Liza Todd is the daughter of the late Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor known as Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor was a famous British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress and has been active in the entertainment industry from 1942 until 2007.

Elizabeth Taylor was known internationally for her work and was also known for her eight marriages to seven men. Liza Todd’s father, Mike Todd was the third of the seven husbands of Elizabeth Taylor. He was an American theater and film producer. This article is about Liza Todd.

Liza Todd: Bio Summary

Who Is Liza Todd?

Liza Todd is also known as Elizabeth “Liza” Frances, Elizabeth Frances Todd, or Elizabeth Frances (Liza) Todd. She was born in the United States on August 6, 1957. As of 2022, she is at the age of 65 years old. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd.

Liza Todd’s mother Elizabeth Taylor was an actress while her father Mike Todd was a theater and film producer. Liza is the only child of her parents but she has half-siblings. Her half-siblings from her mother’s side are Michael Howard (b. January 6, 1953), Christopher Edward (b. February 27, 1955), and Maria Burton (b. August 1, 1961).

Liza also had one half-brother from her father’s side and he was Michael Henry Todd Jr. He was born on October 8, 1929, and decided to change his name to Mike Todd on the day of his father’s death. He was an American film producer. Liza Todd was adopted by her mother’s husband Welsh actor Richard Burton.

According to sources, Liza Todd was born through a difficult premature labor and she was born by cesarean section. Her biological father Mike Todd had the doctors sterilize his wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Liza Todd didn’t get to know her father, Mike Todd because he died in a plane crash on March 22, 1958.

Liza also had stepfathers, Eddie Fisher, an American singer, and actor, John William Warner III, an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974, and then Larry Fortensky, an American construction worker.

Liza Todd’s parents Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd got married in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 2, 1957, in a ceremony performed by the mayor of Acapulco. Their marriage was the third marriage for both Elizabeth and Mike. At the time of their marriage, Elizabeth was 24 years while Mike was 47 years old.

Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, was their witness. Mike Todd encouraged the attention of the media to their marriage. He threw a birthday party in June 1957, at Madison Square Garden, which was attended by 18,000 guests and broadcast on CBS. Elizabeth and Mike were married until Mike’s death.

Mike Todd died in a private plane accident. He died on March 22, 1958, at age of 48 years, in Grants, New Mexico, U.S. The plane accident didn’t kill Mike Todd only but all four on board. Screenwriter and author Art Cohn, who was writing Mike Todd’s biography The Nine Lives of Michael Todd, also died in the crash.

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The pilot Bill Verner, and co-pilot Tom Barclay, a replacement for the plane’s regular co-pilot also died in the crash. Mike Todd’s death left his wife Elizabeth Taylor devastated. After many years of ill health, Elizabeth Taylor died from congestive heart failure at the age of 79. She died on March 23, 2011, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Liza Todd’s Personal Life

Liza Todd started a career as a sculptor after her graduation. Her love for horses influenced her work. She started working on equestrian bronze sculptures, receiving private commissions from the owners of some purebred racing champions.

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Liza Todd has also worked on monuments, including a life-size calf in bronze for the village of Gstaad and a sculpture of a life-size rescue dog in memory of the September 11 events made with debris from the World Trade Center.

Liza focused on African wildlife, particularly elephants under South Africa’s elephant orphanage, HERD. She started making Rescue Scarves with elephant and cheetah designs from the artwork she created for From Line to Form: the Jabulani Elephants exhibition.

Well, Liza Todd was previously married to Hap Tivey. They got married in 1984 and produced two sons, Quinn and Rhys Todd. Liza and Hap got divorced in 2003 after 19 years of marriage. Liza’s son, Quinn, studied film at USC and was a production assistant for the 2010 film, The Company Men starring Ben Affleck.

Liza’s son, Rhys, is an accomplished jazz musician who studied at NYU.

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