Top 5 Performances of 2010 (Lead Actress)
by constructive_sarcasm | created - 31 Dec 2010 | updated - 31 Dec 2010 | PublicJust a list of the lead actresses I think turned in the best performances in 2010. I didn't see all that many movies released in 2010, so this is by no means meant to be definitive.
1. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
Her work in "Black Swan" is incredibly powerful.
2. Jennifer Lawrence
Actress | The Hunger Games
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
I'm not the biggest fan of "Winter's Bone," but Jennifer Lawrence does a wonderful job in it.
3. Hailee Steinfeld
Actress | True Grit
Hailee Steinfeld was born on December 11, 1996 in Tarzana, California, to Cheri (Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal fitness trainer. She has a brother, Griffin. Her uncle is Jake Steinfeld, a fitness trainer, and her great-uncle is actor Larry Domasin. Her father is of ...
Gives what is probably the breakthrough performance of the year in "True Grit."
4. Melissa George
Actress | Hunted
The second of four children, Australian actress Melissa George was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1976. The daughter of Pamela, a nurse, and Glenn George, a construction worker, Melissa initially expressed interest in various forms of dance rather than acting. During her childhood, George ...
Her performance helped to make the low budget thriller "Triangle" better than it had any right to be. While that movie technically was released in 2009, it wasn't readily available in the States until 2010.
5. Chloë Grace Moretz
Actress | Kick-Ass
Moretz is best known for her work in the sci-fi thriller series The Peripheral, created by Scott B. Smith; the Mattson Tomlin-directed sci-fi thriller Mother/Android; Neil Jordan's thriller Greta; Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud, which claimed the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award at the ...
It may not be cool to say this, but her turn as Hit Girl in "Kick-Ass" was really great and deserves more recognition and less controversy than it has generated.
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