- Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December 1934), usually known as Dame Judi Dench, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, three-time BAFTA, and six-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress. In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her main forte throughout her career.
- 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 .
- 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", …
- Meryl Streep
Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and the viewers. Her birth name was Mary Louise Streep . Her father Harry Streep was an executive at a pharmaceutical company and mother Mary was a commercial artist. Her parents were unique while his father loved playing piano her mother was good at singing and she loved singing.
- Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the third season of the FOX television series "American Idol". She went on to star as Effie White in the 2006 musical film "Dreamgirls", for which she won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG Award, as well as two BET Awards.
- Cate Blanchett
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1969, Cate Blanchett began her career in theatre, after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. ... Cate's first high-profile, international role was lead in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, for which she won Best Actress awards at both the BAFTAs and Golden Globes, plus an Academy Award nomination.
- Patty Duke
Patty Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress of the stage and screen. She currently resides in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards.
- Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. She became known after her roles in the Hollywood films "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns", and has since continued appearing in major film roles.
- 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".
- 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.
- Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas; her last name is of Dutch origin.Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972 to study acting. Steenburgen was married to Malcolm McDowell from 1980 to 1990, and has been married to actor Ted Danson since 1995. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1980 film "Melvin and Howard".
- 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.
- 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", …
- Tatum O'Neal
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She remains the youngest actor, at the age of 9, to win a contended...
- Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21 1956) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress and former fashion model.
- 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.
- Jo van Fleet
Jo Van Fleet (December 30 1914 - June 10 1996) was an Academy Award-winning American theater and film actress. Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" with Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint.
- Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning singer and actress, perhaps best known for her role as "Shirley Partridge," the widowed single mother of five children, in the television series "The Partridge Family", co-starring her real-life stepson, David Cassidy.
- Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. She is also a social activist for human rights.
- Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. Huston won an Oscar for her performance in 1985's "Prizzi's Honor". She later was nominated in 1990 and 1991 for her acting in "Enemies, a Love Story" and "The Grifters" respectively. Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family" (1991) and "Addams Family Values" (1993), …
- Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award, and Emmy-winning British film, stage, and television actress.
- Sandy Dennis
Sandy Dennis was an Academy Award- and Tony-winning American theater and film actress.
- Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has starred on Broadway, in films and on television beginning in the 1950s.
- Kim Basinger
Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model.
- Katina Paxinou
Katina Paxinou (17 December, 1900 - 22 February, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Greek film and theatre actress. Born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou, in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929. Paxinou distinguished herself on the stage. When World War II broke out, she was performing in London. Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States.
- Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in a series of successful film comedies during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is also a well-known, Oscar-nominated actress. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television and film actor as well.
- Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor was an Academy Award-winning American actress, nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She appeared in over 60 films.
- Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 - August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
- Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an Academy Award-winning American film actress.
- Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.
- Miyoshi Umeki
Miyoshi Umeki is an Academy Award-winning actress best known for her roles as Joe Kelly's (Red Buttons) wife, Katsumi in the 1957 movie, "Sayonara", and as Bill Bixby's questionable maid, Mrs. Livingston, in the 1970s dramedy, "The Courtship of Eddie's Father". Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan under the name Nancy Umeki before moving to the United States.
- Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress.
- Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892-22 May 1972) was an English Academy Award-winning character actress who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit", and Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest".
- 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.
- Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21 1925 - March 13 2006) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in film, theater and television. She also won an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
- Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 - January 14 2006) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress.
- Lee Grant
Lee Grant (October 31, 1927) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
- 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, …
- Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a singer, dancer and an Academy Award-winning actress and the first and only Puerto Rican actress in history (as well as one of only nine people) to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award.