Burton — whose father, Richard Burton, was married (twice) to famous actress Elizabeth Taylor — said her stepmother always made her feel at “home.”
“I think that she truly welcomed me from day one,” she tells Page Six in a recent interview, adding that when the pair first married in 1964, Taylor already had three children from previous relationships, but still made her feel like she was part of the family.
By the time Taylor met Richard on the set of 1963’s “Cleopatra,” she was on husband No. 4, having previously been married to Conrad Hilton Jr., Michael Wilding — with whom she shared sons Christopher and Michael, Mike Todd — with whom she shared daughter Liza, and Eddie Fisher.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” actress describes Taylor as “so much fun and so warm and had a dry, hilarious sense of humor and always just looked for joy. I mean, she was really a joyful person.” And while Kate’s personal life doesn’t land on the cover of the rags like her father’s, her professional career — which most recently includes the hit Netflix series “Inventing Anna” and upcoming Hulu series “The Dropout” — is impressive in its own right.In “Inventing Anna” — which was produced by Shonda Rhimes — Kate plays a wealthy woman conned by“Once I saw all the costumes I got to wear, it was so thrilling because I’ve never played such a fashion plate,” she tells us. “It was so much fun.