- Britney Spears
The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol .
- Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age. Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
- Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. She is married to actor/director, Antonio Banderas.
- 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.
- Brandon Lee
Brandon Bruce Lee (李國豪 Cantonese: "Léi Gwokhòu" Pinyin: "Lǐ Guóháo"; February 1, 1965 - March 31, 1993) was an American actor of Chinese, German, English and Swedish descent. He was the son of the late legendary martial arts film star Bruce Lee
- Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson (born 11 November 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. Bibi Andersson studied acting at the Terserus Drama School and at the legendary Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm. After completing school, she agreed to join the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, which she remained a member of for 30 years. Her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman was in 1951, when she participated in his production of an advertisement for the detergent "Bris".
- Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz".
- Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a five-time Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy-nominated American actress, singer and dancer.
- Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29 1970) is an American film actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Gattaca" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" movies (2003–04).
- Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980 as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal) is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age eleven, and his short career has seen performances in diverse roles. He has received an Academy Award nomination and won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother's on-screen sister in the cult hit "Donnie Darko". Gyllenhaal made her breakthrough in the sadomasochistic romance, …
- Pernilla August
Pernilla August (born Mia Pernilla Wallgren, February 13, 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish actress. August started acting during her childhood in theater and at school. Her professional acting career started in 1979 when she began studying acting. She attracted the attention of Ingmar Bergman, who cast her as a nanny in his film, "Fanny och Alexander". She has acted in several notable plays, including William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", …
- Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, known for her roles in "Interview with the Vampire", "The Virgin Suicides", "Marie Antoinette", and "Bring It On", as well as Mary Jane Watson in the "Spider-Man" film series.
- Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, and television producer. Also known as Marky Mark in his earlier days, he had become famous in his debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He also enjoyed great fame as a sought-after advertising icon.
- Izabella Scorupco
Izabella Dorota Scorupco. On January 30, 2003 she married American Jeffrey Raymond. Together they have a young son, Jacob (born July 24, 2003).
- Erika Christensen
Erika Jane Christensen (born August 19, 1982) is an American actress whose film appearances include "Traffic" (2000) and "The Perfect Score" (2004), among others. She also co-starred in the drama "Six Degrees" on ABC.
- Uschi Digard
Uschi Digard, is a former Swedish porn star and model best known for her prodigious breasts and her roles in Russ Meyer movies. Despite many rumors, Digard was not born in North Dakota, she was born and grew up in Scandinavia. Of her childhood Digard has said: "I was sent to a boarding school with nuns at an early age because those were the best schools in the country and I was pretty promiscuous as a little one -- not with men, but with books.
- Maud Adams
Maud Adams (born February 12 1945) is a Swedish actress known for her roles as two different Bond girls in two James Bond films, "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974) and as the title character in "Octopussy" (1983). She was also an extra in "A View to a Kill" (1985).
- Hayden Christensen
Hayden Christensen (born April 19, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s. He moved on to minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in "Life as a House". He gained international fame playing the young adult Anakin Skywalker in the "Star Wars" films.
- Lasse Hallström
Lars Sven (Lasse) Hallström is a Swedish film director. He is the son of the writer Karin Lyberg (1907-2000). His grandfather, Ernst Lyberg was the Swedish Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Carl Gustaf Ekman 1926 to 1928 and leader of the Liberal Party of Sweden from 1930 to 1933. Hallström learned his craft making music videos, in particular those made for the group ABBA, which pioneered the era of the music video, …
- James Franco
James Edward Franco (born April 19 1978) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, and artist. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the series "Freaks and Geeks" and starring in several teen films. He won a Golden Globe Award for playing the title role in the made-for-television film "James Dean", and has become known among audiences for his role as Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man films.
- Melissa Hill
Melissa Hill (born January 8, 1970 in San Francisco, California) is a pornographic actress and director. Prior to entering the adult film industry, Hill grew up, and still lives, in the San Francisco Bay Area as the oldest of three sisters. She was also a former ballerina and ballet teacher; she practiced ballet for 17 years, and taught the subject after graduating from high school until she was 23. In 1993, …
- Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson, born Tor Johansson, (October 19, 1903 - May 12, 1971) was a professional wrestler known as The Super Swedish Angel, and occasional actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his roles in a number of B-movies, including police detective turned zombie "Inspector Dan Clay" in "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Since his death he has amassed a huge cult following, thanks to a Halloween mask made in his image, …
- May Britt
May Britt had a brief career as movie actress in the 1950s, in Italy first and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1960. Maybritt Wilkens, as she was known originally, was discovered by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati in 1951. She was an assistant to a Stockholm photographer. The two Italians were in Sweden to make a casting for a young blonde for the title role in "Jolanda, …
- Warner Oland
Warner Oland (October 3, 1879 - August 6, 1938) was a Swedish actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."
- Lars Hanson
Lars Hanson (July 26, 1886 - April 8, 1965) was a highly successful Swedish film and stage actor mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.
- Tippi Hedren
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress with a career spanning six decades. She is best known for her role as Melanie Daniels in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983. Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, and they share credits on six films, notably "Pacific Heights" (1990).
- Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 - October 25, 1995), better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish and later American stage and film actress. She was born in Uppsala, Sweden, and trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros. and began working in Hollywood films.
- Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova (born April 9, 1965) is a Czech-born supermodel and actress. She holds both Swedish and United States citizenship.
- Johnny Nash
Johnny Nash (born John Lester Nash Jr, 19 August 1940, Houston, Texas) is an African-American pop singer-songwriter, best known for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". Nash began as a pop singer in the 1950s. He also enjoyed success as an actor early in his career appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson's "Take a Giant Step". Nash won a Silver Sail Award for his performance from the Locarno International Film Festival.
- Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original "Star Wars" films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in "Batman: The Animated Series". After the "Star Wars" films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, …
- Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an influential American country music songwriter, singer and actor. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole author of most of his songs, but he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein and Fred Foster.
- Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, "Pretty Woman", opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has become the highest-paid actress in the world, topping the "Hollywood Reporter's" annual power list of top-earning female stars for four consecutive years (2002-2005).
- Shannon Lee
Shannon Emery Lee is an American actress. She is the daughter of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and his widow Linda Lee Cadwell. Shannon's brother was the late actor Brandon Lee. Shannon was born in Los Angeles, California, the second child to Bruce and Linda (Emery) Lee. Shannon and her family lived in Hong Kong from 1971 to 1973, after which her mother moved back to the United States following the death of her father.
- Kristina Wayborn
Kristina Wayborn (born September 24, 1950) is a Swedish actress. Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Sweden. She was Miss Sweden in 1970 and was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that same year and also crowned as Miss Scandinavia. She is probably better known for her role as Magda in the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy". She subsequently appeared in a number of American television series such as "The Love Boat", …
- Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born February 28 1948) is an American Tony Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and singer. Beginning as a child actress, Peters has established herself as an important stage actress, particularly in musical theatre, as well as a recording star, and an actress in films and television. Peters first reached Broadway in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she took roles in film and television, but in the 1980s returned to theatre, where she has been, …
- Nils Asther
Nils Asther (January 17, 1897 - October 13, 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish stage and film actor. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Asther grew up in Sweden and attended the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm. After returning to Copenhagen to do stage work, he soon began appearing in European films, working with acclaimed directors such as Victor Sjostrom. He soon left for Hollywood, his first film there being released in 1927.
- Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy "Murphy Brown", and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, "Boston Legal".
- James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American actor.
- Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee was an American jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom and was famous for her "soft and cool" singing style. Though she recorded dozens of hit songs (many of which she wrote or cowrote), Lee might be best known for her interpretation of the Davenport/Cooley composition "Fever" and the song written by her and Dave Barbour, "It's a Good Day."