor, whose name was synonymous with glamour was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood‘s golden age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list.

Taylor was married eight times to seven husbands with all but one ending in divorce. The husbands were: Conrad Hilton, Micheal Wilding, Michael Todd, Eddie |Fischer, Richard |Burton and Larry Fortensky.

Bollywood celebrities took to micro-blogging site Twitter m,ourning her death. Amitabh Bachchan, in his blog said, Another sad moment! Elizabeth Taylor passes away! God‘s creation in abundance ... now reduced to dust! The way for all someday. Wrote Madhur Bhandarkar, Elizabeth Taylor, the ultimate iconic actress, RIP. The world will never forget the role of immortal Cleopatra.