Actress

1. Rae Dawn Chong

Rae Dawn Chong was born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada. After a few film and television spots, Rae Dawn earned a Genie for her performance in Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric-drama Quest for Fire (1981). She played the young, Ivaka prisoner, Ika. Other notables roles include Harpo's ...

2. Aruna Shields

Actress | Prince

British actress Aruna Shields performed in UK theatre and film before she was headhunted by Tips Industries (one of the largest studios in India) to play the female Bond in action thriller Prince (2010). When the film released worldwide she became the fastest rising star on Google and the first ...

3. Tracee Ellis Ross

Producer | The Hair Tales

Tracee Joy Silberstein known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress, singer, television host, producer and director. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000-2008) and Black-Ish (2014-2022). She owns Pattern Beauty, a hair-care line for curly ...

4. Michael Michele

Actress | ER

Michael is the eldest of two daughters. Her white father, Jerry, is an entrepreneur. Her African American mother, Thersa, is a corporate manager. In high school she played volleyball, basketball, and ran track. After high school, she moved to New York and quickly got commercial work. This led to a ...

5. Sarodj Bertin

Actress | Ulterior Motives: Reality TV Massacre

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sarodj Bertin (Daughter of Jean Bertin and Mireille Durocher Bertin) is fluent in four languages, an Actress, Model, human rights activist, Philanthropist, Attorney, Entrepreneur, and Goodwill Ambassador, who was crowned the first Miss Universe, Haiti in 2010 (after a...

6. Saye Yabandeh

Actress | 5th & Alameda

Miss SAYE YABANDEH is an Iranian-born Hollywood actress focused on using her platform to bring awareness to global issues and to give back to refugees and underserved children and families around the world.

Miss Sayé Yabandeh, a humanitarian and award-winning actress of remarkable scope, has joined ...

7. Jacqueline Lord

Actress | Hawaii Five-0

Jacqueline Lord got her first break at age 19 when she was discovered by modeling scouts who urged her to move to New York and pursue a career with the IMG agency. Though she had intended to explore music in college, she spent the next five years shooting advertising campaigns for major commercial ...

8. Sara Maraffino

Girlboss

Sara Maraffino is a Los Angeles-based actor originally from New York City. A working actor for more than 15 years in both New York and Los Angeles, with roles spanning across stage, television and screen, Sara brings uncompromising authenticity and honesty to the characters she plays.

Prior to ...

9. Aarti Mann

Actress | The Recruit

Aarti Mann was born in Connecticut, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Recruit (2022), Never Have I Ever (2020) and The Big Bang Theory (2007). She is married to Purvesh Mankad. They have one child.

10. Kitu Gidwani

Actress | Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

Kitu Gidwani was born on October 22, 1967 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. She is an actress, known for Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008), Dance of the Wind (1997) and Shaktimaan (1997).

11. Seema Rahmani

Actress | Alias

Seema Rahmani is known for Alias (2001), Gulaal (2009) and Shakalaka Boom Boom (2007).

12. Zain Jamal

Actress | Maya

Zain Jamal is known for Kamasutra Nights (2008), Bionic Woman (2007) and The Sessions: Online (2011).

13. Leonor Varela

Actress | Blade II

Leonor Varela was born on December 29, 1972 in Santiago de Chile, Chile, the daughter of Leonor Palma, a massage therapist, and Francisco Varela (Francisco Javier Varela Garcia), a biologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. Her family fled to Costa Rica, leaving behind the dictatorship of Augusto ...

14. Laysla De Oliveira

Actress | Locke & Key

De Oliveira was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a family of Brazilian origin. She began a modeling career at the age of 14, but she always knew she wanted to be an actress. She studied drama and dance at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, and once she went to college, she finally acquired an acting ...

15. Golshifteh Farahani

Actress | Paterson

Golshifteh started her acting career in theater at the age of 6 and has always kept a strong link with theater, but it was at the age of 14 that she acted in her first film The Pear Tree (1998), for which she won the prize for the Best Actress from the international section of the Fajr film ...

16. Paoli Dam

Actress | Bulbbul

Paoli Dam is an Indian television and film actress who started her career in Bengali tv serials. Dam completed her early education at Loreto school, after which she attended Vidyasagar College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta and pursued a degree in chemistry. She then pursued her ...

17. Shriswara

Actress | Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Shriswara was never schooled in the same place or institution. Throughout life, till date, there have been unaccountable teachers guiding her in many aspects of life and the beyond. She is still very much in the process of learning the very basic things of this world and will continue. Her first ...

18. Neelesha Barthel

Actress | Pandorum

Neelesha Barthel was born on March 2, 1977 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic [now Brandenburg, Germany]. She is a director and actress, known for Pandorum (2009), Cologne P.D. (2003) and Marry Me - Aber bitte auf Indisch (2015).

19. Karishma Ahluwalia

Actress | Savages

Karishma Ahluwalia is known for Savages (2012), Blindspot (2015) and Chimera Strain (2018).

20. Elizabeth Debicki

Actress | The Great Gatsby

Debicki was born in Paris to a Polish father and an Australian mother of Irish descent who were both dancers. When she was five, the family moved to Melbourne, where she grew up with two younger siblings. She became interested in ballet at an early age and trained as a dancer until deciding to ...

21. Morena Baccarin

Actress | Deadpool

Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. She is of Italian as well as Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She moved to New York at the age of ten, when her father was transferred there. She ...

22. Marilyn Chambers

Actress | Rabid

Marilyn Chambers was born on April 22, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Rabid (1977) and Angel of H.E.A.T. (1983). She was married to William Taylor, Jr., Chuck Traynor and Doug Chapin. She died on April 11, 2009 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.

23. Carla Gugino

Actress | Watchmen

Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist. She is of Italian (father) and English-Irish (mother) ancestry. Gugino moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But ...

24. Sarah Shahi

Actress | Black Adam

Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouzshahi in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Spanish-Iranian mother. She is a former NFL cheerleader and a descendant of a 19th-century Persian Shah. She attended Trinity High School and Southern Methodist University, studied opera and majored in English. As ...

25. Nathalie Cox

Actress | Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop

Nathalie Cox was born in 1978 in Leicestershire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop (2021), Exam (2009) and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008).

26. Samira Draa

Actress | Kingdom of Heaven

Samira Draa is known for Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Daughter of Keltoum (2001) and Soil (2021).

27. Gina Carano

Actress | The Mandalorian

From pioneering women's MMA to blazing a trail in movies, GINA CARANO is one of Hollywood's most unique rising stars. Carano began her training with Muay Thai to competitive MMA, where she competed in Strikeforce and EliteXC. Her popularity led to her being called the "Face of Women's MMA" and she ...

28. Indira Varma

Actress | Bride & Prejudice

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) is a British actress. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand). In September 2016, she ...

29. Amrita Acharia

Actress | The Serpent Queen

Amrita Acharia is of Nepalese-Ukrainian heritage. She grew up in Ukraine, Kathmandu and England before moving with her family to Norway aged 13. After completing high school in Tromsø, Amrita moved to England to pursue her acting career. Since then she has worked in Norway, London and the US. She ...

30. Laila Rouass

Actress | Conan the Barbarian

Laila Rouass was born in London to Moroccan/Indian parents. Laila studied in Britain but decided to drop her studies and travel in India for a few months. A few months turned into six years. Whilst living in Bombay, she worked for MTV, BBC, and TNT. Her step into movies came when she was spotted by...

31. Alina Puscau

Actress | Number 14

Alina Puscau is a Romanian actress, model and singer. She started modeling at 14 when she was discovered by Elite Models and won Look of The Year. First selected by Jean Paul Gautier to work in Paris and was then hand picked by Ralph Lauren to work on major campaigns and runway in NYC. She has ...

32. Moon Bloodgood

Actress | Terminator Salvation

Moon Bloodgood was born on September 20, 1975 in Alliance, Nebraska, USA. She is an actress, known for Terminator Salvation (2009), Faster (2010) and The Sessions (2012). She was previously married to Grady Hall.

33. Neeta Puri

Actress | Awwal Number

Neeta Puri is known for First Rank (1990), Nafrat Ki Aandhi (1989) and Jailkhana (1989).

34. Sofia Boutella

Actress | Kingsman: The Secret Service

Sofia Boutella is an Algerian actress, dancer and model. She was born in the Bab El Oued district of Algiers in Algeria, the daughter of composer and jazz musician Safy Boutella, and an architect mother. She started classical dance education when she was five years old. In 1992, at age 10, she left...

35. Shohreh Aghdashloo

Actress | House of Sand and Fog

Shohreh Aghdashloo was born Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar on May 11, 1952 in Tehran, Iran. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her homeland of Iran, starring in some prominent pictures such as The Report (1977) directed by the renowned Abbas Kiarostami, which won critics awards at the...

36. Gina Gershon

Actress | Bound

Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading ...

37. Nicky Whelan

Actress | Hall Pass

Nicky Whelan is an Australian actress and model, best known for her role as "Pepper Steiger" in the Australian television series, Neighbours (1985). She is the granddaughter of AFL Brownlow Medallist Marcus Whelan.

Whelan has completed work for the movie, Hollywood & Wine (2011), in Los Angeles....

38. Natalie Eva Marie

Actress | WWE SmackDown

Natalie Eva Marie was born to parents Barry and Josie Nelson on September 19, 1984 in Concord, California, USA. She played soccer for California State University, Fullerton until she started modeling, acting, and doing promotional work. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management ...

39. Celeste Bonin

Actress | WWE SmackDown

Celeste Bonin was born on October 7, 1986 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE NXT (2010) and WWE Raw (1993). She was previously married to PJ Braun and Grant Dziak.

40. Trish Stratus

Actress | WWE Monday Night RAW

Patricia Anne Stratigeas, better known as Trish Stratus, is marketed as a former wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Before she became a mainstay in professional wrestling, she was a student at York University in Toronto, Canada. She majored in Biology and Kinesiology, but when the ...

41. Jayshree Arora

Actress | Chak De! India

Jayshree Arora is known for Chak De! India (2007), Dev (2017) and The Legend of Drona (2008).

42. Jayaram

Actor | Thuppakki

Jayaram was born on December 10, 1964 in Perumbavoor, Kerala, India. He is an actor, known for Thuppakki (2012), Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022) and Thooval Kottaram (1996). He is married to Parvathi. They have two children.

43. Jen Barbeito

Actress | The Shipment

Beginning her journey in the world of performance arts, Jen Barbeito started as a dancer at the age of five in a private school for the performing arts in California, her birthplace. This early exposure fueled her passion, leading her to explore different facets of the performing arts. In middle ...

44. Alex Meneses

Actress | Walker

Alexandra "Alex" Meneses, the ALMA Award-nominated actress known for her smoldering bombshell characters and philanthropic commitment to a wide variety of causes, recently starred on The CW's critically acclaimed series Jane the Virgin (2014). She also recently starred as Isabella, the over-the-top...

45. Claire Forlani

Actress | Meet Joe Black

Claire Forlani was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in London. Educated at Arts Educational School, she moved to the United States with her parents Pier Luigi and Barbara Forlani when she was 19 and began starring in films.

Claire has had leading roles in such films as Meet Joe Black (1998), ...

46. Emmanuelle Béart

Actress | 8 femmes

Emmanuelle Béart was born August 14, 1963, in Gassin, France. She lived with her mother, brothers, and sister on a farm not far from Saint-Tropez in Provence (southern France), because her father, singer and poet Guy Béart, did not want his children to be affected by the glamour world of Paris. ...

47. Jennifer Garner

Actress | Alias

Jennifer Garner, who catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the television series Alias (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Patricia Ann (née English), a retired English teacher, and her father, Billy Jack ...

48. Eva Green

Actress | Casino Royale

French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French...

49. Ruby Rose

Actress | Orange Is the New Black

Ruby Rose Langenheim (born 20 March 1986), better known as Ruby Rose, is an Australian model, DJ, boxer, recording artist, actress, television presenter, and MTV VJ. Rose emerged in the media spotlight as a presenter on MTV Australia, followed by several high-profile modelling gigs, notably as the ...

50. Lucie Laurier

Actress | Don't Say a Word

Lucie Laurier was born on March 19, 1975 in Greenfield Park, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Don't Say a Word (2001), Bon Cop Bad Cop (2006) and Manigances: Notice Rouge (2013).

51. Ellen Barkin

Actress | The Fan

Offbeat, unconventionally pretty, and utterly mesmerizing, Ellen Barkin was born on April 16, 1954 in the Bronx, New York, to Evelyn (Rozin), a hospital administrator, and Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman. Her parents were both from Russian Jewish families. Raised in the South Bronx and Queens, New ...

52. Eva Mendes

Actress | The Other Guys

Eva Mendes is an American actress, model and businesswoman. She began acting in the late 1990s. After a series of roles in B movies such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), she made a career-changing appearance in Training Day (2001). Since then, ...

53. Saffron Burrows

Actress | You

Saffron Burrows, known for her work in critically acclaimed films, this fall reprises her role in the hit Netflix show YOU, season 3. Burrows previously starred in the Golden Globe winning Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle. In 2019 Burrows directed the short films: Michael & Indigo, starring Jason...

54. Tania Raymonde

Actress | Lost

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Tania Raymonde began her career on Malcolm in the Middle (2000), and is known for her portrayal of Alex Rousseau in the J.J. Abrams series Lost. She played the title role of notorious murderer Jodi Arias in the Lifetime original feature Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret...

55. Joan Severance

Actress | See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Joan Severance was born and raised in Houston, Texas. At the age of 18 and at the sole urging of John Casablancas of Elite models, she went to Paris, France to begin a modeling career that would turn out to be well worth the price of the ticket Casablancas sent her. Within months she graced the ...

56. Eiza González

Actress | Baby Driver

Eiza González Reyna is a Mexican actress and singer. She was born on January 30, 1990 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Carlos González and Glenda Reyna. Her mother is a yesteryear Mexican model. She has one elder brother, Yulen. She lost her father in a motorcycle accident when she was just 12. Later in ...

57. Niamh Algar

Actress | Raised by Wolves

Irish actress Niamh Algar was raised in Ireland as the youngest of five siblings. In 2019 Niamh was awarded the BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, in 2018 she was named as Screen International 'Star of Tomorrow' for her leading turn in the The Virtues, a new drama from This is England creator Shane Meadows.

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58. Sasha Jackson

Actress | Rich Boy, Rich Girl

British actress Sasha Jackson is primarily based in London (whilst also having Los Angeles and Atlanta bases) and travels worldwide for work commitments. Sasha has an EB1 Green Card in recognition of her talent and body of work and is a member of British Equity. Sasha has trained with some of LA's ...

59. Bai Ling

Actress | Red Corner

Bai Ling is recognized for unbridled freedom and creativity, Bai Ling has become undoubtedly one of the world's most diverse and captivating actresses! Born in the city of Cheng Du in southern China, Bai Ling began her career at age of 14. She enlisted In the Chinese People's Liberation Army, where...

60. Tarina Patel

Actress | Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Tarina Patel is known for Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007), Karzzzz (2008) and Chase (2010).

61. Shweta Menon

Actress | Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha

Speaking Hindi and accent-free English is what sets her apart from other actresses born in the Southern states of India. The reason behind this is her dad, who is in the Indian Air Force, and has been re-located to Punjay, Hyderabad, & Bangalore. She lived a life of luxury as a child. She studied ...

62. Sandra Teles

Actress | Constellation

Sandra Teles is known for Constellation (2024), Bridgerton (2020) and Extinction (2018).

63. Shannon Tweed

Actress | Electra

Shannon Tweed was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She rose to stardom as Miss November 1981 for Playboy magazine. In 1982, Shannon began her film career and also appeared in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981). She became Playmate of the Year in 1982. She was briefly involved ...

64. Stana Katic

Actress | Castle

Stana Katic recently starred in the TV series, Absentia, streaming on Amazon. It's a thriller-drama produced by Sony Pictures Television. Upon debut it was one of Amazon's top-ten most popular programs.

Stana's feature film work includes, CBGB, Big Sur, The Spirit, Feast of Love, The Double and Bond...