Top 100 Greatest Actresses of All Time

1. Katharine Hepburn

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 ...

Died 2003

Greatest Roles:

1. The Lion in Winter - 1968 2. On Golden Pond - 1981 3. The Philadelphia Story -1940 4. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967 5. Morning Glory - 1933 6. Bringing Up Baby - 1938 7. The African Queen - 1951 8. Suddenly, Last Summer - 1959 9. Adam's Rib - 1949 10. Woman of the Year - 1942

Honorable Mentions: Holiday - 1938, Alice Adams - 1935, Summertime - 1955, Pat and Mike - 1952, Long Day's Journey Into Night - 1962, Stage Door - 1937, State of the Union - 1948, Little Women - 1933, Desk Set - 1957,

Acting Oscars:4 Acting Oscar Nominations:12 BAFTA:2 BAFTA Nominations:5 Golden Globes:0 Golden Globes Nominations: 8 Primtime Emmys:1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 4

2. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1.Kramer vs Kramer - 1979 2. Adaptation - 2002 3. Sophie's Choice - 1982 4. Doubt - 2008 5. The Hours - 2002 6. The Deer Hunter - 1978 7. The Iron Lady - 2011 8. Silkwood -1983 9. The Post - 2017 10. The French Lieutenant's Woman - 1981

Honorable Mentions: The Bridges of Madison County - 1995, Defending Your Life -1991, Julia - 1977, Out of Africa - 1985, Manhattan - 1979, Poscards from The Edge - 1990, Julie and Julia - 2009, The Devil Wears Prada - 2006, Ironweed - 1987, August: Osage County - 2013, A Cry in the Dark - 1988, One True Thing - 1998, Marvin's Room - 1996

Acting Oscars:3 Acting Oscar Nominations:21 BAFTA:2 BAFTA Nominations:15 Golden Globes:9 Golden Globes Nominations: 32 Primtime Emmys:3 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 5

3. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Fargo - 1996 2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Misouri - 2017 3. Nomadland - 2020 4. Bloop Simple - 1984 5. Almost Famous - 2000 6. Women Talking - 2022 7. The Man Who Wasn't There - 2001 8. The Tragedy of Macbeth - 2021 9. Mississippi Burning - 1988 10. Moonrise Kingdom - 2012

Honorable Mentions: Lone Star - 1996, North Country - 2005, Burn After Reading - 2008, Ms. Pettigrew Lives for a Day - 2008, Hail Caeser! - 2016, Short Cuts - 1993, Isle of Dogs - 2018, Wonder Boys - 2000, Raising Arizona - 1987, Laurel Canyon - 2002, Primal Fear - 1996, Darkman - 1990, Somethings Gotta Give - 2003, Hidden Agenda - 1990, Madeline - 1998, The French Dispatch - 2021

Acting Oscars: 3 Acting Oscar Nominations: 7 BAFTA: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globes Nominations: 7 Primetime Emmys: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 2

2 Elite Top Tier Performances: Fargo - 1996, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Misouri - 2017

4. 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...

Died 1989

Greatest Roles:

1. All About Eve - 1950 2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane - 1962 3. Now, Voyager - 1942 4. Jezebel - 1938 5. The Little Foxes - 1941 6. Dark Victory - 1939 7. The Letter - 1940 8. Mr Skeffington - 1944 9. Marked Woman - 1937 10. Dangerous - 1935

Honorable Mentions: The Star - 1952, Of Human Bondage - 1934, Dead Ringer - 1964, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - 1964, Strangers (TV Series) - 1979, Kid Galahad - 1937, The Petrified Forest - 1936, Bordertown - 1935

Acting Oscars:2 Acting Oscar Nominations:11 BAFTA:0 BAFTA Nominations:1 Golden Globes:0 Golden Globes Nominations: 3 Primtime Emmys:1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3

5. 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 ...

Died 1982

Greatest Roles:

1. Casablanca - 1942 2. Notrorious - 1946 3. Gaslight - 1944 4. Anastasia - 1956 5. Spellbound - 1945 6. Murder on the Orient Express - 1974 7. Autumn Sonata - 1978 8. Indiscreet - 1958 9. Joan of Arc -1948 10. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - 1958

Honorable Mentions: Cactus Flower - 1969, The Bells of St Mary - 1945, Intermezzo -1939, Voyage to Italy - 1959, For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1943, A Woman Called Golda (Tv Series) - 1982

Acting Oscars:3 Acting Oscar Nominations:7 BAFTA:1 BAFTA Nominations:2 Golden Globes:4 Golden Globes Nominations: 8 Primtime Emmys:2 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3

1 Elite Top Tier Performance: Casablanca - 1942

6. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Blue Jasmine - 2013 2. Carol - 2015 3. Tar - 2022 4. Nightmare Alley - 2021 5. Elizabeth - 1998 6. The Aviator - 2004 7. Notes On A Scandal -2006 8. I'm Not There - 2008 9.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 2008 10. Thor: Ragnarok - 2017

Honorable Mentions: Little Fish - 2005, Don't Look Up - 2021, Lord of the Rings, Babel - 2006, Pinocchio -2022, Ponyo - 2008, Truth - 2015, The Talented Mr. Ripley - 1999, Manifesto - 2015

Acting Oscars: 2 (The Aviator - 2004, Blue Jasmine - 2013) Acting Oscar Nominations:8 BAFTA:4 BAFTA Nominations:8 Golden Globes:4 Golden Globes Nominations: 12 Primtime Emmys:0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

7. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Black Swan - 2010 2. Leon: The Professional - 1994 3. Closer - 2004 4. Jackie - 2016 5. V for Vendetta - 2005 6. Garden State - 2004 7. Annihilation - 2018 8. Heat - 1995 9. Cold Mountain - 2003 10. Anywhere but Here - 1999

Honorable Mentions: Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, Vox Lux - 2018, A Tale of Love and Darkness - 2015, Everyone Says I love You - 1996, Brothers - 2009, Star Wars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones - 2002, Thor - 2011, No Strings Attached - 2011, Hesher - 2010

Acting Oscars:1 (Black Swan - 2010) Acting Oscar Nominations:3 BAFTA:1 BAFTA Nominations:3 Golden Globes:2 Golden Globes Nominations: 4

2 Elite Top Tier Peformances: Black Swan - 2010, Leon: The Professional - 1994

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 ...

Died 2011

Greatest Roles:

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - 1966 2. Giant - 1956 3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 1958 4. National Velvet - 1944 5. A Place in the sun - 1951 6. Father of the Bride - 1950 7. Father's Little Dividend - 1951 8. The Taming of the Shrew - 1967 9. Butterfield 8 - 1960 10. Life With Father - 1947

Honorable Mentions: Ivanhoe - 1952, Suddenly, Last Summer - 1959, Little Women - 1949, Winter Kills - 1979, The Last Time I saw Paris - 1954, Lassie Comes Home - 1943

Acting Oscars: 2 (Butterfield 8 - 1960, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - 1966) Acting Oscar Nominations:5 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: Golden Globes Nominations:

9. 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...

Greatest Roles:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004 2. Sense and Sensibility - 1995 3. The Reader - 2008 4. Finding Neverland - 2004 5. Mare of Eastown (Limited Series) - 2021 6. Heavenly Creatures - 1994 7. Little Children - 2006 8. Revolutionary Road - 2008 9. Titanic - 1997 10. Iris - 2001

Honorable Mentions: Steve Jobs - 2015, Mildred Pierce (Limited Series) - 2011, Hamlet - 1996, Contagion - 2011, Quills - 2000, I am Ruth - 2022, Jude - 1996, Ammonite - 2020, Carnage - 2011, Avatar: The Way of Water - 2022, Enigma - 2001

Acting Oscars:1 (The Reader - 2008) Acting Oscar Nominations:7 BAFTA: 4 BAFTA Nominations:10 Golden Globes:5 Golden Globes Nominations: 12 Primetime Emmys: 2 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3

1 Elite Top Tier Performance: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004

10. 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, ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Norma Rae - 1979 2. Places in the Heart - 1984 3. Lincoln - 2012 4. Forrest Gump - 1994 5. Absence of Malice - 1981 6. Murphy's Romance - 1985 7. Steel Magnolias - 1989 8. Brothers and Sisters (TV Series) 2006-2011 9. Maniac (TV Series) - 2018 10. Homeward Bound 1993

Honorable Mentions: Soapdish - 1991, Spoiler Alert - 2022, Hello Mr Name is Doris - 2015, Stay Hungry - 1976, Smokey and the Bandit - 1977, Mrs. Doubtfire - 1993, Sybil - 1976, The Amazing Spiderman - 2012, Hooper - 1978.

Acting Oscars: 2 (Norma Rae -1979, Places in the Heart - 1984) Acting Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globes Nominations: 11 Primetime Emmys: 3 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 8

11. Diane Keaton

Actress | Annie Hall

Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Annie Hall - 1977 2. Manhattan - 1979 3. The Godfather - 1972 4. The Godfather Part II - 1974 5. Play it Again, Sam - 1972 6. Reds - 1981 7. Sleeper - 1973 8. Love and Death - 1975 9. Marvin's Room - 1996 10. Manhattan Murder Mystery - 1993

Honorable Mentions: Somethings Gotta Give - 2003, Crimes of the Heart - 1986, Shoot the Moon - 1982, Lovers and Other Strangers - 1970, Interiors - 1978, Ameila Earhart: The Final Flight (TV Miniseries) - 1994

Acting Oscars:1 (Annie Hall - 1977) Acting Oscar Nominations:4 BAFTA:1 BAFTA Nominations:3 Golden Globes:2 Golden Globes Nominations: 9 Primtime Emmys:0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

12. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Poor Things - 2023 2. La La Land - 2016 3.The Favourite - 2018 4. Birdman (Or the Universal Virtue of Ignorance) - 2014 5. The Help - 2011 6. Zombieland - 2009 7. Maniac (Limited Series) - 2018 8. Superbad - 2007 9. Battle of the Sexes - 2017 10. Cruella - 2021

Honorable Mentions: Easy A - 2010, The Curse (Limited Series) - 2023, Crazy Stupid Love - 2011, The Amazing Spider Man - 2012, The Interview - 2014, Paper Man - 2009, The Croods - 2013

Acting Oscars: 2 (La La Land - 2017, Poor Things - 2024) Acting Oscar Nominations: 4 (La La Land - 2017, Poor Things - 2024) BAFTA: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globes Nominations:8

13. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. The Fighter -2010 2. Arrival - 2016 3. Nocturnal Animals - 2016 4. Sharp Objects (Limited Series) - 2018 5. Her - 2013 6. American Hustle - 2013 7. Doubt - 2008 8. The Master - 2012 9. Vice - 2018 10. Enchanted - 2007

Honorable Mentions: Catch Me if You Can - 2002, The Muppets -2011, Charlie Wilson's War - 2007, Junebug - 2005, Big Eyes -2014, Man of Steel - 2013, Julie and Julia - 2009, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - 2008, Sunshine Cleaning - 2008

Acting Oscars:0 Acting Oscar Nominations:6 BAFTA:0 BAFTA Nominations:7 Golden Globes:2 Golden Globes Nominations: 9 Primtime Emmys:0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

14. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Fences - 2016 2. The Help - 2011 3. Prisoners - 2013 4. Doubt - 2008 5. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - 2020 6. Air - 2023 7. Get On Up - 2014 8. Widows - 2018 9. How to Get Away with Murder (TV Series) 2014 - 2020 10. Antwone Fisher - 2002

Honorable Mentions: The Suicide Squad - 2021, State of Play - 2009, Solaris - 2002, Troop Zero - 2019, The Disappearances of Eleanor Rigby - 2013, Far From Heaven - 2002.

Acting Oscars: 1 (Fences - 2016) Acting Oscr Nominations: 4 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globes Nominations: 7 Primetime Emmys: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 5

15. Susan Sarandon

Actress | Thelma & Louise

It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Dead Man Walking - 1995 2. Atlantic City - 1980 3. Thelma and Louise - 1991 4. Lorenzo's Oil - 1992 5. Bill Durham - 1988 6. The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 1975 7. The Front Page - 1974 8. Light Sleeper - 1992 9. Feud (Limited Series) - 2017 10. The Client - 1994

Honorable Mentions: In the Valley of Ellah - 2007, You Don't Know Jack - 2010, Little Women - 1994, Igby Goes Down -2002, Pretty Baby - 1978, Cloud Atlas - 2012, A Day White Season - 1989, Stepmom - 1998, Bernard and Doris - 2006, The Player - 1992, Robot and Frank - 2012,

Acting Oscars: 1 (Dead Man Walking - 1995) Acting Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globes Nominations: 9 Primetime Emmys:0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3

1 Elite Top Tier Performance for Dead Man Walking - 1995

16. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Still Alice - 2014 2. Boogie Nights - 1997 3. Far From Heaven - 2002 4. A Single Man - 2009 5. Children of Men - 2006 6. The Big Lebowski - 1998 7. Magnolia - 1999 8. The Hours - 2002 9. The Kids are Alright - 2010 10. Game Change - 2012

Honorable Mentions:, Safe - 1995, Short Cuts - 1993, Cookie's Fortune - 1999, Benny and Joon - 1993, An Ideal Husband - 1999, The Shipping News - 2011, Don John - 2013, The Fugitive - 1993, Crazy Stupid Love - 2011, The End of the Affair - 1999, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - 1992,

Acting Oscars: 1 (Still Alice - 2014) Acting Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globes Nominations: 9 Primetime Emmys: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

17. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. The Hours - 2002 2. The Others - 2001 3. Moulin Rouge - 2001 4. Eyes Wide Shut - 1999 5. Rabbit Hole - 2010 6. The Northman - 2022 7. The Killing of a Sacred Dear - 2017 8. Lion - 2016 9. Being the Ricardos - 2021 10. Destroyer - 2018

Honorable Mentions: Cold Mountain - 2003, To Die For - 1995, Flirting - 1990, The Beguiled - 2017, Boy Erased - 2018, Dead Calm - 1989, Bombshell - 2019, Big Little Lies (TV Series) - 2017, Stoker - 2013, The Family Fang - 2015, Paddington - 2014, Dogville - 2003, The Railway Man - 2013, Australia - 2008

Acting Oscars:1 (The Hours - 2002) Acting Oscar Nominations:5 BAFTA:1 BAFTA Nominations:5 Golden Globes:5 Golden Globes Nominations: 16 Primetime Emmys: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 2

18. 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; ...

Died 1977

Greatest Roles:

1. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane - 1962 2. Mildred Pierce - 1945 3. Sudden Fear - 1952 4. Johnny Guitar - 1954 5. The Women - 1939 6. The Unknown - 1927 7. Strait Jacket - 1964 8. A Woman's Face - 1941 9. Possessed - 1947 10. Daisy Kenyon - 1947

Honorable Mentions: Grand Hotel - 1932, Rain - 1932, Autumn Leaves - 1956, Flamingo Road - 1947, The Damned Don't Cry - 1950, Dancing Lady - 1933, Love on the Run - 1936, Humoresque - 1946, Strange Cargo - 1940

Acting Oscars:1 (Mildred Pierce - 1945) Acting Oscar Nominations:3 BAFTA:0 BAFTA Nominations:1 Golden Globes:0 Golden Globes Nominations: 1

19. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. The Apartment - 1960 2. Terms of Endearment - 1983 3. Being There - 1979 4. The Children's Hour - 1961 5. Steel Magnolias - 1989 6. Irma La Douce - 1963 7. Some Came Running - 1958 8. Gambit - 1966 9. Two Mules for Sister Sara - 1970 10. The Trouble with Harry - 1955

Honorable Mentions: The Turning Point - 1977, Postcards from the Edge - 1990, What a Way to Go - 1964, Madame Sousatzka - 1988, Bernie - 2011, Sweet Charity - 1969, In Her Shoes - 2005, Career - 1959, Ask Any Girl - 1959

Acting Oscars: 1 Acting Oscar Nominations: 5 BAFTA: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 8 Golden Globes: 5 Golden Globes Nominations: 19 Primetime Emmys: 0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

20. 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...

Greatest Roles:

1. Silver Linings Playbook - 2012 2. American Hustle - 2013 3. Winter's Bone - 2010 4. Don't Look Up - 2021 5. Mother! - 2017 6. X- Men: Days of Future Past - 2014 7. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 2013 8. Joy - 2015 9. X- Men: First Class - 2011 10. Red Sparrow - 2018

Honorable Mentions: No Hard Feelings - 2023, The Hunger Games - 2012, Like Crazy - 2011, Causeway - 2021, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 - 2014, The Hunger Games Part 2 - 2015, The Poker House - 2008, The Beaver - 2011, The Burning Plain - 2008

Acting Oscars: 1 (Silver Linings Playbook - 2013) Acting Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA: 1 (American Hustle - 2014) BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globes Nominations: 6

21. 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. ...

Greatest Roles:

1. The Favourite - 2018 2. The Lobster - 2015 3. The Constant Gardener - 2005 4. Disobedience - 2017 5. Sunshine - 1999 6. About a Boy - 2002 7. Youth - 2015 8. The Fountain - 2006 9. Page Eight - 2011 10. Denial - 2016

Honorable Mentions: Runaway Jury - 2003, The Whistleblower - 2010, Definetely, Maybe - 2008, The Deep Blue Sea - 2011, The Light Between Oceans - 2016, My Cousin Rachel - 2016, Dead Ringers (TV Series) 2023, The Brothers Bloom - 2008, The Mummy - 1999

Acting Oscars: 1 (The Constant Gardener - 2005) Acting Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globes Nominations: 3

22. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Pulp Fiction - 1994 2. Kill Bill Voume 2 - 2004 3. Kill Bill Volume 1 - 2003 4. Gattaca - 1997 5. Dangerous Liasions - 1988 6. Les Miserables - 1998 7. Sweet and Lowdown - 1999 8. Tape - 2001 9. The Truth about Cats and Dogs - 1996 10. Mad Dog and Glory - 1993

Honorable Mentions: Red, White and Royal Blue - 2023, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - 1989, Beautiful Girls - 1996, Hysterical Blindness - 200, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - 1984, The House that Jack Built (TV Series) 2018, A Month by the Lake - 1995, Love, Marilyn - 2012

Acting Oscars: 0 Acting Oscar Nominations: 1 BAFTA: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globes Nominations: 4 Primetime Emmys:0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

2 Elite Top Tier Performances : Pulp Fiction - 1994, Kill Bill Volume 2 - 2004

23. 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, ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Lost in Translation - 2003 2. Marriage Story - 2019 3. Jojo Rabbit - 2019 4. Her - 2013 5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 2008 6. Under the Skin - 2013 7. The Prestige - 2006 8. Match Point - 2005 9. Ghost World - 2001 10. Girl With A Pearl Earring - 2003

Honorable Mentions: The Man Who Wasn't There - 2001, Don John - 2013, In Good Company - 2004, Hail Caeser! - 2016, Isle of Dogs - 2018, Asteroid City - 2023, Chef - 2014, Black Widow - 2021, The Other Boleyn Girl - 2008, We Bought a Zoo - 2011, Hitchcock - 2012, Lucy - 2014, The Jungle Book - 2016, The Horse Whisperer - 1998, Avengers Series 2012-2018.

Acting Oscars: 0 Acting Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globes Nominations: 5 Tony Awards: 1 Tony Award Nominations: 1

24. 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 ...

Died 1982

Greatest Roles:

1. Rear Window - 1954 2. High Noon - 1952 3. Dial M for Murder - 1954 4. To Catch a Thief - 1955 5. The Country Girl - 1954 6. High Society - 1956 7. Fourteen Hours - 1951 8. The Bridges at Toko-Ri - 1954 9. Weekend of a Champion - 1972 10. Mogambo - 1953

Honorable Mentions:The Swan - 1956,

Acting Oscars:1 - The Country Girl (1954) Acting Oscar Nominations:2 BAFTA:0 BAFTA Nominations:2 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globes Nominations: 2

25. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Mad Max: Fury Road - 2015 2. Monster - 2003 3. North Country - 2005 4. Prometheus - 2012 5. The Cider House Rules - 1999 6. Young Adult - 2011 7. A Private War - 2018 8. Atomic Blonde - 2017 9. Long Shot - 2019 10.Tully - 2018

Honorable Mentions: Bombshell - 2019, In the Valley of Ellah - 2007, The Road - 2009, The life and Death of Peter Sellers - 2004, That Thing You Do - 1996, The Devil's Advocate - 1997, Kubo and the Two Strings - 2016, The Yards - 2000, The Old Gaurd - 2020

Acting Oscars: 1 Acting Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globes Nominations: 6

1 Elite Top Tier Performance - Mad Max: Fury Road - 2015

26. Marlene Dietrich

Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution

Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Witness for the Prosecution - 1957 2. The Blue Angel - 1930 3. Shanghai Express - 1932 4. Morocco - 1930 5. Judgement at Nuremburg - 1961 6. A Foreign Affair - 1948 7. Desire - 1936 8. The Scarlet Empress - 1934 9. Touch of Evil - 1958 10. Rancho Notorious - 1952

Honorable Mentions: Destiny Rides Again - 1939, Dishonored - 1931, Stage Fright - 1950, Around the World in 80 Days - 1956, The Song of Songs - 1933, Angel - 1937, The Devil is a Woman - 1935, Blonde Venus - 1932,

Acting Oscars: 0 Acting Oscar Nominations: 1 BAFTA: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 0 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globes Nominations: 1

27. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. The Silence of the Lambs - 1991 2. The Accused - 1989 3. Taxi Driver - 1976 4. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane - 1976 5. Inside Man - 2006 6. Panic Room - 2002 7. Bugsy Malone - 1976 8. The Mauritanian - 2021 9. Carnage - 2011 10. Contact -1997

Honorable Mentions: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 1974, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - 2002, A Very Long Engagement - 2004, Five Corners - 1987, Little Man Tate - 1991, Foxes - 1980, Freaky Friday - 1976, Elysium - 2013, The Hotel New Hampshire - 1984, Sommersby - 1993, Maverick - 1994,

Acting Oscars: 2 (The Accused - 1989, The Silence of the Lambs - 1991) Acting Oscar Nominations: 4 BAFTA: 2 BAFTA Nominations:3 Golden Globes: 3 Golden Globes Nominations: 10

28. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. What's Love Got to do with it - 1993 2. Malcolm X - 1992 3. Boyz in the Hood - 1991 4. Black Panther - 2018 5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 2022 6. Soul - 2020 7. Akeelah and the Bee - 2006 8. The Score - 2001 9. Passion Fish - 1992 10. Strange Days - 1995

Honorable Mentions: Sunshine State - 2002, Contact - 1997, City of Hope - 1991, Chi-Raq - 2015, Olympus has Fallen - 2013

Acting Oscars: 0 Acting Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globes Nominations: 2

29. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Aliens - 1986 2. Alien - 1979 3. Working Girl - 1988 4. Gorillas in the Mist -1988 5. The Ice Storm - 1997 6. The Year of Living Dangerously - 1982 7. Ghostbusters - 1984 8. Death and the Maiden - 1994 9. Avatar - 2009 10. The Cabin in the Woods - 2009

Honorable Mentions: Dave - 1993, Galaxy Quest- 1999, Snow Cake - 2006, Infamous - 2006, Holes - 2003, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (TV Series) - 2023, Annie Hall - 1977, Political Animals (TV Series) - 2012, Wall-E - 2008, Rakka - 2017, A Monster Calls - 2016, Copycat - 1995

Acting Oscars: 0 Acting Oscar Nominations: 3 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 2 Golden Globes Nominations: 7 Primetime Emmys: 0 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 4

30. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Sicario - 2015 2. Oppenheimer - 2023 2. A Quiet Place - 2018 4. Looper - 2012 5. Edge of Tomorrow - 2014 6. The Young Victoria - 2009 7. Mary Poppins Returns - 2018 8. A Quiet Place II - 2021 9. The Adjustment Bureau - 2011 10. The Devil Wears Prada - 2006

Honorable Mentions: My Summer of Love - 2004, The English (Limited Series) - 2022, Salmon Fishing in Yemen - 2011, Your Sister's Sister - 2012, Sunshine Cleaning - 2008, Charlie Wilson's War - 2007, The Wind Rises - 2013, Animal Crackers - 2017, The Muppets - 2011

Acting Oscars: 0 Acting Oscar Nominations: 0 BAFTA: 0 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 0 Golden Globes Nominations: 4

1 Elite Top Tier Performance: Sicario - 2015

31. 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 ...

Greatest Roles:

1. Les Miserables - 2012 2. Interstellar - 2014 3. Rachel Getting Married - 2008 4. The Dark Knight Rises - 2012 5. Brokeback Mountain - 2005 6. The Devil Wears Prada - 2006 7. Dark Waters - 2019 8. Collasal - 2016 9. Nicholas Nickleby - 2002 10. Armagaddon Time - 2022

Honorable Mentions: Becoming Jane - 2007, The Cat Returns - 2002, Love and Other Drugs - 2010, Rio - 2011, WeCrashed (TV series) - 2022

Acting Oscars: 1 (Les Miserables - 2012) Acting Oscar Nominations: 2 BAFTA: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 Golden Globes Nominations: 3

32. Barbara Stanwyck

Actress | Double Indemnity

Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the ...