Their Greatest Roles

1. Quinton Aaron

Quinton Aaron is best known for his portrayal of Michael Oher, aka Big Mike, alongside Oscar winner Sandra Bullock, in the Academy Award winning hit movie, The Blind Side (2009), which has grossed over $300 million in U.S. box office alone.

Aaron has guest-starred on many television shows including ...

The Blind Side (2009)

2. Jake Abel

Actor | Malignant

Jake Abel was born in Canton, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Malignant (2021), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) and Supernatural (2005). He has been married to Allie Wood since November 9, 2013.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

3. F. Murray Abraham

Actor | The Grand Budapest Hotel

Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham was born on October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in El Paso, Texas. His father, Fred Abraham, was a Syrian (Antiochian Orthodox Christian) immigrant. His mother, Josephine (Stello) Abraham, was the daughter of Italian immigrants. Born...

1. Joshua (2002) 2. Scarface (1983) 3. Noah's Ark (1999)

4. Jean Acker

Actress | Checkers

Jean Acker was born in 1893 on a farm in Trenton, NJ, and was named Harriet. Her father was part Cherokee and her mother was Irish, and they had separated when she was young. Jean attended school at St. Mary's Seminary in Springfield, NJ. Her acting career began in vaudeville and stock-company ...

1. My Favorite Wife (1940) 2. Spellbound (1945) 3. Remember the Night (1940) 4. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 5. A Star Is Born (1937) 6. San Francisco (1936)

5. Jean Adair

Actress | Arsenic and Old Lace

Slight, birdlike Jean Adair came to the screen after playing a succession of crotchety or maternal roles on the stage. She was born Violet McNaughton in Ontario, Canada, and absolved her acting studies in Chicago. After extensive touring with local stock companies and a few seasons on the ...

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

6. Amy Adams

Actress | Arrival

Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...

1. Enchanted (2007) 2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) 3. Man of Steel (2013)

7. Edie Adams

Actress | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The scintillating, sultry-eyed blonde (formerly a redhead) star of screen, TV and award-winning stage went on to become best known, however, for her sensual delivery pitching cigars in taunting '60s ads and commercials with her Mae Westian come-on line "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it ...

1. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 2. The Apartment (1960)

8. Julie Adams

Actress | Creature from the Black Lagoon

Betty May Adams was the daughter of a travelling Iowa cotton buyer with a penchant for alcohol. Growing up in Arkansas, Betty expressed an early interest in acting and made her performing debut in a third grade play of "Hansel and Gretel." Beautiful, talented and determined, the freshly minted '...

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

9. Nick Adams

Actor | No Time for Sergeants

Nick Adams, best known to audiences as Johnny Yuma of the TV series The Rebel (1959), played leads and supporting parts in many films of the 1950s, often cast in the same "troubled young man" mold as his good friend, James Dean. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Twilight of Honor...

1. Pillow Talk (1959) 2. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 3. The Hook (1963) 4. The Killers (1946)

Provides James Dean's voice in certain scenes in Giant (1956)

10. Renée Adorée

Actress | The Big Parade

Renee Adoree was born Jeanne de la Fontein in Lille in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, on September 30, 1898. She had what one could call a normal childhood. Her background is, perhaps, one of the most difficult to find information on any actress in existence. What we do know that her interest in ...

1. The Big Parade (1925) 2. The Show (1927) 3. Redemption (1930) 4. Mr. Wu (1928) 5. Show People (1928)

11. Scott Adsit

Actor | Big Hero 6

Scott Adsit performed on the mainstage of Chicago's Second City, between 1994 and 1998, and, alongside Saturday Night Live (1975)'s Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey, was one of the driving forces behind such groundbreaking revues as "Pinata Full of Bees" and "Paradigm Lost". An in-depth look at his craft...

Big Hero 6 (2014)

12. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...

1. Argo (2012) 2. Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) 3. Field of Dreams (1989)

13. Shohreh Aghdashloo

Actress | House of Sand and Fog

Shohreh Aghdashloo was born Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar on May 11, 1952 in Tehran, Iran. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her homeland of Iran, starring in some prominent pictures such as The Report (1977) directed by the renowned Abbas Kiarostami, which won critics awards at the...

The Nativity Story (2006)

14. Christina Aguilera

Soundtrack | The Voice

Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York City, New York to musician Shelly Loraine Fidler Kearns and U.S. Army sergeant Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera Monge. Her father is Ecuadorian and her mother, who is American-born, has Welsh, Dutch and German ancestry. ...

Shark Tale (2004)

15. Jenny Agutter

Actress | Logan's Run

Jenny Agutter was born on December 20, 1952, in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK. The daughter of an army officer, she spent her childhood traveling and living in different countries. Her film career began at the age of 12 in East of Sudan (1964), which was quickly followed by The Magical World of ...

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 2. The Avengers (2012)

16. Brian Aherne

Actor | Merrily We Live

Brian Aherne was an Oscar-nominated Anglo-American stage and screen actor who was one of the top cinema character actors in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Born on May 2, 1902, in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England, Aherne performed as an actor as a child. At age 18, he made his debut as an adult ...

1. I Confess (1953) 2. The Swan (1956)

17. Claude Akins

Actor | Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Broad-shouldered and beefy Claude Akins had wavy black hair, a deep booming voice and was equally adept at playing sneering cowardly villains as he was at portraying hard-nosed cops. The son of a police officer, Akins never seemed short of work and appeared in nearly 100 films and 180+ TV episodes ...

1. The Killers (1964) 2. From Here to Eternity (1953)

18. Carlos Alazraqui

Actor | The Fairly OddParents

Carlos Alazraqui is an American actor and comedian known for his roles as Rocko from Rocko's Modern Life, Spyro the Dragon in the 1998 video game of the same name, Lazlo and Clam from Camp Lazlo, Denzel Crocker from The Fairly OddParents, James Garcia in Reno 911, the Taco Bell chihuahua, and Puma ...

1. The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour (2004) 2. Happy Feet (2006) 3. The Fairly OddParents in Fairy Idol (2006) 4. Jimmy Neutron: Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004) 5. The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide (2006) 6. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) 7. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) 8. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) 9. Toy Story 3 (2010) 10. Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 11. A Bug's Life (1998) 12. An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998) 13. Ponyo (2008)

19. Eddie Albert

Actor | Roman Holiday

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Eddie Albert was a circus trapeze flier before becoming a stage and radio actor. He made his film debut in 1938 and has worked steadily since, often cast as the friendly, good-natured buddy of the hero but occasionally being cast as a villain; one of his ...

1. Roman Holiday (1956) 2. Attack (1956) 3. I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) 4. Mouse on the Mayflower (1968) 5. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

20. Jack Albertson

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

A former song-and-dance man and veteran of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway, Jack Albertson is best known to audiences as "The Man" in the TV series Chico and the Man (1974), for which he won an Emmy. In 1968 Albertson, the brother of actress Mabel Albertson, won the Oscar for Best Supporting ...

1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) 2. The Fox and the Hound (1981) 3. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 4. Strike Up the Band (1940)

21. Lola Albright

Actress | Peter Gunn

Lola Jean Albright was born on July 20, 1924 in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of John Paul Albright and Marion Harvey, both of whom were gospel singers. She worked as a model before moving to Hollywood in the mid-1940s, studied piano for 20 years and worked as a receptionist at radio station WAKR in ...

1. Champion (1949) 2. The Pirate (1947) 3. Easter Parade (1948)

22. Jane Alexander

Actress | Kramer vs. Kramer

Angular in features, reserved in demeanor and more-or-less plaintive in appearance, actress Jane Alexander has played down the glamour card for the most part. Her true brilliance has come from the remarkable range and depth of her talent. Heralded as one of the finest 70s actresses to arrive in ...

1. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 2. Glory (1989)

23. Jason Alexander

Actor | Seinfeld

Jay Scott Greenspan, known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, film director, and television presenter. An Emmy and Tony winner, he is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series Seinfeld (1989), for which he was nominated for seven consecutive...

1. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) 2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 3. The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) 4. Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)

24. Phillip Alford

Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird

Phillip Alford was born on September 11, 1948 in Gadsden, Alabama, USA. He is an actor, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Shenandoah (1965) and Fairplay (1971).

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

25. Roger Allam

Actor | V for Vendetta

Born October 26, 1953 in Bow, London, England as Roger William Allam, he is a British stage, television, film, and radio actor, best known for originating the role of Javert in the musical "Les Misérables", for playing Douglas Richardson in the radio series "Cabin Pressure" and for his roles as ...

1. Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010)

26. Barbara Jo Allen

Actress | Sleeping Beauty

Comedienne/writer Barbara Jo Allen induced laughs nationwide after originating and literally becoming synonymous with the talky, shrill-voiced, man-hungry spinster "Vera Vague," a WWII creation in the late 1930s. She kept the name throughout much of her career and was often billed as such. The ...

1. Sleeping Beauty (1959) 2. The Opposite Sex (1956) 3. The Sword in the Stone (1963) 4. The Women (1939)

27. Joan Allen

Actress | Room

Joan Allen was born on August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, Illinois, the youngest of four children. She is the daughter of homemaker Dorothea Marie (Wirth) and gas station owner James Jefferson Allen. Her mother's family was German, and her father had English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry. She ...

1. The Crucible (1996) 2. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)

28. Karen Allen

Actress | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Karen Jane Allen was born in Carrollton, rural southern Illinois, to Patricia (Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. She was always "the new girl in school." Acting did not really ...

The Sandlot (1993)

29. Nancy Allen

Actress | Dressed to Kill

Nancy Anne Allen was born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, the youngest of three children. Her father, Eugene Allen, was a New York police lieutenant. At a young age, she trained for a dancing career at the High School of Performing Arts, and then attended Jose Quintano's School ...

1. Blow Out (1981) 2. Carrie (1976)

30. Tim Allen

Actor | Toy Story

Timothy Allen Dick was born on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado, to Martha Katherine (Fox) and Gerald M. Dick. His father, a real estate salesman, was killed in a collision with a drunk driver while driving his family home from a University of Colorado football game, when Tim was eleven years old...

1. Toy Story (1995) 2. Toy Story 2 (1999) 3. Toy Story 3 (2010) 4. The Santa Clause 2 (2002) 5. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2003) 6. The Shaggy Dog (2006) 7. Jimmy Neutron: Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004) 8. Cars (2006)

31. Sara Allgood

Actress | How Green Was My Valley

Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to the English stage, where she played for many years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she spent a lot of time playing Irish ...

1. How Green Was My Valley (1941) 2. Between Two Worlds (1944) 3. That Hamilton Woman (1941) 4. Storm in a Teacup (1937) 5. Cluny Brown (1945) 6. Blackmail (1929) 7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) 8. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) 9. Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

32. Wayne Allwine

Actor | Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Wayne Allwine was an American voice actor, sound editor and artist who was well-known for voicing Walt Disney's mascot Mickey Mouse from 1977 until his death from diabetes complications in 2009. He was succeeded by Bret Iwan. He was married to Minnie Mouse voice actress Russi Taylor and had four ...

1. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) 2. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) 3. Mickey's House of Villains (2001) 4. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 6. The Spirit of Mickey (1998) 7. Fantasia/2000 (1999) 8. A Goofy Movie (1995) 9. The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004) 10. The Great Mouse Detective (1986) 11. The Black Cauldron (1985)

33. Astrid Allwyn

Actress | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Lovely Connecticut-born blonde Astrid Allwyn, with her foreign-sounding name and icy countenance, spruced up a number of 1930s and early 1940s films. Of Swedish descent, she studied dancing and dramatics in New York and later gathered experience joining a stock company. Allwyn made her Broadway ...

1. International Crime (1938) 2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 3. Love Affair (1939)

34. June Allyson

Actress | Executive Suite

American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined ...

1. The Three Musketeers (1948) 2. The Opposite Sex (1956) 3. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) 4. Girl Crazy (1943)

35. Tom Amandes

Actor | The Long Kiss Goodnight

Tom grew up in the small towns of Richmond and Crystal Lake, Illinois. He began performing at home, with his 10 brothers and sisters, creating puppet shows, short films, music and radio dramas, before moving on to school plays and community theater.

He graduated from The Goodman School of Drama, as ...

Second Chances (1998)

36. Don Ameche

Actor | Cocoon

Don Ameche was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film ...

1. In Old Chicago (1937) 2. Down Argentine Way (1940)

37. Robbie Amell

Actor | Upload

Along with his sister, Robbie Amell started acting when he was just six years old. At sixteen, he started to land theater roles at Lawrence Park Stage in plays such as Louis and Dave, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Importance of Being Earnest. The experience brought Robbie to realize that he ...

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)

38. Leon Ames

Actor | Peggy Sue Got Married

Leon Ames was born Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He had always wanted to be an actor and he did it the hard way, serving a long apprenticeship in touring amateur theatre companies -- even selling shoes for a while on 42nd Street in the 1920s. It...

1. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 2. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 3. On Moonlight Bay (1951) 4. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) 5. Peyton Place (1957) 6. Son of Lassie (1945) 7. Anchors Aweigh (1945) 8. The Happy Years (1950)

39. Anthony Anderson

Actor | The Departed

Anthony Anderson is an American actor, comedian and game show host who is known for playing Louis Booker from Kangaroo Jack, Glen Whitmann from Transformers, Ray Ray from The Proud Family and Antwon Mitchell from The Shield. He also acted in Blackish, Hoodwinked, The Departed, Agent Cody Banks 2 ...

1. Hoodwinked! (2005) 2. Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

40. Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The son of a minstrel and circus tightrope walker, Eddie Anderson developed a gravel voice early in life which would become his trademark to fame. He joined his older brother Cornelius as members of "The Three Black Aces" during his vaudeville years, singing for pennies in the hotel lobby. He ...

1. Cabin in the Sky (1943) 2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 3. Gone with the Wind (1939) 4. You Can't Take It With You (1938) 5. Jezebel (1938) 6. Show Boat (1936)

41. Gillian Anderson

Actress | The X Files

Gillian Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Rosemary Alyce (Lane), a computer analyst, and Homer Edward Anderson III, who owned a film post-production company. Gillian started her career as a member of an amateur actor group while at high school. In 1987, her love of the theatre took her to ...

Princess Mononoke (1997)

42. Judith Anderson

Actress | Rebecca

Dame Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson on February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her acting career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. There she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and was a major star on Broadway ...

1. Rebecca (1940) 2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 3. Salome (1953) 4. The Ten Commandments (1956) 5. Laura (1944) 6. Edge of Darkness (1943) 7. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

43. Mary Anderson

Actress | Lifeboat

Mary Anderson was born on April 3, 1918 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Lifeboat (1944), Wilson (1944) and Gone with the Wind (1939). She was married to Leon Shamroy and Leonard Marion Behrens. She died on April 6, 2014 in Burbank, California, USA.

1. Lifeboat (1944) 2. To Each His Own (1946) 3. The Song of Bernadette (1943) 4. All This, and Heaven Too (1940) 5. Wilson (1944) 6. Gone with the Wind (1939) 7. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 8. The Women (1939)

44. Michael Anderson Jr.

Actor | Logan's Run

Michael Anderson Jr. was born on August 6, 1943 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Logan's Run (1976), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

1. Major Dundee (1965) 2. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

45. Pamela Anderson

Actress | Barb Wire

Pamela Denise Anderson was born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada at 4:08 PST, to young newlywed parents, Barry Anderson and Carol Anderson. Her ancestry includes Finnish, English, Irish, and Volga German. During her childhood, she moved to the city of Vancouver. She has a ...

Scooby-Doo (2002)

46. Richard Anderson

Actor | Paths of Glory

Richard Anderson appeared in high school plays, served a hitch in the Army and, upon his discharge, began doing summer stock, radio work, a movie bit part (a wounded soldier in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)) and all the other minor jobs required of your basic struggling actor. He did comedy scenes on a...

1. The Long, Hot Summer (1958) 2. Scaramouche (1952) 3. Rich, Young, and Pretty (1951) 4. Hit the Deck (1955)

47. André René Roussimoff

Actor | The Princess Bride

André René Roussimoff was born in a small farming community in Grenoble, France to Boris and Marian Rouismoff. His parents and four siblings were all of normal size, but André suffered from acromegaly, a hormonal disorder that results when the pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone. As the ...

1. The Princess Bride (1987) 2. Noah's Ark (1999)

48. Ursula Andress

Actress | Dr. No

The quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, Ursula Andress was born in the Swiss canton of Berne on March 19, 1936, one of six children in a strict German Protestant family. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had an impetuous ...

Clash of the Titans (1981)

49. Dana Andrews

Actor | Laura

American leading man of the 1940s and 1950s, Dana Andrews was born Carver Dana Andrews on New Years Day 1909 on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. One of thirteen children, including fellow actor Steve Forrest, he was a son of Annis (Speed) and Charles Forrest Andrews, a ...

1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 2. Laura (1944) 3. Fallen Angel (1945) 4. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 5. Ball of Fire (1941) 6. The Westerner (1940) 7. The Loved One (1965)

50. Edward Andrews

Actor | Sixteen Candles

The son of a Georgia minister, Edward Andrews debuted on stage in 1926 at age 12 and by 1935 had landed on Broadway. A solid character actor, his large physique and amiable demeanor made him a natural for the jovial, grandfatherly type or genial, small-town businessman which he often played, but ...

1. The Thrill of It All (1963) 2. Friendly Persuasion (1956)

51. Julie Andrews

Actress | The Sound of Music

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...

1. The Sound of Music (1965) 2. Mary Poppins (1964) 3. The Princess Diaries (2001) 4. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Diaries (2004) 5. Shrek 2 (2004) 6. Despicable Me (2010) 7. Tooth Fairy (2010) 8. Enchanted (2007)

52. Heather Angel

Actress | Peter Pan

Heather Grace Angel was born in Oxford, England, on February 9, 1909. She dabbled on the stage for a time before coming to California to try her luck on the screen. Heather was 20 years old when she landed a bit part for the 1929 film, Bulldog Drummond (1929). Although she didn't know it at the ...

1. Peter Pan (1953) 2. Lifeboat (1944) 3. Suspicion (1941) 4. That Hamilton Woman (1941) 5. Alice in Wonderland (1951) 6. Pride and Prejudice (1940) 7. Kitty Foyle (1940)

53. Ann-Margret

Actress | Carnal Knowledge

Actress and singer Ann-Margret is one of the most famous sex symbols and actresses of the 1960s and beyond. She continued her career through the following decades and into the 21st century.

Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland County, Sweden, to Anna Regina (Aronsson) and ...

1. The Cincinnati Kid (1965) 2. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

54. Annabella

Actress | Le million

At age 16, Annabella was chosen by Abel Gance to appear in Napoleon (1927). In the 30s, she became a star of French movies. She made movies in numerous other countries, before being called to Hollywood in 1938, where she met and married Tyrone Power. She remained in the USA until 1947. Then she ...

13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

55. Francesca Annis

Actress | Dune

English actress Francesca Annis, who has enjoyed a career spanning seven decades in movies, television and the theater, was born in London six days after V-E Day, on May 14, 1945. Her father, Lester, was English, but her mother, Mariquita (aka Mara Purcell), was of Brazilian-French heritage. From ...

Cleopatra (1963)

56. Jennifer Aniston

Actress | Friends

Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father was Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City...

1. Office Space (1999) 2. The Iron Giant (1999)

57. Nonso Anozie

Actor | Cinderella

Nonso Anozie was born on November 17, 1978 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Cinderella (2015), Conan the Barbarian (2011) and Happy-Go-Lucky (2008).

1. Cinderella (2015) 2. The Bible (2013)

58. Aziz Ansari

Actor | Parks and Recreation

Aziz Ansari was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Fatima, a medical office worker, and Shoukath, a gastroenterologist. His family is from Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated from NYU as a business major in 2004. He graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for Math and Science in ...

I Love You, Man (2009)

59. Tony Anselmo

Actor | Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Tony Anselmo was born on February 18, 1960 in Salt Lake City, UT, and formed an early fascination with all things Disney sparked by a screening of Mary Poppins (1964) at the age of five.

His family moved to Sunnyvale, in northern California, when he was seven, and he continued to actively study ...

1. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) 2. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) 3. Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) 4. Mickey's House of Villains (2001) 5. The Spirit of Mickey (1998) 6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 7. Fantasia/2000 (1999) 8. The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004) 9. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

60. Christina Applegate

Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Christina Applegate was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, to record producer/executive Robert Applegate and singer-actress Nancy Priddy. Her parents split-up shortly after her birth. She has two half-siblings from her father's re-marriage - Alisa (b. October 10, 1977) and Kyle (b. July 15...

Mars Attacks! (1996)

61. Anne Archer

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Anne Archer was nominated for an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and the British (BAFTA) Academy Award for her role as Michael Douglas' sympathetic, tortured wife, "Beth Gallagher", in Adrian Lyne's 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). Archer is also well-known for her poignant Golden ...

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000)

62. Eve Arden

Actress | Our Miss Brooks

Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens in Mill Valley, California (near San Francisco), and was interested in show business from an early age. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to join a stock company. After appearing in minor roles in two films under her real name, Eunice ...

1. Mildred Pierce (1945) 2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 3. Whistling in the Dark (1941) 4. My Dream is Yours (1949) 5. Cover Girl (1944) 6. Grease (1978) 7. Night and Day (1946)

63. Moises Arias

Actor | Ender's Game

Moises Arias was born on April 18, 1994 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Ender's Game (2013), The Kings of Summer (2013) and Nacho Libre (2006).

Astro Boy (2009)

64. Alan Arkin

Actor | Argo

Alan Arkin was an Academy Award-winning American actor who was also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.

He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 1946, the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to...

1. Argo (2012) 2. The Fourth Wise Man (1985) 3. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

65. Richard Arlen

Actor | Island of Lost Souls

During World War I, Richard Arlen served in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps as a pilot, but he never saw combat. After the war he drifted round and eventually wound up in Los Angeles, where he got a job as a motorcycle messenger at a film laboratory. When he crashed into the gates of Paramount ...

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

66. George Arliss

Actor | Disraeli

One of the oldest actors on the screen in the 1920s and 1930s, George Arliss starred on the London stage from an early age. He came to the United States and starred in several films, but it was his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) that brought him his greatest ...

The House of Rothschild (1934)

67. Pedro Armendáriz

Actor | From Russia with Love

Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' ...

1. Fort Apache (1948) 2. Francis of Assisi (1961) 3. The Fugitive (1947)

68. Richard Armitage

Actor | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Richard Crispin Armitage was born and raised in Leicester, England, to Margaret (Hendey), a secretary, and John Armitage, an engineer. He attended Pattison College in Binley Road, Coventry, where he discovered his love for acting. He took part in many theatre productions all over the UK, from ...

1. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 2. The Phantom Menace (1999)

69. Alun Armstrong

Actor | The Mummy Returns

Alun Armstrong is a British actor who is known for playing Cardinal Jinette from the Van Helsing franchise, Baltus Hafez from The Mummy Returns, Uncle Garrow from Eragon, the High Constable from Sleepy Hollow and Maxwell Randall from Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire. He is married to Sue ...

1. Les Miserables : 10th Anniversary Concert (1995) 2. Braveheart (1995) 3. A Bridge Too Far (1977) 4. Millions (2004) 5. Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010)

70. Curtis Armstrong

Actor | Better Off Dead...

Curtis Armstrong was born on November 27, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Better Off Dead (1985), Risky Business (1983) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984). He has been married to Elaine Aronson since January 2, 1994. They have one child. He was previously married...

1. Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 2. The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) 3. Jingle All the Way (1996) 4. Shredderman Rules (2007)

71. Robert Armstrong

Actor | King Kong

Robert Armstrong is familiar to old-movie buffs for his case-hardened, rapid-fire delivery in such roles as fast-talking promoters, managers, FBI agents, street cops, detectives and other such characters in scores of films--over 160--many of them at Warner Brothers, where he was part of the ...

1. King Kong (1933) 2. The Fugitive (1947)

72. James Arness

Actor | Gunsmoke

American leading man famed as the star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness, had formerly been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Rolf and Ruth Duesler Aurness. His father was a traveling salesman ...

Them! (1954)

73. Will Arnett

Actor | The Lego Batman Movie

Will Arnett is a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, and comedian. He is most famous for playing George Oscar "Gob" Bluth II in the Fox series Arrested Development (2003). He also appeared in films such as The Lego Movie (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: ...

1. The Lego Movie (2014) 2. Despicable Me (2008) 3. Horton Hears a Who! (2007) 4. RV (2006) 5. Ratatouille (2007) 6. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

74. Edward Arnold

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style ...

1. You Can't Take It With You (1938) 2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 3. Ziegfeld Follies (1945) 4. Janie (1944) 5. Janie Gets Married (1946) 6. Johnny Eager (1941) 7. The White Sister (1933) 8. I'm No Angel (1933) 9. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

75. Gemma Arterton

Actress | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Gemma Christina Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, where she was raised. She is the daughter of Sally-Anne (Heap), a cleaner, and Barry J. Arterton, a welder. Her mother's cousin is singer-songwriter Eric Goulden.

Her parents divorced when she was age five, and Gemma subsequently lived ...

Clash of the Titans (2010)

76. Jean Arthur

Actress | You Can't Take It with You

This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna ...

1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 2. You Can't Take It With You (1938) 3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 4. Shane (1953)

77. Peggy Ashcroft

Actress | A Passage to India

Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first being The Wandering Jew (1933). On stage she was cast...

The Nun's Story (1959)

78. Elizabeth Ashley

Actress | Windows

Award-winning actress Elizabeth Ashley can always be counted on to give her all. Grand in style, exotic in looks, divinely outgoing in personality and an engaging interpreter of Tennessee Williams' florid Southern-belles on stage, she was born Elizabeth Ann Cole on August 30, 1939, in Ocala, ...

Ship of Fools (1965)

79. Shawn Ashmore

Actor | X2

Shawn Robert Ashmore was born one minute after his twin brother Aaron Ashmore in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, on October 7, 1979. He is the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer. By the age of seven, when their mother became a part of the Multiple Births ...

Cadet Kelly (2002)

80. Joseph Ashton

Actor | Rocket Power

Joseph Ashton was born on November 18, 1986 in Butte County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Rocket Power (1998), The Education of Little Tree (1997) and Slappy and the Stinkers (1998).

Tarzan (1999)

81. Edward Asner

Actor | Up

Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...

1. Up (2009) 2. Elf (2003) 3. Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) 4. Our Friend, Martin (1999)

82. Armand Assante

Actor | Gotti

Known as an Actor's Actor, the Four time Golden Globe Nominee, Emmy Award Winning Actor ( Gotti 1996 ) Assante has received acclaim for his work for close to Five decades. Internationally he has been the recipient of Twelve Lifetime Achievement Awards in the past ten years.

Full Biography at ...

The Road to El Dorado (2000)

83. Fred Astaire

Actor | The Towering Inferno

Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Johanna (Geilus) and Fritz Austerlitz, a brewer. Fred entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. ...

1. Easter Parade (1948) 2. The Band Wagon (1953) 3. Funny Face (1957) 4. Swing Time (1936) 5. You'll Never Get Rich (1941) 6. Finian's Rainbow (1968) 7. Royal Wedding (1951) 8. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970) 9. Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

84. Nils Asther

Actor | The Man in Half Moon Street

Nils Asther was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1897 and raised in Malmö, Sweden, by his wealthy Swedish parents. After attending the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm, he began his stage career in Copenhagen. His film debut came in 1916 when the director Mauritz Stiller cast him in the ...

1. Son of Lassie (1945) 2. Samson and Delilah (1949)

85. John Astin

Actor | The Frighteners

Dark-haired, usually-mustachioed American actor with a cheeky grin, who achieved pop culture status through his portrayal of the kooky patriarch "Gomez Addams" in the hit TV series The Addams Family (1964), John Astin was born on March 30, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied mathematics at ...

1. West Side Story (1961) 2. Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

86. Mackenzie Astin

Actor | The Magicians

Mackenzie Astin was born on May 12, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Magicians (2015), Scandal (2012) and Iron Will (1994). He has been married to Jennifer Bautz since April 11, 2011.

Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)

87. Mary Astor

Actress | The Maltese Falcon

Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois to Helen Marie Vasconcellos, an American of Portuguese and Irish ancestry from Illinois, and Otto Ludwig Langhanke, a German immigrant. Mary's parents were very ambitious for her and wanted something better for her...

1. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 2. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 3. Red Dust (1932) 4. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) 5. Listen, Darling (1938) 6. Other Men's Women (1931) 7. Page Miss Glory (1935) 8. Fiesta (1947) 9. Cass Timberlane (1947)

88. William Atherton

Actor | Die Hard

William Atherton's career has spanned motion pictures, Broadway and television. He first achieved international recognition as the leading man in Steven Spielberg's debut feature The Sugarland Express (1974), and next starred in John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust (1975), Robert Wise's The ...

Ghostbusters (1984)

89. Rowan Atkinson

Actor | Johnny English

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on 6 January, 1955, in Consett, Co. Durham, UK, to Ella May (Bainbridge) and Eric Atkinson. His father owned a farm, where Rowan grew up with his two older brothers, Rupert and Rodney. He attended Newcastle University and Oxford University where he earned degrees ...

1. The Lion King (1994) 2. Scooby-Doo (2002)

90. Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...

1. The Sand Pebbles (1966) 2. A Bridge Too Far (1977) 3. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

91. Hayley Atwell

Actress | Captain America: The First Avenger

Born in London, England, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. An only child, Hayley was named after actress Hayley Mills. Her parents, Alison (Cain) and Grant Atwell, both motivational speakers, met at a London workshop of Dale Carnegie's ...

1. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 3. Cinderella (2015) 4. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

92. Eleanor Audley

Actress | Sleeping Beauty

Eleanor Audley was an American actress, with a distinctive voice that helped her find work as a voice actress in radio and animation. She is primarily remembered as the first actress to voice Lady Tremaine and Maleficent, two of the most memorable Disney villains.

Audley's real name was Eleanor ...

1. Cinderella (1950) 2. Sleeping Beauty (1959) 3. Pretty Baby (1950) 4. All That Heaven Allows (1955) 5. A Summer Place (1959) 6. Jeanne Eagles (1957) 7. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 8. No Way Out (1950)

93. Stéphane Audran

Actress | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Stéphane Audran was born on November 8, 1932 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France as Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville. She was an actress, known for Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie (1972), Babettes Fest (1987) and Der Schlachter (1970). She was married to Claude Chabrol and ...

1. Le Boucher (1970) 2. Les Biches (1968) 3. Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) 4. Betty (1992) 5. Les Cousins (1959)

94. Mischa Auer

Actor | My Man Godfrey

Mischa Auer, the American screen's supreme exponent of the "Mad Russian" stereotype so dear to Yankee hearts before and after World War II, was born Mischa Ounskowsky on November 17, 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the grandson of violinist Leopold Auer, whose surname he took when he became a ...

1. You Can't Take It With You (1938) 2. Sweethearts (1938) 3. The Sign of the Cross (1932) 4. The Princess Comes Across (1936)

95. Pernilla August

Actress | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Pernilla August started acting as a child, performing in plays at Vår teater and at school. In 1979 she was accepted at the Statens scenskola to study acting professionally. Director Ingmar Bergman took note of her early and cast her as a nanny in his Fanny and Alexander (1982).

In 1982 she got ...

1. Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999) 2. The Phantom Menace (1999) 3. Attack of the Clones (2002)

96. Jean-Pierre Aumont

Actor | Lili

Another in the long line of dramatically handsome foreign imports who made an immediate impact on WWII Hollywood was debonair French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. The epitome of grace and sophistication, the stylish leading man went on to have a long and respected career on stage, film and TV, both ...

Lili (1953)

97. Alana Austin

Actress | A Simple Twist of Fate

Alana Austin was born on April 6, 1982 in Palm Springs, California, USA. She is an actress, known for A Simple Twist of Fate (1994), Motocrossed (2001) and Ink (1996).

Motocrossed (2001)

98. Jake T. Austin

Actor | Wizards of Waverly Place

Jake T. Austin was born Jake Austin Szymanski in New York City, to Giny Rodriguez Toranzo and Joe Szymanski. His middle initial is taken from his mother's name Toranzo. He has a younger sister, Ava. His father has Polish, English, and Irish ancestry, and his mother is of Puerto Rican, Argentinian, ...

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009)

99. Dan Aykroyd

Writer | Ghostbusters

Daniel Edward Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Lorraine Hélène (Gougeon), a secretary from a French-Canadian family, and Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer who advised prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Aykroyd attended Carleton University in 1969, where...

1. Ghostbusters (1984) 2. Ghostbusters II (1989) 3. Tommy Boy (1995)

100. Lew Ayres

Actor | Holiday

Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul ...

1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 2. Johnny Belinda (1948)