Vivien Leigh was a British actress. She appeared in Sidewalks of London/Saint Martin's Lane, Caesar and Cleopatra, That Hamilton Woman, and Ship of Fools. Leigh is best known for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1940. She also starred alongside Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.