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101. Geraldine Farrar

Actress | Carmen

Famed singer and author Geraldine Farrar was educated in public schools and then became a music student of Mrs. J.H. Long, Trabadello, Emma Thursby, Lilli Lehman and Graziani. Her 1901 debut was at the Royal Opera House in Berlin, in the role of Marguerite in "Faust". From 1906-22 she was a member ...

102. Maude Fealy

Actress | The Ten Commandments

Actress/dramatic teacher Maude Fealy, the daughter of actress Margaret Fealy, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 3, 1881. Maude made her acting debut at three years of age in one of her mother's productions, "Faust". She was quite successful over the next few years, appearing in productions ...

103. Melinda O. Fee

Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

Melinda O. Fee was born on October 7, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), The Invisible Man (1975) and Quincy M.E. (1976). She was married to Steven S. Harrison. She died on March 24, 2020 in Sherman Oaks, ...

104. Vicki Fee

Actress | Out of Sight

Vicki Fee was born on August 15, 1945 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Out of Sight (1966) and The Munsters (1964). She was married to John Richard Steele. She died on December 13, 1975 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

105. Barbara Feldon

Actress | Get Smart

Barbara Feldon was born on March 12, 1933 in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress, known for Get Smart (1965), Fitzwilly (1967) and Smile (1975). She was previously married to Lucien Verdoux-Feldon.

106. Helen Ferguson

Actress | The Fire Fighters

Illinois-born Helen Ferguson is thought to have made her film debut at age 13 in 1914, although her first recorded credits are in 1917. She played opposite such action stars as Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey, and when she went to Fox in the early 1920s to star opposite Buck Jones, her career really ...

107. Pam Ferris

Actress | Matilda

Pam Ferris was born on May 11, 1948 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Matilda (1996), Children of Men (2006) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She has been married to Roger Frost since August 1986.

108. Madeleine Fischer

Actress | Le amiche

Madeleine Fischer was born on November 12, 1935 in Romanshorn, Thurgau, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for The Girlfriends (1955), L'ultima canzone (1960) and Lazzarella (1957). She died on April 8, 2020 in Gubbio, Umbria, Perugia, Italy.

109. Fenella Fielding

Actress | Guest House Paradiso

Fenella Fielding was born on November 17, 1927 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Guest House Paradiso (1999), Carry on Screaming! (1966) and The Avengers (1961). She died on September 11, 2018 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.

110. Lynn Fontanne

Actress | The Magnificent Yankee

Lynn Fontanne was a British actress of French and Irish descent. She spend most of her acting career in the United States, and she is considered among the great leading ladies of American theatre. She formed an acting duo with her husband Alfred Lunt (1892-1977). Fontanne had few film roles, but ...

111. Margot Fonteyn

Actress | Romeo and Juliet

Peggy Hookham was always destined to be a dancer. Her Brazilian/Irish mother groomed her for stardom from almost as soon as she could walk. When she was aged 8 her father's work took the family to Shanghai. Peggy and her Mother returned to the UK when she was 14. Her father stayed in Shanghai and ...

112. June Foray

Actress | Mulan

Legendary voice actress June Foray was born June Lucille Forer on September 18, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Maurice Forer and Ida Edith Robinson, who wed in Hampden, Massachusetts. Her father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Novgorod, Imperial Russia, while her Massachusetts-born mother ...

113. Sally Forrest

Actress | While the City Sleeps

Sally's parents were both amateur ballroom dancers, so it was no surprise when Sally developed an interest in dancing. She entered dance classes by the first grade and was signed by MGM upon her graduation from high school. In 1945, she moved with her parents to Hollywood, where Sally worked on the...

114. Sidney Fox

Actress | Midnight

This tiny (4' 11"), appealing, coquettish-looking Hollywood actress had only a few active years in early talkies before her career took a bad hit. A few years after that she joined other shattered 1930s hopefuls (Peg Entwistle, Gwili Andre, Peggy Shannon) as tragic symbols of unrequited stardom.

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115. Kay Francis

Actress | Mandalay

Kay Francis is possibly the biggest of the 'forgotten stars' from Hollywood's Golden Era. Yet, for a while in the 1930s she ranked as one of America's most popular actresses, tagged the 'Queen of Warner Brothers'. By 1935, she earned a yearly salary of $115,000 (compared to Bette Davis with $18,000...

116. Betty Francisco

Actress | Seven Keys to Baldpate

Betty Francisco was born Elizabeth Barton on September 26, 1900 in Little Rock, Arkansas. When she was a child she started acting in stock companies. She and her younger sister Evelyn Francisco performed in vaudeville as "The Dancing Franciscos". Betty worked as an artists model and starred in the ...

117. Blanche Friderici

Actress | It Happened One Night

Blanche Friderici was born on January 21, 1878 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for It Happened One Night (1934), Sadie Thompson (1928) and Secrets (1933). She was married to Donald Campbell. She died on December 23, 1933 in Visalia, California, USA.

118. Jane Froman

Soundtrack | Radio City Revels

Jane Froman was born on November 10, 1907 in University City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Radio City Revels (1938), With a Song in My Heart (1952) and Stars Over Broadway (1935). She was married to Rowland H. Smith, John Curtis Burn and Donald McKaig Ross. She died on April 22, ...

119. Luce Garcia-Ville

Actress | Pot-Bouille

Luce Garcia-Ville was born on April 28, 1932 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Pot-Bouille (1972), Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Tartuffe (1971). She was married to Sacha Pitoëff. She died on May 13, 1975 in Paris, France.

120. Greer Garson

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent, Garson displayed no early interest in becoming an actress. Educated at the University of London intending to become a ...

121. Greta Garbo

Actress | Ninotchka

Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...

122. Ava Gardner

Actress | The Night of the Iguana

Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, to Mary Elizabeth (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner. 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 ...

123. Pauline Garon

Actress | Christine of the Big Tops

Born in Montreal, the youngest of 11 children, Pauline Garon spent seven years at one of the most prestigious convent schools in Montreal, le Sacre-Coeur. She wasn't yet 20 when she ran away to New York to become an actress. After some success on Broadway in plays such as "Buddies" and "Sonny," she...

124. Tamara Geva

Actress | Orchestra Wives

The daughter of a Swedish mother (Tamara Urtahl, a Swede) and of a wealthy St. Petersburg manufacturer of Muslim heritage and patron of the arts who later became a free-thinker (Levko Zheverzheiev), Geva grew up in a vast 18th century mansion which included a private museum. Geva described her ...

125. Carmelita Geraghty

Actress | The Pleasure Garden

The daughter of screenwriter Tom Geraghty and sister of writers Maurice Geraghty and Gerald Geraghty, Carmelita Geraghty was a graduate of Hollywood High School, where she was in charge of the school calendar. Voted a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924, she spent most of her career as a leading lady, playing ...

126. Julie Gibson

Actress | Bowery Buckaroos

Julie Gibson was born on September 6, 1913 in Grant County, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Bowery Buckaroos (1947), The Contender (1944) and Chick Carter, Detective (1946). She was married to Charles Barton, Dean Dillman Jr. and Jimmie Grier. She died on October 2, 2019 in Los ...

127. Sandra Giles

Actress | Columbo

Sandra Giles was born on July 24, 1932 in Hooker, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Columbo (1971), Daddy-O (1958) and The Mad Bomber (1973). She was married to Paul Everett Robertson and Dalton R Smith. She died on December 25, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

128. Dorothy Gish

Actress | Nell Gwyn

Dorothy Gish was born into a broken family where her restless father James Lee Gish was frequently absent. Mary Robinson McConnell a.k.a. Mary Gish, her mother, had entered into acting to make money to support the family. As soon as Dorothy and her sister Lillian Gish were old enough, they became ...

129. Lillian Gish

Actress | The Night of the Hunter

Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, ...

130. Marilyn Gleason

Actress | The Toy

Marilyn Gleason was born on October 25, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Toy (1982), Mr. Billion (1977) and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983). She was married to Jackie Gleason and George Horwich. She died on April 2, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

131. Arlene Golonka

Actress | Hang 'Em High

A native Chicagoan of Polish descent, veteran character actress Arlene Golonka seemed destined for acting from the start, having been named after silver screen actress Arline Judge, and her childhood was dominated by singing and acting classes. She headed to New York at the age of 19 and began a ...

132. Frances Goodrich

Writer | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Frances Goodrich was born on December 21, 1890 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA. She was a writer, known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), The Thin Man (1934) and Easter Parade (1948). She was married to Albert Hackett, Henrik Van Loon and Robert Ames. She died on January 29, 1984 in New ...

133. Alicia Goranson

Actress | Boys Don't Cry

Alicia Goranson was born on June 22, 1974 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), The Conners (2018) and Roseanne (1988).

134. Ellen Greene

Actress | Little Shop of Horrors

Ellen Greene was performing as a nightclub singer in several New York City clubs and treading the boards in New York City theater before her friend and mentor, filmmaker Paul Mazursky cast her in her first motion picture, Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), she was awarded the part of Sarah, ...

135. Lauren Graham

Actress | Gilmore Girls

Lauren Graham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Donna Grant and Lawrence Graham, a candy industry lobbyist. Her father was from New York and her mother was from the American South, and Lauren has Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry. She grew up in Northern Virginia, USA (Fairfax, Arlington, and ...

136. Helen Greene

Actress | Bab's Diary

Helen Greene was born in January 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Bab's Diary (1917), Bab's Matinee Idol (1917) and Bab's Burglar (1917). She was married to Michael Abbott and Frederic Mills Gilligan. She died on October 10, 1947 in Oakland, California, USA.

137. Ena Gregory

Actress | Grinning Guns

Ena Gregory was born on April 18, 1907 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Grinning Guns (1927), In the Palace of the King (1923) and The Rose of Kildare (1927). She was married to Dr. Frank G. Nolan, Albert S. Rogell and Abe Steinberg. She died on June 13, 1993 in ...

138. Lynne Griffin

Actress | Black Christmas

The talented Lynne Griffin started out on Canadian television in the early 1970s, then moved on to acting on stage. She is known for her work in Shakespearean plays and has frequently appeared at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. She gave a notable performance in the television movie ...

139. Yvette Guilbert

Actress | Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage

Yvette Guilbert was born on January 20, 1865 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Faust (1926), The Two Orphans (1933) and Iceland Fisherman (1934). She was married to Max Schiller. She died on February 3, 1944 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

140. Jean Harlow

Actress | China Seas

Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She was the daughter of a successful dentist and his wife. In 1927, at the age of 16, she ran away from home to marry a young businessman named Charles McGrew, who was 23. The couple pulled up ...

141. Julie Hagerty

Actress | Freddy Got Fingered

Hagerty made her off-Broadway debut in 1979, starring in Mutual Benefit Life at her brother's theater, The Production Company. She continued appearing on stage, including starring in a Broadway version of The House of Blue Leaves. She was subsequently cast opposite Robert Hays in the parody film, ...

142. Cynthia Harris

Actress | Mannequin: On the Move

Cynthia Harris was most famed for her roles in L.A. Law (1986), Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), and Mad About You (1992). She made her Broadway debut in 1963. In 1971, she appeared on Broadway in the Landmark Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, "Company." She was a founding member and ...

143. Elaine Hammerstein

Actress | The Midnight Express

Elaine Hammerstein was born on June 16, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Midnight Express (1924), Rupert of Hentzau (1923) and The Foolish Virgin (1924). She was married to James Walter Kays. She died on August 13, 1948 in Tijuana, Mexico.

144. Pamela Hayden

Actress | The Simpsons Movie

Pamela Hayden born November 28, 1953 is an American actress and voice actress, known for providing various voices for the animated television show The Simpsons (1989) including Bart Simpson's unlucky best friend Milhouse Van Houten, teenage thug Jimbo Jones, Ned Flanders' first-born son Rod, Chief ...

145. Audree Henderson

Audree Henderson was born on November 19, 1908 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress. She was married to A. Edward Sutherland. She died on October 9, 1983 in Glendale, California, USA.

146. Gloria Hendry

Actress | Live and Let Die

Born in Florida and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Gloria's first job was as an assistant to the legal secretary in the New York office of the NAACP. She also became a model around this time and worked at the Playboy Club as a "Bunny." This exposure led to her being cast in her first movie, For Love...

147. Katherine Helmond

Actress | Overboard

Katherine Marie Helmond was born on July 5, 1929, in Galveston, Texas. After her parents divorced, she was raised by her mother, Thelma (nee Malone) Helmond, and her maternal grandmother, both of Irish Catholic descent. She attended Catholic school, and appeared in numerous school plays and ...

148. Margaux Hemingway

Actress | Killer Fish

Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and, with that heritage, fame was almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the rape melodrama Lipstick (1976), she had a ...

149. Renée Héribel

Actress | Le prince Jean

Renée Héribel was born on February 9, 1903 in Caen, Calvados, France. She was an actress, known for Le prince Jean (1928), Everyone Has Their Chance (1930) and Les nuits de Port Said (1932). She died on July 25, 1952 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

150. Portland Hoffa

Self | The Colgate Comedy Hour

Portland Hoffa was born on January 25, 1905 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), All Star Revue (1950) and Omnibus (1952). She was married to Joseph W. Rines and Fred Allen. She died on December 26, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

151. Jan Hooks

Actress | Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Jan Hooks is better remembered for her five-year run on Saturday Night Live (1975) (1986-91) on the series she impersonated actress ranging from Bette Davis, to Ann-Margret, to Sally Kellerman, to Jodie Foster. After she left the show, she was proposed by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to replace Jean ...

152. Evelyn Hope

Actress | Ivanhoe

Evelyn Hope was born on March 11, 1904 in Gateshead, Durham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Ivanhoe (1913), Single Life (1921) and Across the Atlantic (1914). She was married to Boris Karloff and Tom Helmore. She died on June 1, 1993.

153. Sophie Huber

Director | Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Sophie Huber was born in 1971 in Bern, Switzerland. She is an actress and director, known for Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2018), Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012) and Make My Day (2004). She has been married to Cherry Jones since 2015.

154. Gladys Hulette

Actress | Her New York

The daughter of an opera star turned actress, Gladys Hulette began her career as a three-year old on the stage. On Broadway from 1906, she played juvenile leads in "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "A Doll's House". She was also Tyltyl in "The Blue Bird". A genuine pioneer of the movies, Gladys first ...

155. 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 ...

156. Josephine Hutchinson

Actress | North by Northwest

As a child she studied at Seattle's Cornish School. Still in her early twenties, after several years of stock work in New York, she joined Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater where she won critical praise for her title role in "Alice in Wonderland." She came to Hollywood in 1934 under ...

157. Justina Huff

Actress | Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Justina Huff was born on September 8, 1893 in Columbus, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1913), The Man Inside (1916) and The Root of Evil (1914). She died on June 29, 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

158. Madeline Hurlock

Actress | Don Juan's 3 Nights

Sophisticated, dark-haired star of silent screen comedy. Of English and Italian ancestry, Madeline was the daughter of engineer John W. Hurlock and his Italian wife Sallie. She was educated in Philadelphia and first appeared on stage there with the Little Theatre. Moving on to New York, Madeline ...

159. Suad Husni

Actress | Al-raii wa al nesaa

Souad Muhammad Kamal Hosny Al Baba was born on January 26th, 1942 in Ataba, Cairo, Egypt. She was the 10th sibling of 17 brothers and sisters. Husni was known as the "Cinderella" of Arab cinema and one of the most influential actresses in the Arabic art world. She ascended to stardom in the end of ...

160. 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 ...

161. Martha Hyer

Actress | The Sons of Katie Elder

Martha Hyer was born on August 10, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas. Once she finished her formal schooling, Martha played a bit role in 1946's The Locket (1946). Slowly, Martha began picking up roles with more and more substance. The best years for the beautiful actress began in 1954 when she played in ...

162. Mahalia Jackson

Soundtrack | Mississippi Burning

Mahalia Jackson was born on October 26, 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Mississippi Burning (1988), Glory Road (2006) and An American Crime (2007). She was married to Minters Sigmund Galloway and Isaac Lanes Grey Hockenhull. She died on January 27, 1972 in Chicago...

163. Famke Janssen

Actress | X-Men: The Last Stand

Famke Janssen was born November 5, 1964, in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, and has two other siblings. Moving to America in the 1980s, she modeled for Chanel in New York. Later, taking a break from modeling, she attended Columbia University, majoring in literature.

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164. Barbara Jefford

Actress | The Ninth Gate

Distinguished Devon-born British actress, acclaimed for her commanding performances on the classical stage. Jefford did her initial training at the Hartly-Hodder School of Speech and Drama and graduated from RADA in 1949. Following her professional acting debut that same year, she spent a year on ...

165. Zita Johann

Actress | The Mummy

Zita Johann was born on July 14, 1904 in Temesvar, Austria-Hungary [now Timisoara, Timis, Romania]. She was an actress, known for The Mummy (1932), The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) and Tiger Shark (1932). She was married to Bernard Edward Shedd (Schetnitz), John McCormick and John Houseman. She died on...

166. Selene Johnson

Actress | The Divine Sacrifice

Selene Johnson was born on February 20, 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Divine Sacrifice (1918). She was married to Lumsden Hare. She died on December 11, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

167. Carolyn Jones

Actress | The Man Who Knew Too Much

Carolyn Jones was born April 28, 1930, in Amarillo, Texas. Her mother was Jeannette and her sister was Bette (Moriarty). She was an imaginative child, much like her mother. In 1934, her father abandoned the family and her mother moved them in with her parents, also in Amarillo. As a child Carolyn ...

168. Cherry Jones

Actress | The Village

Cherry Jones was born on November 21, 1956 in Paris, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress, known for The Village (2004), Signs (2002) and The Perfect Storm (2000). She has been married to Sophie Huber since 2015.

169. Jenny Jones

Self | Jenny Can Cook

Jenny Jones was born on June 7, 1946 in Bethlehem, Palestine. She is known for Jenny Can Cook (2010), Jenny Jones (1991) and Lorena (2019). She was previously married to Buz Wilburn, Al Gambino and Jack Howard Poster.

170. Peggy Hopkins Joyce

Actress | International House

Peggy Hopkins Joyce was born on May 26, 1893 in Berkley, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for International House (1933), The Skyrocket (1926) and Dimples (1916). She was married to Andrew Meyer, Anthony Easton, Gustave Morner, J. Stanley Joyce, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins and Everett ...

171. Madeline Kahn

Actress | Paper Moon

Madeline Kahn was born Madeline Gail Wolfson of Russian Jewish descent on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Freda Goldberg (later known as Paula Kahn), who was still in her teens, and Bernard B. Wolfson, a garment manufacturer. She began her acting career in high school and went on to...

172. Julie Kavner

Actress | The Simpsons

Julie Deborah Kavner is an American actress. She first attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom Rhoda (1974), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She is best ...

173. Clarissa Kaye-Mason

Actress | Salem's Lot

Clarissa Kaye-Mason was born on August 2, 1931 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Salem's Lot (1979), Ned Kelly (1970) and Joe Wilson (1988). She was married to James Mason. She died on July 21, 1994.

174. Eleanor Keaton

Actress | Life with Buster Keaton

Eleanor Keaton was born on July 29, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Life with Buster Keaton (1951), All Star Revue (1950) and Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965). She was married to Buster Keaton. She died on October 19, 1998 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...

175. Lila Kedrova

Actress | Alexis Zorbas

Lila Kedrova was a Russian actress, who spend most of her career as an expatriate. For her role as widowed courtesan Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek (1964), Kedrova won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was the first Russian actress to win the award, and this was her only ...

176. Mayme Kelso

Actress | Seven Keys to Baldpate

Mayme Kelso was born on February 28, 1867 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925), Male and Female (1919) and Clarence (1922). She died on June 5, 1946 in South Pasadena, California, USA.

177. Madge Kennedy

Actress | Marathon Man

In 1906, Madge went to New York City to study at the Art Students League where she hoped to become an illustrator. This lasted until she appeared in a student musical, which led to a full time job in a traveling stock company. By 1912, Madge was a Broadway Star with the bedroom farce "Little Miss ...

178. Evelyn Keyes

Actress | The Seven Year Itch

No shrinking violet this one, but despite her talent, vivacity and sheer drive, lovely and alluring blonde Evelyn Keyes would remain for the most part typed as a "B" girl on the silver screen. In spite of her ripe contributions to such superior pictures as Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), The Jolson ...

179. Phyllis Kirk

Actress | Crime Wave

Of Danish descent and born in Syracuse, New York, Phyllis Kirk worked as a waitress and a perfume counter clerk before she began a modeling career. Stage roles ensued before Hollywood beckoned. She was a contract player at MGM and then Warner Brothers, where in her most famous role she was stalked ...

180. Karyn Kupcinet

Actress | The Little Shop of Horrors

Karyn Kupcinet was born on March 6, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Gertrude Berg Show (1961) and Hawaiian Eye (1959). She died on November 28, 1963 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

181. Lynda La Plante

Writer | Prime Suspect

Lynda La Plante was born on March 15, 1943 in Liverpool, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Prime Suspect (1991), Prime Suspect 3 (1993) and Widows (2018). She was previously married to Richard La Plante.

182. Carla Laemmle

Actress | The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Carla Laemmle was born on October 20, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936), King of Jazz (1930) and The Gate Crasher (1928). She died on June 12, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

183. Florence Lake

Actress | Secret Service

Florence Lake was born on November 27, 1904 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Secret Service (1931), Quiet Please! (1933) and Wrong Direction (1934). She was married to John Graham Owens. She died on April 11, 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

184. 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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185. Lenita Lane

Actress | The Bat

Lenita Lane was born on December 16, 1901 in Parnassus, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bat (1959), The Mad Magician (1954) and While America Sleeps (1939). She was married to Crane Wilbur. She died on March 15, 1995 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

186. Nora Lane

Actress | The Western Code

Nora Bennett Schilling was born in Chester, Illinois. She grew up and went to school near St. Louis. After modeling for a time, she went to visit a friend in California and was noticed by someone in the film industry. She successfully passed her screen test and began playing small parts in silent ...

187. Margaret Landis

Actress | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Margaret Landis was born on August 31, 1891 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918), What Wives Want (1923) and Alice Adams (1923). She was married to J. Hamilton Couper and Bertram Bracken. She died on April 8, 1981 in Oakland, California, ...

188. Lola Lane

Actress | The Big Fight

Lola Lane, born Dorothy Mullican, grew up Indianola, Iowa. Small-town life was not to her taste and she yearned to be in show business. She was also a bit of a rebel. At one time, in her teens, she 'scandalized' the townsfolk by dancing a particularly suggestive Charleston right in front of the ...

189. Frances Langford

Soundtrack | The Hit Parade

Frances Langford won fame on radio (primarily as Bob Hope's vocalist, later sparring comically with Don Ameche as "The Bickersons"), via recordings and in the movies. In spite of the fact that she played mostly in minor musicals (plus appearing occasionally in "A" productions, including Yankee ...

190. Louise Lasser

Actress | Happiness

Born on April 11, 1939, New York City born and bred Louise (Marie) Lasser was the daughter of Jewish author tax specialist Sol J. Lasser. Living a childhood of privilege and having a prestigious education, the eccentric comedy actress lightened things up considerably in her own household despite ...

191. Florence Lawrence

Actress | Not Like Other Girls

Florence Lawrence was the first film player whose name was used to promote her films and the studio (Independent Moving Pictures Company [IMP]) for which she worked. Before her, actors and actresses worked anonymously, partly out of fear that stage managers would refuse to hire them if they were ...

192. Rosina Lawrence

Actress | Way Out West

This gorgeous green-eyed blonde was born in Canada to British parents and spent her early childhood attending schools in Canada, England, Boston and Los Angeles (where her father worked as a stage carpenter and set designer). She studied ballet for four years and tap dancing for another at the ...

193. Lorena Layson

Actress | Side Streets

She came to Los Angeles alone and signed a contract with Warner Brothers in. In December 1934 she married Daniel J.Danker Jr., head of the J. Walter Thompson Hollywood Office. He was a Vice-President and later a board member of the Company. The Thompson Hollywood Office produced many popular radio ...

194. Madeleine Lebeau

Actress | Casablanca

Madeleine Lebeau was born on June 10, 1923 in Antony, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for Casablanca (1942), 8½ (1963) and Gentleman Jim (1942). She was married to Tullio Pinelli and Marcel Dalio. She died on May 1, 2016 in Estepona, Malaga, Spain.

195. Margaret Leighton

Actress | The Go-Between

Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired British award-winning theatre actress Margaret Leighton was born in Worchestershire, England, on February 26, 1922, the daughter of a businessman. Expressing an early desire to act, she quit school at age 15 and auditioned and joined Sir Barry Jackson's ...

196. Diana Lewis

Actress | It's a Gift

Diana Lewis was born on September 18, 1919 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Her parents were vaudeville performers. The family moved to Hollywood and Diana, her sister Maxine, and her brother J.C. all went into show business. Diana made her film debut in the comedy It's a Gift (1934). At the age of ...

197. Judith Light

Actress | Who's the Boss?

Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Judith Light made her professional stage debut in 1970 and made her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of A Doll's House starring Liv Ullmann and Sam Waterston. She made her television breakthrough in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live (1968). She assumed the ...

198. Christina Lindberg

Actress | Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô

Gorgeous and voluptuous brunette beauty Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg was born on December 6, 1950, in Gothenburg, Sweden, to a working-class family, with one sister and two brothers.

When she was a teenager, she lived in the isle of Hisingen, At high-school, she studied Latin and planned on ...

199. Sondra Locke

Actress | Every Which Way But Loose

Sondra Locke was born May 28, 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith, in Shelbyville, Tennessee, a quiet little town about 60 miles southeast of Nashville. She was the daughter of Raymond Smith, a military man stationed at nearby Tullahoma, and Pauline Bayne. Smith departed the scene before Sondra's birth. In...

200. Carole Lombard

Actress | My Man Godfrey

Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West. While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being spotted playing baseball in the street with the ...