My All Time favorite Actresses

1. Jayne Atkinson

Jayne Atkinson was born on February 18, 1959 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Free Willy (1993), The Village (2004) and 24 (2001). She has been married to Michel Gill since October 3, 1998. They have one child. She was previously married to Joe Urla.

Best known for her role as Karen Hayes on season 5 & 6 of the tv show 24 or as the adopted mother Annie Greenwood in Free Willy & Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home or as Section Chief Erin Strauss on the tv show Criminal Minds

2. Stephanie Beacham

Actress | Dynasty

Stephanie Beacham is without a doubt one of Britain's most talented, beautiful and well-known actresses. Despite becoming world famous and an icon of the 1980s due to her role as Sable Colby in the American soap operas Dynasty (1981) and The Colbys (1985) and going on to have starring roles in ...

Best known for her role as Sable Colby on Dynasty or as Dr. Kristin Westphalen on the first season of SeaQuest: DSV

3. Rachel Blakely

Actress | The Lost World

Australian actress Rachel Blakely is a former model whose career was launched after winning a women's magazine cover competition. She made her TV screen debut in a Nissan commercial, but is best known to television audiences as Gaby Willis in the popular long-running series Neighbours, a role she ...

Best known for her role as Marguerite Krux on the tv show The Lost World

4. Lorraine Bracco

Actress | Goodfellas

Lorraine was voted the "ugliest girl in the 6th grade" at her Long Island grade school. She moved to France in 1974 where she became a fashion superstar for Jean-Paul Gaultier. Her sister is Elizabeth Bracco. Has two daughters, Stella Keitel by ex-boyfriend Harvey Keitel and Margaux Guerard by ...

Best known for her role as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the tv show The Sopranos or as Karen Hill in Goodfellas

5. Joanna Cassidy

Actress | Blade Runner

The very lovely, vivacious and smart-looking Joanna Cassidy was born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Haddonfield, a borough located in Camden County. She grew up in a creative environment as the daughter and granddaughter of artists. At an early age she engaged in painting and sculpture...

Best known for her role as Dolores in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

6. Stockard Channing

Actress | Practical Magic

One of Broadway and Hollywood's perennial and cleverer talents who tends to shine a smart, cynical light on her surroundings, Stockard Channing was born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard on February 13, 1944 in New York City to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother of Irish descent. Her parents ...

Best known for her role as Rizzo in the 1978 film adaption of Grease or as First Lady Abigail Bartlet on the tv show The West Wing

7. Glenn Close

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.

Glenn was a noted ...

Best known for her role as Alex in the movie Fatal Attraction or as Cruella De Vill in the live action Disney film 101 Dalmatians

8. Margaret Colin

Actress | Independence Day

Margaret Colin was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long Island. She graduated from Baldwin Senior High School in 1976. Margaret began acting in The Edge of Night (1956) (her character was a heiress and former terrorist, with seven murder attempts), and was employed next on As the World ...

Best known for her role as Communications Director Constance Spano in the movie Indepenence Day or as Blair's mother Eleanor on the tv show Gossip Girl

9. Wendy Crewson

Actress | Air Force One

Wendy Jane Crewson is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film The Doctor. Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, including The Good Son (1993), The Santa Clause (1994) and its sequels The Santa...

Best known for her role as Tim Allen's ex-wife in the movie The Santa Clause and it's 2 sequels and as First Lady Grace Marshall in the movie Air Force One

10. Judy Garland

Actress | The Wizard of Oz

One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.

She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in ...

Best known for her role as Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz

11. Nancy Lee Grahn

Actress | General Hospital

Nancy Lee Grahn was born on April 28, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for General Hospital (1963), Santa Barbara (1984) and Babylon 5 (1993).

Best known for her role as Alexis Davis on the daytime soap opera General Hospital

12. Deidre Hall

Actress | Days of Our Lives

Deidre Hall has emerged as one of America's most beloved actresses, who delighted her fans in August 1991, when she returned to NBC-TV's number one daytime program, Days of Our Lives (1965). Hall created the role of "Dr. Marlena Evans" in 1976, a character whose popularity has created a furor and a...

Best known for her role as Dr. Marlena Evans on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives

13. Melora Hardin

Actress | 17 Again

Melora Hardin is an American actress, singer and director from Houston, Texas who is known for playing Jan Levinson from The Office and Trudy Monk from Monk. She also acted in The Rocketeer, 24 Dresses, 17 Again, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Transparent, The Bold Type and The Hot Chick. She had two ...

Best known for her role as Jan Levinson on the tv show The Office or as Rachel McAdams mother Carol in the movie The Hot Chick

14. Lauren Holly

Actress | Dumb and Dumber

Born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, the daughter of two college professors, Lauren Michael Holly grew up in the upstate New York town of Geneva. Her childhood was split between experiences that contrasted. She was privy to the shelter of growing up in a rural town and also exposed due to the erudite ...

Best known for her role as Mary Swanson in the movie Dumb and Dumber or as Director Jenny Shepard on the tv show NCIS

15. Leann Hunley

Actress | Days of Our Lives

Leann Hunley was born on February 25, 1955 in Forks, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Dynasty (1981) and NCIS (2003). She was previously married to Bill Sheridan.

Best known for her role as Anna DiMera on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives or as the teacher who seduced Pacey on the first season of Dawson's Creek

16. Bonnie Hunt

Actress | Jumanji

Bonnie Lynn Hunt is an American actress and comedienne who is known for her work in Rain Man, Beethoven, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile and Cheaper by the Dozen. She voiced in the Disney films A Bug's Life, Zootopia, Monsters, Inc, Toy Story 3 and Cars. She was married to John Murphy but ...

Best known for her role as Kate Baker in the movie remakes of Cheaper By The Dozen snd it's sequel or as Sarah in the movie Jumanji

17. Holly Hunter

Actress | Broadcast News

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first...

Best known for her role as Ada McGrath in the movie The Piano

18. Anjelica Huston

Actress | The Grifters

Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 to director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1968 first dipped her toe into the world of show business, taking on the lead role of her father's ...

Best known for her role as Maerose Prizzi in the movie Prizzi's Honor or as Morticia Addams in the movie version of The Addams Family and it's sequel

19. Moira Kelly

Actress | One Tree Hill

Born March 6, 1968 in Queens, New York, she is the third of six kids. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist. Her mother, Anne, is a nurse. Both are Irish immigrants. Moira was raised in Ronkonkoma, NY. She attended Connetquot Senior High School and graduated in the class of 1986. ...

Best known for her role as Kate Moseley in the movie The Cutting Edge or as Karen Roe on the tv show One Tree Hill

20. Lauren Lane

Actress | The Nanny

Lauren Lane played C.C. Babcock in a six-year run on the television comedy The Nanny. She also played the female lead on the detective drama Hunter in its final season. On LA Law she played a scheming journalist opposite Corbin Bernsen. She has won numerous awards for her work as an actor including...

Best known for her role as CiCi Babcock on the tv show The Nanny

21. Helen McCrory

Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Award-winning actress Helen Elizabeth McCrory was born in London, England, to Welsh-born Anne (Morgans) and Scottish-born Iain McCrory, a diplomat from Glasgow. After training at the Drama Centre London, Helen began her career on stage in the UK and won the Manchester Evening News' Best Actress ...

Best known for her role as Narcissa Malfoy in the last 3 Harry Potter movies (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1 & 2)

22. Cathy Moriarty

Actress | Raging Bull

Bronx-born character actress Cathy Moriarty was just 18 years old, fresh out of high school and had no idea that her life was about to change. Joe Pesci discovered her competing in a bathing-beauty contest at a bar. He invited her to audition for the part of Vikki LaMotta, second wife to champion ...

Best known for her role as Vickie La Motta in the movie Raging Bull or as Carrigan Crittenden in the movie Casper

23. Kate Mulgrew

Actress | Star Trek: Voyager

Katherine Kiernan Mulgrew, or Kate Mulgrew, was born on April 29, 1955. She grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, the second oldest child (and oldest girl) in a large Irish Catholic family. When Kate expressed an interest in acting as a child, her mother, Joan, encouraged her to audition for local theater ...

Best known for her role as Capt. Kathryn Janeway on the tv show Star Trek: Voyager

24. Megan Mullally

Actress | Will & Grace

Megan is an only child born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Martha, was a model, and her father, Carter Mullally Jr., was a contract player for Paramount. Megan first entered Northwestern University intending to study acting, but switched to English literature. However, she still ended up ...

Best known for her role as Karen Walker on the tv show Will & Grace

25. Bebe Neuwirth

Actress | Jumanji

Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is the daughter of Sydney Anne, an artist, and Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. Born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, she started out as a dancer. Her New York career started out in "A Chorus Line". She won a Tony Award for her part in "Sweet Charity" and two Emmy ...

Best known for her role as Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane on the tv show Cheers and Fraiser

26. Catherine O'Hara

Actress | A Mighty Wind

Canadian actress, writer, and comedian, Catherine O'Hara gained recognition as one of the original cast members on the Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV (1976). On the series, she impersonated the likes of Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Gilda Radner, Katharine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields...

Best known for her role as Kate McCallister in the movie Home Alone and it's sequel

27. Elizabeth Perkins

Actress | Sharp Objects

Elizabeth Ann Perkins was born on November 18, 1960, in the borough of Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont. Her mother, Jo Williams, was a concert pianist and drug treatment counselor, and her father, James Perkins, was a businessman, farmer, and writer. She is of Greek and English descent....

Best known for her role as Wilma Flintstone in the movie version of The Flintstones or as Celia Hodes on the tv show Weeds

28. Mariangela Pino

Actress | Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Mariangela Pino was born on August 15, 1953 in Chama, New Mexico, USA. She is an actress, known for Richie Rich (1994), Millennium (1996) and Murder One (1995).

Best known for her role as Diane in the movie Richie Rich

29. Joely Richardson

Actress | Nip/Tuck

For Joely, the theatre must be in her genes. Born in Marylebone, London, England, she is the daughter of director Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave, granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, niece of Lynn Redgrave, and sister of Natasha Richardson, all actors. Former husband Tim ...

Best known for her role as Anita in the live-action Disney movie 101 Dalmatians or as Julia on the tv show Nip/Tuck

30. Natasha Richardson

Actress | The Parent Trap

Natasha Jane Richardson was born in Marylebone, London, England, to director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave. She was the sister of actress Joely Richardson, the niece of actors Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, and the granddaughter of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel ...

Best known for her role as Elizabeth James in the movie remake of The Parent Trap

31. Diana Rigg

Actress | Last Night in Soho

British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

Best known for her role as Emma Peel on the tv show The Avengers or as Tracy Di Vicenzo, the only woman James Bond married in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service

32. Teryl Rothery

Actress | Stargate SG-1

A Vancouver native, Teryl Rothery always knew she wanted to be an entertainer. She began her career as a dancer at age thirteen when she performed in her first musical, "Bye Bye Birdie". Her role in "Annie Get Your Gun" earned her a Most Outstanding Performer award with her theater company. Teryl ...

Best known for her role as Dr. Janet Fraiser on the tv show Stargate: SG1

33. Greta Scacchi

Actress | The Player

Greta Scacchi was born in Milan, Italy, to Pamela Carsaniga, an English dancer and Luca Scacchi, an Italian art dealer and painter. She grew up in Milan and Sussex, England. In 1975, her mother and second husband moved to Australia, where, after she left school, Greta worked as an Italian ...

Best known for her role as Carolyn Polhemus in the movie Presumed Innocent or as Peneolpe in the tv mini series The Odyssey

34. Jane Seymour

Actress | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Jane Seymour was born as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in 1951 in Middlesex, England, to a nurse mother and gynaecologist/obstetrician father. She is of Polish Jewish (father) and Dutch (mother) descent. She adopted the acting name of "Jane Seymour" when she entered show business as it was ...

Best known for her role as Dr. Michaela Quinn on the tv show Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman or as Solitaire in the movie Live and Let Die

35. Helen Shaver

Actress | Desert Hearts

Helen Shaver has built a lasting legacy, both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed hundreds of hours of television ranging from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) to Castle (2009), from The Unit (2006) to The Outer Limits (1995). Her film, Summer's End (1999), a Showtime ...

Best known for her role as Dr. Rachel Corrigan on the tv show Poltergeist: The Legacy

36. Hillary B. Smith

Actress | One Life to Live

Hillary B. Smith was born on May 25, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for One Life to Live (1968), Venice the Series (2009) and Maid in Manhattan (2002). She has been married to Phillip 'Nip' Smith since 1983. They have two children.

Best known for her role as Nora Buchanan on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live

37. Emma Thompson

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...

Best known for her role as Elinor Dashwood in the movie version of Sense and Sensibility

38. Polly Walker

Actress | Rome

Polly Alexandra Walker was born on May 19, 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England. She graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but an injury at age 18 forced her to change direction. She started at London's Drama Centre to the Royal Shakespeare Company, ...

Best known for her role as Atia on the tv show ROME

39. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

Best known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien movies or as Dana Barrett in the movie version of Ghostbusters and it's sequel

40. Colleen Zenk

Actress | As the World Turns

Colleen Zenk was born on January 20, 1953 in Barrington, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for As the World Turns (1956), Annie (1982) and The Comedian (2016). She was previously married to Mark Pinter and Michael Crouch.

Best known for her role as Barbara Ryan on the daytime soap opera As The World Turns

41. Alice Evans

Actress | 102 Dalmatians

Alice Jane Evans was born in 1968 to David Evans, a professor of Applied Mathematics at Bristol University and Janet Evans, a teacher of English literature. Alice gained a degree in French and Italian from University College, London, and then moved to Paris where she studied acting at the Cours ...

42. Christine Lahti

Actress | Chicago Hope

Christine Lahti was born April 4, 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, to Elizabeth Margaret (Tabar), a painter and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. She is of half Finnish and half Austro-Hungarian descent. She studied fine arts at Florida State University and received a bachelors degree in ...

43. Geena Davis

Actress | Thelma & Louise

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 ...