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by visureddy-68356 | created - 20 May 2021 | updated - 19 Dec 2021 | Public
1. Jean-Paul Belmondo
Actor | Pierrot le fou
The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before ...
2. 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...
3. Terry Moore
Actress | Peyton Place
Born Helen Luella Koford on January 7, 1929, the Los Angeles, California native worked as a model before she made her film debut at age 11 in 20th Century-Fox's Maryland (1940). Through the 1940s, she worked under a variety of names (her own, Judy Ford and January Ford) before settling on Terry ...
4. Myriam Bru
Actress | Gli amori di Manon Lescaut
A striking brunette, she was said to resemble movie legend Rita Hayworth. Parisienne Myriam Bru studied drama at the private academy of Le Cours Simon under the tutelage of its founder René Simon. Later, whilst attending a Cannes Festival, she was spotted wearing a bikini by the roving eyes of ...
5. 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 ...
6. Alexis Smith
Actress | The Age of Innocence
Statuesque, smart Canadian-born Alexis Smith, with her blue/green eyes and a seductively husky voice, lent a touch of class to her leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s.
After her family moved to California, Alexis grew into a precocious talent and performed ballet in public by the age of thirteen -...
7. Melina Mercouri
Actress | Pote tin Kyriaki
Melina Mercouri was born in Athens, Greece on October 18, 1920. An early woman activist, she was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977. Later Miss Mercouri was to become the first woman to hold a Senior cabinet post "Minister of Culture" in the Greek government. In 1971 she wrote her ...
8. Dirk Bogarde
Actor | The Servant
Sir Dirk Bogarde, distinguished film actor and writer, was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde on March 28, 1921, to Ulric van den Bogaerde, the art editor of "The Times" (London) newspaper, and actress Margaret Niven in the London suburb of Hampstead. He was one of three children...
9. Mimi Kuzyk
Actress | Lost and Delirious
Mimi Kuzyk is a Winnipeg born actress, best know for her roles in the series Hill Street Blues (1981) and Blue Murder (2001). Mimi grew up in Winnipeg with her brother and five sisters. She discovered her love of dance at the age of eight. Following her passion, Mimi joined the Rusalka Folk ...
10. Cornelia Sharpe
Actress | Serpico
Cornelia Sharpe was born on October 18, 1943 in Selma, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Serpico (1973), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). She was previously married to Martin Bregman and Joseph Gallison.
11. Cisse Cameron
Actress | Space Mutiny
Cisse Cameron was born on January 5, 1954 in the USA. Cisse is an actor, known for Space Mutiny (1988), The Prize Fighter (1979) and Porky's II: The Next Day (1983). Cisse has been married to Reb Brown since September 8, 1979.
12. Aurora Bautista
Actress | Locura de amor
At a young age she went to Barcelona where she studied theater in the "Instituto del Teatro" with Marta Grau. She debuted in theater in 1944 in Barcelona and in 1948 in the "Teatro Espanol de Madrid". She married a Mexican medical doctor, temporarily interrupting her career. In 1967 she came back ...
13. Marga López
Actress | Salón México
Marga López was born on June 21, 1924 in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Salón México (1949), El privilegio de amar (1998) and Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968). She was married to Carlos Amador. She died on July 4, 2005 in Mexico City, Mexico.
14. Maricruz Olivier
Actress | Orquídeas para mi esposa
Maricruz Olivier was born on September 19, 1935 in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Orquídeas para mi esposa (1954), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and Esposa te doy (1957). She died on October 4, 1984 in Mexico City, Mexico.
15. Jeanne Moreau
Actress | Jules et Jim
When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation." She had made it to the Comédie ...
16. Charo López
Actress | Estudio 1
After having studied philosophy and philology Lopez went to the "Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia de Madrid" and studied interpretation. The first part of her filmography was mainly made by young directors until she was discovered by Gonzalo Suárez ("Diatrambo (1967)") with whom she worked again ...
17. Silvia Tortosa
Actress | La senyora
Silvia Tortosa was born on March 8, 1947 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress and director, known for La senyora (1987), Horror Express (1972) and Novela (1963). She was married to David Harper, Charles Davis and Hermann Bonnín. She died on March 23, 2024 in Barcelona, ...
18. Amparo Soler Leal
Actress | La gran familia
Amparo Soler Leal was born on August 23, 1933 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress. She was married to Alfredo Matas and Adolfo Marsillach. She died on October 25, 2013 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
19. Margot Cottens
Actress | Estudio 1
Margot Cottens was born on January 9, 1922 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was an actress, known for Estudio 1 (1965), The Family, Fine, Thanks (1979) and La familia y... uno más (1965). She died on January 2, 1999 in Madrid, Spain.
20. Silvana Pampanini
Actress | La presidentessa
Silvana Pampanini was born on September 25, 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and director, known for Mademoiselle Gobete (1952), Koenigsmark (1953) and Be Seeing You, Father (1948). She died on January 6, 2016 in Rome, Italy.
21. Loredana Nusciak
Actress | Django
Loredana Nusciak was born on May 3, 1942 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She was an actress, known for Django (1966), No Way Out (1973) and Gladiators 7 (1962). She was married to Gianni Medici. She died on July 12, 2006 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
22. Amparo Muñoz
Actress | Sonatas
Immediately after her victory in the world of beauty, the world of cinema took interest in her. In Wholesome Married Life, directed by Roberto Bodegas and written by José Luis Garci, she played the temptress of José Sacristán, a married man obsessed with publicity. In Tocata y fuga de Lolita, by ...
23. Rosa Gloria Chagoyán
Actress | No se aceptan devoluciones
Rosa Gloria Chagoyán was born on October 11, 1953 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Instructions Not Included (2013), Lola the Truck Driving Woman (1985) and Juana la Cubana (1994).
24. Lorena Velázquez
Actress | El rapto de las sabinas
One of the quintessential vamps of Mexican cinema from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Lorena Velázquez was the daughter of character actor Víctor Velázquez, and the older sister of actress Tere Velázquez. She made her screen debut in 1955, and her role as Thorina, queen of the vampires, in ...
25. Carmen Sevilla
Actress | El techo de cristal
Born on October 6, 1930 in Seville, popular Spanish entertainer Carmen Sevilla is better regarded as a dancer and singer than for her output of films, most of them, especially her later ones, seldom testing her abilities. Starting very young, she made her movie debut in grand style with the musical...
26. Kate Mulgrew
Actress | Star Trek: Voyager
Katherine Kiernan Mulgrew, or Kate Mulgrew, was born on April 29, 1955. She grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, the second oldest child (and oldest girl) in a large Irish Catholic family. When Kate expressed an interest in acting as a child, her mother, Joan, encouraged her to audition for local theater ...
27. Jean Simmons
Actress | Guys and Dolls
Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944). She had a small part as a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (...
28. Erika Remberg
Actress | Sehnsucht hat mich verführt
Erika Remberg was born on February 15, 1932 in Medan, Oostkust van Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia]. She was an actress, known for Sehnsucht hat mich verführt (1958), Saturday Night Out (1964) and So viel nackte Zärtlichkeit (1968). She was married to ...
29. Rita Hayworth
Actress | Gilda
Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. He emigrated from Spain in 1913. Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly ...
30. Fay Spain
Actress | The Godfather Part II
Fay Spain was was your typical B-movie drive-in bad girl - sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette, always bodacious. A tease, a taunt, and a temptress throughout most her career, Fay Spain was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1932, as Lona May Spain to R.C. Spain and Arminta Frances Cochran. She headed ...
31. Barbara Bel Geddes
Actress | Vertigo
Arguably best remembered for her role as Miss Ellie, the Ewing family matriarch on the long-running TV series Dallas (1978), Barbara Bel Geddes had earlier scored success on stage and screen long before gaining more lasting fame on television. She was born in New York City on Halloween Day 1922, ...
32. Diana Van der Vlis
Actress | X
Diana Van der Vlis was born on June 9, 1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963), The Swimmer (1968) and The DuPont Show of the Month (1957). She was married to Roger Donald. She died on October 22, 2001 in Missoula, Montana, USA.
33. Victoria Shaw
Actress | Westworld
Victoria Shaw was born on May 25, 1935 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Westworld (1973), The Crimson Kimono (1959) and To Trap a Spy (1964). She was married to Elliott Alexander and Roger Smith. She died on August 17, 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
34. Tippi Hedren
Actress | The Birds
From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota blonde, has had a distinctive career. She was born Nathalie Kay Hedren in New Ulm, MN, to Dorothea (née Eckhardt) and Bernard Hedren, who ran a general store, and is of Swedish, ...
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