Top 100 Female Actors
1.
Meryl Streep
Actress, The Devil Wears Prada
Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep
has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 17 times, and
has won it three times. Born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New
Jersey, Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera....
2.
Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem, to a
Jewish family. She is the only child of a doctor father (from Israel)
and an artist mother (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's
agent. She left Israel for Washington, D.C., when she was still very
young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York...
3.
Helena Bonham Carter
Actress, Fight Club
In the late 1990s, Helena Bonham Carter
seemed poised to embark on the next phase of her career, moving from
capable actress to compelling star. Audiences and critics had long been
enchanted by her delicate beauty, evocative of another time and place;
in 1997, she showed that she was more than a pretty face and a skilled
line-reader...
4.
Katharine Hepburn
Actress, The African Queen
Born May 12, 1907 in Hartford,
Connecticut, she was the daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, both of
whom always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and
exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a child,
she was also very close to her brother, Tom, and was devastated at age
14 to find him dead...
5.
Judi Dench
Actress, Casino Royale
Attended Mount School in York, and studied
at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with Royal
Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and at Old Vic Theatre. She
is a ten-time BAFTA winner including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for
A Fine Romance in which she appeared with her husband...
6.
Diane Keaton
Actress, The Godfather: Part II
Diane Keaton was a California native who
studied Drama at Santa Ana College before dropping out to study at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. After appearing in summer stock for
several months, she got her first major stage role in the Broadway rock
musical "Hair". As understudy to the lead, she gained attention by not
removing any of her clothing...
7.
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in
Brussels, Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her
father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness.
After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where
she went to a private girls school. Later, when her mother moved back to
the Netherlands...
8.
Helen Mirren
Actress, The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen
Charlote Hospital, in North London to Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda
Rogers and Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov. Mirren attended St. Bernards High
School for girls, where she would act in school productions. After high
school, she began her acting career in theatre working in many titles,
all the way up to Broadway.
9.
Maggie Smith
One of the world's most famous and
distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie
Smith in Essex. Her father was a teacher at Oxford University and her
mother worked as a secretary. Smith has been married twice: to actor Robert Stephens and to playwright Beverley Cross. Her marriage to Stephens ended in divorce in 1974...
10.
Kate Winslet
Actress, Titanic
Ask Kate Winslet what she liked about any
of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least
once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward
pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's
built an eclectic resume; that runs the gamut from Shakespearean tragedy
to modern-day mysticism and erotica...
11.
Susan Sarandon
Actress, Thelma & Louise
It was shortly after the 1968 Democratic
convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles
for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two
graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition
in New York for Joe. Chris Sarandon, who had studied to be an actor, was passed over. His wife Susan got a major role...
12.
Cate Blanchett
Actress, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in
Australia to an American father and an Australian mother. She has an
older brother and an younger sister. When she was ten years old, her
40-year old father died of a sudden heart attack. Her mother never
remarried, and her grandmother moved in to help her mother...
13.
Julianne Moore
Actress, Magnolia
The daughter of a military judge and a
Scottish social worker, Julianne Moore was born in Fayetteville, North
Carolina on December 3, 1960. She spent the early years of her life in
over two dozen locations around the world with her parents before she
finally found her place at Boston University, where...
14.
Sigourney Weaver
Actress, Aliens
Sigourney Weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver in Leroy Hospital in New York City. Her father, TV producer Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.,
originally wanted to name her Flavia, because of his passion for Roman
history (he had already named her elder brother Trajan). Her mother, Elizabeth Inglis, was a British actress who had sacrificed her career for a family...
15.
Ingrid Bergman
Actress, Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm,
Sweden, on August 29, 1915. The woman who would be one of the top stars
in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after
finishing her formal schooling. She had had a taste of acting at age 17
when she played an uncredited role of a girl standing in line in the
Swedish film Landskamp in 1932...
16.
Emma Thompson
Actress, Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson was born in London on April 15, 1959, into a family of actors - her father was Eric Thompson, who has passed away, and her mother, Phyllida Law, has co-starred with Thompson in several films (her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well). Thompson's wit was earlier cultivated by a cheerful...
17.
Glenn Close
Actress, Mars Attacks!
Six time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close
was born and was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was often seen
on Broadway until 1982 when she was cast in her award winning role as
Jenny Fields in The World According to Garp alongside Robin Williams.
For this role, a breakthrough in film for Close, she later went on to
receive an Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress...
18.
Scarlett Johansson
Actress, Lost in Translation
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother, Melanie Sloan and a Danish father, Karsten Johansson. Scarlett showed a passion for acting at a young age and starred in many plays. She has a sister named Vanessa Johansson, a brother named Adrian, and a twin brother named Hunter Johansson born three minutes after her...
19.
Uma Thurman
Actress, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Uma Karuna Thurman, daughter of Robert Thurman and Nena Thurman,
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1970. Uma grew up in
Amherst, Massachusetts, where her father worked at Amherst College. She
left boarding school at just 15, already determined to become an
actress. She moved to New York to follow her dream...
20.
Nicole Kidman
Actress, Moulin Rouge!
Elegant redhead Nicole Kidman, known as
one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in
Honolulu, Hawaii, to Australian parents Anthony (a biochemist and
clinical psychologist) and Janelle (a nursing instructor) Kidman. The
family moved almost immediately to Washington, DC, where Nicole's father
pursued his research on breast cancer...
21.
Penélope Cruz
Known outside her native country as the
"Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to
Eduardo (a retailer) and Encarna (a hairdresser). As a toddler, she was
already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her
family's amusement, but she decided to focus her energies on dance...
22.
Renée Zellweger
Actress, Bridget Jones's Diary
Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April
25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, USA to parents Emil Erich Zellweger, a
Swiss-born engineer who married Renée's mother Kjellfrid Irene
Andreassen, a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife in 1963. Renée
also has a brother named Drew Zellweger, a marketing executive born on
February 15...
23.
Tilda Swinton
Actress, Adaptation.
The iconoclastic gifts of the visually
striking and fiercely talented Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, who was
born on November 5th, 1960, have been appreciated by a more
international audience of late. Born into a patrician military family,
she was educated at an English and a Scottish boarding school...
24.
Winona Ryder
Actress, Edward Scissorhands
Winona Ryder
was born Winona Laura Horowitz and named after the town in which she
was born, Winona, Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern
California which had no electricity. She is the goddaughter of Timothy Leary. Her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady"...
25.
Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack, Witness for the Prosecution
Marie Magdelene Dietrich von Losch (aka
Marlene) was born in Berlin, Germany on December 27, 1901. Her father
was an army officer who had served in the Franco-Prussian War. Because
of his constant absences from the family due to his army duties, Marlene
and the rest had to rely on themselves. When he died...
26.
Christina Ricci
Actress, Sleepy Hollow
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet
of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born in 1980 in Santa Monica,
California, the youngest of four children of a lawyer father and realtor
mother. She made her screen debut at the age of 9 in Mermaids, in which she worked with Cher. Her breakthrough adult role was in The Ice Storm...
27.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress, True Lies
Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween. After that she became famous for roles in movies like Trading Places, Perfect and A Fish Called Wanda. She starred in one of the biggest action films ever...
28.
Marilyn Monroe
Soundtrack, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Probably the most celebrated of all
actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on Tuesday,
June 1st, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital. Prior to her birth,
Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headed north to San Francisco,
abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Marilyn grew up not knowing for
sure who her father really was...
29.
Juliette Binoche
Actress, The English Patient
Juliette Binoche, daughter of an actress
and a sculptor, was only 23 when she first attracted the attention of
international film critics with The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times film critic with an international following of his
books on film and TV reviews, wrote that she was "almost ethereal in her
beauty and innocence"...
30.
Jodie Foster
Actress, The Silence of the Lambs
Alicia Christian Foster was born in Los
Angeles. Her parents divorced three years before she was born, and she
was conceived when her mother, Brandy, was visiting her father, Lucius,
for child support. Alicia's siblings nicknamed her "Jodie," a name she
has used in her profession. When she was just three years old...
31.
Hilary Swank
Actress, Million Dollar Baby
Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.
After living in Spokane, Washington, the family moved to Bellingham,
Washington, when she was 6. Hilary was discovered as a child by producer
Suzy Sachs, who coached her in acting. When she was nine years old, she starred in her first play as "Mowgli" in "The Jungle Book"...
32.
Rachel McAdams
Actress, Sherlock Holmes
Born on November 17, 1978, in London,
Ontario, Canada, Rachel McAdams became involved with acting as a
teenager and by the age of 13 was performing in Shakespearean
productions in summer theater camp; she went on to graduate with honors
with a BFA degree in Theater from York University. After her debut in an
episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson...
33.
Audrey Tautou
Actress, Amélie
Born on August 9, 1976 in Beaumont,
France, Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and started
her acting lessons at `Cours Florent'. In 1998 she won the best young
actress award in the ninth `Jeune Comedien de Cinema Festival' in
Bezier. Then, she came to the attention of Tonie Marshall who gave her a role in her film Venus Beauty Institute for which she won a Best New Actress Cesar...
34.
Marion Cotillard
Actress, Inception
Marion Cotillard, who won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Édith Piaf in La vie en rose
(retitled "La Vie en Rose" in the United States), is the second actress
to win an acting Oscar performing in a language other than English next
to Sophia Loren who won for Two Women....
35.
Sophie Marceau
Actress, The World Is Not Enough
Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Maupu) grew up
far from the studio spotlights. When she was 14 she was living in the
Paris suburb of Gentilly with her father, a truck driver. She learned
from friends that director Claude Pinoteau was looking for new faces for a movie about teenagers called The Party...
36.
Amy Adams
Actress, Enchanted
Amy Lou Adams was born in Italy, to
American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, while her father was a U.S.
serviceman. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in
Castle Rock, Colorado. Adams sang in the school choir at Douglas County
High School and was an apprentice dancer at a local dance company...
37.
Emily Blunt
Actress, The Devil Wears Prada
Emily Blunt is a British actress best known for her roles in The Young Victoria and The Devil Wears Prada.
She was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London,
England, the second of four children in the family of a teacher mother
and barrister father. She received a rigorous education at Ibstock Place
School...
38.
Olivia Wilde
Actress, TRON: Legacy
Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn
in New York City. She was raised in Washington, D.C. and went to school
there, as well as in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated in
2002. Her father, Andrew Cockburn,
is Irish, giving her dual American and Irish nationality and
facilitating her brief study at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin...
39.
Sophia Loren
Actress, Two Women
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone
at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 1934.
Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry
her mother Romilda, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two
children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone)...
40.
Grace Kelly
Actress, Rear Window
Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November
12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood
was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was
to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her
high school graduation in 1947, Grace struck out on her own...
41.
Rita Hayworth
Actress, Gilda
Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino's
daughter Margarita trained as a dancer from early childhood. At age 12,
mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo's stage act, in which she was
spotted three years later by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan, leading to her first studio contract and film debut at age 16 in Dante's Inferno...
42.
Greta Garbo
Actress, Ninotchka
Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in
Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, 1905. She was 14 when her father
died, leaving the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and
go to work in a department store. The store used her for her modeling
abilities for newspaper ads. She had no film aspirations...
43.
Ava Gardner
Actress, The Killers
Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her
lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the
rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window of her brother-in-
law's New York photo studio brought her to the attention of MGM, leading
quickly to Hollywood and a film contract based strictly on her
beauty...
44.
Elizabeth Taylor
Actress, Giant
Liz was a leading child star by the age of 12 after her performance in MGM's National Velvet. It wasn't long before she was knocking critics dead as a serious adult actress with films like Giant, Raintree County and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
She reigned the box office as the quintessential movie star taking the
breath away from viewers with her glamorous looks and those velvet
eyes...
45.
Lauren Bacall
Actress, The Big Sleep
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske
on September 16, 1924, in New York City. Her parents were middle-class,
with her father working as a salesman and her mother as a secretary.
They divorced when she was five. When she was a school girl, Lauren
originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with
acting...
46.
Vivien Leigh
Actress, Gone with the Wind
If a film were made of the life of Vivien
Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a
successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the
mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the
outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time her parents
take her to England...
47.
Julia Roberts
Actress, Notting Hill
Julia Fiona Roberts, born in Smyrna,
Georgia, never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in
America. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted
to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. When her brother, Eric Roberts, achieved some success in Hollywood...
48.
Halle Berry
Actress, X-Men: The Last Stand
Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio to
U.S. African father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and U.S.
European mother Judith Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle also
has an older sister named Heidi Berry. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant...
49.
Barbra Streisand
Self, Barbra: The Concert
Barbra Streisand was born on April 24,
1942, in Brooklyn, New York. She is an actress, director, producer and
writer. Among her many films are Hello, Dolly!, A Star Is Born, Yentl and The Mirror Has Two Faces. As a child she attended the Beis Yakov Jewish School in Brooklyn. She is good friends with singer/songwriter Neil Diamond...
50.
Angelina Jolie
Actress, Changeling
Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress
who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft"
series of blockbuster movies. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently
involved in international charity projects, especially those involving
refugees. She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists...
51.
Salma Hayek
Actress, Frida
The amazing Salma Hayek was born on
September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek
has freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten
by her well-to-do Lebanese-Mexican businessman father and her
Mexican-born opera-singing mother. After having seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in a local movie theatre...
52.
Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in
Paris, France to parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. When Emma
was five her parents divorced, and she then moved to Oxfordshire,
England with her mother and younger brother, Alexander. Since the
divorce, Emma's extended family has grown as her parents both have new
partners...
53.
Jennifer Connelly
Actress, Requiem for a Dream
Jennifer Connelly grew up in Brooklyn
Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, except for the
four years her family spent in Woodstock, New York. Back in Brooklyn
Heights, she attended St. Ann's school. Her father was in the garment
industry, and a close friend of the family was an advertising
executive...
54.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg was born in the Chelsea
section of Manhattan in 1955 as Caryn Elaine Johnson. She worked in a
funeral parlor and as a bricklayer while taking small parts on Broadway.
She moved to California and worked with improv groups, including
Spontaneous Combustion, and developed her skills as a stand-up
comedienne...
55.
Mila Kunis
Actress, Black Swan
The talented Milena "Mila" Markovna Kunis
was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, USSR (now independent Ukraine), to a
Jewish family. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father,
Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named
Michael. After attending one semester of college between gigs...
56.
Kathy Bates
Actress, Titanic
Kathleen Doyle Bates was born and raised
in Memphis, Tennessee, the youngest of three daughters born to Langdon
Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer, and his homemaker wife Bertye
Talbot. Kathy's great-great Irish grandfather, who emigrated to New
Orleans, once served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor...
58.
Milla Jovovich
Actress, The Fifth Element
Milla Jovovich is an Ukrainian-born
actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was
on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such
films as The Fifth Element, Ultraviolet, and the Resident Evil franchise. She was born Milica Natasha Jovovich on December 17...
59.
Geena Davis
Actress, Beetlejuice
As a child, Geena dreamed of being an
actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self-esteem
because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high
school graduation, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire
and then transferred the next year to Boston University...
60.
Brittany Murphy
Actress, 8 Mile
Perhaps it was being born in Atlanta,
Georgia and raised in Edison, New Jersey that bestowed Brittany Murphy
with the adaptability that had allowed her to conquer a fairly
prodigious amount of projects. Brittany first honed her acting skills in
regional theater at the age of 9. By age 13, she had signed on with a
manager and began appearing in television commercials...
62.
Rooney Mara
Actress, The Social Network
Rooney Mara was born in Bedford, New York
in 1985. Christened Patricia Rooney Mara when she made her debut on the
world stage, she is one of four children of NFL football team New York
Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara and Kathleen McNulty, the
granddaughter of Art Rooney, Sr., the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football franchise...
63.
Evanna Lynch
Evanna Patricia Lynch is an Irish actress.
Born in the town of Termonfecken in Ireland, she is one of four
children to Donal and Marguerite Lynch. Her acting career began in 2007
when she competed in an open audition against nearly 15,000 girls, and
won the coveted role of Luna Lovegood in the "Harry Potter" movie
franchise...
64.
Katey Sagal
Actress, Pilot
An extremely gifted and versatile
performer adept at both comedy and drama, actress/singer Katey Sagal
became a household name in the late 80s as the fabulously brazen,
undomesticated "Peg Bundy" on the enduring Fox series Married with Children. During its lengthy run, she received three Golden Globe and two American Comedy Award nominations...
65.
Julie Christie
Actress, Finding Neverland
Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino
called "the most poetic of all actresses", was born in Chukua, Assam,
India, on April 14, 1941, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh
wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her
father's tea plantation before being sent to England for her
education...
66.
Julie Andrews
Actress, The Sound of Music
Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October
1, 1935, in England. Her mother and stepfather, both Vaudeville
performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave
singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in
music halls throughout her childhood and teens, and at age 20, she
launched her stage career in a London Palladium production of
"Cinderella"...
67.
Annette Bening
Actress, American Beauty
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in
Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to
California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from
San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the
American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, eventually moving to New
York where she acted on the stage...
68.
Charlize Theron
Actress, Prometheus
Charlize Theron grew up on a farm outside
Benoni, South Africa, as the only child. She got an education as a
ballet dancer and has danced both the "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker".
There wasn't much for a young actress or dancer to do in South Africa,
so she soon traveled to Europe and United States of America...
70.
Kate Beckinsale
Actress, Underworld
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe,
who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and
continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television
productions. Her father was Richard Beckinsale...
71.
Anne Hathaway
Actress, The Dark Knight Rises
Anne Hathaway's first major role came in the short-lived television series Get Real. She gained widespread recognition for her roles in The Princess Diaries and its 2004 sequel as a young girl who discovers she's a member of royalty, opposite Julie Andrews and Heather Matarazzo. She also had a notable role in Nicholas Nickleby opposite Charlie Hunnam and Jamie Bell...
72.
Chloë Grace Moretz
Actress, (500) Days of Summer
Chloe Grace Moretz was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chloe's first 2 appearances were as Violet in two episodes of The Guardian, on TV. Her first movie role was as Molly in Heart of the Beholder, a story about a family who opened the first video cassette store in 1980. This was followed by a small role in Family Plan as Young Charlie...
73.
Téa Leoni
Actress, Deep Impact
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni was born in New
York, February 25, 1966. Her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate
lawyer and her mother, Emily Patterson, was a dietitian and
nutritionist. She attended but did not complete studies at Sarah
Lawrence College. She started out in acting as Lisa DiNapoli in Santa Barbara in 1989 and followed up with small roles in Switch and A League of Their Own...
74.
Jessica Alba
Actress, Sin City
Born in Pomona, California, on April 28,
1981, Jessica Alba and her family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, when she
was an infant. Three years later, her Air Force father brought the
family back to California, then to Del Rio, Texas, before finally
settling in Southern California when Jessica was nine...
75.
Heather Graham
Actress, The Hangover
Heather Graham was born in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and raised in a strict household. Her father worked for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and her mother was a former
schoolteacher and author. Heather and her sister, Aimee Graham, were forced to relocate often as a result of their father's occupation...
76.
Keira Knightley
The daughter of actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald.
After she requested an agent at the age of three, her parents allowed
her to work on productions in her summer holidays. Her first role was at
the age of 9, in Moira Armstrong's A Village Affair. However, Knightley's first high profile role came in 1999...
77.
Rachel Bilson
Actress, Jumper
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Rachel
Bilson began acting while still at Notre Dame High School. She graduated
high school in 1999 and went to Grossmont College but dropped out after
a year and was encouraged to pursue a career in acting by her father, Danny Bilson, himself a writer, director and producer...
78.
Marisa Tomei
Actress, The Wrestler
Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964,
in Brooklyn, New York to mother Patricia "Addie" Tomei, an English
teacher, and father Gary Tomei, a lawyer. Marisa also has a brother,
actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech so as to eliminate her heavy Brooklyn accent...
79.
Mena Suvari
Actress, American Beauty
Mena Alexandra Suvari was born in Newport,
Rhode Island. Her first name comes from her British aunt, named after
the Mena House Oberoi (at the base of the pyramids in Egypt); her last
name is Estonian. Mena started modeling for Wilhelmina at the age of 12
and her acting career began when she did a Rice-A-Roni commercial at the
age of 13...
80.
Monica Bellucci
Actress, Irreversible
Born in 1964 in the Italian village of
Città di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the
legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled
on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling
career. In 1988, she moved to one of Europe's fashion centers...
81.
Christina Hendricks
Actress, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee
but grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her father, Robert, worked for the
forestry department and came originally from England and her mother,
Jackie, was a psychologist. The family moved to Fairfax, Virginia when
she was 13. She began acting at school and went into modeling at the age
of 18...
82.
Famke Janssen
Actress, X-Men
Famke Janssen was born in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, and has two other siblings. She studied economics for a
year at the University of Amsterdam, which she has called "the stupidest
idea I ever had." Moving to America in 1984, Famke modeled for Chanel
in New York. Later, taking a break from modeling, she majored in writing
and literature at Columbia University and studied acting with Harold Guskin...
83.
Courteney Cox
Actress, The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964
into an affluent Southern family. Her father Richard L Cox (1930-2001)
was a business man married to her mother Courteney. She was the baby of
the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older
brother, Richard Jr. She was raised in an exclusive society town...
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Diane Kruger
Actress, Inglourious Basterds
Diane Kruger was born Diane Heidkrüger in
Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany. She studied ballet with the Royal
Ballet in London before an injury ended her career. She returned to
Germany and became a top fashion model. She later pursued acting and
relocated to Paris at the suggestion of filmmaker Luc Besson (The Fifth Element)...
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Lauren Graham
Actress, Bad Santa
She grew up in Northern Virginia, USA
(Fairfax, Arlington, and Great Falls, VA) Graduate of Langley High
School, McLean, VA Graduate of Barnard College/Columbia University with a
Bachelor's Degree in English. Graduate of Southern Methodist University
with a Master's Degree in Acting. She was raised by a single parent...
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Sofía Vergara
Actress, Four Brothers
Sofía was born and raised in Barranquilla,
Colombia. Her mother, Margarita, is a housewife. Her father, Julio,
provides cattle to the meat industry. She has 5 siblings. She was
educated at a private bilingual Spanish/English school. She then went on
to study pre-Dentistry at Colombia University. However...
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Mélanie Laurent
Actress, Inglourious Basterds
Mélanie Laurent was born in Paris, France.
She is the daughter of Annick, a ballet teacher, and Pierre, a voice
actor, who is most recognized for the french version of The Simpsons. She also has a younger brother, Mathieu. In 1998, she was visiting the set of Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar with a friend when she caught the attention of Gerard Depardieu...
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Marcia Cross
Actress, One Life to Live
Marcia Cross was born on March 25, 1962 in
Marlborough, Massachusetts. As a child, Marcia always wanted to be an
actress, so she set out to have a career in acting. Cross graduated from
the Julliard School in New York, a naturally gifted girl. Her career
began in 1984, when she joined the cast of the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night...
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Sarah Jessica Parker
Actress, Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25,
1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio to parents Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste
(who remarried Paul Forste after divorcing Sarah's father). After her
mother wed Forste, she had four more children, bringing the total to
eight. Sarah Jessica now had 3 full siblings and 4 half siblings...
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Jennifer Aniston
Actress, The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Born in Sherman Oaks, California, Jennifer
Aniston spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family.
Her family then relocated to New York City where her parents, actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, divorced when she was 9. Jennifer was raised by her mother and her father landed a role...
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Lisa Edelstein
Actress, What Women Want
Lisa Edelstein began her professional
acting career while studying theater at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the
Arts. After performing in a wide range of productions off and on
Broadway, authored and performed the AIDS-related musical "Positive Me"
at Ellen Stuart's La Mama, in Manhattan. It was one one of the earliest
AIDS-related theater productions...
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Angela Lansbury
Actress, Beauty and the Beast
British character actress, long in the
United States. The daughter of an actress and the granddaughter of a
high-ranking politician, Lansbury studied acting from her youth,
departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was
contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy
Award for her first film...
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Shelley Long
Actress, The Brady Bunch Movie
Shelley Long was born at 7:15 am on
Tuesday August 23, 1949 in Indian Village, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. She
is the daughter and only child to Evandine and Leland Long. Her mother
was a school teacher and her father worked in the rubber industry before
becoming a teacher. Shelley Long attended school at Kekionga Junior
High for grades 6-9 and at South Side High School for grades 10-12...
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Ali Larter
Actress, Final Destination
A native of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Ali
began modeling at age 13 and traveled the world before moving to Los
Angeles to study acting. Her first professional acting job was a role on
the television series Chicago Sons. She received her breakthrough in the high school football drama Varsity Blues which included her infamous whipped cream bikini scene...
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Megan Fox
Actress, Transformers
Megan Denise Fox was born May 16, 1986 in
Rockwood, Tennessee. She has one older sister. Megan began her training
in drama and dance at the age of 5 and, at the age of 10, moved to
Florida where she continued her training and finished school. She now
lives in Los Angeles, California. Megan began acting...
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Kirsten Dunst
Actress, Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American
actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30,
1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht) and
Klaus Dunst. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, born in 1986. Her career began at the age of 3 when she started modelling and appearing in commercials...
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