Best Actress 1960 -
by harbortb | created - 18 May 2015 | updated - 09 Aug 2021 | Public1. Scarlett Johansson
Actress | Her
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
2019
1. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
2. Lupita Nyong'o, Us
3. Taraji P. Henson, The Best of Enemies
4. Naomi Watts, Luce
5. Mary Kay Place, Diane
2. Glenn Close
Actress | Fatal Attraction
Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
2018
1. Glenn Close, The Wife
2. Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
3. Charlize Theron, Tully
4. Carey Mulligan, Wildlife
5. Toni Collette, Hereditary
3. Frances McDormand
Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...
2017
1. Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Sally Hawkins, Maudie
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Mother!
4. Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
5. Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
4. Rebecca Hall
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall was born in London, England, the daughter of Peter Hall, a stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Maria Ewing, an opera singer. Her father was English. Her mother, who is American, is of Dutch and African-American origin. Her parents separated when she was ...
2016
1. Rebecca Hall, Christine
2. Natalie Portman, Jackie
3. Sally Field, Hello, My Name is Doris
4. Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane
5. Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
5. Penélope Cruz
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...
1. Penelope Cruz, Ma ma 2. Carey Mulligan, Far From the Madding Crowd 3. Roony Mara, Carol 4. Brie Larson, Room 5. Cate Blanchett, Carol
6. Anne Dorval
Actress | Mommy
Anne Dorval was born in Noranda, Quebec on November 8th, 1960. Since appearing in her first professional theatre role in 1985, she has acted in and won awards for numerous theatre productions, films, and television series. Anne is also a prominent dubbing actress in Quebec, having dubbed the voices...
2014
1. Anne Dorval, Mommy
2. Julianne Moore, Still Alice
3. Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
4. Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
5. Juliette Binoche, Clouds of Sils Maria
7. 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 ...
2013
1. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
2. Emmanuelle Seigner, Venus in Fur
3. Judi Dench, Philomena
4. Lindsey Duncan, Le Week End
5. Brie Larson, Short Term 12
8. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actress | 10 Cloverfield Lane
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an actress known for her versatile work in a variety of film and television projects. Possibly most known for her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), she has also starred in critically acclaimed independent films such as Smashed (2012), for which...
2012
1. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Smashed
2. Suzanne Clement, Laurence Anyways
3. Meryl Streep, Hope Springs
4. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
5. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
9. Michelle Williams
Actress | My Week with Marilyn
A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
2011
1. Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
2. Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia
3. Olivia Colman, Tyrannosaur
4. Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
5. Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
2010
1. Natalie Portman, Black Swan
2. Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
3. Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy
4. Annette Bening, Mother and Child
5. Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
11. Kim Hye-ja
Actress | Madeo
Kim Hye Ja is a South Korean actress. Best known for playing the archetypal Korean mother, Kim Hye Ja has established herself as an iconic actor in the Korean entertainment industry. Kim made her acting debut at age 29 while studying at Ewha Woman's University. In the 1981 movie 'Late Autumn', she ...
2009
1. Hye-ja Kim, Mother
2. Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
3. Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Tilda Swinton, Julia
5. Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
12. Angelina Jolie
Actress | Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...
2008
1. Angelina Jolie, Changeling
2. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
3. Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
4. Meryl Streep, Doubt
5. Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth
13. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orléans, France, she ...
2007
1. Marion Cotillard, La vie en Rose
2. Julie Christie, Away From Her
3. Wei Tang, Lust, Caution
4. Laura Linney, The Savages
5. Ashley Judd, Bug
14. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
2006
1. Judie Dench, Notes on a Scandal
3. Helen Mirren, The Queen
4. Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil
5. Penelope Cruz, Volver
6. Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
15. Charlize Theron
Producer | Monster
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...
2005
1. Charlize Theron, North Country
2. Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
3. Naomi Watts, King Kong
4. Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
5. Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
16. 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 ...
1. Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake 2. Hillary Swank, Million Dollar Baby 3. Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 5. Ziyi Zhang, House of Flying Daggers
17. Charlize Theron
Producer | Monster
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...
2003
1. Charlize Theron, Monster
2. Samantha Morton, In America
3. Nicole Kidman, Dogville
4. Jennifer Connelly, House of Sand and Fog
5. Naomi Watts, 21 Grams
18. Lesley Manville
Actress | Phantom Thread
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999) and Secrets &...
2002
1. Leslie Manville, All or Nothing
2. Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
3. Nicole Kidman, The Hours
4. Salma Hayek, Frida
5. Diane Lane, Unfaithful
19. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
2001
1. Judi Dench, Iris
2. Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
3. Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom
4. Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
5. Leelee Sobieski, My First Mister
20. Björk
Soundtrack | Dancer in the Dark
Born in 1965 in the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavik, the daughter of Gudmundur Gunnarsson (an electrician) and Hildur Hauksdóttir who divorced before her second birthday, Björk grew up in a hippie-type community with her mother and her seven siblings. She started to study classical music at the...
2000
1. Bjork, Dancer in the Dark
2. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
3. Julia Roberts, Erin Brokovich
4. Joan Allen, The Contender
5. Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me
21. Hilary Swank
Actress | Million Dollar Baby
Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Judith Kay (Clough), a secretary, and Stephen Michael Swank, who served in the National Guard and was also a traveling salesman. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez, was of Mexican descent, and her other roots include German, English, and ...
1999
1. Hillary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
2. Annette Bening, American Beauty
3. Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart
4. Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds
5. Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair
22. Emily Watson
Actress | Gosford Park
Emily Watson was born and raised in London, the daughter of Katharine (Venables), an English teacher, and Richard Watson, an architect. After a self-described sheltered upbringing, Watson attended university for three years in Bristol, studying English literature. She applied to drama school and ...
1998
1. Emily Watson, Hilary and Jackie
2. Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth
3. Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station
4. Gwenyth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love
5. Alfre Woodard, Down in the Delta
23. Helen Hunt
Actress | As Good as It Gets
Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.
1997
1. Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets
2. Kate Winslet, Titanic
3. Pam Grier, Jackie Brown
4. Judi Dench, Mrs. Brown
5. Lynda Steadman, Career Girls
24. Emily Watson
Actress | Gosford Park
Emily Watson was born and raised in London, the daughter of Katharine (Venables), an English teacher, and Richard Watson, an architect. After a self-described sheltered upbringing, Watson attended university for three years in Bristol, studying English literature. She applied to drama school and ...
1996
1. Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves
2, Brenda Blethyn, Secrets & Lies
3. Renee Zelwegger, The Whole Wide World
4. Reese Witherspoon, Freeway
5. Diane Keaton, Marvin's Room
25. Susan Sarandon
Actress | Thelma & Louise
It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...
1995
1. Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
2. Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
3. Kathy Bates, Dolores Claiborne
4. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Georgia
5. Elizabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas
26. Rena Owen
Actress | Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Rena Owen is an international award-winning actress, and one of only six in the world and the only female to date to have worked with both filmmaking legends George Lucas and Steven Spielberg during her illustrious career that spans 35 years working in theater, television, film and voice work.
One ...
1994
1. Rena Owen, Once Were Warriors
2. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mrs. Parker and the Viscous Circle
3. Meg Ryan, When a Man Loves a Woman
4. Sigourney Weaver, Death and the Maiden
5. Miranda Richardson, Tom & Viv
27. Angela Bassett
Actress | Strange Days
Captivating, gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters and on stages and television screens throughout the world. Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City, to Betty Jane (Gilbert), a social worker, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a ...
1993
1. Angela Bassett, What's Love Got to Do with It
2. Holly Hunter, The Piano
3. Emma Thompson, The Remains of the Day
4. Hiep Thi Le, Heaven & Earth
5. Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
28. Emma Thompson
Actress | Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...
1992
1. Emma Thompson, Howard's End
2. Susan Sarandon, Lorenzo's Oil
3. Mary McDonnell, Passion Fish
4. Alfre Woodard, Passion Fish
5. Michelle Pfieffer, Love Field
29. Jodie Foster
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...
1991
1. Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
2. Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise
3. Geena Davis, Thelma & Louise
4. Laura Dern, Rambling Rose
5. Michelle Pfeiffer, Frankie and Johnny
30. Kathy Bates
Actress | Misery
Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...
1990
1. Kathy Bates, Misery
2. Joanne Woodward, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
3. Angelica Huston, The Grifters
4. Sissy Spacek, The Long Walk Home
5. Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman
31. Jessica Tandy
Actress | Driving Miss Daisy
A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that span of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice ...
1989
1. Jessica Tandy, Driving Mrs. Daisey
2. Jessica Lange, Music Box
3. Helen Mirren, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
4. Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally...
5. Sally Field, Steel Magnolias
32. Jodie Foster
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...
1988
1. Jodie Foster, The Accused
2. Gena Rowlands, Another Woman
3. Christine Lahti, Running on Empty
4. Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark
5. Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
33. Glenn Close
Actress | Fatal Attraction
Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
1987
1. Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction
2. Lillian Gish, The Whales of August
3. Holly Hunter, Broadcast News
4. Cher, Moonstruck
5. Meryl Streep, Ironweed
34. Sissy Spacek
Actress | In the Bedroom
As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.
...
1986
1. Sissy Spacek, 'night, Mother
2. Anne Bancroft, 'night, Mother
3. Sigourney Weaver, Aliens
4. Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God
5. Blythe Danner, Brighten Beach Memoirs
35. Whoopi Goldberg
Actress | Ghost
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in...
1985
1. Whoopie Goldberg, The Color Purple
2. Geraldine Page, The Trip to Bountiful
3. Meryl Streep, Out of Africa
4. Jessica Lange, Sweet Dreams
5. Cher, Mask
36. Judy Davis
Actress | Husbands and Wives
Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She found international success with the role of Adela Quested in A Passage to India (1984). Her performance was nominated an Academy Award for Best...
1984
1. Judy Davis, A Passage to India
2. Sally Field, Places in the Heart
3. Mia Farrow, Broadway Danny Rose
4. Sissy Spacek, The River
5. Diane Keaton, Mrs. Soffel
37. Julie Walters
Actress | Billy Elliot
For decades, British actress and comedienne Dame Julie Walters has served as a sturdy representation of the working class with her passionate, earthy portrayals on England's stage, screen and television. A bona fide talent, her infectious spirit and self-deprecating sense of humor eventually ...
1983
1. Julie Walters, Educating Rita
2. Meryl Streep, Silkwood
3. Mary Steenburgen, Cross Creek
4. Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
5. Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment
38. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
1982
1. Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
2. Jessica Lange, Frances
3. Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon
4. Debra Winger, An Officer and a Gentleman
5. Sandy Dennis, Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
39. Diane Keaton
Actress | Annie Hall
Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...
1981
1. Diane Keaton, Reds
2. Sally Field, Absence of Malice
3. Isabelle Adjani, Possession
4. Kathleen Turner, Body Heat
5. Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond
40. Sissy Spacek
Actress | In the Bedroom
As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.
...
1980
1. Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter
2. Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin
3. Shelly Duvall, The Shining
4. Susan Sarandon, Atlantic City
5. Gena Rowlands, Gloria
41. Sally Field
Actress | Forrest Gump
Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...
1979
1. Sally Field, Norma Rae
2. Bette Midler, The Rose
3. Jane Fonda, The China Syndrome
4. Hanna Schygulla, The Marriage of Maria Braun
5. Natassja Kiski, Tess
42. 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 ...
1978
1. Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata
2. Liv Ullman, Autumn Sonata
3. Jane Fonda, Coming Home
4. Jill Clayburgh, An Unmarried Woman
5. Ellen Burstyn, Same Time, Next Year
43. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
1977
1. Gena Rowlands, Opening Night
2. Shelly Duvall, 3 Women
3. Diane Keaton, Annie Hall
4. Sissy Spacek, 3 Women
5. Jane Fonda, Julia
44. Liv Ullmann
Actress | Viskningar och rop
Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-1950s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut. She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar ...
1976
1. Liv Ullman, Face to Face
2. Sissy Spacek, Carrie
3. Faye Dunaway, Network
4. Barbara Harris, Freaky Friday
5. Jodie Foster, Freaky Friday
45. Isabelle Adjani
Actress | Possession
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, to Emma Augusta "Gusti" (Schweinberger) and Mohammed Adjani. Her father was a Kabyle Algerian, from Iferhounène, and her mother was a Bavarian German. She grew up speaking German fluently. After winning a school ...
1975
1. Isabella Adjani, The Story of Adele H.
2. Karen Black, The Day of the Locust
3. Carol Kane, Hester Street
4. Barbra Streisand, Funny Lady
5. Faye Dunaway, Three Days of the Condor
46. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
1974
1. Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under the Influence
2. Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
3. Liv Ullmann, Zandy's Bride
4. Diahann Carroll, Claudine
5. Goldie Hawn, The Sugarland Express
47. Ellen Burstyn
Actress | Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...
1973
1. Ellen Burstyn, The Exorcist
2. Tatum 0' Neal, Paper Moon
3. Sissy Spacek, Badlands
4. Liv Ullmann, Scenes from a Marraige
5. Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class
48. Margit Carstensen
Actress | Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
Margit Carstensen was born on February 29, 1940 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1974) and Possession (1981). She died on June 1, 2023 in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
1972
1. Margit Carstensen, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
2. Carol Burnett, Pete 'n' Tillie
3. Susannah York, Images
4. Goldie Hawn, Butterflies Are Free
5. Maggie Smith, Travels With My Aunt
49. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
1971
1. Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskowitz
2. Jane Fonda, Klute
3. Liv Ullman, The Emigrants
4. Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
5. Elaine May, A New Leaf
50. Carrie Snodgress
Actress | Diary of a Mad Housewife
A student of Northern Illinois University, Carrie switched to drama at Chicago's Goodman Theatre School where she won the Sarah Siddons Award as outstanding graduate. After graduating, Carrie worked in TV and also appeared in TV movies. She made her big screen debut in Rabbit, Run (1970), working ...
1970
1. Carrie Snodgress, Diary of a Mad Housewife
2. Faye Dunaway, Puzzle of a Downfall Child
3. Sarah Miles, Ryan's Daughter
4. Shelley Winters, Bloody Mama
5. Shirley McLaine, Two Mules for Sister Sara
51. Jane Fonda
Actress | Klute
Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...
1969
1. Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2. Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. Liv Ullman, The Passion of Anna
4. Shirley Knight, The Rain People
5. Sandy Dennis, That Cold Day in the Park
52. 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 ...
1968
1. Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter
2. Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby
3. Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison
4. Liv Ullmann, Shame
5. Patricia Neal, The Subject Was Roses
53. Julie Christie
Actress | Doctor Zhivago
Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...
1. Julie Christie, Far From the Madding Crowd 2. Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 3. Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark 4. Catherine Lacey, The Sorcerers 5. Edith Evans, The Whisperers
54. Bibi Andersson
Actress | Persona
Her artistic dreams came early in life and were further supported by her older sister Gerd Andersson who became a ballet dancer at the Royal Opera and made her acting debut in 1951. Bibi, on the other side, had to make do with bit parts and commercials. She debuted in Dum-Bom (1953), playing ...
1966
1. Bibi Andersson, Persona
2. Liv Ullman, Persona
3. Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Natalie Wood, This Property is Condemned
5. Shirley MacLaine, Gambit
55. Julie Christie
Actress | Doctor Zhivago
Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...
1965
1. Julie Christie, Darling
2. Samantha Eggar, The Collector
3. Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music
4. Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion
5. Anne Bancroft, The Slender Thread
56. Kim Stanley
Actress | Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Kim Stanley's movie roles were few and far between; she is perhaps best known for her stellar performances on stage, including successes on Broadway. But when she did step in front of the camera, nothing short of memorable resulted. Her repertoire in movies and on stage covered such diversity from ...
1964
1. Kim Stanley, Séance on a Wet Afternoon
2. Nobuko Otowa, Onibaba
3. Bette Davis, Dead Ringer
4. Anne Bancroft, The Pumpkin Eater
5. Leslie Caron, Father Goose
57. Lilia Skala
Actress | Flashdance
Lilia Sofer was born on November 28, 1896, to Catholic Katharina Skala and Jewish Julius Sofer , in Vienna, Austria. Julius Sofer worked as a manufacturer's representative for the Waldes Kohinoor Company. Lilia had two sisters: Lisl (later known as renowned dance-therapy pioneer Elizabeth Polk); ...
1963
1. Lilia Skala, Lilies of the Field
2. Ingrid Thulin, The Silence
3. Gunnel Lindblom, The Silence
4. Elizabeth Taylor, The V.I.P.S.
5. Shirley MacLaine, Irma la Douce
58. Anne Bancroft
Actress | The Graduate
Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...
1962
1. Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker
2. Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker
3. Bette Davis, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
4. Katharine Hepburn, Long Day's Journey Into Night
5. Shirley MacLaine, Two for the Seesaw
59. 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 ...
1961
1. Natalie Wood, Splendor in the Grass
2. Shirley MacLaine, The Children's Hour
3. Audrey Hepburn, The Children's Hour
4. Harriet Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly
5. Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits
60. 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
1. Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment
2. Jean Simmons, Elmer Gantry
3. Elizabeth Taylor, BUtterfield 8
4. Anna Magnani, The Fugitive Kind
5. Jean Seberg, Breathless
61. Elizabeth Taylor
Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...
1959
1. Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer
2. Audrey Hepburn, A Nun's Story
3. Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
4. Joanne Woodward, The Sound and the Fury
5. Susan Cabot, The Wasp Woman
62. Rosalind Russell
Actress | Auntie Mame
The middle of seven children, she was named, not for the heroine of "As You Like It" but for the S.S. Rosalind on which her parents had sailed, at the suggestion of her father, a successful lawyer.
After receiving a Catholic school education, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New ...
1958
1. Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
2. Ingrid Bergman, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
3. Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
4. Shirley Booth, The Matchmaker
5. Kinuyo Tanaka, The Ballad of Narayama
63. Joanne Woodward
Actress | Rachel, Rachel
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27, 1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, to Wade Woodward and Elinor Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward in a modest household. Her one older brother, Wade Jr., who was the favorite of her father, eventually became an architect. Elinor Woodward was a ...
1957
1. Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve
2. Eva Marie Saint, A Hatful of Rain
3. Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
4. Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
5. Audrey Hepburn, Love in the Afternoon
64. Carroll Baker
Actress | Baby Doll
Carroll Baker was born on May 28, 1931 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a traveling salesman, William W. Baker. She attended community college for a year and then worked as a dancer and magician's assistant. After a brief marriage, she had a small part in Easy to Love (1953), did TV ...
1956
1. Carroll Baker, Baby Doll
2. Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia
3. Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed
4. Bette Davis, The Catered Affair
5. Deborah Kerr, The King and I
65. Véra Clouzot
Actress | Les diaboliques
Véra Gibson-Amado, known professionally as Véra Clouzot, was a Brazilian-French actress.
In 1941, Véra met French actor Léo Lapara, a member of the theater company of Louis Jouvet, who toured in Brazil during World War II. Vera married the actor, taking part in the company's South American tour that...
1955
1. Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo
2. Katharine Hepburn, Summertime
3. Vera Clouzot, Diabolique
4. Simone Signoret, Diabolique
5. Harriet Andersson, Dreams
66. Giulietta Masina
Actress | Le notti di Cabiria
Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy. She began her career on the radio with the program "Terzoglio" (1942), about the adventures of ...
1954
1. Giulietta Masina, La Strada
2. Jane Wyman, Magnificent Obsession
3. Judy Garland, A Star is Born
4. Grace Kelly, The Country Girl
5. Brenda de Banzie, Hobson's Choice
67. Jennifer Jones
Actress | The Towering Inferno
One of the world's most underrated Academy Award-winning actresses, Jennifer Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley on 2 March 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Flora Mae (Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley, who ran a travelling stage show. As a young aspiring actress, she met and fell for young, handsome, aspiring ...
1953
1. Jennifer Jones, Terminal Station
2. Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
3. Lauren Bacall, How to Marry a Millionaire
4. Marilyn Monroe, Gentlmen Prefer Blondes
5. Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
68. 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 ...
1952
1. Ingrid Bergman, Europa '51
2. Jennifer Jones, Carrie
3. Bette Davis, The Star
4. Maureen O'Hara, The Quiet Man
5. Joan Crawford, Sudden Fear
69. 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 ...
1951
1. Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen
3. Evelyn Keyes, The Prowler
4. Setsuko Hara, Early Summer
5. Patricia Neal, The Day the Earth Stood Still
70. Gloria Swanson
Actress | Sunset Boulevard
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public. Gloria certainly didn't intend on ...
1950
1. Gloria Swanson, Sunset Blvd.
2. Bette Davis, All About Eve
3. Anne Baxter, All About Eve
4. Jane Wyman, Stage Fright
5. Maj-Britt Nilsson, To Joy
71. 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 ...
1949
1. Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
2. Jeanne Crain, Pinky
3. Katharine Hepburn, Adam's Rib
4. Ann Todd, The Passionate Friends
5. Ingrid Bergman, Under Capricorn
72. 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 ...
1948
1. Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit
2. Kinuyo Tanaka, A Hen in the Wind
3. Vivien Leigh, Anna Karenina
4. Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes
5. Joan Fontaine, Letter from an Unknown Woman
73. Deborah Kerr
Actress | The King and I
Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...
1947
1. Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus
2. Irene Dunne, Life with Father
3. Susan Hayward, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
4. Chieko Nakakita, One Wonderful Sunday
5. Joan Crawford, Possessed
74. Setsuko Hara
Actress | Banshun
Setsuko Hara became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in ...
1946
1. Setsuko Hara, No Regrets for Our Youth
2. Olivia de Havilland, The Dark Mirror
3. Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
4. Bette Davis, Deception
5. Josette Day, Beauty and the Beast
75. Peggy Ann Garner
Actress | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Actress Peggy Ann Garner was born Feb. 3, 1932, in Canton, Ohio. Her father was an English-born attorney, William H. Garner, who served as a U.S. Army officer during World War II. Virginia, her determined mother, got Peggy into summer stock and modeling before she was six. Estranged from her ...
1945
1. Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce
3. Dorothy McGuire, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. Ingrid Bergman, The Bells of St. Mary's
76. 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...
1944
1. Bette Davis, Mr. Skeffington
2. Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat
3. Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
4. Claudette Colbert, Since You Went Away
5. Jennifer Jones, Since You Went Away
77. Jennifer Jones
Actress | The Towering Inferno
One of the world's most underrated Academy Award-winning actresses, Jennifer Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley on 2 March 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Flora Mae (Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley, who ran a travelling stage show. As a young aspiring actress, she met and fell for young, handsome, aspiring ...
1943
1. Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette
2. Joan Fontaine, Jane Eyre
3. Bette Davis, Watch on the Rhine
4. Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath
5. Teresa Wright, Shadow of a Doubt
78. 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 ...
1942
1. Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
2. Bette Davis, In This Our Life
3. Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story
4. Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
5. Olivia de Havilland, In This Our Life
79. 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...
1941
1. Bette Davis, The Little Foxes
2. Irene Dunne, Penny Serenade
3. Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire
4. Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
5. Ingrid Bergman, Adam Had Four Sons
80. Joan Fontaine
Actress | Suspicion
Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...
1940
1. Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
2. Betty Davis, The Letter
3. Martha Scott, Our Town
4. Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
5. Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
81. 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 ...
1939
1. Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
2. Bette Davis, Dark Victory
3. Merle Oberon, Wuthering Heights
4. Norma Shearer, The Women
5. Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz
82. 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 ...
1939
1. Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
2. Bette Davis, Dark Victory
3. Merle Oberon, Wuthering Heights
4. Norma Shearer, The Women
5. Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz
83. 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 ...
1938
1. Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
2. Bette Davis, Jezebel
3. Wendy Hiller, Pygmalion
4. Norma Sheerer, Mary Antoinette
5. Janet Gaynor, The Young in Heart
84. Barbara Stanwyck
Actress | Double Indemnity
Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the ...
1937
1. Barbara Stanwyck, Stella Dallas
2. Bette Davis, Marked Woman
85. 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 ...
1936
1. Katharine Hepburn, Mary of Scotland
2. Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey
3. Sylvia Sydney, Sabotage
4. Ruth Chatterton, Dodsworth
5. Bette Davis, The Petrified Forest
86. 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 ...
1935
1. Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams
2. Bette Davis, Dangerous
3. Miriam Hopkins, Becky Sharpe
4. Ginger Rogers, Top Hat
87. 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...
1934
1. Bette Davis, Of Human Bodage
2. Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
3. Elisabeth Bergner, The Rise of Catherine the Great
4. Merle Oberon, Beloved Enemy
88. 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 ...
1933
1. Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory
2. Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face
3. Bebe Daniels, 42nd Street
4. Mary Pickford, Secrets
5. Michiko Oikawa, Japanese Girls at the Harbor
89. Joan Crawford
Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; ...
1932
1. Joan Crawford, Rain
2. Helen Hayes, A Farewell to Arms
3. Marian Nixon, After Tomorrow
4. Shirley Grey, Uptown New York
90. Sally Eilers
Actress | They Made Her a Spy
Sally Eilers enjoyed lunch with a classmate from drama school, Jane Peters (who would later become known as Carole Lombard), at the Sennett Studios cafeteria. There she was spotted by Mack Sennett and instantly became one of his "discoveries". Having already appeared in several bit parts, beginning...
1931
1. Sally Eilers, Bad Girl
2. Norma Sheerer, A Free Soul
3. Sylvia Sydney, Street Scene
91. Vilma Bánky
Actress | The Son of the Sheik
Vilma Bánky appeared in Hungarian, Austrian and French movies between 1920 and 1925, the year in which Samuel Goldwyn signed her, in Budapest, to a Hollywood contract. In Hollywood she was billed as the "The Hungarian Rhapsody". In the mid and late 1920s she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker, ...
1930
1. Vilma Bánky, A Lady to Love
2. Norma Shearer, The Divorcee
3. Barbara Stanwyck, Ladies of Leisure
4. Constance Bennett, Sin Takes a Holiday
5. Mary Duncan, City Girl
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