The Volpi Cup for Best Actress (Venice Film Festival Award for Best Female Actor)
by KBCuillaMartinez | created - 19 Oct 2017 | updated - 20 Oct 2017 | PublicAll winners of the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Female Actor since it was first awarded in 1932.
1. Helen Hayes
Actress | Airport
Known as "The First lady of the American Theater", Helen Hayes had a legendary career on stage and in films and television that spanned over eighty years. Hayes was born in Washington, D.C., to Catherine Estelle "Essie" Hayes, an actress who worked in touring companies, and Francis van Arnum Brown,...
The 1932 Special Award for portraying "Madelon Claudet" in The Sin of Madelon Claudet.
2. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...
The 1934 Special Award for portraying "Jo March" in Little Women.
3. Paula Wessely
Actress | Episode
Paula Wessely was born on January 20, 1907 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress and producer, known for Episode (1935), Masquerade in Vienna (1934) and Maria Theresia (1951). She was married to Attila Hörbiger. She died on May 11, 2000 in Vienna, Austria.
The 1935 award for portraying "Valerie Gartner" in Episode.
4. Annabella
Actress | Le million
At age 16, Annabella was chosen by Abel Gance to appear in Napoleon (1927). In the 30s, she became a star of French movies. She made movies in numerous other countries, before being called to Hollywood in 1938, where she met and married Tyrone Power. She remained in the USA until 1947. Then she ...
The 1936 award for portraying "Jeanne de Corlaix" in Standby Weapons.
5. Bette Davis
Actress | All About Eve
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...
The 1937 award for two performances, "Mary Dwight Strauber" in Marked Woman and "Fluff Phillips" in Kid Galahad.
6. Norma Shearer
Actress | The Divorcee
She won a beauty contest at age fourteen. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister Athole Shearer (Mrs. Howard Hawks) to New York. Ziegfeld rejected her for his "Follies," but she got work as an extra in several movies. She spent much money on eye doctor's services trying to ...
The 1938 award for portraying Marie Antoinette in "Marie Antoinette."
7. Luise Ullrich
Actress | Annelie
Louise Ullrich was born in Vienna, the daughter of a major in the Austro/Hungarian Army. She studied at the Kunstakademie, and, while still a teenager, was contracted for two years by the Wiener Volkstheater where she enjoyed her first success on the stage. In late 1932, Louise received an ...
The 1939 award for portraying "Annelie Dorensen" in Annelie.
8. Kristina Söderbaum
Actress | Kolberg
Kristina Söderbaum was born on 5 October 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a professor's daughter from Djursholm, Stockholm, Sweden. After graduation she went to Paris to learn French and by chance got a role in the short film Hur behandlar du din hund? (1934). In 1935, she studied history of art ...
The 1940 award for portraying "Anna Jobst" in The Golden City.
9. Anna Magnani
Actress | Roma città aperta
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies claim), on March 7, 1908. She was the child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria region of Italy although she never knew his name. ...
The 1947 award for portraying "Angeline Bianchi" in The Honorable Angelina.
10. Jean Simmons
Actress | Guys and Dolls
Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944). She had a small part as a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (...
The 1948 award for portraying "Ophelia" in Hamlet.
11. Olivia de Havilland
Actress | Gone with the Wind
Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...
The 1949 award for portraying "Virginia Stuart Cunningham" in The Snake Pit.
12. Eleanor Parker
Actress | The Sound of Music
Eleanor Jean Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the last of three children born to a mathematics teacher and his wife. Eleanor caught the acting bug early and began performing in school plays. She was was so serious about becoming an actor, that she attended the Rice Summer ...
The 1950 award for portraying "Marie Allen" in Caged.
13. Vivien Leigh
Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire
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 ...
The 1951 award for portraying "Blanche DuBois" in A Streetcar Named Desire.
*This performance was also awarded the Academy Award.
14. Ingrid Bergman
Actress | Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...
The 1952 award for portraying "Irene Girard" in Europe '51.
15. Lilli Palmer
Actress | Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter
A charming, elegant, and exceedingly popular international film star with a gentle, understated beauty, actress Lilli Palmer was born as Lilli Marie Peiser on May 24, 1914, in Posen, Prussia. She was the daughter of Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish actress, and Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish ...
The 1953 award for portraying "Abby Edwards" in The Four Poster Bed.
16. Maria Schell
Actress | Superman
Maria Schell studied in a religious institution in Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France). She received a dramatic training in Zurich, Switzerland. To pay her studies, she was a secretary there. Besides being a film star; Maria appeared in plays in Zurich, Basel, in Vienna (Josefstad Theater), Berlin, Munich (...
The 1956 award for portraying "Gervaise Macquart Coupeau" in Gervaise.
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1956 (along with special award to Anna Magnani)
17. Anna Magnani
Actress | Roma città aperta
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies claim), on March 7, 1908. She was the child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria region of Italy although she never knew his name. ...
The 1956 special award for portraying "Letizia" in The Awakening.
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1956 (along with Maria Schell)
18. Dzidra Ritenberga
Actress | Malwa
Dzidra Ritenberga was born on August 29, 1928 in Mezildzere, Dundaga, Latvia. She was an actress and director, known for Malwa (1957), Crime and Punishment (1970) and Pats garakais salmins (1982). She was married to Evgeniy Urbanskiy. She died on March 9, 2003 in Riga, Latvia.
1957: Malva in "Malva"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1957 (along with a special award to Eva Marie Saint)
19. Eva Marie Saint
Actress | On the Waterfront
Actress and producer Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924 on Newark, New Jersey. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Her film career also includes ...
1957, special award: Cecila Pope in "A Hatful of Rain"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1957 (along with Dzidra Ritenberga)
20. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
1958: Rose Bianco in "The Black Orchid"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1958 (along with a special award to Jeanne Moreau)
21. Jeanne Moreau
Actress | Jules et Jim
When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation." She had made it to the Comédie ...
1958, special award: Jeanne Tournier in "The Lovers"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1958 (along with Sophia Loren)
22. Madeleine Robinson
Actress | À double tour
Madeleine Robinson grew up in a struggling working class background but found her métier as an actress after attending the theater school run by Charles Dullin, six years that she considered the happiest of her life. The stage would stay her main love even though she would lend her striking ...
1959: Therese Marcoux in "Web of Passion"
*1 of 3 roles awarded for 1959 (along with two special awards, for Carla Gravina and Lucyna Winnicka)
23. Carla Gravina
Actress | Il lungo silenzio
Carla Gravina was born on August 5, 1941 in Gemona del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She is an actress, known for Il lungo silenzio (1993), Esterina (1959) and La terrazza (1980).
1959, special award: Esterina in "Esterina"
*1 of 3 roles awarded for 1959 (along with Madeleine Robinson and Lucyna Winnicka)
24. Lucyna Winnicka
Actress | Pociag
Lucyna Winnicka was born on July 14, 1928 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Night Train (1959), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) and Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960). She was married to Jerzy Kawalerowicz. She died on January 22, 2013 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
1959, special award: Marta in "Night Train"
*1 of 3 roles awarded for 1959 (along with two special awards, for Carla Gravina and Madeleine Robinson)
25. Shirley MacLaine
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...
1960: Fran in "The Apartment"
26. Suzanne Flon
Actress | Moulin Rouge
Opulent French actress Suzanne Flon, who came from humble beginnings, evolved into a luminous stage and film star whose career lasted five decades. She was born near Paris, the daughter of a railway worker and a seamstress and at school developed an interest in writing poetry. Following high school...
1961: Madame Courdier in "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1961 (along with a special award to Geraldine Page)
27. Geraldine Page
Actress | Sweet Bird of Youth
Considered by many to be one of the greatest American actresses of all time, Geraldine Page was a master craftswoman who seemed to bring out the most inner detail of the character she was playing. Her dedication to her craft has earned her the respect of many of today's great actors including Meryl...
1961, special award: Alma Winemiller in "Summer and Smoke"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1961 (along with Suzanne Flon)
28. Emmanuelle Riva
Actress | Hiroshima mon amour
An only child, Emmanuelle was born Paulette Germaine Riva in Cheniménil, but eventually grew up in Remiremont. Her mother, Jeanne Fernande Nourdin, was a seamstress. Her father, René Alfred "Alfredo" Riva, was a sign writer. Her paternal grandfather was Italian. She dreamed of becoming an actress ...
1962: Therese Desqueyroux in "Therese Desqueyroux"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1962 (along with a special award to Anna Magnani)
29. Anna Magnani
Actress | Roma città aperta
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies claim), on March 7, 1908. She was the child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria region of Italy although she never knew his name. ...
1962, special award: Mamma Roma in "Mamma Roma"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1962 (along with Emmanuelle Riva)
**Anna Magnani becomes the first actor in history to be awarded the The Volpi Cup twice.
30. Delphine Seyrig
Actress | The Day of the Jackal
Delphine was born in Beirut on the 10th April 1932 into an intellectual Protestant family. Her Alsatian father, Henri Seyrig, was the director of the Archaeological Institute and later France's cultural attaché in New York during World War Two. Her Swiss mother, Hermine De Saussure, was an adept of...
1963: Hélène Aughain in "Muriel"
31. Harriet Andersson
Actress | Viskningar och rop
Discovered at age 20 by celebrated director Ingmar Bergman, she became part of Bergman's regular stable of performers; in fact, he wrote Summer with Monika (1953) especially for her breakthrough. Extraordinary and versatile as an actress, her roles have ranged from the naive young wife in Sawdust ...
1964: Louise in "To Love"
32. Annie Girardot
Actress | La pianiste
Over the course of a five-decade career, she starred in nearly 150 films. She is a three-time César Award winner (1977, 1996, 2002), a two-time Molière Award winner, a BAFTA nominee, and a recipient of several international prizes including the Volpi Cup (Best actress) at the 1965 Venice Film ...
1965: Kay Larsi in "Three Rooms in Manhattan"
33. Natalya Arinbasarova
Actress | Pervyy uchitel
Natalya Arinbasarova was born on September 24, 1946 in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, USSR [now Bishkek, Chuy, Kyrgyzstan]. She is an actress, known for The First Teacher (1965), Jamilya (1969) and Ulan (1977).
1966: Alynai in "The First Teacher"
34. Shirley Knight
Actress | As Good as It Gets
Shirley Knight was an American actress who appeared in more than 180 feature films, television movies, television series, and Broadway productions in her career playing leading and character roles.
She was a member of the Actors Studio. Knight was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best ...
1967: Lulu in "The Dutchman"
35. Laura Betti
Actress | Novecento
Laura Betti was born on May 1, 1927 in Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for 1900 (1976), La Dolce Vita (1960) and Teorema (1968). She died on July 31, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
1968: Emilia in "Theorem"
36. Darling Légitimus
Actress | Ultimo tango a Parigi
Darling Légitimus was born on November 21, 1907 in Le Carbet, Martinique. She was an actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Wages of Fear (1953) and Sugar Cane Alley (1983). She died on December 7, 1999 in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
1983: M'man-Tine in "Sugar Cane Alley"
*Darling Legitimus becomes the 1st of 4 women of color to be awarded the Volpi Cup.
37. Pascale Ogier
Actress | Les nuits de la pleine lune
Daughter of musician Gilles Nicolas and actress Bulle Ogier. She was only two years old when her parents divorced. On 25 October 1984, after a few hours spent at the Parisian club Le Palace, she spent the night with a friend and took drugs, an addiction she had since her teens. She died that same ...
1984: Louise in "Full Moon in Paris"
38. Valeria Golino
Actress | Rain Man
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and film director. She is known to English-language audiences for her role in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee and the two Hot Shots! films, especially the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. The second child of an Italian germanist and a Greek painter, Valeria Golino ...
1986: Bruna Assecondati in "A Tale of Love"
39. Kang Soo-youn
Actress | Sibaji
Kang Soo-youn was born on August 18, 1966 in Seoul, South Korea. She was an actress and producer, known for The Surrogate Woman (1987), Come, Come, Come Upwards (1989) and All That Falls Has Wings (1990). She died on May 7, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea.
1987: Ok-nyo in "The Surrogate Woman"
40. Isabelle Huppert
Actress | Elle
Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...
1988: Marie-Louise Giraud in "Story of Women"
*1/2 tie
41. Shirley MacLaine
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...
1988: Madame Sousatzka in "Madame Sousatzka"
*1/2 tie
**Shirley MacLaine becomes the second actor in history to be awarded the The Volpi Cup twice.
42. Peggy Ashcroft
Actress | A Passage to India
Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first being The Wandering Jew (1933). On stage she was cast...
1989: Lillian Huckle in "She's Been Away"
*Awarded as a tie with her costar, Geraldine James.
43. Geraldine James
Actress | Calendar Girls
Geraldine James, Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) was born on July 6, 1950 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. She was educated at Downe House, a girls' independent school in Newbury, Berkshire, and later, at Drama Centre London. Geraldine has made several film and television appearances, she ...
1989: Harriet Ambrose in "She's Been Away"
*Awarded as a tie with her costar, Peggy Ashcroft.
44. Gloria Münchmeyer
Actress | La Luna en el Espejo
Gloria Münchmeyer is a Chilean television, film and theatre actress, known for her roles in some telenovelas like La Madrastra, Marrón Glacé, and others. She was married with the actor/comedian Jorge Guerra and mother of the actress Catalina Guerra. In 1990, she received the Volpi Cup for her role ...
1990: Lucrecia in "The Moon in the Mirror"
45. Tilda Swinton
Actress | We Need to Talk About Kevin
The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded ...
1991: Isabella of France in "Edward II"
46. Gong Li
Actress | Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia
Born in Shenyang, grew up in Jinan, the daughter of an economics professor. Loved music from childhood, and dreamed of a singing career. After failing to gain entrance to China's top music school in 1985, applied for and was admitted to the Central Drama Academy in Beijing, from which she graduated...
1992: Qiu Ju in "The Story of Qiu Ju"
47. Juliette Binoche
Actress | The English Patient
Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, France, to Monique Yvette Stalens, a director, teacher, and actress, and Jean-Marie Binoche, a sculptor, director, and actor. Her mother was born in Czestochowa, Poland, of French, Walloon Belgian, and Polish descent, while her father is French. Juliette was only...
1993, as leading: Julie Vignon de Courcy in "Blue"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1993 (Along with Anna Bonaiuto)
48. Anna Bonaiuto
Actress | L'amore molesto
Anna Bonaiuto was born on January 28, 1950 in Latisana, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for L'amore molesto (1995), The Postman (1994) and Il Divo (2008).
1993, as supporting: Mother in "Who are you? I'm Here"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1993 (Along with Juliette Binoche)
49. Maria de Medeiros
Actress | Pulp Fiction
Maria de Medeiros is the oldest of three daughters by the pianist, maestro and composer António Vitorino D'Almeida and Maria Armanda Esteves. Her sisters are Inês de Medeiros, stage actress and film and stage director and Ana Medeiros, violinist, composer, and music teacher.
Studied at Lycée ...
1994, as leading: Maria in "Three Brothers"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1994 (along with Vanessa Redgrave)
50. Vanessa Redgrave
Actress | Coriolanus
On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier, announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, ...
1994, as supporting: Irina Shapira in "Little Odessa"
*1 of 2 roles awarded for 1994 (along with Maria de Medeiros)
51. Isabelle Huppert
Actress | Elle
Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...
1995, as leading: Jeanne in "Le Ceremonie"
*1 of 3 roles awarded for 1995. Huppert was awarded as a tie with her costar, Sandrine Bonnaire. A supporting role was awarded to Isabella Ferrari.
**Isabelle Huppert becomes the third actor in history to be awarded the The Volpi Cup twice.
52. Sandrine Bonnaire
Actress | La cérémonie
Sandrine Bonnaire was born on May 31, 1967 in Gannat, Allier, France. She is an actress and director, known for La Cérémonie (1995), To Our Loves (1983) and Vagabond (1985). She was previously married to Guillaume Laurant.
1995, as leading: Sophie in "Le Ceremonie"
*1 of 3 roles awarded for 1995. Bonnaire was awarded as a tie with her costar, Isabelle Huppert. A supporting role was awarded to Isabella Ferrari.
53. Isabella Ferrari
Actress | La grande bellezza
Isabella Fogliazza in art Isabella Ferrari, was born in Ponte Dell'Olio. She debut in 1982 with the film "Sapore di Mare" directed by Carlo Vanzina and in 1983 in "Sapore di Mare 2", so her career took off and started participate in many cult comedies of the 80s such as: "Appuntamento a Liverpool" ...
1995, as supporting: Andreina in "Story of a Poor Young Man"
*1 of 3 roles awarded for 1995. (A leading role tie was awarded to costars Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire.)
54. Victoire Thivisol
Actress | Ponette
Victoire Thivisol was born on July 6, 1991 in France. She is an actress, known for Ponette (1996), Chocolat (2000) and Children of the Century (1999).
1996: for portraying "Ponette" in Ponette.
*5-year-old Victoire Thivisol makes history by being the youngest recipient of the Volpi Cup.
55. Robin Tunney
Actress | The Craft
Robin Tunney studied acting at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, spending her summer performing in such plays as "Bus Stop" and "Agnes of God". She moved to Los Angeles at the age of eighteen and shortly landed roles in such television shows as Life Goes On (1989), Class of '96 (1993) (recurring), ...
1997: Marcy in "Niagra, Niagra"
56. Catherine Deneuve
Actress | 8 femmes
Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (...
1998: Marianne Malivert in "Place Vendome"
57. Nathalie Baye
Actress | Catch Me If You Can
Nathalie Baye was born on July 6, 1948 in Mainneville, Eure, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Catch Me If You Can (2002), Laurence Anyways (2012) and Venus Beauty Institute (1999).
1999: Her in "A Pornographic Affair"
58. Rose Byrne
Actress | Spy
Rose Byrne was born in Balmain, Sydney, Australia. She is the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher.
She landed her first role in a movie, Dallas Doll (1994), when she was 15 years old.
Since then, Rose has appeared in a ...
2000: B.G. in "The Goddess of 1967"
59. Sandra Ceccarelli
Actress | Luce dei miei occhi
Daughter of Franco Ceccarelli, guitarist of the famous Italian group Equipe 84, started her acting career playing Stefania Sandrelli's daughter in the 1984's "Segreti secret" by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Then she frequented the Accademy of Fine Arts and worked as an illustrator. Between 1995 and 1997 ...
2001: Maria in "Light of My Eyes"
60. Julianne Moore
Actress | Far from Heaven
Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...
2002: Cathy Whitaker in "Far From Heaven"
61. Katja Riemann
Actress | Fack ju Göhte
Katja Riemann was born on November 1, 1963 in Kirchweyhe, Weyhe, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and director, known for Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), Rosenstrasse (2003) and Bandits (1997).
2003: Lena Fischer in "Rosenstrasse"
62. Imelda Staunton
Actress | Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton is an English actress and singer from Archway, London. Her ancestry is primarily Irish. She has worked extensively in theater, and has won 4 Laurence Olivier Awards; 3 for leading roles and one for a supporting role. Her best known role in films has been the recurring villain ...
2004: Vera Drake in "Vera Drake"
63. Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Actress | Vincere
Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born on November 9, 1974 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and director, known for Vincere (2009), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) and Facing Windows (2003). She has been married to Alessio Federico Fugolo since October 24, 2009. They have two children.
2005: Sabina in "The Beast in the Heart"
64. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...
2006: Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen"
*This performance was also awarded the Academy Award.
65. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
2007: Jude Quinn in "I'm Not There"
66. Dominique Blanc
Actress | Indochine
Dominique Blanc was born on April 25, 1956 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Indochine (1992), Queen Margot (1994) and Stand-by (2000).
2008: Céleste Scriwaneck in "The Other One"
67. Kseniya Rappoport
Actress | La doppia ora
Kseniya Rappoport was born on March 25, 1974 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. She is an actress and director, known for The Double Hour (2009), The Unknown Woman (2006) and Yurev den (2008). She is married to Dmitriy Borisov.
2009: Sonia in "The Double Hour"
68. Ariane Labed
Actress | Assassin's Creed
Ariane Labed (born 8 May 1984) is a Greek-born French actress and film director. She is best known for her feature film debut in Attenberg, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and appearing in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene in 2018.
Born to French parents, Ariane Labed lived her...
2010: Marina in "Attenberg"
69. Deannie Ip
Actress | Tou ze
Deannie Ip was born on December 25, 1947. She is an actress and producer, known for A Simple Life (2011), Bun siu hai (1999) and Fight Back to School II (1992).
2011: Sister Peach in "A Simple Life"
70. Hadas Yaron
Actress | Félix et Meira
Hadas Yaron, born in 1990, who portrayed an ultra-orthodox fiance, wife and mother and finally the lover of a Canadian gentile in two films on the run, first in Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void (2012), then in Maxime Giroux's Felix and Meira (2014). Her gentle face, her simple and fresh beauty and ...
2012: Shira Mendleman in "Fill the Void"
71. Elena Cotta
Actress | Via Castellana Bandiera
Elena Cotta was born on August 19, 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for A Street in Palermo (2013), Looking for Alibrandi (2000) and Briciole (2022). She was previously married to Carlo Alighiero.
2013: Samira Calafiore in "Via Castellana Bandiera"
72. Alba Rohrwacher
Actress | Hungry Hearts
Alba Rohrwacher was born on February 27, 1979 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for Hungry Hearts (2014), The Wonders (2014) and I Am Love (2009).
2014: Mina in "Hungry Hearts"
73. Valeria Golino
Actress | Rain Man
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and film director. She is known to English-language audiences for her role in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee and the two Hot Shots! films, especially the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. The second child of an Italian germanist and a Greek painter, Valeria Golino ...
2015: Anna in "Per Amor Vostro"
*Valeria Golino becomes the fourth actor in history to be awarded the The Volpi Cup twice.
74. Emma Stone
Actress | La La Land
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...
2016: Mia Dolan in "La La Land"
*This performance was also awarded the Academy Award.
75. Charlotte Rampling
Actress | 45 Years
Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born 5 February 1946 in Sturmer, England, to Isabel Anne (Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Lionel Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist, army officer, and colonel, who became a NATO commander. She was educated at Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles, ...
2017: Hannah in "Hannah"
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