- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", … - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September, 1969) is a Welsh actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in films such as "The Phantom", "The Mask of Zorro", and "Entrapment" in the late 1990s. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of "Chicago". - Anna Paquin
Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in Canada. Her breakthrough performance was in "The Piano", which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting actress as the second youngest winner in history. She was nine years old when the movie was made, and has continued acting since. - 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, … - Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12 1970) is an American film actress and former child model. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like "Labyrinth" and "Career Opportunities", she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama "Requiem for a Dream", and the 2001 biopic "A Beautiful Mind", … - Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is a double Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career. - Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis -- an actress, director, producer, teacher, activist and most recently, author with her best-selling memoir ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW. She received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the Norman Jewison film MOONSTRUCK. - Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress. She was the first performer of African descent to ever win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). McDaniel was also a professional singer, stage actress, radio performer and television star. - Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker (born February 17, 1945 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Academy Award-winning Irish actress. She began her feature film career with a small uncredited part in the 1964 movie "Of Human Bondage", based on the 1915 novel by William Somerset Maugham of the same name. Initially better known in the United Kingdom for her role as Megan Roach in the BBC One series Casualty, … - Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver on January 31 1970) is an English actress and singer-songwriter, born in London to Ronnie Driver and his wife Gaynor. She first came to broad public attention when she played the lead role in "Circle of Friends". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting". - Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons (born November 20, 1927 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an American theater, film and television actress. Parsons originally studied law, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950's. Moving to New York, she worked as a writer, producer and commentator for The Today Show . - Mary Astor
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. - 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. - Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian. - Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. - 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. - Chloë Sevigny
Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Sevigny, who became well known for starring in a string of critically acclaimed, well received independent films in the 1990s, experienced her mainstream breakout role as Lana in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), for which she received an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. More recently, Sevigny has enjoyed success playing Nicki Grant, … - Christine Lahti
Born April 04, 1950 - Unpredictable American actress Christine Lahti majored in drama at the University of Michigan, then toured Europe with a group of pantomimists. She studied with Uta Hagen in New York, taking whatever stage work that came along (including her Obie award-winning performance in an Off-Broadway revival of Little Murders) before being steadily employed ... Continue Bio >> - Hope Lange
Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was born into a theatrical family in Redding Ridge, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange, was the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and a conductor for Henry Cohen. Her mother, Minnette Lange, was an actress before becoming a restaurant owner. In 1943, Lange made her Broadway debut in "The Patriots". - Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones was an American actress, she is best remembered for playing the role of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series "The Addams Family". Carolyn Sue Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, she was named after actress Carole Lombard, and after moving to California, joined the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947, learning her craft and acting under the stage name Carolyn Jones. She secured a contract with Paramount Studios and made her first film in 1952. - Una Merkel
Una Merkel (December 10 1903, Covington, Kentucky - January 2 1986, Los Angeles) was a Tony Award winning and Academy Award nominated American film actress. The 5'4" Merkel resembled the popular actress Lillian Gish, and her resemblance allowed her to enter films in 1920, aged only 16, as Gish's double in the film "Way Down East". She appeared in a few films during the silent era but spent most of her time in New York working on Broadway. - Mary Badham
Mary Badham (born October 7, 1952, Birmingham, Alabama), was an American child actress best known for her portrayal of Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which she was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award. The sister of director John Badham, Badham had no prior film acting experience before being cast in "Mockingbird". She did not win the Academy Award, which went to another child actress, Patty Duke, … - Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress. Hagen was born Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois. She studied drama and worked as a theater usherette before making her film debut as a femme fatale in "Adam's Rib" (1949). "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role, and excellent reviews. - Lucile Watson
Lucile Watson (27 May 1879 - 24 June 1962) was an Oscar-nominated Canadian actress. Watson was born in Quebec City. Watson's first film role was in the 1916 silent film "The Girl with Green Eyes", a film version of the play she had performed in on Broadway. Around this time she was briefly married to the silent film star Rockcliffe Fellows. She did not appear in another movie until 1930, when she had an uncredited role in "The Royal Family of Broadway". - Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Ouspenskaya was an Oscar-nominated Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia to a lawyer father. She studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow and performed extensively in Russian theater. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre, Ouspenskaya was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his method. - Beah Richards
Beah Richards was an American actress with a long career on stage, screen and television. She was also a poet, playwright and author. Born Beulah Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister. In 1948, she graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans and two years later moved to New York City. - Diane Varsi
Diane Marie Varsi (February 23, 1938 - November 19, 1992) was an American film and television actor. Born in San Mateo, California, Varsi made her screen debut in "Peyton Place" (1957), and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The same year, she shared a Golden Globe as "Most Promising Newcomer" with Sandra Dee and Carolyn Jones. - Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa is an Italian actress. In her US career she starred in "The House on Telegraph Hill" directed by Robert Wise. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in "Day for Night". Valentina Cortese was once married to actor Richard Basehart (1914-1984) with whom she had one son before divorcing in 1960. - Brenda Vaccaro
Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American actress. - Peggy Cass
Mary Margaret (Peggy) Cass (May 21, 1924 - March 8, 1999) was an Academy Award-nominated actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Cass became interested in acting as a member of the drama club at Cambridge Latin School; however, she attended all of high school without a speaking part. After graduating high school, she spent most of the 1940s in search of an acting career, … - Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (August 8, 1910 - July 1, 1999) was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. - Barbara O'Neil
Barbara O'Neil (born 17 July 1910 - died 3 September 1980) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her acting career in summer stock, including performing with the Cape Cod University Players, under the direction of Joshua Logan, to whom she was married for a few years in the 1930s. In 1937 O'Neil debuted in film in the movie "Stella Dallas" and in 1939 she was cast in the role of Ellen O'Hara, … - Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett was an American-born actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television. Born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools, which she did not always attend punctually. Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series "Young Doctor Malone" in 1959. She had a leading role in the Twilight Zone episode "A Piano in the House" (1962). - Barbara Barrie
Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman on May 23, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and author of children's books. Barrie has had a lengthy career in film and television. She is probably best known for her roles as Hal Linden's character's wife on "Barney Miller", and on "Suddenly Susan", in which she played Susan's (Brooke Shields) grandmother. Most recently, she had a recurring role in the series "Dead Like Me". - Melinda Dillon
Melinda Rose Dillon (born October 13, 1939 in Hope, Arkansas) is an American actress. Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon got her start as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Her first major role was as Honey in the original 1962 Broadway production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) Tony Award. - Juanita Moore
Juanita Moore (born October 19 1922 in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American actress. Moore had a number of bit parts and supporting roles in motion pictures through the 1950s and 1960s. Her most famous role was as housekeeper Annie Johnson in the 1959 color remake of "Imitation of Life". Moore's portrayal of the broken-hearted Annie, whose daughter Sarah Jane (played by Susan Kohner) passes for white, … - Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento (born October 5, 1933 in Brisbane, Australia), is a theatre and film actress. Her parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Phyllis, Lady Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners. At a young age, she decided to follow a career as an actress, and moved to the United Kingdom in the early-1950s. She soon secured roles in British films and steadily worked until the end of the decade without making a major impression with film audiences. - Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner (born November 11 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American actress. She is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia. Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including co-starring with Sal Mineo in "The Gene Krupa Story" (1959) and with Montgomery Clift in "Freud" (1962). - Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco , of Italian-American father and British mother, grew up in Hicksville, near New York. Top model, France's Jean Paul Gaultier and Wilhelmina, in the last year the College was, paradoxically, voted among the most ugly girls of his course [without source]. - Mary Ure
Eileen Mary Ure (February 18, 1933 - April 3, 1975) was a Scottish actress. Born in Glasgow, where she studied at the School of Drama, she would go on to train for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Known for her beauty, Ure began performing on the London stage and quickly developed a reputation for her abilities as a dramatic actress. While starring in John Osborne's play, "Look Back in Anger", …
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