Actresses
by larsje | created - 01 Oct 2018 | updated - 5 months ago | PublicIn random order
1. Hannah Steele
Actress | The Night Manager
Hannah Steele is known for The Night Manager (2016), Wolf Hall (2015) and Black Mirror (2011).
2. Hayley Atwell
Actress | Captain America: The First Avenger
Born in London, England, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. An only child, Hayley was named after actress Hayley Mills. Her parents, Alison (Cain) and Grant Atwell, both motivational speakers, met at a London workshop of Dale Carnegie's ...
3. Carla Gugino
Actress | Watchmen
Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist. She is of Italian (father) and English-Irish (mother) ancestry. Gugino moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But ...
4. Emily Cox
Actress | The Last Kingdom
Emily Cox was born on February 23, 1985 in Vienna, Austria. She is an actress, known for The Last Kingdom (2015), Jerks (2017) and The Fatherless (2011).
You know Emily from her leading role as the female Viking Warrior 'BRIDA' in the epic and highly successful Netflix series 'The Last Kingdom' ...
5. Antje Traue
Actress | Man of Steel
With a strong body of work in her native Germany, Antje broke out into the international marketplace in Zack Snyder's Superman retelling, "Man of Steel" as the villainess, "Faora". Other credits include Renny Harlin's "5 Days of August", Warner Brothers' "The Seventh Son", Simon Curtis's "The Woman...
6. Martha Higareda
Actress | Altered Carbon
Higareda was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, the daughter of actress Martha Cervantes and therapist and artist Jose Luis Higareda, and sister of actress Miriam Higareda. She began acting on stage at a very early age, along with dancing jazz, flamenco, tap and folklore. At 14, she moved to ...
7. Emily Brobst
Stunts | The Darkest Minds
Emily Brobst was born on October 24, 1984 in Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress, known for The Darkest Minds (2018), Godzilla (2014) and The 5th Wave (2016).
8. 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 ...
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 ...
10. 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, ...
11. Ana de Armas
Actress | Blade Runner 2049
Ana de Armas was born in Cuba on April 30, 1988. At the age of 14 (2002) she began her studies at the National Theatre School of Havana, where she graduated after 4 years. At the age of 16 (2004) she made her first film, Virgin Rose (2006), directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. A few titles came ...
12. Bae Doona
Actress | Cloud Atlas
Doona Bae was born in Seoul, South Korea. Her mother, Hwa-Young Kim, is a stage actress. Bae started out as a model. She soon moved to T.V. and movies, and it proved the right move. Her first movie was The Ring Virus (1999). Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) (aka "Barking Dogs Never Bite") and Take ...
13. Tuppence Middleton
Actress | The Current War
Tuppence Middleton (born 21 February 1987) is an English actress. She was nominated for the London Evening Standard Film Awards 2010 for Most Promising Newcomer. Since 2015, she portrays Riley Blue in the Netflix webseries Sense8.
She has appeared in feature films such as Tormented (2009), Chatroom ...
14. Jessica Murrain
Actress | Bruised Sky
Jessica Murrain is known for Bruised Sky (2020), I Used to Be Famous (2022) and The Sandman (2022).
15. Amy Seimetz
Actress | Upstream Color
Amy Seimetz first came to prominence producing and directing shorts and independent films. Most notably associate producing Barry Jenkins' Medicine For Melancholy which was nominated for Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards, after playing at South By Southwest and the Toronto International Film ...
16. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Actress | Belle
Gugu Mbatha-Raw was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. Her father, Patrick Mbatha, is a Black South African doctor, and her mother, Anne Raw, is a Caucasian English nurse. Her parents separated when she was a year old, and she was brought up by her mother ...
17. Alma García
Actress | Déjate ver
Alma García is known for Déjate ver (2023), Primera cita (2012) and Lila (2014).
18. Francesca Mills
Actress | Harlots
Francesca Mills is an actress, most known for portraying a versatile range of memorable TV roles such as Cherry Dorrington in Harlots (2017), Earthy Mangold in Worzel Gummidge (2019) and Meldof in The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022). Francesca Mills was nominated for the 2016 Ian Charleson Award for ...
19. Olivia Delcán
Actress | Isla Bonita
Olivia Delcan is a Spanish actress and writer from Menorca. She has starred in multiple Spanish series and films such as Los Inocentes (Guillermo Benet, 2020); 2021); Doctor Portuondo (Carlo Padial, Filmin, 2021); Vis a Vis (2015), Lejos del Mar (Imanol Uribe, 2014); Isla Bonita (Fernando Colomo, ...
20. Faye Marsay
Actress | Game of Thrones
Faye Marsay was born on December 30, 1986 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Game of Thrones (2011), Pride (2014) and Andor (2022).
21. Stephanie Leonidas
Actress | Mirrormask
Stephanie Leonidas is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helena in the fantasy film MirrorMask and as Irisa on the American science fiction television series, Defiance. Leonidas was born in Westminster, London.
22. Charlie Murphy
Actress | Obsession
Charlie Murphy is an award-winning actress, known for Peaky Blinders (2013-2022), Happy Valley (2014-2022) and '71 (2014). She features as series regular Makee in the Halo TV adaptation of the popular video game series for Paramount / Amblin.
She is the recipient of four IFTA awards as Best Actress ...
23. Chetna Pandya
Actress | Line of Duty
Chetna Pandya is known for Line of Duty (2012), Black Mirror (2011) and The Trouble with Maggie Cole (2020).
24. 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 ...
25. Rachel Redford
Actress | Testament of Youth
Rachel Redford is known for Testament of Youth (2014), House of the Dragon (2022) and The Riot Club (2014).
26. Anna-Marie Sullivan
Actress | Round Robin
Anna-Marie is a British actress working in TV, Film and Theatre. TV & Film credits include Round Robin - Obstacle Films, House of the Dragon - HBO, Close - Netflix Original, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Paramount Pictures, Crumbs - Jewson Films, Don Pasquale - Cinema & DVD release, We are ...
27. Avital Lvova
Actress | The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Avital Lvova is an actress of Russian Jewish descent from Berlin, Germany. She was born in the USSR. She resides in London, UK. Avital made her feature film debut playing Gala Dali in Daliland directed by Mary Harron. She most recently appeared in TV series like Treason, The Power and 3 Body ...
28. Kacey Clarke
Actress | Resident Evil: Afterlife
Kacey Louisa Clarke was born Kacey Louisa Barnfield. In the past she has been credited as Barnfield but now professionally she uses her mother's maiden name, Clarke.
As a child she was best known for her role as Maddie Gilks in the hit BBC TV show Grange Hill (1978), in which she was a series ...
29. Christina R Gregg
Actress | Roadkill
Christina R Gregg was born in Florida and raised in Texas. Christina started the industry modeling for photographers. When she began doing background/extra roles, she realized how much she missed acting. Christina knew in her teenage years that she loved acting as her favorite subject in school was...
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