Al’s Top Rated Actresses of All Time

1. Meryl Streep

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 ...

Star score: 180 — Number of films seen: 22 — Favorite roles: The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Doubt (2008), August: Osage County (2013), Sophie's Choice (1982), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The River Wild (1994), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Julie & Julia (2009), Music of the Heart (1999), ...First Do No Harm (1997 TV Movie), Out of Africa (1985), Marvin's Room (1996), The Hours (2002), The Deer Hunter (1978), Adaptation. (2002), The House of the Spirits (1993), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Post (2017), Don't Look Up (2021), Little Women (2019), Rendition (2007), Suffragette (2015)

2. Viola Davis

Actress | Fences

Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...

Star score: 163 — Number of films seen: 30 — Favorite roles: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), The Help (2011), The Woman King (2022), Fences (2016), Widows (2018), Air (2023), Troop Zero (2019), Won't Back Down (2012), Prisoners (2013), Doubt (2008), The Suicide Squad (2021), Get on Up (2014), The Unforgivable (2021), Trust (2010), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), The Pentagon Wars (1998 TV Movie), Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005 TV Movie), Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006 TV Movie), Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006 TV Movie), Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007 TV Movie), Out of Sight (1998), Disturbia (2007), Antwone Fisher (2002), Far from Heaven (2002), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Black Adam (2022), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Traffic (2000), State of Play (2009)

3. Julianne Moore

Actress | Far from Heaven

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...

Star score: 162 — Number of films seen: 21 — Favorite roles: Still Alice (2014), Game Change (2012 TV Movie), Far from Heaven (2002), The Kids Are All Right (2010), Boogie Nights (1997), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), Magnolia (1999), What Maisie Knew (2012), The Hours (2002), Short Cuts (1993), Hannibal (2001), The Big Lebowski (1998), May December (2023), A Map of the World (1999), Children of Men (2006), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Non-Stop (2014), The Fugitive (1993), I'm Not There (2007)

4. Jennifer Jason Leigh

Actress | The Hateful Eight

Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina ...

Star score: 160 — Number of films seen: 22 — Favorite roles: The Hateful Eight (2015), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Single White Female (1992), Rush (1991), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Miami Blues (1990), Annihilation (2018), The Hitcher (1986), Anomalisa (2015), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Kansas City (1996), Short Cuts (1993), The Machinist (2004), The Spectacular Now (2013), Easy Money (1983), Backdraft (1991), The Big Picture (1989), Good Time (2017), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Road to Perdition (2002)

5. 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 ...

Star score: 152 — Number of films seen: 22 — Favorite roles: Carol (2015), Blue Jasmine (2013), Truth (2015), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Aviator (2004), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Tár (2022), Elizabeth (1998), Don't Look Up (2021), Hanna (2011), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), Babel (2006), Heaven (2002), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Little Fish (2005), I'm Not There (2007), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), Hot Fuzz (2007), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

6. Amy Adams

Actress | Arrival

Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...

Star score: 140 — Number of films seen: 18 — Favorite roles: Arrival (2016), Nocturnal Animals (2016), The Fighter (2010), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Sunshine Cleaning (2008), Big Eyes (2014), Trouble with the Curve (2012), American Hustle (2013), Man of Steel (2013), Vice (2018), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Master (2012), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Her (2013), Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006)

7. 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...

Star score: 126 — Number of films seen: 14 — Favorite roles: Dark Victory (1939), All About Eve (1950), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Old Acquaintance (1943), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Kid Galahad (1937), The Petrified Forest (1936), The Letter (1940), Jezebel (1938), The Nanny (1965), Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), Return from Witch Mountain (1978)

8. 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 ...

Star score: 116 — Number of films seen: 14 — Favorite roles: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Giant (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Cleopatra (1963), Father of the Bride (1950), National Velvet (1944), A Place in the Sun (1951), Little Women (1949), Life with Father (1947), Courage of Lassie (1946), Lassie Come Home (1943), The Flintstones (1994), Becket (1964)

9. Katharine Hepburn

Actress | The Lion in Winter

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...

Star score: 111 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: The African Queen (1951), On Golden Pond (1981), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), State of the Union (1948), Adam's Rib (1949), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Desk Set (1957), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Woman of the Year (1942)

10. Angela Bassett

Actress | Strange Days

Captivating, gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters and on stages and television screens throughout the world. Angela Evelyn Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York City, to Betty Jane (Gilbert), a social worker, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett, a ...

Star score: 106 — Number of films seen: 20 — Favorite roles: What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), The Rosa Parks Story (2002 TV Movie), Malcolm X (1992), Betty and Coretta (2013 TV Movie), Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Strange Days (1995), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Black Panther (2018), Chi-Raq (2015), Boyz n the Hood (1991), Music of the Heart (1999), Nothing But the Truth (2008), Notorious (2009), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Contact (1997), Passion Fish (1992), Soul (2020), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

11. 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 ...

Star score: 106 — Number of films seen: 15 — Favorite roles: Black Swan (2010), V for Vendetta (2005), Léon: The Professional (1994), Annihilation (2018), Brothers (2009), Closer (2004), May December (2023), Heat (1995), Cold Mountain (2003), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Mars Attacks! (1996), Zoolander (2001), Avengers: Endgame (2019)

12. 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 ...

Star score: 104 — Number of films seen: 14 — Favorite roles: Walk the Line (2005), Wild (2014), Legally Blonde (2001), Pleasantville (1998), The Good Lie (2014), Election (1999), The Man in the Moon (1991), Freeway (1996), Wildflower (1991 TV Movie), Rendition (2007), Mud (2012), American Psycho (2000), Twilight (1998), Little Nicky (2000)

13. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

Star score: 103 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Maverick (1994), The Accused (1988), Taxi Driver (1976), Contact (1997), Carnage (2011), Panic Room (2002), Nyad (2023), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), The Mauritanian (2021), Inside Man (2006)

14. 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...

Star score: 99 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Winter's Bone (2010), Don't Look Up (2021), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), Mother! (2017), No Hard Feelings (2023), American Hustle (2013), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

15. Saoirse Ronan

Actress | Hanna

Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...

Star score: 91 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: Brooklyn (2015), Little Women (2019), Lady Bird (2017), Hanna (2011), How I Live Now (2013), Violet & Daisy (2011), On Chesil Beach (2017), The Lovely Bones (2009), Ammonite (2020), Atonement (2007), The Way Back (2010), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

16. 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 ...

Star score: 90 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: The Help (2011), Molly's Game (2017), Miss Sloane (2016), The Martian (2015), Take Shelter (2011), The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), Interstellar (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), A Most Violent Year (2014), It Chapter Two (2019)

17. Lauren Bacall

Actress | To Have and Have Not

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a ...

Star score: 90 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), Key Largo (1948), Written on the Wind (1956), Young Man with a Horn (1950), Blood Alley (1955), The Shootist (1976), Harper (1966), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Dogville (2003), Misery (1990)

18. Carey Mulligan

Actress | Never Let Me Go

Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.

Her first major appearance was ...

Star score: 86 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: Promising Young Woman (2020), An Education (2009), Suffragette (2015), She Said (2022), Drive (2011), Mudbound (2017), Maestro (2023), The Dig (2021), The Great Gatsby (2013), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Brothers (2009), Public Enemies (2009)

19. 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 ...

Star score: 84 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: Aliens (1986), Alien (1979), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), A Map of the World (1999), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Avatar (2009), Galaxy Quest (1999), Dave (1993), The Ice Storm (1997), WALL·E (2008), Finding Dory (2016)

20. 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 ...

Star score: 84 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Erin Brockovich (2000), August: Osage County (2013), Closer (2004), The Pelican Brief (1993), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Wonder (2017), Hook (1991), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), The Mexican (2001), The Player (1992)

21. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

Star score: 83 — Number of films seen: 13 — Favorite roles: Fargo (1996), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Blood Simple (1984), Nomadland (2020), Burn After Reading (2008), North Country (2005), Short Cuts (1993), Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), Raising Arizona (1987), Primal Fear (1996), Women Talking (2022), Isle of Dogs (2018)

22. Laura Dern

Actress | Jurassic Park

Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact with her father for ...

Star score: 83 — Number of films seen: 17 — Favorite roles: The Tale (2018), Wild (2014), Marriage Story (2019), Little Women (2019), Jurassic Park (1993), I Am Sam (2001), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), 99 Homes (2014), The Founder (2016), October Sky (1999), Recount (2008 TV Movie), A Perfect World (1993), Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), Jurassic Park III (2001), The Master (2012), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

23. Tessa Thompson

Actress | Creed

The actress Tessa Lynn Thompson was born on October 3, 1983 in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson and the granddaughter of actor-musician Bobby Ramos. She was raised in Los Angeles before moving to Brooklyn, New York. Her father is of ...

Star score: 83 — Number of films seen: 13 — Favorite roles: Passing (2021), Dear White People (2014), Annihilation (2018), Little Woods (2018), Sylvie's Love (2020), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Creed III (2023), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Selma (2014), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)

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 ...

Star score: 81 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Tully (2018), North Country (2005), Monster (2003), Bombshell (2019), The Old Guard (2020), The Italian Job (2003), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Cider House Rules (1999), That Thing You Do! (1996), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

25. Kathy Bates

Actress | Misery

Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...

Star score: 80 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: Misery (1990), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Waterboy (1998), Richard Jewell (2019), About Schmidt (2002), Titanic (1997), The Blind Side (2009), Bad Santa 2 (2016), Revolutionary Road (2008), The Highwaymen (2019), Love Liza (2002), Dick Tracy (1990)

26. Annette Bening

Actress | American Beauty

Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, ...

Star score: 78 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: American Beauty (1999), The Kids Are All Right (2010), Nyad (2023), The American President (1995), Regarding Henry (1991), Danny Collins (2015), The Report (2019), Open Range (2003), The Great Outdoors (1988), Mars Attacks! (1996), Captain Marvel (2019)

27. Joan Allen

Actress | Room

Joan Allen was born on August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, Illinois, the youngest of four children. She is the daughter of homemaker Dorothea Marie (Wirth) and gas station owner James Jefferson Allen. Her mother's family was German, and her father had English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry. She ...

Star score: 77 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Pleasantville (1998), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), The Ice Storm (1997), Room (2015), The Notebook (2004), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Nixon (1995), Face/Off (1997), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

28. Myrna Loy

Actress | The Thin Man

Myrna Williams, later to become Myrna Loy, was born on August 2, 1905 in Helena, Montana. Her father was the youngest person ever elected to the Montana State legislature. Later on her family moved to Radersburg where she spent her youth on a cattle ranch. At the age of 13, Myrna's father died of ...

Star score: 76 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: The Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), Another Thin Man (1939), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Libeled Lady (1936), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

29. 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 ...

Star score: 75 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Dogville (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), The Hours (2002), Bombshell (2019), The Beguiled (2017), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Batman Forever (1995), Days of Thunder (1990), BMX Bandits (1983), Panic Room (2002)

30. Rachel McAdams

Actress | The Notebook

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra Kay (Gale), a nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture mover. She is of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rachel became involved with acting as a teenager and by the age of 13 ...

Star score: 72 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: The Notebook (2004), Red Eye (2005), Game Night (2018), Spotlight (2015), Wedding Crashers (2005), State of Play (2009), A Most Wanted Man (2014), Southpaw (2015), Doctor Strange (2016)

31. Rene Russo

Actress | Nightcrawler

Rene Russo was born in Burbank, California, to Shirley (Balocca), a barmaid and factory laborer, and Nino Russo. Her father, a sculptor and mechanic, left the family when Rene was just two, and thus her mother raised Rene and her sister, Toni, as a single mom. Her father was of Italian descent, and ...

Star score: 72 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Nightcrawler (2014), In the Line of Fire (1993), Get Shorty (1995), Tin Cup (1996), Outbreak (1995), Ransom (1996), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Major League (1989), Avengers: Endgame (2019), The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)

32. Kate Winslet

Actress | Titanic

Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...

Star score: 70 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Titanic (1997), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Holiday (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), The Reader (2008), Carnage (2011), Ammonite (2020), Contagion (2011)

33. Jamie Lee Curtis

Actress | Halloween

Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading...

Star score: 69 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Halloween (1978), True Lies (1994), Trading Places (1983), Halloween II (1981), Halloween (2018), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), My Girl (1991), Forever Young (1992), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

34. Uma Thurman

Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Uma Karuna Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. She is the daughter of Nena Thurman (née Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge), a fashion model and socialite who now runs a mountain retreat, and of Robert Thurman (Robert Alexander ...

Star score: 68 — Number of films seen: 6 — Favorite roles: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Pulp Fiction (1994), Tape (2001), Gattaca (1997), Be Cool (2005)

35. Joan Crawford

Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; ...

Star score: 68 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Mildred Pierce (1945), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Possessed (1947), Humoresque (1946), The Women (1939)

36. 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, ...

Star score: 67 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: There's Something About Mary (1998), The Holiday (2006), Vanilla Sky (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), The Mask (1994), Any Given Sunday (1999), Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Minority Report (2002)

37. Sandra Bullock

Producer | The Proposal

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...

Star score: 67 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Gravity (2013), The Blind Side (2009), Speed (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), The Unforgivable (2021), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Bird Box (2018), Crash (2004), Bullet Train (2022)

38. Catherine O'Hara

Actress | A Mighty Wind

Canadian actress, writer, and comedian, Catherine O'Hara gained recognition as one of the original cast members on the Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV (1976). On the series, she impersonated the likes of Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Gilda Radner, Katharine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields...

Star score: 67 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Best in Show (2000), Home Alone (1990), Beetlejuice (1988), Temple Grandin (2010 TV Movie), Waiting for Guffman (1996), A Mighty Wind (2003), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Orange County (2002), Dick Tracy (1990)

39. Scarlett Johansson

Actress | Lost in Translation

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...

Star score: 67 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: Marriage Story (2019), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), The Prestige (2006), Jojo Rabbit (2019), The Jungle Book (2016), Isle of Dogs (2018), Her (2013), Captain Marvel (2019)

40. 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...

Star score: 66 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: Room (2015), Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), Just Mercy (2019), 21 Jump Street (2012), The Spectacular Now (2013), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)

41. Allison Janney

Actress | The Help

Allison Janney is an award-winning actress who has earned a solid reputation in stage productions and in many supporting roles on screen, and who more recently has become prominent by portraying one of the major characters in the popular TV series The West Wing (1999).

Entertainment Weekly magazine ...

Star score: 66 — Number of films seen: 17 — Favorite roles: I, Tonya (2017), Bad Education (2019), Troop Zero (2019), The Help (2011), Juno (2007), The Hours (2002), Big Night (1996), Bombshell (2019), Bad Words (2013), First Do No Harm (1997 TV Movie), The Ice Storm (1997), American Beauty (1999), Finding Nemo (2003), Finding Dory (2016), Private Parts (1997), Get on Up (2014), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

42. 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 ...

Star score: 65 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Rear Window (1954), The Country Girl (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Mogambo (1953), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), High Noon (1952)

43. Jane Lynch

Actress | Wreck-It Ralph

Jane Marie Lynch is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series Glee (2009-2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recognition for her roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films, such as Best in ...

Star score: 65 — Number of films seen: 13 — Favorite roles: Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), The Three Stooges (2012), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Role Models (2008), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), Julie & Julia (2009), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), The Fugitive (1993), Rio (2011), Vice Versa (1988), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

44. Bridget Fonda

Actress | A Simple Plan

Bridget Jane Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California, to Susan Brewer and actor Peter Fonda. She is the granddaughter of Henry Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda, both famous actors. Bridget made her film debut at age five as an extra in Easy Rider (1969), but first became interested in acting after ...

Star score: 64 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Single White Female (1992), It Could Happen to You (1994), Point of No Return (1993), Jackie Brown (1997), A Simple Plan (1998), Singles (1992), City Hall (1996), The Godfather Part III (1990), In the Gloaming (1997 TV Movie)

45. Jennifer Connelly

Actress | A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...

Star score: 64 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Requiem for a Dream (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Blood Diamond (2006), Only the Brave (2017), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), The Rocketeer (1991), Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

46. 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 ...

Star score: 63 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: I, Tonya (2017), Babylon (2022), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Barbie (2023), The Suicide Squad (2021), Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019), Bombshell (2019), The Big Short (2015)

47. Zoe Saldana

Actress | Avatar

Zoe Saldana was born on June 19, 1978 in Passaic, New Jersey, to Asalia Nazario and Aridio Saldaña. Her father was Dominican and her mother is Puerto Rican. She was raised in Queens, New York. When she was 10 years old, she and her family moved to the Dominican Republic, where they would live for ...

Star score: 63 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Avatar (2009), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Out of the Furnace (2013), The Terminal (2004)

48. Catherine Keener

Actress | Being John Malkovich

Catherine Keener is an American actress, Oscar-nominated for her roles in the independent films Being John Malkovich (1999) and Capote (2005). Acclaimed in her community for her quirky roles in independent film and mainstream such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Keener got her start as a casting ...

Star score: 62 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: A Late Quartet (2012), Get Out (2017), Into the Wild (2007), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Trust (2010), Capote (2005), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Incredibles 2 (2018), The Soloist (2009), Out of Sight (1998), Captain Phillips (2013), Adaptation. (2002)

49. Elizabeth Banks

Actress | The Hunger Games

Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Elizabeth describes ...

Star score: 62 — Number of films seen: 13 — Favorite roles: Love & Mercy (2014), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Role Models (2008), The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Lego Movie (2014), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Pitch Perfect (2012), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man (2002)

50. Rosario Dawson

Actress | Rent

This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawson's powerhouse talent stands out the most in edgy...

Star score: 61 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: Clerks II (2006), Sin City (2005), Death Proof (2007), He Got Game (1998), 25th Hour (2002), Unstoppable (2010), Clerks III (2022), Kids (1995), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), Sorry to Bother You (2018)

51. 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 ...

Star score: 61 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), The 'Burbs (1989), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hook (1991)

52. Emma Stone

Actress | La La Land

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...

Star score: 60 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Poor Things (2023), The Help (2011), Easy A (2010), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), Superbad (2007), Zombieland (2009), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

53. Patricia Arquette

Actress | Boyhood

With her expressive blue eyes, soft, Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of the most underrated and talented actresses of her generation. Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed ...

Star score: 60 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: True Romance (1993), Boyhood (2014), Wildflower (1991 TV Movie), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Lost Highway (1997), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), Toy Story 4 (2019), Little Nicky (2000), Uncle Buck (1989)

54. 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...

Star score: 60 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: The Good Girl (2002), Marley & Me (2008), We're the Millers (2013), Office Space (1999), Horrible Bosses (2011), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Along Came Polly (2004), Bruce Almighty (2003)

55. Karen Gillan

Actress | Selfie

Karen Sheila Gillan was born and raised in Inverness, Scotland, as the only child of Marie Paterson and husband John Gillan, who is a singer and recording artist. She developed a love for acting very early on, attending several youth theatre groups and taking part in a wide range of productions at ...

Star score: 60 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), The Big Short (2015)

56. Lupita Nyong'o

Actress | 12 Years a Slave

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...

Star score: 59 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: Us (2019), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Queen of Katwe (2016), The Jungle Book (2016), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), Non-Stop (2014)

57. Octavia Spencer

Actress | Hidden Figures

Spencer is a native of Montgomery, Alabama, which she claims is the proverbial buckle of the Bible belt. She's the sixth of seven siblings and holds a BS in Liberal Arts from Auburn University. A "closet" lover of acting, this practical Alabamian knew that she'd someday work in the film industry, ...

Star score: 59 — Number of films seen: 14 — Favorite roles: Hidden Figures (2016), The Help (2011), Fruitvale Station (2013), Instant Family (2018), Get on Up (2014), Coach Carter (2005), Bad Santa (2003), Bad Santa 2 (2016), Zootopia (2016), Halloween II (2009), A Time to Kill (1996), Spider-Man (2002), The Soloist (2009), S.W.A.T. (2003)

58. Juliette Lewis

Actress | Cape Fear

Juliette Lewis has been recognized as one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile actors of her generation since she first stunned audiences and critics alike with her Oscar-nominated performance as "Danielle Bowden" in Cape Fear (1991). To date, she has worked with some of the most revered ...

Star score: 59 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: Natural Born Killers (1994), Cape Fear (1991), August: Osage County (2013), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Strange Days (1995), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Old School (2003), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)

59. Winona Ryder

Actress | Little Women

Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and was named after a nearby town, Winona, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Cynthia (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller. Her father's family is Ukrainian Jewish and ...

Star score: 59 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Girl, Interrupted (1999), Beetlejuice (1988), The House of the Spirits (1993), Heathers (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Mr. Deeds (2002), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Black Swan (2010), Zoolander (2001)

60. Tilda Swinton

Actress | We Need to Talk About Kevin

The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded ...

Star score: 58 — Number of films seen: 14 — Favorite roles: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Burn After Reading (2008), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Okja (2017), Doctor Strange (2016), The Beach (2000), The Killer (2023), Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation. (2002), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Uncut Gems (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Isle of Dogs (2018)

61. Beverly D'Angelo

Actress | National Lampoon's Vacation

Intriguing, inspiring, and never less than interesting -- key adjectives in describing the career of Beverly D'Angelo, which has well passed the four-decade mark. Perhaps deserving better movies than she generally found herself in, she nevertheless was always an object of fascination and the one to...

Star score: 58 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Vegas Vacation (1997), American History X (1998), Violent Night (2022), Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

62. Madeline Kahn

Actress | Paper Moon

Madeline Kahn was born Madeline Gail Wolfson of Russian Jewish descent on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Freda Goldberg (later known as Paula Kahn), who was still in her teens, and Bernard B. Wolfson, a garment manufacturer. She began her acting career in high school and went on to...

Star score: 57 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), History of the World: Part I (1981), Paper Moon (1973), High Anxiety (1977), A Bug's Life (1998), An American Tail (1986), Nixon (1995)

63. 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 ...

Star score: 57 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky III (1982), The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990/2020), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Godfather (1972), Rocky V (1990), Rad (1986)

64. 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 ...

Star score: 56 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Sunshine Cleaning (2008), A Quiet Place (2018), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Sicario (2015), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Oppenheimer (2023), Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

65. Bonnie Hunt

Actress | Jumanji

Bonnie Lynn Hunt is an American actress and comedienne who is known for her work in Rain Man, Beethoven, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile and Cheaper by the Dozen. She voiced in the Disney films A Bug's Life, Zootopia, Monsters, Inc, Toy Story 3 and Cars. She was married to John Murphy but ...

Star score: 56 — Number of films seen: 14 — Favorite roles: Beethoven (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993), Jumanji (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Jerry Maguire (1996), Cars (2006), Zootopia (2016), Toy Story 4 (2019), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Toy Story 3 (2010), A Bug's Life (1998), Rain Man (1988), Dave (1993), Monsters University (2013)

66. Shirley MacLaine

Actress | Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...

Star score: 55 — Number of films seen: 6 — Favorite roles: The Apartment (1960), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Being There (1979), The Children's Hour (1961), What a Way to Go! (1964), The Trouble with Harry (1955)

67. Alfre Woodard

Actress | Star Trek: First Contact

Alfre Woodard was born on November 8, 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the youngest of three children of Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an interior designer. She was named by her godmother, who claimed she saw a vision of Alfre's name written out in gold letters. A former high school ...

Star score: 55 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: Passion Fish (1992), Down in the Delta (1998), Miss Evers' Boys (1997 TV Movie), Crooklyn (1994), Holiday Heart (2000 TV Movie), Primal Fear (1996), 12 Years a Slave (2013), K-PAX (2001), Captain America: Civil War (2016), The Lion King (2019)

68. Bryce Dallas Howard

Actress | Jurassic World Dominion

Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas (the reason for her middle name). Her father, Ron Howard, is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director. Her mother is actress and writer Cheryl Howard (née Alley). Her famous relatives ...

Star score: 54 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: The Help (2011), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), Pete's Dragon (2016), Hereafter (2010), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A Dog's Way Home (2019), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Apollo 13 (1995)

69. 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 ...

Star score: 54 — Number of films seen: 12 — Favorite roles: Hard Eight (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Se7en (1995), Contagion (2011), Shallow Hal (2001), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), She Said (2022), Hook (1991)

70. Melinda Dillon

Actress | Magnolia

Melinda Dillon came to prominence with the role of Jillian Guiler, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Dillon's performance in the film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. A few years later, Dillon ...

Star score: 53 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: A Christmas Story (1983), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Reign Over Me (2007), Absence of Malice (1981), Magnolia (1999), Slap Shot (1977)

71. Lea Thompson

Actress | Back to the Future

Lea Katherine Thompson was born May 31, 1961 in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the youngest of five children. Her parents are Barbara and Cliff Thompson. Since all her siblings were much older than her, Lea says it seemed like she had more than two parents. The family lived in the Starlight motel, ...

Star score: 53 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), Dennis the Menace (1993), Howard the Duck (1986), J. Edgar (2011)

72. 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, ...

Star score: 52 — Number of films seen: 6 — Favorite roles: Wait Until Dark (1967), Sabrina (1954), Charade (1963), Roman Holiday (1953), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Children's Hour (1961)

73. Laura Linney

Actress | The Big C

Laura Leggett Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father was prominent playwright Romulus Linney, whose own great-grandfather was a congressman from North Carolina. Her mother, Miriam Anderson (Leggett), is a nurse. Although she did not live in her ...

Star score: 52 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: The Savages (2007), The Truman Show (1998), Primal Fear (1996), Love Actually (2003), Sully (2016), Mystic River (2003), Absolute Power (1997), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Dave (1993), The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

74. Jena Malone

Actress | The Neon Demon

Jena Malone was born in Reno, Nevada, raised in Sparks, Nevada; two cities that have merged together over time, to Deborah Malone and Edward Berge. Her grandfather owned a casino, Karl's Silver Club, in Reno. She was raised by her mother and her mother's partner. Beginning as a child actress, and ...

Star score: 52 — Number of films seen: 11 — Favorite roles: Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Donnie Darko (2001), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), Into the Wild (2007), Contact (1997), The Soloist (2009), The Messenger (2009), Cold Mountain (2003), Nocturnal Animals (2016)

75. 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 ...

Star score: 51 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Carol (2015), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Social Network (2010), Women Talking (2022), Nightmare Alley (2021), Her (2013)

76. 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 ...

Star score: 50 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Monster (2003), Black Snake Moan (2006), The Ice Storm (1997), The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

77. Sally Field

Actress | Forrest Gump

Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...

Star score: 50 — Number of films seen: 5 — Favorite roles: Forrest Gump (1994), Lincoln (2012), Absence of Malice (1981), Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

78. Margo Martindale

Actress | August: Osage County

Margo Martindale was born July 18, 1951 in Jacksonville, Texas, to Margaret (Pruitt) and William Everett Martindale, a lumber company owner and dog handler. She is the youngest of three children, and the only daughter. Margo attended Lon Marris College, and later transferred to University of ...

Star score: 49 — Number of films seen: 17 — Favorite roles: August: Osage County (2013), Cocaine Bear (2023), ...First Do No Harm (1997 TV Movie), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Instant Family (2018), Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Hours (2002), Orphan (2009), Twilight (1998), Nobody's Fool (1994), Marvin's Room (1996), Dead Man Walking (1995), The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie), The Savages (2007), The Rocketeer (1991), The Firm (1993), Days of Thunder (1990)

79. Anne Hathaway

Actress | Les Misérables

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...

Star score: 48 — Number of films seen: 6 — Favorite roles: The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Love & Other Drugs (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Rio (2011)

80. Brittany Murphy

Actress | Clueless

Brittany Murphy was born Brittany Anne Bertolotti on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti. Her father's ancestry is Italian, and her mother is of Irish and Slovak descent. Her father moved the family back to Edison, New Jersey as a native New...

Star score: 48 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Clueless (1995), Sin City (2005), Spun (2002), Girl, Interrupted (1999), 8 Mile (2002), Bongwater (1998), Freeway (1996)

81. 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, ...

Star score: 48 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Jumanji (1995), The Beguiled (2017), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Hidden Figures (2016)

82. 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 ...

Star score: 47 — Number of films seen: 5 — Favorite roles: Network (1976), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), Little Big Man (1970)

83. Sissy Spacek

Actress | In the Bedroom

As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.

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Star score: 47 — Number of films seen: 6 — Favorite roles: Carrie (1976), Badlands (1973), JFK (1991), Blast from the Past (1999), North Country (2005), The Help (2011)

84. Taraji P. Henson

Actress | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She played a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a ...

Star score: 47 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Hidden Figures (2016), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Talk to Me (2007), Hustle & Flow (2005), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), Four Brothers (2005), The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000), The Karate Kid (2010)

85. Shailene Woodley

Actress | Divergent

Actress and activist Shailene Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California, to Lori (Victor), a middle school counselor, and Lonnie Woodley, a school principal. She has one brother, Tanner. She was educated at Simi Valley High School in California. When Woodley was four years old she began ...

Star score: 47 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: The Fault in Our Stars (2014), The Spectacular Now (2013), The Descendants (2011), Snowden (2016), The Mauritanian (2021), Dumb Money (2023), The Fallout (2021)

86. Anjelica Huston

Actress | The Grifters

Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 to director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1968 first dipped her toe into the world of show business, taking on the lead role of her father's ...

Star score: 47 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: The Witches (1990), The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019), Blood Work (2002), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), The Player (1992), Isle of Dogs (2018), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

87. Marisa Tomei

Actress | My Cousin Vinny

Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to Patricia "Addie" (Bianchi), a teacher of English, and Gary Tomei, a lawyer, both of Italian descent. Marisa has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy ...

Star score: 47 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: My Cousin Vinny (1992), The Wrestler (2008), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), The Big Short (2015), The Ides of March (2011), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Endgame (2019)

88. Melissa Leo

Actress | The Fighter

Melissa Leo is an American actress. She is known for her Academy Award-winning performance in the 2010 film The Fighter (2010). She was born on September 14, 1960, in New York City. Leo starred as the mother of boxer Micky Ward in the 2010 film The Fighter, also starring Mark Wahlberg. The role ...

Star score: 46 — Number of films seen: 10 — Favorite roles: The Fighter (2010), Prisoners (2013), All the Way (2016 TV Movie), The Equalizer (2014), The Equalizer 2 (2018), 21 Grams (2003), Snowden (2016), Flight (2012), The Big Short (2015), The Equalizer 3 (2023)

89. Shelley Winters

Actress | The Poseidon Adventure

Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mother, Rose Winter, was born in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her father, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. She had one sibling...

Star score: 46 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: A Place in the Sun (1951), A Patch of Blue (1965), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), Winchester '73 (1950), Harper (1966), Red River (1948)

90. Cloris Leachman

Actress | The Last Picture Show

The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She ...

Star score: 45 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), Beerfest (2006), Music of the Heart (1999), Bad Santa (2003), Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), History of the World: Part I (1981), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

91. Mary Steenburgen

Actress | Last Vegas

Mary Steenburgen is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

She was born in Newport, Arkansas, USA. Her mother, Nellie May (Wall) Steenburgen, was a school-board secretary, and her father, Maurice H. Steenburgen, was a freight-train conductor. Her surname comes from distant Dutch ancestry, and ...

Star score: 45 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: Back to the Future Part III (1990), Step Brothers (2008), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Elf (2003), The Help (2011), Nightmare Alley (2021), Nixon (1995)

92. Ruby Dee

Actress | American Gangster

Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist. She is best known for originating the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961).

She also starred in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Cat People (1982), ...

Star score: 45 — Number of films seen: 8 — Favorite roles: A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Do the Right Thing (1989), Buck and the Preacher (1972), Jungle Fever (1991), American Gangster (2007), Edge of the City (1957), Betty and Coretta (2013 TV Movie), No Way Out (1950)

93. 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 ...

Star score: 44 — Number of films seen: 5 — Favorite roles: Changeling (2008), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Salt (2010), Girl, Interrupted (1999), The Bone Collector (1999)

94. Michelle Monaghan

Actress | Gone Baby Gone

Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976, in Winthrop, Iowa. She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon (Hamel), who ran a day care center, and Robert L. Monaghan, a factory worker and farmer. She is of mostly Irish and German descent. After graduating from high ...

Star score: 44 — Number of films seen: 9 — Favorite roles: Gone Baby Gone (2007), Source Code (2011), North Country (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Patriots Day (2016), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

95. Teresa Wright

Actress | Shadow of a Doubt

A natural and lovely talent who was discovered for films by Samuel Goldwyn, the always likable Teresa Wright distinguished herself early on in high-caliber, Oscar-worthy form -- the only performer ever to be nominated for Oscars for her first three films. Always true to herself, she was able to ...

Star score: 44 — Number of films seen: 5 — Favorite roles: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), The Little Foxes (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Rainmaker (1997)

96. Julie Hagerty

Actress | Freddy Got Fingered

Hagerty made her off-Broadway debut in 1979, starring in Mutual Benefit Life at her brother's theater, The Production Company. She continued appearing on stage, including starring in a Broadway version of The House of Blue Leaves. She was subsequently cast opposite Robert Hays in the parody film, ...

Star score: 44 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Airplane! (1980), A Christmas Story Christmas (2022), Airplane II: the Sequel (1982), Marriage Story (2019), What About Bob? (1991), Instant Family (2018)

97. Lizabeth Scott

Actress | Too Late for Tears

Lizabeth Scott was born Emma Matzo on September 29, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of six children of Mary (Pennock) and John Matzo, who were Slovak immigrants. Scott attended Marywood Seminary and the Alvienne School of the Theatre in New York City, where she adopted the stage name of ...

Star score: 44 — Number of films seen: 5 — Favorite roles: Too Late for Tears (1949), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), I Walk Alone (1947), Pitfall (1948), Dead Reckoning (1947)

98. 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. ...

Star score: 44 — Number of films seen: 6 — Favorite roles: The Constant Gardener (2005), The Whistleblower (2010), The Mummy (1999), The Lovely Bones (2009), The Fountain (2006), The Lobster (2015)

99. Lee Remick

Actress | The Omen

Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy ...

Star score: 43 — Number of films seen: 5 — Favorite roles: Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Omen (1976), Sometimes a Great Notion (1971), A Face in the Crowd (1957), The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

100. Vera Farmiga

Actress | Up in the Air

Vera Farmiga is an American actress who has received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Up in the Air (2009) and Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in Bates Motel (2013) and When They See Us (2019).

She was born Vera Ann Farmiga, the second of seven children, on August 6, 1973, ...

Star score: 43 — Number of films seen: 7 — Favorite roles: Orphan (2009), The Departed (2006), Up in the Air (2009), Source Code (2011), Nothing But the Truth (2008), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Safe House (2012)