Actrices

1. Kim Yoo-jung

Kim Yoo-Jung is a South Korean actress. She debuted as a model for a confectionery brand at the age of four. After her acting debut in 2003, she became one of the most in-demand child actresses in Korea. She gained public attention for starring in the television series Dong Yi (2010), Moon ...

2. Son Ye-jin

Actress | Nae meorisokui jiwoogae

As of her debut in South Korean films, Ye-jin Son became one of the stars of Chungmoore, the Korean Hollywood, notably appearing in the beautiful "Drunk on Women and Poetry" by the master Kwan-taek Im. In "April Snow", directed by Jin-ho Hur (2005), she questioned her pure innocent girl image, ...

3. Gal Gadot

Actress | Wonder Woman

Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress and model. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia who Hebraized their name from 'Greenstein' to sound less European). She served in the IDF for two years, and won the Miss Israel title in ...

4. Seo Ye-Ji

Actress | Saikojiman Gwaenchanha

Seo Ye-Ji was born on April 6, 1990 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020), By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture (2019) and Recalled (2021).

5. Jung So-min

Actress | Hwan Hon

Jung So-Min is a South Korean actress. She made her mainstream debut with the 2010 television series, 'Bad Guy,' and immediately managed to grab everybody's attention. Though she played a supporting role in the series, her character was talked about when the series was aired on the SBS network. She...

6. Song Hye-kyo

Actress | Yi dai zong shi

Song Hye-Kyo is a Korean actress. She gained popularity in Asia through her leading roles in television dramas Autumn in My Heart (2000), All In (2003), Full House (2004), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013), Descendants of the Sun (2016) and Encounter (2018). Her film work includes Hwang Jin Yi (...

7. Park Bo-young

Actress | Him-ssen yeo-ja Do Bong-soon

Park Bo-Yeong (Bo-Yeong Park), whose father is Sergeant Major of the Army, was born in Jeungpyeong in Chungcheong Province of South Korea. She started acting when she was in middle school as a member of video production club. She entered Dankook University, Department of Theater and Film. Her ...

8. Jang Na-ra

Actress | Haneulgwa bada

Jang Na-ra was born on March 18, 1981 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Sky and Ocean (2009), Hello Monster (2015) and Sell Your Haunted House (2021).

9. Kim Hyun-joo

Actress | Aein isseoyo

Kim Hyun-joo was born on April 24, 1978 in Ilsan-gu, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. She is an actress, known for I Have a Lover (2015), What's with This Family (2014) and Hellbound (2021).

10. Kong Hyo-jin

Actress | Misseu Hongdangmu

Kong Hyo-jin was born on April 4, 1980 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Misseu Hongdangmu (2008), Missing Woman (2016) and When the Camellia Blooms (2019).

11. Úrsula Corberó

Actress | La casa de papel

Úrsula Corberó Delgado (born 11 August 1989) is a Spanish actress, best known for her roles as Ruth in the Antena 3 series Physics or Chemistry (2008), Margarita de Austria en Isabel (2011), Esther Salinas in the series La embajada and Tokyo in the television series Money Heist (2017).

Corberó ...

12. Oh Yeon-Seo

Actress | Jang Bo Ri Is Here

Oh Yeon Seo is a South Korean actress who is best known for her leading role in the No. 1-rated 2014 drama "Jang Bo Ri Is Here," for which she won the Top Excellence Awards at the 7th Korea Drama Awards and the 2014 MBC Drama Awards. Born on June 22, 1987, Oh Yeon Seo has appeared in many popular ...

13. Kim Go-eun

Actress | Eungyo

Kim Go-eun was born on July 2, 1991 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for A Muse (2012), Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016) and Cheese in the Trap (2016).

14. Cameron Diaz

Actress | Vanilla Sky

Cameron Diaz, an American actress, was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and a German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, ...

15. 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 ...

16. Kim Tae-ri

Actress | Ah-ga-ssi

Tae-ri Kim is a South Korean actress. Kim started her career appearing in theater productions and modelling in TV adverts. She made her feature film debut in Park Chan-wook's film The Handmaiden (2016) where she was chosen from among 1,500 candidates who auditioned for the role. Park's first ...

17. Kim Tae-hee

Actress | Joong-cheon

Kim Tae-Hee is a well-known South Korean actress popular for both her beauty and acting endeavors. Declared by the nation's media as the "Most beautiful woman" Kim, a graduate in fashion design from the prestigious 'Seoul National University', chanced upon modeling when she was spotted and offered ...

18. Park Min-Young

Actress | 7 Ilui Wangbi

Park Min-Young was born on March 4, 1986 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Seven Day Queen (2017), The Good the Bad the Weird (2008) and Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010).

19. Shin Se-Kyung

Actress | Yungnyong-i Nareusya

Se-Kyung Shin is an actress from South Korea. She is also a singer and model. She is famous in South Korean film industries. She started her film career as an child actress. She is a beautiful actress and has strong acting skill. She also worked in TV series in South Korea.

20. Lee Min-Jung

Actress | Si-ra-no; Yeon-ae-jo-jak-do

Lee Min-Jung was born on February 16, 1982 in Seoul, Korea. She is an actress, known for Cyrano Agency (2010), White Night (2009) and Once Again (2020). She has been married to Lee Byung-hun since August 10, 2013. They have two children.

21. Lily Collins

Actress | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Lily Jane Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her father is English musician Phil Collins, while her mother, Jill Tavelman, who is from Los Angeles, California, was president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club for three terms. Lily moved with her mother to LA at the age of five, after ...

22. Han So-hee

Actress | Mai Neim

Han So-hee was born on November 18, 1994 in Ulsan, South Korea. She is an actress, known for My Name (2021), Gyeongseong Creature (2023) and The World of the Married (2020).

23. 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, ...

24. 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 ...

25. Michelle Yeoh

Actress | Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss ...

26. Bae Suzy

Actress | Geon-chook-hak-gae-ron

Suzy was born in Gwangju, South Korea on October 10, 1994. She attended Seoul Performing Arts High School. Before debuting, she was an online shopping model. In 2009, she auditioned for Mnet Superstar K and made it through the preliminary round but she was ultimately eliminated. However, she caught...

27. IU

Actress | Beurokeo

Lee Ji-Eun, also known by her stage name IU, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, composer, and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with her first extended play (EP) Lost and Found (2008). Although ...

28. 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...

29. Valérie Lemercier

Actress | Les visiteurs

Valérie Lemercier was born on March 9, 1964 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), Aline (2020) and Monte Carlo (2011).

30. Nicole Kidman

Actress | Moulin Rouge!

Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.

Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...

31. Kang So-ra

Actress | Sseo-ni

Kang So-ra was born on February 18, 1990 in South Korea. She is an actress, known for Sunny (2011), Doctor Stranger (2014) and Dream High (2011).

32. Dakota Johnson

Actress | Fifty Shades of Grey

Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and fashion model. She was born in Austin, Texas, and is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Her maternal grandmother is actress Tippi Hedren.

In 1999, she made her film debut in Crazy in Alabama (1999), where she and her half-sister, ...

33. Rachel Weisz

Actress | The Constant Gardener

Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...

34. Jessica Chastain

Actress | Zero Dark Thirty

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...

35. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Actress | Jodhaa Akbar

Born into a traditional south Indian family, Aishwarya started modeling at a young age. This green-blue-eyed beauty appeared in advertisements for many prestigious firms; the ones that brought her into the limelight were the garden sari and the Pepsi ad. Crowned Miss India 1994 runner-up, she was a...

36. Lee Hanee

Actress | Yeok-jeok: baek-seong-eul hom-chin do-jeok

Lee Hanee was born on March 2, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for The Rebel Hong Gil Dong (2017), Extreme Job (2019) and The Fiery Priest (2019).

37. Katherine Heigl

Actress | One for the Money

Katherine Marie Heigl was born on November 24, 1978 in Washington, D.C., to Nancy Heigl (née Engelhardt), a personnel manager, and Paul Heigl, an accountant and executive. Her father is of German/Swiss-German and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry. A short time after her birth, the...

38. Kim Seo-hyeong

Actress | Aknyeo

Kim Seo-hyeong was born on October 28, 1973 in South Korea. She is an actress, known for The Villainess (2017), Greenhouse (2022) and Late Spring (2014).

39. Shin Hye-sun

Actress | Hwanggeumbit Nae Insaeng

Shin Hae Sun is a South Korean actress. She made her debut in the television series School 2013 (2012) and played her first leading role in a drama in My Golden Life (2017). She is best known for her roles in the television dramas Angel's Last Mission: Love (2019), Still 17 (2018), Hymn of Death (...

40. Kim Hye-su

Actress | Eolguleobtneun minyeo

Kim Hye-Soo is a South Korean actress and one of the most popular teen stars of the 1980s and 1990s. She is known for her headstrong independence and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. During the height of her fame, Kim was referred to as the "Pencil Board Star" of the 1980s due ...

41. Emily Blunt

Actress | Edge of Tomorrow

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British actress known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and The Girl on the Train (2016), among many others.

Blunt was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London, England, the second of ...

42. Lee Ji-ah

Actress | Taewang sasingi

Lee Ji Ah was born in South Korea and during elementary school, she moved to the U.S. While attending a designing school, she auditioned for 'Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi,' after a competitive auditioning process, she was chosen as the character of 'Su Zi Ni,' beating out many successful actresses such as ...

43. Kim So-yeon

Actress | Ailiseu

Kim So-yeon was born on November 2, 1980 in Seoul, Korea. She is an actress, known for Ailiseu (2009), The Penthouse: War in Life (2020) and Happy Home (2016). She has been married to Lee Sang-woo since June 9, 2017.

44. Shin Min-a

Actress | Dalkomhan insaeng

Shin Min-A, born April 5th, 1984 with birth name Yang Min-A, is a popular South Korean actress & model. Her family consists of a father, mother, older sister & brother. In middle school, Min-A took a picture with her friends on a school picnic and sent the photo to teen magazine KiKi. From that ...

45. Park Shin-Hye

Actress | 7-beon-bang-ui seon-mul

Park Shin-hye was born in Gwangju, but raised in Paju, South Korea. Shin Hye Studied music, theater and singing in Chung-Ang University, Korea. Shin-hye made her acting debut in a Korean drama series, Stairway to heaven. She later on gained her popularity through another Korean series, You're ...