My Awards - Best Actresses per Year

1. Elizabeth Olsen

Elizabeth Chase "Lizzie" Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films Silent House (2011), Liberal Arts (2012), Godzilla (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Captain America: Civil War (2016). For her role in the critically-acclaimed Martha ...

2022 for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2. Margot Robbie

Actress | Suicide Squad

Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...

2021 for The Suicide Squad

Other nominees: Amanda Seyfried for Things Heard & Seen Daniela Melchior for The Suicide Squad Jennifer Lawrence for Don't Look Up

3. Jessie Buckley

Actress | I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Jessie Buckley is an Irish singer and actress, who came in second place in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything, and subsequently played Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Most recently, Buckley played Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the...

2020 for I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Other nominees: Elisabeth Moss for The Invisible Man Millie Bobby Brown for Enola Holmes Amanda Seyfried for You Should Have Left Jessica Chastain for Ava

4. Park So-dam

Actress | Gisaengchung

Park So-dam was born on September 8, 1991 in South Korea. She is an actress, known for Parasite (2019), The Priests (2015) and The Silenced (2015).

2019 for Parasite

Other Nominees Florence Pugh for Midsommar Sierra McCormick for The Vast of Night Ana de Armas for Knives Out Scarlett Johansson for Avengers: Endgame Elle Fanning for A Rainy Day in New York

5. 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 ...

2018 for A Quiet Place

Other Nominees: Millicent Simmonds for A Quiet Place

6. Sophia Lillis

Actress | It

Sophia Lillis was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She started her acting career at the age of seven, when her stepfather encouraged her to take acting classes at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Manhattan. While studying there, a teacher recommended her for a role in an NYU student film...

2017 for It

Other Nominees: Dafne Keen for Logan Sally Hawkins for The Shape of the Water Melanie Lynskey for I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jennifer Lawrence for Mother! Blanca Suárez for El Bar Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird Charlize Theron for Atomic Blonde

7. Margot Robbie

Actress | Suicide Squad

Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...

2016 for Suicide Squad

Other nominees: Emma Stone for La La Land Emilia Clarke for Me Before You Mary Elizabeth Winstead for 10 Cloverfield Lane Felicity Jones for Rogue One Jennifer Lawrence for X-Men: Apocalypse Scarlett Johansson for Captain America: Civil War Anya Taylor-Joy for Split Emily Blunt for The Girl on the Train

8. Brie Larson

Actress | Room

Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...

2015 for Room

Other nominees: Daisy Ridley for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Anya Taylor-Joy for The VVitch Charlize Theron for Mad Max: Fury Road Alicia Vikander for Ex Machina Cara Delevingne for Paper Towns

9. 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 ...

2014 for Maleficent

Other nominees: Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and X-Men: Days of Future Past Emma Stone for Magic in the Moonlight Elle Fanning for Maleficent

10. Jennifer Lawrence

Actress | The Hunger Games

As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...

2013 for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Other nominees: Scarlett Johansson for Her Kristen Bell for Frozen Idina Menzel for Frozen Sandra Bullock for Gravity Teresa Palmer for Warm Bodies

11. Emma Watson

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...

2012 for The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Other nominees: Noomi Rapace for Prometheus Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables Clarice Falcão for Eu Não Faço a Menor Ideia do Que Eu Tô Fazendo Com a Minha Vida Scarlett Johansson for The Avengers

12. Rooney Mara

Actress | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...

2011 for Millenium

Other nominees: Elle Fanning for Super 8 Emma Roberts for Scream 4 Scarlett Johansson for We Bought a Zoo Claire Foy for Season of the Witch Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

13. 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 for Black Swan

Other nominees: Emma Stone for Easy A Chloë Grace Moretz for Let Me In Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit Jennifer Aniston for The Switch Gabriela Rocha for As Melhores coisas do mundo

14. Mélanie Laurent

Actress | Inglourious Basterds

Mélanie Laurent was born in Paris, France. She is the daughter of Annick, a ballet teacher, and Pierre, a voice actor, who is most recognized for the French version of The Simpsons (1989). She has a younger brother, Mathieu, and has both Sephardi Jewish (from Tunisia) and Ashkenazi Jewish (from ...

2009 for Inglorious Basterds

Other nominees: Zooey Deschanel for (500) Days of Summer Megan Fox for Jennifer's Body Emma Stone for Zombieland Portia Doubleday for Youth in Revolt

15. Emma Roberts

Actress | We're the Millers

Emma Roberts was born in Rhinebeck, New York. She was a baby when her parents separated, and she grew up living with her mother, Kelly Cunningham. She was educated at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.

Emma is the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts, and the niece of ...

2008 for Lymelife

Other nominees: Kate Winslet for The Reader Angelina Jolie for Wanted Zooey Deschanel for Yes Man Frances McDormand for Burn After Reading Mila Kunis for Forgetting Sarah Marshall

16. AnnaSophia Robb

Actress | Bridge to Terabithia

Actress AnnaSophia Robb most recently starred in two of Hulu's most critically acclaimed limited series. In 2019, she co-starred opposite Patricia Arquette in THE ACT. This spring, she portrayed the flashback version of Reese Witherspoon's "Elena Richardson" character in LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, ...

2007 for Bridge to Terabithia

Other nominees: Keira Knightley for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Ellen Page for Juno Maria Flor for Proibido Proibir Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

17. Milla Jovovich

Actress | Le Cinquième Élément

Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-American actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the Resident Evil (2002) franchise.

Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich...

2006 for Ultraviolet

Other nominees: Camilla Belle for When a Stranger Calls Kate Winslet for Little Children Scarlett Johansson for Scoop Penélope Cruz for Volver Audrey Tatou for The Da Vinci Code Kate Beckinsale for Underworld: Evolution

18. Reese Witherspoon

Producer | Wild

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...

2005 for Just Like Heaven

Other nominees: Natalie Portman for V for Vendetta Angelina Jolie for Mr. And Ms. Smith Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Zooey Deschanel for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

19. Emma Watson

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...

2004 for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Other nominees: Sophia Reis for Meu tio matou um cara Nicole Kidman for Birth Camila Morgado for Olga Emmy Rossum for The Phantom of the Opera Sarah Polley for Dawn of the Dead Elisha Cutbert for The Girl Next Door

20. 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...

2003 for The Dreamers

Other nominees: Leandra Leal for The Man Who Copied Keira Knightley for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Christina Ricci for Anything Else Kate Beckinsale for Underworld

21. Jennifer Aniston

Actress | Friends

Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father was Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City...

2002 for The Good Girl

Other nominees: Reese Whiterspoon for Sweet Home Alabama Kirsten Dunst for Spider-Man Salma Hayek for Frida Shu Qi for Transporter

22. Kirsten Dunst

Actress | Spider-Man

Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...

2001 for Get Over It

Other nominees: Charlize Theron for Sweet November Thora Birch for Ghost World Nicole Kidman for Moulin Rouge Angelina Jolie for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Leelee Sobieski for The Glass House

23. 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 ...

2000 for The Gift

Other nominees: Kate Hudson for Almost Famous Anna Faris for Scary Movie Jennifer Connely for Requiem for a Dream Marla Sokoloff for Whatever it Takes Elizabeth Hurley for Bedazzled

24. Julia Stiles

Actress | 10 Things I Hate About You

Lovely, Julia (O'Hara) Stiles, of Irish, English and German heritage, was born on March 28, 1981 in New York City, the outgoing daughter and eldest of three children of a Greenwich Village artist mother, Judith Newcomb Stiles, and an elementary school teacher father, John O'Hara.

Encouraged to take ...

1999 for 10 Things I Hate About You

Other Nominees: Winona Ryder for Girl, Interrupted Heather Donahue for The Blair Witch Project Mena Suvari for American Beauty Carrie-Anne Moss for The Matrix

25. Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress | Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...

1998 for Great Expectations

Other nominees: Cameron Diaz for There's Something About Mary Angelina Jolie for Gia ? Reese Whiterspoon for Pleasantville Kirsten Dunst for Small Soldiers

26. Milla Jovovich

Actress | Le Cinquième Élément

Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-American actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the Resident Evil (2002) franchise.

Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich...

1997 fot The Fifth Element

Other nominees: Kate Winslet for Titanic Demi Moore for J.I. Jane Neve Campbell for Scream 2 Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets Alicia Silverstone for Excess Bagage

27. Neve Campbell

Actress | Scream

Neve Campbell was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, to Marnie (Neve), a Dutch-born psychologist and yoga instructor (from Amsterdam), and Gerry Campbell, a Scottish-born teacher (from Glasgow). Campbell first came to our TV screens in the hit Drama series Party of Five (1994). Described as TV's ...

1996 for Scream

Other nominees: Winona Ryder for Crucible Madonna for Evita ? Mara Wilson for Matilda Renée Zellweger for Jerry Maguire ? Helen Hunt for Twister

28. Alicia Silverstone

Actress | Clueless

Alicia Silverstone was born on October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children. She is the daughter of Didi (Radford), a former flight attendant, and Monty Silverstone, a real estate investor. Her English-born father is from a Jewish family, while her Scottish-born ...

1995 for Clueless

Other nominees: Christina Ricci for Casper Sandra Bullock for While you were Sleeping Madeleine Stowe for Twelve Monkeys Sophie Marceau for Braveheart ?

29. Kirsten Dunst

Actress | Spider-Man

Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...

1994 for Interview with the Vampire

Other nominees: Natalie Portman for Leon Sandra Bullock for Speed

30. Ariana Richards

Actress | Jurassic Park

Ariana Richards is an American film and television actress, artist, and producer. Her official website is GalleryAriana.

Born on September 11, 1979 in Healdsburg, California, U.S. as Ariana Clarice Richards, she is the older sister of actress Bethany Richards.

Whether she's working on a busy, noisy ...

1993 for Jurassic Park

Other nominees: Emma Thompson for The Remains of the Day Carla Gugino for Son in Law Yancy Butler for Hard Target Sandra Bucllock for Demolition Man

31. 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 ...

1992 for Far and Away

Other nominees: Sharon Stone for Basic Instinct Demi Moore for A Few Good Men Kim Basinger for Cool World Maryl Streep for Death Becomes to Her

32. Christina Ricci

Actress | Casper

Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...

1991 for The Addams Family

Other nominees: Anna Chlumsky for My Girl Milla Jojovich for Return to the Blue Lagoon Jodie Foster for Silence of the Lambs

33. Julia Roberts

Actress | Pretty Woman

Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...

1990 for Pretty Woman

Other nominees: Kathy Bates for Misery Demi Moore for Ghost Winona Ryder for Edward Scisorhands

34. Meg Ryan

Actress | When Harry Met Sally...

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed with an effervescent personality, Meg Ryan was born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra in Fairfield, Connecticut, to Susan (Duggan), an English teacher and one-time actress, and Harry Hyra, a math teacher. She is of Ruthenian, Polish, Irish, and German ancestry ("Hyra" is a ...

1989 for When Harry Met Sally...

Other Nominees: Jenny Lewis for The Wizard

35. Cassandra Peterson

Actress | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Cassandra Peterson was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She began her career at age 17 as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history in the show "Vive Les Girls" at the Dunes Hotel. After receiving advice from "The King" himself, Elvis Presley, she traveled to ...

1988 for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Other nominees: Maggie Cheung for Police Story 2 Priscila Presley for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

36. Jennifer Grey

Actress | Dirty Dancing

Jennifer Grey is an American actress who starred in the film Dirty Dancing (1987) opposite Patrick Swayze, a sleeper hit that would become one of the biggest films of the 1980s. She had previously appeared with Patrick Swayze in John Milius's cold war drama Red Dawn (1984) as 'Toni,' one of the '...

1987 for Dirty Dancing

37. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

1986 for Aliens

Other nominees: Jennifer Connelly for Labyrinth

38. Molly Ringwald

Actress | Sixteen Candles

Molly Ringwald was born in Roseville, California, to Adele Edith (Frembd), a chef, and Robert Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist. Her ancestry includes German, English, and Swedish. She released an album at the age of 6 entitled, "I Wanna Be Loved By You, Molly Sings". She is the youngest daughter of ...

1985 for The Breakfast Club

Other nominees: Ally Sheedy for The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire Lea Thompson for Back to the Future Demi Moore for St. Elmo's Fire Maggie Cheung for Police Story Kelly LeBrock for Weird Science

39. Linda Hamilton

Actress | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Born in Salisbury, Maryland, USA, following high school Linda studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York. In New York she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg. Her first parts were small parts in TV series, with ...

1984 for Terminator

Other nominees: Suzanna Hamilton for Nineteen Eighty-Four Molly Ringwald for Sixteen Candles Olivia d'Abo for Conan the Destroyer

40. Jennifer Beals

Actress | Flashdance

Jennifer Beals is an internationally renowned actress who has over 90 credits to her name, including critically acclaimed feature films and some of the highest rated television series to date. Beals is currently executive producing and returning as a lead cast member in the revival of her hit ...

1983 for Flashdance ?

Other nominees: Michelle Pfeiffer for Scarface Carrie Fisher for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

41. 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 for Sophie's Choice ?

Other nominees: Julie Andrews for Victor Victoria ? Drew Barrymore for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

42. Karen Allen

Actress | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Karen Jane Allen was born in Carrollton, rural southern Illinois, to Patricia (Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. She was always "the new girl in school." Acting did not really ...

1981 for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Other nominees: Diane Keaton for Reds ? Meryl Streep for The French Lieutenant's Woman ?

43. Carrie Fisher

Actress | Star Wars

Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California, to singers/actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was an actress and writer known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return ...

1980 for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Other nominees: Shelley Duvall for The Shining

44. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

1979 for Alien

Other nominees: Diane Keaton for Manhattan

45. Olivia Newton-John

Soundtrack | Grease

Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. In 1954, her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a Presbyterian college in Melbourne. After winning a singing talent contest...

1978 for Grease

46. Carrie Fisher

Actress | Star Wars

Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California, to singers/actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was an actress and writer known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return ...

1977 for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Other nominees: Diane Keaton for Annie Hall

47. Jessica Lange

Actress | Tootsie

Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...

1976 for King Kong ?

Other nominees: Talia Shire for Rocky Jodie Foster for Taxi Driver

48. Faye Dunaway

Actress | Bonnie and Clyde

An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...

1974 for Chinatown

49. Talia Shire

Actress | Rocky

Talia Rose Shire is an American actress who played roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather films and Adrian Balboa in the Rocky series. For her work in The Godfather Part II and Rocky, Shire was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, and for the ...

1972 for The Godfather

50. Diana Rigg

Actress | Last Night in Soho

British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

1969 for On Her Majesty's Secret Service

51. Mia Farrow

Actress | Rosemary's Baby

Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the ...

1968 for Rosemary's Baby

52. 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...

1967 for The Graduate

Other nominees: Katharine Ross for The Graduate

53. 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 ...

1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ?

54. Julie Andrews

Actress | The Sound of Music

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...

1965 for The Sound of Music ?

55. Mary Badham

Actress | To Kill a Mockingbird

Mary Badham was born on October 7, 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Let's Kill Uncle (1966) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She has been married to Richard Wilt since 1975. They have two children.

1962 for To Kill a Mockinbird

56. 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, ...

1961 for Breakfast at Tiffany's

57. Janet Leigh

Actress | Psycho

Janet Leigh was the only child of a couple who often moved from town to town. Living in apartments, Janet was a bright child who skipped several grades and finished high school when she was 15. A lonely child, she would spend much of her time at movie theaters. She was a student, studying music and...

1960 for Psycho

Other nominees: Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment

58. Eva Marie Saint

Actress | On the Waterfront

Actress and producer Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924 on Newark, New Jersey. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Her film career also includes ...

1959 for North by Northwest

59. Kim Novak

Actress | Vertigo

Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even ...

1958 for Vertigo

60. Grace Kelly

Actress | Dial M for Murder

On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her high school graduation in 1947, Grace ...

1954 for Rear Window

61. Debbie Reynolds

Actress | Singin' in the Rain

Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Maxine N. (Harmon) and Raymond Francis Reynolds, a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Reynolds wasn't a ...

1952 for Singin' in the Rain ?

62. 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...

1950 for All About Eve

Others nominees: Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard Anne Baxter for All About Eve

63. 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 ...

1948 for The Lady from Shanghai ?

64. Donna Reed

Actress | It's a Wonderful Life

Donna Reed was born in the midwestern town of Denison, Iowa, on January 27, 1921, as Donna Belle Mullenger. A small town - a population of less than 3,000 people - Denison was located by the Boyer River, and was the county seat of Crawford County. Donna grew up as a farm girl, much like many young ...

1946 for It's a Wonderful Life

65. 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 ...

1942 for Casablanca

66. 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 for Rebecca