The 25 greatest actresses working today.

She's just perfection, even when she had to do a bad role, she do with guts, and her powerhouse performances in 'The Hours' and 'Far from Heaven' in the same year just prove that she's unique.

Vanessa is a legend, and just that fact that in her 70's she still bring to us performances like the one in 'Atonement' must justify her position in this rank.

She was great in Heavenly Creatures as she was great in Carnage, her carreer now spans almost 2 decades, and the best actress of the 00's just getting better, her performance in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' has the chance of be the most nuanced in the last decade.

She is, with no doubt, the most versatile actress in these days, and performances like she gave in 'Julia', 'I Am Love', and 'We Need to talk about Kevin' are compelling and deep in a way that few actresses can do.

Do I need to exemplify the qualities of Miss Streep? In 'The Iron Lady' she gave a amazing performance in a terrible movie, and almost no one do this like she does. I just hope she start to do better movies, her filmography will say thank you in the future.

I say almost all the time that Michelle is the best actress of her generation, I'm not kidding, and I don't have to prove this, what she does with characters is incredible, so many times she create them from nowhere to result in such mesmerizing performances that I even can't believe. 'Wendy and Lucy' and 'Blue Valentine' are some examples.

This woman let me hypnotized by her performances, right now she doesn't work in many american productions, so you need to see 'Flight of the Red Balloon', 'Summer Hours' and, especially, 'Certified Copy' to be involved by her.

Her Piaf is historic, and since then she does a great performance every year, in 2009 she stole 'Nine' and 'Public Enemies' from her co-stars, in 2010 was the soul of 'Inception', last year she was lovely in 'Midnight in Paris' and natural as never in 'Contagion'. I can't wait to her next performances.

She acts in a so natural way that even when she was in period pieces like 'John Adams' I can't see the actress, I just can see the character, add this to her flawless and nuanced performance in 'The Savages', and her recent work in the dramedy 'The Big C', that's enough to put her in this list.

Being good or being bad, Blanchett always sparkles her roles, and never let herself down even when she does a terrible movie like 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'. 'I'm Not There', 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'Hanna' were all featured from great performances of this classy lady.

She have done some crap movies with bad performances, but now she's back on top and I hope that she will track the type of performance that she did in 'Rabbit Hole' and that once gave to her the title of the 'best actress of the decade'.

Almost every episode of 'Damages' is a showcase to Close. Right now is the best option to see her recent acting skills, but with her recent and triumphant role in 'Albert Nobbs' let's hope that this giant receive other great roles as Patty Hewes.

Foster put her filmography in second place, but she still lead us to strong performances like in 'The Brave One' and, recently, in 'Carnage'.

She's the best young actress in these days, and since her Academy Award Nominated performance in 'Atonement', Ronan show such different performances that is impossible to me to don't put her in as higher as I can. Her performances in 'The Lovely Bones', 'The Way Back' and 'Hanna' were all fascinating.

Even if she's not acting in many productions as she did before, her style of acting is so unique and interesting that her work in 'Capturing Mary' and 'Downton Abbey' is enough to be here.

She can play any Elizabeth that she wants, but even if it's her best role, Mirren can act circles in any genre, and does this with such class as any other can't, probably, do.

If her character is fragile, she's brings everyone down, and when it's not, she's even better, her performance in 'Black Swan' still scares me.

Watts loves diversity in her filmography, her recent roles includes brave and fragile characters in lead or supporting roles. 'Eastern Promises', 'Funny Games', 'Mother and Child', 'Fair Game' and, even, 'J. Edgar' are there to prove that she can do anything.

I still feel that her beauty let Theron underrated as an actress, 'In the Valley of Elah', 'The Road', and the recently watched 'Young Adult' show some kind of range that can't and, hopefully, won't be forgot.

It has been something like 3 years that Mulligan 'happened', and since then this girl didn't stop to give great performances. She should have won an Oscar for 'An Education', and her performance in 'Wall Street 2', 'Never Let Me Go', 'Drive', and 'Shame' were all amazing, especially the last one.

She has the cute factor, and Adams always played the 'cute' one in the many ways possible: the silly cute in Junebug, the lost cute in Doubt or, even, a cute princess (can I handle this?) in Enchanted, but since she played against the type in 'The Fighter' she earned my respect and my wishes for more diversified roles in her filmography.

As any other actress in their 60's that is not Meryl Streep, Weaver don't usually get good roles, but when she finds one such like in 'Prayers for Bobby', she nailed it.

When she's on screen, she's on fire, I'll never forget the first that I watched this woman in 'Volver' or in 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', I mean, her performance in 'Nine' is also unforgettable in the same league as she's in 'Broken Embraces'.

She has been good since always, her turns in 'The Wrestler', 'Whatever Works', and 'The Ides of March' were all different, strong and shows that Wood will only get better.

This is a bit of fanboy, but Miss Roberts has the charisma that few actresses have and her performance in films like 'Charlie Wilson's War', 'Duplicity', and 'Eat, Pray, Love' show that she can be great with the appropriate role.