Best Actresses
by TimKaye | created - 20 Jan 2013 | updated - 8 months ago | PublicIn my opinion, these are 30 of the best actresses of all time. (Then there are some honorable mentions after that).
1. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Holocaust (TV); The Deer Hunter; Kramer Vs. Kramer; Sophie's Choice; Silkwood; Defending Your Life; The Bridges Of Madison County; Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events; Doubt; Julie & Julia; The Iron Lady; and August: Osage County.
2. 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...
Favorite films chronologically: Heavenly Creatures; Titanic; Holy Smoke; Quills; Iris; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; Finding Neverland; Little Children; The Holiday; The Reader; and Contagion.
3. Vanessa Redgrave
Actress | Coriolanus
On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier, announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Devils; Playing For Time (TV); Mission: Impossible; Deep Impact; Girl, Iterrupted; The Gathering Storm (TV); and Atonement.
4. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Léon: The Professional; Heat; Beautiful Girls; Cold Mountain; Closer; Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith; The Other Boleyn Girl; The Other Woman; Brothers; and Black Swan.
5. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: That Thing You Do!; The Devil's Advocate; Waking Up In Reno; The Italian Job; Monster; North Country; Hancock; The Burning Plain; and The Road.
6. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
Favorite films chronologically: Shakespeare In Love; Iris; The Shipping News; Casino Royale; Notes On A Scandal; My Week With Marilyn; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; and Philomena.
7. 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, ...
Favorite films chronologically: Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; Small Soldiers; The Virgin Suicides; Spider-Man; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; How To Lose Friends & Alienate People; and All Good Things. There's also her contribution to season two of the excellent TV series Fargo.
8. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...
Favorite films chronologically: Calendar Girls; The Queen; State Of Play; The Debt; and Hitchcock.
9. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Elizabeth; The Talented Mr. Ripley; The Gift; Bandits; Charlotte Gray; The Shipping News; The Aviator; Little Fish; Babel; The Good German; Notes On A Scandal; Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Blue Jasmine; and The Monuments Men.
10. 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...
Favorite films chronologically: Misery; Fried Green Tomatoes; Dolores Claiborne; Titanic; Primary Colors; Six Feet Under (TV series); The Blind Side; The Office (TV series), and Feud: Bette & Joan (TV series).
11. Amanda Peet
Actress | 2012
Amanda Peet was born and raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Penny (Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet, a lawyer, and has an older sister. Her father was of mostly English and German ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish family (from Germany, Russia, and Hungary). Peet's ...
Favorite films chronologically: She's The One; The Whole Nine Yards; Identity; Syriana; and Identity Thief.
12. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Taxi Driver; Foxes; The Silence Of The Lambs; Maverick; Contact; Panic Room; Inside Man; The Brave One; and Carnage.
13. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Hunger; The Witches Of Eastwick; Bull Durham; Thelma & Louise; The Client; Twilight; Leaves Of Grass and The Company You Keep. She's also fantastic in her portrayal of Bette Davis for the TV-series Feud: Bette & Joan
14. Rachel Griffiths
Actress | Six Feet Under
Her mother, Anna Griffiths, is an art consultant. Her uncle is a Jesuit priest. Has two older brothers. One brother, Ben, is a ski instructor. Lived on the Gold Coast, Queensland until age five, then moved to Melbourne. Attended Star of the Sea Catholic Girls' College, did well at school and ...
She's fantastic in the excellent television series Six Feet Under. Favorite films chronologically: Muriel's Wedding; Blow; and Saving Mr. Banks.
15. 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...
She has a couple of great television series to her credit: The Edge; and Friends. Favorite films chronologically: She's The One; Office Space; The Good Girl; Bruce Almighty; Derailed; Friends With Money; Marley & Me; He's Just Not That Into You; The Switch; Horrible Bosses; We're The Millers; and Horrible Bosses 2.
16. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Dead Calm; The Others; Birthday Girl; Cold Mountain; The Interpreter; and Margot At The Wedding.
17. Helen Hunt
Actress | As Good as It Gets
Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.
Of course, she's great on the television series, Mad About You, but I also recall her earlier on Darkroom (kind of a Twilight Zone wanna-be), and in a cameo on Friends. Favorite films chronologically: Peggy Sue Got Married; As Good As it Gets; Pay It Forward; Castaway; What Women Want; Empire Falls (TV); Bobby; and Every Day.
18. Holly Hunter
Actress | Broadcast News
Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first...
Favorite films chronologically: Raising Arizona; Broadcast News; The Firm; Home For The Holidays; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and Thirteen.
19. Ellen Burstyn
Actress | Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Last Picture Show; The Exorcist; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (TV); and Requiem for a Dream.
20. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Catch Me If You Can; Junebug; Sunshine Cleaning; Doubt; Julie & Julia; Trouble With the Curve; and American Hustle.
21. 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 ...
22. Glenn Close
Actress | Fatal Attraction
Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
Favorite films chronologically: The World According To Garp; The Big Chill; The Natural; Fatal Attraction; and Air Force One.
23. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Godfather: Part III; Single White Female; Singles; Army Of Darkness; Point Of No Return; It Could Happen To You; Jackie Brown; and A Simple Plan.
24. 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 ...
25. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: My Cousin Vinny; Chaplin; What Women Want; Before the Devil Knows You're Dead; The Lincoln Lawyer; Crazy, Stupid, Love; The Ides of March; and The Rewrite.
26. Maggie Smith
Actress | Gosford Park
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Murder By Death; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; My House In Umbria (TV); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Keeping Mum; and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
27. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Pretty Woman; Flatliners; The Pelican Brief; Conspiracy Theory; Notting Hill; Erin Brockovich; The Mexican; America's Sweethearts; Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind; Closer; and August: Osage County.
28. 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, ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Man Who Wasn't There; Ghost World; Lost In Translation; Girl With a Pearl Earring; The Other Boleyn Girl; He's Just Not that Into you; We Bought a Zoo; and Hitchcock.
29. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Firm; 28 Days; Million Dollar Baby; Paris, je t'aime (hers is one of the best segments of the film); The Savages; Stop-Loss; August: Osage County; and The Hollars. And she's great on the TV series, The Americans.
30. Kyra Sedgwick
Actress | The Closer
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick was born on August 19, 1965 in New York City to Patricia (Rosenwald), a family and speech therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. Her mother was from an upper-class German Jewish family, and her father was from a wealthy Massachusetts clan of English ...
Favorite films chronologically: Born On The Fourth Of July; Singles; Phenomenon; Secondhand Lions; What's Cooking?; Secondhand Lions; and Man On A Ledge.
31. Emma Roberts
Actress | We're the Millers
Emma Roberts was born in Rhinebeck, New York. She was a baby when her parents separated, and she grew up living with her mother, Kelly Cunningham. She was educated at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.
Emma is the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts, and the niece of ...
32. Kristy McNichol
Actress | The Pirate Movie
Actor Kristy McNichol is best known for her role as "Buddy" in the Spelling/Goldberg hit TV series Family (1976), where she won 2 Emmy awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe. McNichol began her career with guest appearances on such popular TV series as Starsky and Hutch, The Bionic Woman, Love...
She's fantastic on the television series, Family, which is the main reason for her inclusion on this list. Favorite films chronologically: The End; Little Darlings; and Only When I Laugh.
33. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Alien; Ghostbusters; Aliens; Working Girl; Dave; Death And The Maiden; The Ice Storm; Galaxy Quest; Holes; Snow Cake; Infamous; Vantage Point; and Paul.
34. Christina Applegate
Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Christina Applegate was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, to record producer/executive Robert Applegate and singer-actress Nancy Priddy. Her parents split-up shortly after her birth. She has two half-siblings from her father's re-marriage - Alisa (b. October 10, 1977) and Kyle (b. July 15...
She's terrific on the television series Married With Children, and adequate on the TV series Jesse, then terrific again on the series Dead To Me. Favorite films chronologically: Streets; Just Visiting; The Sweetest Thing; Wonderland; Grand Theft Parsons; Employee Of The Month; Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy; and The Rocker.
35. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Wrong Is Right; Fast Times At Ridgemont High; The Hitcher; The Big Picture; Rush; Single White Female; The Hudsucker Proxy; Dolores Claiborne; eXistenZ; Road To Perdition; The Machinist; and Margot At The Wedding. There's also the television series, Weeds.
36. Illeana Douglas
Actress | Stir of Echoes
Illeana Douglas is an actress, writer, and producer. Born with show business in her blood, she is the granddaughter of screen legend Melvyn Douglas. Illeana began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. While working in New York as a stand-up comedian and sketch comedy artist, ...
Favorite films chronologically: Goodfellas; Guilty By Suspicion; Cape Fear; Alive; Stir Of Echoes; and Ghost World. She's also appeared on several decent television series, including, Seinfeld; Action; The Drew Carey Show; and Six Feet Under.
37. Dakota Fanning
Actress | War of the Worlds
Hannah Dakota Fanning was born on the 23rd of February 1994, in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and ...
Favorite films chronologically: I Am Sam; Man On Fire; War Of The Worlds; and The Runaways.
38. Lauren Ambrose
Actress | Six Feet Under
Lauren Ambrose was born on February 20, 1978 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Six Feet Under (2001), Psycho Beach Party (2000) and Can't Hardly Wait (1998). She has been married to Sam Handel since September 2001. They have two children.
She's great on the excellent television series, Six Feet Under, and also appears on the revived series, The X Files: Reopened, but hasn't really managed to turn that into a stellar movie career. Favorite films chronologically: The Other Woman.
39. 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, ...
40. Kate Beckinsale
Actress | Underworld: Evolution
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her ...
Favorite films chronologically: Serendipity; The Aviator; Vacancy; Nothing But The Truth; Everybody's Fine; and Total Recall.
41. Kristen Wiig
Actress | Bridesmaids
Kristen Carroll Wiig was born on August 22, 1973 in Canandaigua, New York, to Laurie J. (Johnston), an artist, and Jon J. Wiig, a lake marina manager. She is of Norwegian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, English, and Scottish descent. The family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, before ...
She's fantastic in her years on Saturday Night Live. Favorite films chronologically: Knocked Up; Ghost Town; Paul; and Bridesmaids.
42. Meg Tilly
Actress | The Big Chill
Meg Tilly was set on being a dancer, and at 17 connected to the Connecticut Ballet Company and later Throne Dance Theatre. It was in this capacity that she had her screen debut in Alan Parker's Fame (1980). Unfortunately, an injury to her back cut short her plans for a dance career, and a small ...
Favorite films chronologically: The Big Chill; Impulse; Agnes of God; Masquerade; and the TV series Bomb Girls.
43. Jennifer Tilly
Actress | Bound
An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once. She has been playing unforgettable characters ever since she started her career as an actress.
Jennifer Tilly was born Jennifer Ellen Chan in Harbor City, ...
Favorite films chronologically: Bound; Liar, Liar; Cord (aka Hide And Seek); Dancing At the Blue Iguana; and Monsters, Inc.
44. Claire Forlani
Actress | Meet Joe Black
Claire Forlani was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in London. Educated at Arts Educational School, she moved to the United States with her parents Pier Luigi and Barbara Forlani when she was 19 and began starring in films.
Claire has had leading roles in such films as Meet Joe Black (1998), ...
Favorite films chronologically: Mallrats; Meet Joe Black; and Love's Kitchen.
45. Mayim Bialik
Actress | Beaches
Mayim Bialik grew up in San Diego and got her first acting job (Pumpkinhead (1988)) when she was just 12 years old. A number of TV roles followed until in 1990 she was cast in Blossom (1990), the role which made her famous.
By 1993, while Blossom was still airing, she had already won a deferred ...
She's an absolute scene-stealer on the TV series The Big Bang Theory! She also appeara a few times on the series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Favorite films chronologically: Beaches.
46. Imelda Staunton
Actress | Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton is an English actress and singer from Archway, London. Her ancestry is primarily Irish. She has worked extensively in theater, and has won 4 Laurence Olivier Awards; 3 for leading roles and one for a supporting role. Her best known role in films has been the recurring villain ...
Favorite films chronologically: Chicken Run; Vera Drake; Taking Woodstock; and Alice In Wonderland.
47. Janeane Garofalo
Actress | Mystery Men
Janeane, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, was born in Newton, New Jersey, in 1964, to Joan, a secretary, and Carmine Garofalo, an Exxon executive. She is of Italian and Irish descent. Janeane had many jobs before breaking into show biz. She worked as a bike messenger, a shoe saleswoman, ...
She's great on television series like The Ben Stiller Show; TV Nation; The Larry Sanders Show; and even has some decent sketches from during her time on Saturday Night Live. Favorite films chronologically: Reality Bites; The Truth About Cats & Dogs; Cop Land; The MatchMaker; and Dogma.
48. Amy Smart
Actress | Starship Troopers
Amy Smart was born in Topanga Canyon, California to Judy, who worked at a museum, and John Boden Smart, a salesman. She has German, English, and Irish ancestry.
Smart was a relatively new arrival when she first gained notice for her supporting roles in the 1999 hit teen films Varsity Blues (1999) and...
Favorite films chronologically: Starship Troopers; Road Trip; Rat Race; The Butterfly Effect; Starsky & Hutch; and Just Friends.
49. 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, ...
Favorite films chronologically: She's The One; There's Something About Mary; Being John Malkovich; The Sweetest Thing; Gangs of New York; The Holiday; Bad Teacher; and The Other Woman.
50. 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 ...
Favorite films chronologically: Love Potion No. 9; The Vanishing; Speed; While You Were Sleeping; 28 Days; Crash, Infamous, The Proposal; and The Blind Side.
51. 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 ...
52. Tracy Spiridakos
Actress | Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Tracy spent part of her childhood in her parents' homeland, Greece, before the Spiridakos family returned to Canada to open a Greek restaurant. She worked there until moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, a center of Canadian film and television production, to ...
Of course, the only reason for including her is for her performance on the television series. Revolution. Favorite films chronologically: The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
53. Mila Kunis
Actress | Black Swan
Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis is a Ukrainian-American actress born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991. ...
She's impressive on the television series That '70s Show, and Family Guy. Favorite films chronologically: Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Extract; The Book Of Eli; Black Swan; Friends With Benefits; Ted, and Third Person. I also like the 2014 Jim Beam commercial where she's going to come back for her own select barrel of bourbon once it's been aged -- or maybe I just like the product! LOL
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