- Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours. - Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an iconic American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen). - Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (born November 19 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie "Menace on the Mountain", followed by several Disney productions. Foster did not experience her breakout role until 1976, … - Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Witherspoon is frequently cited by media to be one of the most beautiful leading ladies in today's cinema and her off screen life is widely reported. Her first role was in the made for television movie "Wildflower" (1991), … - Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards. Streisand has ranked as the best selling female album artist of all-time in the United States, according to the RIAA, for over thirty years. - Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972). - Helen Hunt
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom "Mad About You". Hunt began her career in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and a regular role in the television series "The Swiss Family Robinson". - Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 - September 14, 1984) was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the movie "Rambling Rose". Her other movies include "Jurassic Park", "Jurassic Park III", "Blue Velvet", "A Perfect World", "Wild at Heart," "October Sky", … - Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer is a two-time Academy Award-winning film actress. She is currently the oldest living winner of an Academy Award. The daughter of Heinrich Rainer by his spouse Emmy née Koenigsberger, Luise was educated in Vienna. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Dumont Theatre, Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1928. She next appeared in various theatres in Jacques Deval's play "Mademoiselle", Sydney Kingsley's play "Men in White", … - Julie Harris
Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925) is a distinguished American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. - Fay Bainter
Fay Bainter (December 7, 1893 - April 16, 1968) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Bainter was born Fay Okell Bainter in Los Angeles, California. Although her occupation in 1910 was traveling actress, her film debut didn't occur until "This Side of Heaven" in 1934. Robert Henri, the American painter of the Ashcan school, painted her portrait in 1918 (when she was about 25 years old.) She quickly achieved success, … - Miriam Hopkins
Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Oscar-nominated American actress. - Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron (born July 1, 1931) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning film actress and dancer. Caron has said of herself: "I'm not a ballerina. I'm a hoofer." - Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton (born May 13, 1977) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. Morton began her career as a child actor. At 13 she joined the Central Junior Television Workshop. At 16 she moved to London and appeared in plays at the Royal Court Theatre, also securing an early break as a guest star in an episode of "Cracker". Although she applied to institutions such as RADA, she received no further formal training. - Isabelle Adjani
This French actress settled in Geneva in 1996 to raise her two children. Born Isabelle Adjanian in Paris on June 27, 1955, she concentrated on her studies before delving into acting. She joined the Comedie Francaise in 1973 and played a role in Moliere's l'Ecole des Femmes (The School for Wives). - Catalina Sandino Moreno
Catalina Sandino Moreno is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress. Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after she was "discovered" at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá. - Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actress and television director. - Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March, 1943 in London) is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actress born into the famous Redgrave acting family. Her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. - Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland Jr. (born October 31, 1944) is an American actress. Born in New York City, she is the goddaughter of the late actress Shelley Winters. She was named for fashion editor Sally Kirkland, her mother, who was a fashion editor at "Vogue" and "LIFE" magazines. Kirkland was a student of Lee Strasberg and a member of the Andy Warhol coterie. - Carol Kane
Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18 1952, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) is an American actress. - Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born Joel Katz on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stage and screen actor, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1950. - Patty Jenkins
Patty Jenkins is an American film director and writer who grew-up in Lawrence, Kansas. She attended the American Film Institute and is widely respected for her ability to convey emotional content in her films. Her most famous movie to date is "Monster", starring Charlize Theron, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the movie. - Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Her name is in honor of her country of origin (Italia). Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York; she is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. - Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (born Karolina Piekarski on May 28, 1931) is a Golden Globe Award winning and Oscar nominated American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, a movie sex symbol. Despite being cast in a wide range of roles during her heyday, Baker's beautiful features, blonde hair, and distinctive drawl made her particularly memorable in roles as a brash, flamboyant woman. - Martha Scott
Martha Scott was an American actress. Born in Jamesport, Missouri, she became interested in acting in high school, but failed to earn a degree from the University of Michigan before pursuing her acting dream. She got her start acting in shortened Shakespeare productions at the Century of Progress world's fair in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 - 1934. Scott eventually went to New York City, where she was cast as the original Emily in the Broadway production of "Our Town". - Nancy Carroll
Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 - August 6, 1965) was an American actress. Christened Ann Veronica Lahiff in New York City, she began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became a successful talkies actress because her musical background enabled her to play in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Her film debut was in Ladies Must Dress in 1927. In 1928 she made eight films. - Carrie Snodgress
Carrie Snodgress (October 27, 1946 - April 1 2004) was an American actress. Snodgress was born Caroline Snodgress in Park Ridge, Illinois. (Two other sources cite Chicago and Barrington, Illinois as her birthplace.) She attended Northern Illinois University before leaving to act. Trained for the stage at the Goodman Theatre, in Chicago. - Ali Macgraw
Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress. - Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson (March 31 1905-November 4 1986) was an English film writer and director. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, he moved to California in the 1940s and ended up directing 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical "Mary Poppins", for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson received an Oscar nomination as Best Director. - Nancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 - January 2, 1995) was an Oscar-nominated American actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Nancy was a child star, who had made so many movies by the time she was nine years old, that "Film Daily" called her "the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing." She also played Dorothy Gale in a 1933 to 1934 radio show based on the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, … - Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner (August 22 1897-May 12 1986) was an actress. She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Drogobych, Ukraine). She began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15. In Vienna, she worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her. She eventually moved to Munich and then Berlin. In 1923 she made her film debut in "Der Evangelimann". - Sarah Miles
Sarah Miles (b. 31 December 1941, Ingatestone, Essex, England) is an English theatre and film actress. She first attended Roedean but at the age of 15 she enrolled at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Shortly after her drama studies, Miles had her film debut in 1962 as a precocious schoolgirl in "Term of Trial" (1962), opposite Laurence Olivier. - Anouk Aimée
Anouk Aimée is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning French film actress. Aimée was born Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of another actress, Geneviève Sorya, and Henry Dreyfus. She is Jewish. Aimée began her career in French films in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film "Les Amants de Montparnasse". - Elizabeth Hartman
Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress best known for her performance in the 1965 film "A Patch of Blue", a role for which she won a Golden Globe for "Most Promising Female Newcomer" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. - Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins OBE (born 3 September 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress who is best known for playing Sarah in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and for playing the title role in "Shirley Valentine". - Jeanne Eagels
Jeanne Eagels was an actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures. A former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of "talkies" (films with sound), she was posthumously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her 1929 role in "The Letter" after dying suddenly that year at the age of 36. - Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar (born March 5, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning English actress. She was christened Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London, England to an English father, Ralph Eggar, and a mother, Muriel, of Dutch and Portuguese descent. She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted in film in 1962 in "The Wild and the Willing". - Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress.
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