High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (November 5, 1913 – July 7, 1967) was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she also played on stage in London`s West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O`Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the epic American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.