Yester-Year Beauty

1. Diana Körner

Diana Körner was born on September 24, 1944 in Wolmirsleben, Germany. She is an actress, known for Barry Lyndon (1975), The Flying Classroom (1973) and Was wissen Sie von Titipu? (1972).

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, ...

3. Goldie Hawn

Actress | Private Benjamin

Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland to Laura Hawn, a jewelry shop/dance school owner & Rut Hawn, a band musician. She has a sister, Patti Hawn, and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth. She was raised in the Jewish...

4. Ann-Margret

Actress | Carnal Knowledge

Actress and singer Ann-Margret is one of the most famous sex symbols and actresses of the 1960s and beyond. She continued her career through the following decades and into the 21st century.

Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland County, Sweden, to Anna Regina (Aronsson) and ...

5. Hayley Mills

Actress | Pollyanna

Born Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills in London in 1946, she is the daughter of the great actor Sir John Mills and the well-known novelist-playwright Mary Hayley Bell. Her sister is the actress Juliet Mills. She grew up in her parents' home, an outgoing, funny child, and, because she spent so ...

6. Charlene Holt

Actress | El Dorado

Born Verna Charlene Stavely. Holt, a former "Miss Maryland," enjoyed a rewarding modeling career prior to her screen work in both films and television that began when caught director Howard Hawks's attention when he saw her in a lipstick commercial. After her debut appearance in the Sandra ...

7. Adele Mara

Actress | Sands of Iwo Jima

She was born Adelaide Delgado on August 28, 1923 (some references list 1925) to Spanish-speaking parents. The future Adela Mara began dances lesson at age 6 and was discovered as a young teenager by the legendary Xavier Cugat. Singing and dancing with his in the Detroit area, Cugat took the ...

8. Beba Loncar

Actress | Some Girls Do

Beba Loncar was born on April 28, 1943 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She is an actress, known for Some Girls Do (1969), The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) and Love and Fashion (1960). She is married to Stevan Marinkovic Knicanin. She was previously married to Josip Radeljak.

9. Connie Marshall

Actress | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

A promising blue-to-gray-eyed, blonde-haired child actress of the post-WWII years who had more talent than she was given credit for, little Constance Beekman "Connie" Marshall was born on April 28, 1933 in New York City. Her parents were not of show business stock, her father being a lieutenant ...

10. Patricia Knight

Actress | Shockproof

This hazel-eyed knockout was born Marjorie Heintzen on April 28, 1915 (although several sources list her birth date as either 1918 or 1920). Her Bostonian father was a leather broker and Patricia received her formal education at a private school. An early interest in the arts had her abandoning her...

11. Loretta Andrews

Loretta Andrews was born on April 27, 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Frank D. Allen, Timbrook and James Crofton. She died on July 23, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

12. Lynn Browning

Actress | Side Streets

Lynn Browning was born in 1909 in Marionville, Lawrence, Missouri, United States. She is an actress, known for Side Streets (1934), Neighbor Trouble (1932) and Morocco Nights (1934).

13. Edna Callahan

Actress | Blue Blackbirds

Edna Callahan was born on July 7, 1912 in Alameda, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Blue Blackbirds (1933). She was married to Bernie Benesh. She died on July 9, 2007 in Morro Bay, California, USA.

14. Maxine Cantway

Actress | The Bride's Mistake

Maxine Cantway was born on January 31, 1914 in Cairo, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bride's Mistake (1931), The Dog Doctor (1931) and In Conference (1931). She died on July 25, 2004.

15. Alice Jans

Alice Jans was born on July 11, 1912 in Jefferson, Iowa, USA. She was an actress. She died on June 21, 1992 in San Bernardino, California, USA.

16. Jane Wyman

Actress | Falcon Crest

Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she attempted, with the help ...

17. Barbara Eden

Actress | I Dream of Jeannie

Barbara Eden, born Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona, became one of America's most endearing and enduring actresses. A graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California, Eden would go on to study at San Francisco's City College as well as the San Francisco Conservatory of ...

18. Mary Tyler Moore

Actress | Ordinary People

Mary Tyler Moore was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on December 29, 1936. Moore's family relocated to California when she was eight. Her childhood was troubled, due in part to her mother's alcoholism. The eldest of three siblings, she attended a Catholic high school and married upon her graduation, in...

19. Dagmar Patrasová

Actress | Arabela se vrací

Dagmar Patrasová was born on April 27, 1956 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress and writer, known for Arabela se vrací (1993), The Great Movie Robbery (1986) and 30 panen a Pythagoras (1977). She has been married to Felix Slovacek since 1983. They have two ...

20. Marujita Díaz

Actress | Pelusa

Marujita Díaz was born on April 27, 1932 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress and producer, known for Pelusa (1960), La corista (1960) and La casta Susana (1963). She was married to Antonio Gades, Espartaco Santoni and Ricardo Ferrante. She died on June 23, 2015 in Madrid, ...

21. Mary Miles Minter

Actress | Jenny Be Good

Little Mary Miles Minter was a child star who was dominated by her mother. At the age of 5 she first appeared on the stage in the play "Cameo Kirby". From that time on she worked steadily without a single vacation. Her greatest stage success was in "The Littlest Rebel", with William Farnum and ...

22. Jaroslava Schallerová

Actress | Valerie a týden divu

Jaroslava Schallerová was born on April 25, 1956 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress, known for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), Láska (1973) and 30 panen a Pythagoras (1977).

23. Finola Hughes

Actress | Like Crazy

Finola Hughes was born in London. She studied at Arts Educational Schools and began her career in the Northern Ballet Company, after winning the Markova award. She went on to work in the West End, in the original cast of "Cats" and continued working with Andrew Lloyd Webber in "Song & Dance". After...

24. Toby Michaels

Actress | The Little Shop of Horrors

Toby Michaels was born on November 2, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961) and Bonanza (1959).

25. Lisa Eilbacher

Actress | Beverly Hills Cop

Lisa Eilbacher was born in Saudi Arabia, the daughter of an oil company executive. She spent her most formative years in Paris. After moving to Beverly Hills, California with her family, she soon appeared on television on episodes of Wagon Train (1957), Laredo (1965), My Three Sons (1960), and ...

26. Alice Faye

Soundtrack | Hello Frisco, Hello

As A&E's Biography put it, "She rose from the mean streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen to become the most famous singing actress in the world. When the pressures of fame became too much, she had the courage to leave Hollywood on her own terms". Alice Faye was born Alice Jeanne Leppert in NYC on ...

27. Monica Lewis

Actress | Earthquake

For almost two decades, Monica Lewis was the idealized, wholesomely sexy sound and image of apple-pie America, lending a curvaceous, dimpled smile and melodious voice of hope to thousands of U.S. troops through two of the 20th century's greatest wars. She starred on the very first "Ed Sullivan Show...

28. June Lang

Actress | Chandu the Magician

This approachable blue-eyed blonde with a striking, open-faced beauty had a very encouraging career going for her in 30s Hollywood but extenuating circumstances hurt her chances in the long run. In less than a decade and a half June Lang was out of pictures altogether (after appearing in over 30) ...

29. Audrey Hepburn

Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's

Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.

After her parents' divorce, ...

30. Hilary Heath

Actress | Wuthering Heights

British 60s leading lady and latterly producer, born Hilary Dwyer in Liverpool, the daughter of an orthopaedic surgeon. She studied ballet and piano as a child and in her teens embarked on an acting career on the repertory stage. On screen from 1965, she became best known for three horror films ...

31. Leena Skoog

Actress | Up the Front

Leena Skoog was born on May 6, 1951 in Södertälje, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Up the Front (1972), Four Dimensions of Greta (1972) and Åsa-Nisse i rekordform (1969). She was married to Jim Feeney and Alan Whitehead. She died on July 12, 1998 in Tullinge, Stockholms ...

32. Toni Naples

Actress | Dinosaur Island

Toni Naples was born on May 3, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dinosaur Island (1994).

33. Loredana Nusciak

Actress | Django

Loredana Nusciak was born on May 3, 1942 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She was an actress, known for Django (1966), No Way Out (1973) and Gladiators 7 (1962). She was married to Gianni Medici. She died on July 12, 2006 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

34. Suzi Crandall

Actress | Mark of the Lash

Suzi Crandall was born on May 3, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Mark of the Lash (1948), That Way with Women (1947) and Four Star Playhouse (1952). She died in 2012 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

35. Wendy Allnutt

Actress | When Eight Bells Toll

Wendy Allnutt was born on May 1, 1946 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for When Eight Bells Toll (1971), The Avengers (1961) and Napoleon and Love (1974). She was previously married to Colin McCormack.

36. Leila Hyams

Actress | Freaks

Leila Hyams was one of the top leading ladies of the early talkie pre-code years. She was a likable, pleasing actress with a charming presence. She had much spark, personality and charisma, and a touch of down-to-earthiness and naturalness that won over movie fans; they could relate to her. A ...

37. Elana Eden

Actress | The Story of Ruth

A beautiful, talented Israeli Jew of Polish-Russian parentage, Elana Eden was already an established theatrical star in her homeland before she became a star in Hollywood. She was one of the five finalists for the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) until Millie Perkins got the part. When ...

38. Antonia Ellis

Actress | The Boy Friend

Antonia Ellis was born on April 30, 1944 in Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Boy Friend (1971), UFO (1970) and Mahler (1974).

39. 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 ...

40. Natalie Wood

Actress | Rebel Without a Cause

Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.

Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...

41. Beverley Owen

Actress | Bullet for a Badman

Beverley Owen was born Beverley Ogg in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Thursday, May 13th, 1937. In high school and college, she was always doing television, theatre, and radio programs. She then moved to New York to pursue an acting career after graduating from the University of Michigan. She was fired many a ...

42. Kathleen Turner

Actress | Romancing the Stone

Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later ...

43. Beverly D'Angelo

Actress | National Lampoon's Vacation

Intriguing, inspiring, and never less than interesting -- key adjectives in describing the career of Beverly D'Angelo, which has well passed the four-decade mark. Perhaps deserving better movies than she generally found herself in, she nevertheless was always an object of fascination and the one to...

44. Raquel Welch

Actress | The Three Musketeers

A new reigning 1960s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, ...

45. Carole Landis

Actress | I Wake Up Screaming

Carole Landis was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Her father, a railroad mechanic, was of Norwegian descent and her mother was Polish. Her father walked out, leaving Carole, her mother and an older brother and sister to fend for themselves.

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46. Caroline Munro

Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me

Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Roman Catholic convent school. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a "Face of the Year" competition for the British ...

47. Carol Lynley

Actress | The Poseidon Adventure

Blonde and blue-eyed with an attractively feline appeal, Carol Lynley began her professional career as Carolyn Lee. She learned ballet at age seven, became a successful child model at age 10 (eventually working for the Sears & Roebuck department store in New York), and got her face nationally ...

48. Carole Laure

Actress | Les fils de Marie

Before she became an actress Carole Laure was a teacher. She was born on August 5, 1950 in Montreal (Québec) Canada. The profession she has chosen did not give her any satisfaction. She met some young Canadian film makers, that resulted in her first appearance as an actress, age twenty, in Mon ...

49. Carole Bouquet

Actress | For Your Eyes Only

Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model. She is best known for played Bond girl Melina Havelock in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981).

She also starred in That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Nemo (1984), The Bridge (1999) and Do Not Disturb (2014).

In 2017 she starred in the...

50. Cindy Morgan

Actress | Caddyshack

Best known as "Lacey Underall" in Caddyshack (1980), and "Yori" in Tron (1982), Cindy Morgan was born Cynthia Ann Cichorski on September 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, not far from Wrigley Field. The daughter of a Polish factory worker and a German mother, Cindy attended 12 years of Catholic school...

51. 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 ...

52. Sara Shane

Actress | Magnificent Obsession

This gorgeous blonde was born Elaine Sterling on May 18, 1928 and raised in St. Louis before beginning her career as a face and hand model for cosmetic ads. She moved briefly to NYC before transporting herself to Hollywood, wherein she earned an MGM contract. She decorated a number of the studio's ...

53. Diane McBain

Actress | Spinout

Signed on as a Warner Brothers starlet, bouncy, blonde-coiffed Diane McBain would develop a burgeoning career as lively '60s "bad girl" and "spoiled rich girl" types on film and TV. Born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 18, 1941, the family moved to California while still young and she started things off ...

54. Diane Lane

Actress | Unfaithful

Diane Lane was born on January 22, 1965, in New York. She is the daughter of acting coach Burton Eugene "Burt" Lane and nightclub singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington. Her parents' families were both from the state of Georgia. Diane was acting from a very young age and made her stage debut at the ...

55. Jane Wiedlin

Actress | Clue

Jane Wiedlin was born on May 20, 1958 in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Clue (1985), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). She has been married to Terence Lundy since February 2023. She was previously married ...

56. Joan Staley

Actress | Cape Fear

Lovely Joan Staley was born Joan McConchie on May 20, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started taking violin lessons by the time she was three years old. Living in Los Angeles, her prodigious talent was obvious. She soon joined a baby orchestra in Los Angeles and, within a few years, became a ...

57. Renate Langer

Actress | Die Venusfalle

Renate Langer was born on May 20, 1956 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress, known for The Venus Trap (1988), Die Story (1984) and Flitterwochen (1980).

58. Renate Kasché

Actress | La figlia di Frankenstein

Renate Kasché is known for Lady Frankenstein (1971), Josefine M. (1970) and Davon träumen alle Mädchen (1961).

59. Renate Ewert

Actress | Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie

Born in Königsberg in 1935, Renate Ewert and her family had to leave their home and relocate to Hamburg during WWII. As she was determined to become an actress, she applied for the "Hamburger Kammerspiele" but was rejected. By doing synchronising jobs for foreign movies she finally got her first ...

60. Renate Mannhardt

Actress | Non credo più all'amore (La paura)

Renate Mannhardt was born on November 20, 1920 in Barmen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Fear (1954), Die große Schuld (1953) and The Lost Man (1951). She died in July 2013 in New York City, New York, USA.

61. Renee Harmon

Actress | Hell Riders

Buxom and attractive brunette Renee Harmon was born Renate Elisabeth Harmon on May 18, 1927. Renee married an American G.I. in Germany, where she had a background in ballet. Since her husband was a colonel in a surface-to-air missile program, she moved with him to West Texas and started a ...

62. Renate Hoy

Actress | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Renate Anita Huy was voted Miss Nuremberg and then proceeded to win the Miss Germany contest of 1952. Chosen to represent her country to compete for the title of Miss Universe in Long Beach, California, the brunette beauty ended up in fifth place (the eventual winner was the entrant from Finland, ...

63. Renata Moar

Actress | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

Renata Moar is known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) and Nazi Love Camp 27 (1977).

64. Renata Dancewicz

Actress | Pulkownik Kwiatkowski

Renata Dancewicz was born on February 7, 1969 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Pulkownik Kwiatkowski (1995), Tato (1995) and Deborah (1995).

65. Natalie Trundy

Actress | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Fair, freckled and quite lovely, actress Natalie Trundy, of Italian and Irish heritage, had quite a promising career approaching adulthood in the late 1950s until a serious car accident put a serious halt to things. As Natalie Campagna, she was born in Boston on August 5, 1940, the elder of two ...

66. Daniela Bianchi

Actress | From Russia with Love

Daniela Bianchi is an Italian actress, best known for her role of Bond girl Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love (1963). She Finished 1st Runner Up in Miss Universe 1960 Competition, enough to get the attentions of Bond movie producers who chose her over 200 female prospects for the role of ...

67. Cheryl White

Actress | The Book of Daniel

Cheryl White is known for The Book of Daniel (2006), Will & Grace (1998) and The X-Files (1993).

68. Catherine Bach

Actress | The Dukes of Hazzard

Catherine Bach is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.

69. Madeleine Collinson

Actress | The Love Machine

Strikingly busty, adorable, and voluptuous brunette knockout Madeleine Collinson was born on July 22, 1952 in Malta. She's the identical twin sister of Mary Collinson. The Collinson sisters first arrived in Britain in April, 1969. Noted British glamor photographer Harrison Marks cast the duo as ...

70. Olivia Pascal

Actress | Griechische Feigen

Olivia Pascal was born on May 26, 1957 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress and publicist, known for The Fruit Is Ripe (1977), Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza (1983) and The Joy of Flying (1977). She has been married to Peter Kanitz since 2009.

71. Almut Berg

Actress | Superuomini, superdonne, superbotte

Almut Berg was born on August 16, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Super Stooges vs the Wonder Women (1974), Le guerriere dal seno nudo (1973) and Die rote Hand (1960). She died on January 21, 2022 in Germany.

72. Debrah Farentino

Actress | Bugsy

Debrah Farentino was born on September 30, 1959 in Lucas Valley, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Bugsy (1991), Malice (1993) and Capitol (1982). She was previously married to Gregory Hoblit, Tony Adams, James Farentino and Scott Staples.

73. Katy Kurtzman

Actress | Dynasty

Older sister of actor Yano Anaya who played the little bully in A Christmas Story (1983). Katy grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Graduated from James Monroe High School in 1983. Attended SWAS (School Within A School) while at Monroe. Katy played young Caroline Quiner Ingalls on the Little House ...

74. Blair Brown

Actress | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Blair Brown was born in Washington D.C. Her father, Milton Henry Brown, worked at the Central Intelligence Agency, while her mother Elizabeth Ann Brown worked as a teacher.

Brown graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1969 and took to the stage, where she performed in the New York ...

75. Linda Blair

Actress | The Exorcist

From the age of five, Linda Blair had to get used to the spotlight, first as a child model and then as an actress, when out of 600 applicants she was picked for the role of Regan, the possessed child, in The Exorcist (1973). Linda quickly rose to international fame, won the Golden Globe, and seemed...

76. Ann Jillian

Actress | Mr. Mom

Ann Jillian was born on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA as Ann Jura Nauseda to Lithuanian immigrant parents. Her career began as a child actress in the 1960s. She is possibly best known for her role as Cassie Cranston on the 1980s sitcom It's a Living (1980). She is also known for...

77. Lisa Rieffel

Actress | Women of the House

Lisa Rieffel was born on January 12, 1975 in Denville, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Women of the House (1995), Girltrash: All Night Long (2014) and Drowning Mona (2000). She has been married to Johnny Dunn since September 30, 2007. They have one child.

78. Shelley Fabares

Actress | The Donna Reed Show

Vibrant, increasingly lovely teen fave Shelley Fabares withstood the test of time by transitioning successfully into adult parts unlike many of her 1960s "teen queen" peers who faded quickly into the memory books. She was born Michele Marie Fabares on January 19, 1944, in sunny Santa Monica, ...

79. Betsy Palmer

Actress | Friday the 13th

Betsy Palmer was probably best known for playing Jason Voorhees' mother in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), but her career as an actress began many years before.

Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, to Marie (née Love), who launched the Chicago Business College, and...

80. Betsy Lynn George

Actress | Occurrence at Mills Creek

Betsy Lynn George was born on June 4, 1971. She is an actress and producer, known for Occurrence at Mills Creek (2019), Occurrence at Mills Creek (2020) and Point Break (1991).

81. Molly Peters

Actress | Thunderball

Molly Peters was a gorgeous and voluptuous British blonde bombshell actress and model who alas only appeared in a handful of films and TV shows during her regrettably fleeting acting career in the mid 60s. Molly was born in 1942 in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. Peters started out as a model...

82. Nutan

Actress | Seema

Nutan Samarth was born on June 4 1936 to poet Kumarsen Samarth and his actress wife 'Shobhana' as the eldest of their four children (a younger sister is the actress Tanuja Samarth). Her parents separated when she was a small child. 13-year-old Nutan made her debut in K. Asif's "Hamari Beti". She ...

83. Nan Leslie

Actress | Kings Row

Nan Leslie was born on June 4, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Kings Row (1955), Sunset Pass (1946) and Western Heritage (1948). She was married to Albert Jason Coppage and Charles Pawley. She died on July 30, 2000 in San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.

84. Joan Leslie

Actress | The Sky's the Limit

She was born of Irish ancestry as Joan Agnes Theresa Brodel, the daughter of an accountant and a pianist. She was educated at Catholic schools in Toronto, Montreal and Detroit. There were three sisters, her older siblings being Mary and Betty. Together, they made up a successful vaudeville act, the...

85. Inger Sundh

Actress | Någon att älska

She stopped doing film roles in 1981. After her film career, she changed her name to Cecilia Inger Margareth Sund Ångmark, and called herself Cecilia, not Inger. She lived many years with Göran Ångmark. They married in 2016. He died in 2017. She lived in a small village in Jämtland, Sweden for many...

86. Frances Howard

Actress | Too Many Kisses

Frances Howard was born on June 4, 1903 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She was an actress, known for Too Many Kisses (1925), The Shock Punch (1925) and The Swan (1925). She was married to Samuel Goldwyn. She died on July 2, 1976 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

87. Suzanna Leigh

Actress | The Deadly Bees

Born Suzanna Smyth, the daughter of an auto engine manufacturer, Suzanna Leigh grew up in Belgrave, England, and in convent schools outside London. She began working in movies while still a pre-teen, appearing as an extra in 1958's Tom Thumb (1958) (film-debuting in the "Dancing Shoes" sequence), ...

88. Françoise Fabian

Actress | Ma nuit chez Maud

Françoise Fabian was born on May 10, 1933 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. She is an actress and writer, known for My Night at Maud's (1969), Belle de Jour (1967) and Me, Myself and Mum (2013). She was previously married to Marcel Bozzuffi and Jacques Becker.

89. Jayne Mansfield

Actress | The Girl Can't Help It

One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Peers) and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney ...

90. Angie Dickinson

Actress | Rio Bravo

Angie Dickinson was born in Kulm, North Dakota, in 1931, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Brown. Mr. Brown was the publisher of The Kulm Messenger. The family left North Dakota in 1942 when Angie was 11 years old, moving to Burbank, California. In December of 1946, when she was a senior at ...

91. Sylva Koscina

Actress | Le fatiche di Ercole

Sylva Koscina was born on August 22, 1933 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Zagreb, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Hercules (1958), Hornets' Nest (1970) and Judex (1963). She was married to Raimondo Castelli. She died on December 26, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

92. Danielle De Metz

Actress | The Party

Danielle De Metz was born on July 27, 1938 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for The Party (1968), Valley of the Dragons (1961) and I Dream of Jeannie (1965). She has been married to Samuel Yale Kupper since January 4, 1972. She was previously married to Lanny Sher, Alan Jeffrey Luber and ...

93. Mara Corday

Actress | Sudden Impact

The actress was born Marilyn Watts in Santa Monica, California, 17 years before she put her foot on the bottom step of the show biz ladder, dancing in the back row of the chorus in "Earl Carroll's Revue" at the famed showman's theater-restaurant in Hollywood. Modeling for photographers led to wider...

94. Molly Ringwald

Actress | Sixteen Candles

Molly Ringwald was born in Roseville, California, to Adele Edith (Frembd), a chef, and Robert Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist. Her ancestry includes German, English, and Swedish. She released an album at the age of 6 entitled, "I Wanna Be Loved By You, Molly Sings". She is the youngest daughter of ...

95. Debbi Morgan

Actress | Eve's Bayou

Debbi Morgan moved to New York City when she was three months old. Her most memorable role was on the television series All My Children (1970). She played Angie Baxter. Her performance in the series earned her four Daytime Emmy Award nominations, and one win. With over 50 film and television ...

96. Jeanne Tripplehorn

Actress | Basic Instinct

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 10, 1963, Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn developed an interest in performing through her father, guitarist Tom Tripplehorn, who at one time recorded with the pop group Gary Lewis & The Playboys on such hits as "This Diamond Ring". (Note: many references list Jeanne's ...

97. Sharon Lawrence

Actress | NYPD Blue

Sharon Lawrence grew up in North Carolina (Charlotte and Raleigh), graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Journalism and spent her college summers doing musicals in summer stock. She became an Actors Equity Member in 1984 and a SAG-AFTRA member in 1987. She may be best known for her ...

98. Thalía

Actress | María la del barrio

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (born 26 August 1971), known mononymously as Thalía, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, producer, actress and entrepreneur. She is considered one of the most successful and influential Mexican artists worldwide. Apart from her native Spanish, Thalía has also sung in ...

99. Carmen Salinas

Actress | Man on Fire

Carmen Salinas was born on October 5, 1939 in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Man on Fire (2004), Carnival Nights (1978) and Bellas de noche (1975). She was married to Pedro Plascencia and Carlos Paulín. She died on December 9, 2021 in Mexico City, Mexico.

100. Ninón Sevilla

Actress | Noche de carnaval

Ninon Sevilla was a Mexican showgirl born in Cuba and raised by an aunt in the populous Centro Habana sector, Ninón Sevilla was graced with feline features, wonderful legs and exceptional vitality. She successfully danced her way through Havana night clubs and cabarets, and arrived in Mexico in ...