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Peggy Ashcroft
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1907 - 1991
Dame Peggy Ashcroft was an English stage actress and won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in A Passage to India.
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(1907-1991)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Mary Astor
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Journalist, Author / 1906 - 1987
Mary Astor was an Academy Award-winning actress of the stage and screen. Her best known role was in The Maltese Falcon.
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(1906-1987)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Journalist, Author
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Ethel Barrymore
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Radio Personality / 1879 - 1959
Ethel Barrymore was an American stage and film actress whose distinctive style, voice, and wit made her the “first lady” of the American theatre.
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(1879-1959)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Radio Personality
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Kim Basinger
Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress / 1953 -
Film actress Kim Basinger won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in L.A. Confidential. She married actor Alec Baldwin in 1993.
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(1953-)
Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress
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Ingrid Bergman
Actress / 1915 - 1982
Ingrid Bergman was one of the most popular motion-picture actresses in the United States from the 1940s until her death in 1982. She was also an international star across Europe.
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(1915-1982)
Actress
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Juliette Binoche
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1964 -
French actress Juliette Binoche is widely regarded as one of film's most respected actresses for the intelligence she has brought to her complex roles.
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(1964-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Cate Blanchett
Film Actress / 1969 -
Cate Blanchett is an Academy Award-winning actress known for roles in several esteemed films, including Elizabeth, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Aviator.
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(1969-)
Film Actress
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Jennifer Connelly
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1970 -
Jennifer Connelly is an American actress who started as a child star but gained fame from her role in the film Requiem for a Dream.
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(1970-)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Penelope Cruz
Actress / 1974 -
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is known for her roles in such films as Vanilla Sky, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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(1974-)
Actress
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Geena Davis
Women's Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress / 1956 -
Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis played Thelma in the 1991 cult classic Thelma & Louise, starring opposite Susan Sarandon.
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(1956-)
Women's Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress
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Judi Dench
Actress / 1934 -
Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love.
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(1934-)
Actress
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Olympia Dukakis
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1931 -
Olympia Dukakis received a 1988 Academy Award for her supporting role as Cher’s mom in the film Moonstruck.
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(1931-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Patty Duke
Actress / 1946 -
Actress Patty Duke won an Academy Award in 1963, at age 16, for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker—becoming the youngest Oscar recipient at the time.
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(1946-)
Actress
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Brenda Fricker
Film Actress / 1945 -
Brenda Fricker won an Oscar for her work in My Left Foot, as the mother of a gifted boy inflicted with cerebral palsy.
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(1945-)
Film Actress
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Whoopi Goldberg
Film Actress, Television Actress, Comedian, Talk Show Host / 1955 -
Whoopi Goldberg is a Grammy-Award winning comedienne, an actress, a human rights advocate, and TV host of the daytime talk show The View.
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(1955-)
Film Actress, Television Actress, Comedian, Talk Show Host
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Marcia Gay Harden
Actress / 1959 -
Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress best known for her work in films, like Miller's Crossing and Pollock.
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(1959-)
Actress
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Anne Hathaway
Film Actress / 1982 -
American actress Anne Hathaway has starred in films like The Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, Love and Other Drugs, and Les Miserables.
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(1982-)
Film Actress
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Goldie Hawn
Actress / 1945 -
Goldie Hawn began her career as a dancer, but switched to acting on television and then film. She won an Academy Award for her performance in Cactus Flower, and later received an Oscar nomination for Private Benjamin.
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(1945-)
Actress
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Helen Hayes
Actress / 1900 - 1993
Helen Hayes was an American actress best known for being one of two women to have received all four entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.
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(1900-1993)
Actress
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Jennifer Hudson
Actress, Singer / 1981 -
Jennifer Hudson is an Oscar and Grammy-winning actress and singer known for roles in Dreamgirls and Sex and the City.
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(1981-)
Actress, Singer
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Anjelica Huston
Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress / 1951 -
Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award-winning actress, a film director and the daughter of John Huston.
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(1951-)
Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress
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Angelina Jolie
Activist, Film Actress, Director / 1975 -
Angelina Jolie is one of Hollywood's leading actresses, known for movies like Changeling and Salt as much as she is for her relationship with actor Brad Pitt.
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(1975-)
Activist, Film Actress, Director
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Shirley Jones
Animal Rights Activist, Actress, Singer / 1934 -
Shirley Jones is a singer and actress best known for her parts in movie musicals, and for her role as Mrs. Partridge on the 1970s television show The Partridge Family.
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(1934-)
Animal Rights Activist, Actress, Singer
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Jessica Lange
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1949 -
Jessica Lange is an award-winning American actress best known for her roles in King Kong, Tootsie and Grey Gardens.
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(1949-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Hattie McDaniel
Film Actress / 1895 - 1952
Actress and radio performer Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940, for her supporting role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.
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(1895-1952)
Film Actress
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Mo'Nique
Actress / 1967 -
Mo'Nique is an actress and stand-up comedian who won an Academy Award for her role in Precious.
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(1967-)
Actress
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Rita Moreno
Actress / 1931 -
Rita Moreno is a Puetro Rican actress, of West Side Story (1961) fame, who throughout her career has broken new ground for Latinos in entertainment.
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(1931-)
Actress
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Tatum O'Neal
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1963 -
Tatum O'Neal is best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s, notably as Addie in Paper Moon, for which she won an Oscar at the age of 10.
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(1963-)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Anna Paquin
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1982 -
Academy Award-winning actress Anna Paquin has appeared in such films as The Piano and X-Men, and the television drama True Blood.
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(1982-)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Vanessa Redgrave
Film Actress / 1937 -
Called “the greatest actress of our time” by Tennessee Williams, Vanessa Redgrave is an acclaimed actress of stage and screen.
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(1937-)
Film Actress
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Donna Reed
Television Actress / 1921 - 1986
Actress Donna Reed charmed audiences in the film It's a Wonderful Life and on television's The Donna Reed Show.
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(1921-1986)
Television Actress
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Mercedes Ruehl
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1948 -
Mercedes Ruehl is an actress of Cuban and Irish descent. She won a Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers and an Oscar for The Fisher King.
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(1948-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Margaret Rutherford
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1892 - 1972
Dame Margaret Rutherford was an Academy Award-winning English actress on stage, film and television. Her best known role was Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
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(1892-1972)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Maggie Smith
Actress / 1934 -
British actress Maggie Smith's distinguished career includes performing opposite Laurence Olivier in Othello to an Academy Award-winning performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, to a role in the Harry Potter series.
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(1934-)
Actress
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Mira Sorvino
Women's Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress, Producer / 1968 -
Mira Sorvino is an Academy Award-winning actress who starred in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite.
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(1968-)
Women's Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television Actress, Producer
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Octavia Spencer
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1972 -
After years of scene-stealing small acting roles, Octavia Spencer rose to fame with her award-winning performance in 2011's The Help.
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(1972-)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Maureen Stapleton
Film Actress, Theater Actress / 1925 - 2006
Maureen Stapleton was an American actress known primarily for her stage work in the plays of Tennessee Williams.
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(1925-2006)
Film Actress, Theater Actress
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Mary Steenburgen
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1953 -
Mary Steenburgen is an Oscar-winning actress best known for her roles in Melvin and Howard and Parenthood.
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(1953-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Meryl Streep
Film Actress / 1949 -
Award-winning actress Meryl Streep is a star of stage and screen, known for her work in such diverse films as The Deer Hunter, Adaptation, Mamma Mia! and Doubt.
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(1949-)
Film Actress
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Tilda Swinton
Film Actress / 1960 -
Tilda Swinton is an Oscar-winning British actress known for her arthouse film roles and for acclaimed performances in more mainstream pictures like Michael Clayton.
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(1960-)
Film Actress
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Marisa Tomei
Actress / 1964 -
Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei has starred in a number of successful films, including My Cousin Vinny, In the Bedroom and The Wrestler.
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(1964-)
Actress
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Rachel Weisz
Film Actress, Television Actress, Model / 1970 -
British actress and model Rachel Weisz is best known for her performances in The Mummy, Stealing Beauty and The Constant Gardener.
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(1970-)
Film Actress, Television Actress, Model
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Dianne Wiest
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1948 -
Dianne Wiest is an actress known for roles in films such as The Lost Boys and on the TV show In Treatment.
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(1948-)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Shelley Winters
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Pin-up / 1920 - 2006
Shelley Winters was a popular American actress who is perhaps most remembered for her starring role in the 1951 film A Place in the Sun, for which won an Oscar.
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(1920-2006)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Pin-up
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress / 1969 -
Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Tony Award-winning Welsh actress who's married to actor Michael Douglas.
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(1969-)
Actress