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Which actors played the troubled married couple in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards. — Mike Nichols American director Mike Nichols in 2010. He was one of only a few people to have ever earned an EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony over the course of his career.

In the 1966 film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, the troubled married couple, George and Martha, were portrayed by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, respectively.123