Actress 01

by spinspinhead | created - 10 Oct 2013 | updated - 15 Jun 2014 | Public

1. Nicole Kidman

Actress | Moulin Rouge!

Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.

Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...

2. 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 ...

3. Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress | Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...

4. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

5. Jennifer Connelly

Actress | A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...

6. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Actress | Chicago

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born September 25, 1969 in Swansea, Wales (and raised in the nearby town of Mumbles), the only daughter of Patricia (nee Fair) and David James "Dai" Jones, who formerly owned a sweet factory. She attended Dumbarton House School (Swansea). Her father (the son of Bertram (...

7. Renée Zellweger

Actress | Chicago

Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Renée ...

8. Penélope Cruz

Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...

9. Cameron Diaz

Actress | Vanilla Sky

Cameron Diaz, an American actress, was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and a German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, ...

10. Milla Jovovich

Actress | Le Cinquième Élément

Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-American actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the Resident Evil (2002) franchise.

Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich...

11. Sandra Bullock

Producer | The Proposal

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...

12. Michelle Pfeiffer

Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...

13. 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 ...

14. Emma Watson

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...

15. Keira Knightley

Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Keira Christina Knightley was born March 26, 1985 in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born ...

16. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

17. Julia Roberts

Actress | Pretty Woman

Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...

18. Kathy Bates

Actress | Misery

Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...

19. Carrie-Anne Moss

Actress | The Matrix

Carrie-Anne Moss was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. At age 20, after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she moved to Europe to pursue a career in modeling. While in Spain she was cast in the TV show Dark Justice which was produced in Barcelona for its first season and Los ...

20. Margot Kidder

Actress | Superman

Margot Kidder was born Margaret Ruth Kidder in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, to Jocelyn Mary "Jill" (Wilson), a history teacher from British Columbia, and Kendall Kidder, a New Mexico-born mining engineer and explosives expert. Margot was a delightful child who took pride in ...

21. Goldie Hawn

Actress | Private Benjamin

Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland to Laura Hawn, a jewelry shop/dance school owner & Rut Hawn, a band musician. She has a sister, Patti Hawn, and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth. She was raised in the Jewish...

22. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

23. Ellen Burstyn

Actress | Requiem for a Dream

Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...

24. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...

25. Sally Field

Actress | Forrest Gump

Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...

26. Shirley MacLaine

Actress | Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...

27. Clea DuVall

Actress | The Faculty

Clea DuVall was born in Los Angeles on September 25, 1977, to Rosemary (Hatch) and actor Steph DuVall. DuVall's teenage years presented her with many challenges. Her parents divorced when she was twelve, and, when her mother remarried, DuVall moved out because she did not feel at home in the ...

クレア・デュヴァル 1996 リトル・ウィッチーズ Little Witches 1997 アラーミスト Life During Wartime 1997 Niagara, Niagara 1998 How to Make the Cruelest Month 1998 Girl 1998 待ちきれなくて… Can't Hardly Wait 1998 パラサイト The Faculty 1999 A Slipping-Down Life 1999 シーズ・オール・ザット She's All That 1999 Wildflowers 1999 ノイズ The Astronaut's Wife 1999 Go!Go!チアーズ But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 17歳のカルテ Girl, Interrupted 2000 ノンストップ・ガール Committed 2001 ゴースト・オブ・マーズ Ghosts of Mars 2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2002 ララミー・プロジェクト The Laramie Project 2002 The Slaughter Rule 2003 アイデンティティー Identity 2003 21グラム 21 Grams 2003 THE JUON/呪怨 The Grudge 2006 ラスト・トゥー・ウィークス Two Weeks 2007 ゾディアック Zodiac 2007 Ten Inch Hero 2007 ちっちゃなパイパイ大作戦! Itty Bitty Titty Committee 2007 ウィレム・デフォー セブン:ビギンズ ~彩られた猟奇~ Anamorph 2008 パッセンジャーズ Passengers 2009 実験室KR-13 The Killing Room 2010 ディア・ブラザー Conviction 2012 アルゴ Argo

28. Claire Danes

Actress | My So-Called Life

New Yorker Claire Catherine Danes was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Carla (Hall), a day-care provider and artist, and Christopher Danes, a computer consultant and photographer. She has an older brother, Asa. Her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes, was a Dean of the Yale School of Art ...

クレア・デインズ 1994 若草物語 Little Women    1995 キルトに綴る愛 How to Make an American Quilt 1995 ホーム・フォー・ザ・ホリデイ Home for the Holidays 1996 プラトニック・ゲーム I love you, I love you not 1996 ロミオ+ジュリエット Romeo + Juliet 1997 自由な女神たち Polish Wedding 1997 Uターン U Turn 1997 レインメーカー The Rainmaker 1998 レ・ミゼラブル Les Misérables 1999 モッド・スクワッド The Mod Squad 1999 ブロークダウン・パレス Brokedown Palace 2002 17歳の処方箋 Igby Goes Down 2002 めぐりあう時間たち The Hours 2003 ターミネーター3 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2003 アンビリーバブル IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE 2005 幸せのポートレート The Family Stone 2005 Shopgirl/恋の商品価値 SHOPGIRL 2007 消えた天使 The Flock 2007 スターダスト Stardust 2007 いつか眠りにつく前に Evening 2009 僕と彼女とオーソン・ウェルズ Me and Orson Welles 2010 テンプル・グランディン 自閉症とともに Temple Grandin 2011-継続中 HOMELAND(TV)

29. Emily Watson

Actress | Gosford Park

Emily Watson was born and raised in London, the daughter of Katharine (Venables), an English teacher, and Richard Watson, an architect. After a self-described sheltered upbringing, Watson attended university for three years in Bristol, studying English literature. She applied to drama school and ...

エミリー・ワトソン 1996 奇跡の海 Breaking the Waves ------ヨーロッパ映画賞女優賞受賞 ------全米映画批評家協会賞女優賞受賞 ------ニューヨーク映画批評家協会賞女優賞受賞 1997 ボクサー The Boxer 1998 ほんとうのジャクリーヌ・デュ・プレ Hilary and Jackie 1999 クレイドル・ウィル・ロック Cradle Will Rock 1999 アンジェラの灰 Angela's Ashes 2000 愛のエチュード The Luzhin Defence 2001 ゴスフォード・パーク Gosford Park 2002 パンチドランク・ラブ Punch-Drunk Love 2002 レッド・ドラゴン Red Dragon 2002 リベリオン Equilibrium 2004 ライフ・イズ・コメディ! ピーター・セラーズの愛し方 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 2005 孤独な嘘 Separate Lies 2005 コープスブライド Corpse Bride 2005 プロポジション -血の誓約- The Proposition 2006 ミス・ポター Miss Potter 2006 タイムクルセイド ドルフと聖地騎士団 Crusade in Jeans 2007 ウォーター・ホース The Water Horse 2008 脳内ニューヨーク Synecdoche, New York 2011 戦火の馬 War Horse 2012 オレンジと太陽 Oranges and Sunshine 2013 やさしい本泥棒 THE BOOK THIEF

30. Sarah Polley

Actress | My Life Without Me

Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her ...

31. Christina Ricci

Actress | Casper

Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...

32. Winona Ryder

Actress | Little Women

Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and was named after a nearby town, Winona, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Cynthia (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller. Her father's family is Ukrainian Jewish and ...

33. Angelina Jolie

Actress | Maleficent

Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...

34. Kathleen Turner

Actress | Romancing the Stone

Kathleen Turner was born June 19, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy (Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer. She graduated from American School in London in 1972. After the death of her father, the Turner family moved back to the United States where Kathleen later ...

35. 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 ...

36. Linda Hamilton

Actress | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Born in Salisbury, Maryland, USA, following high school Linda studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York. In New York she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg. Her first parts were small parts in TV series, with ...

リンダ・ハミルトン 1982 暗殺遊戯/キャンパスは凶弾のデスマッチ Tag: The Assassination Game 1984 チルドレン・オブ・ザ・コーン Children of the Corn 1984 ターミネーター The Terminator 1986 ブラックライダー Black Moon Rising 1986 キングコング2 King Kong Lives 1990 Mr.デスティニー Mr. Destiny 1991 ターミネーター2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1994 精神分析医J Silent Fall 1995 多重人格 Separate Lives 1997 ザ・ターゲット Shadow Conspiracy 1997 ダンテズ・ピーク Dante's Peak 2005 アメリカの森 レニーとの約束 Missing in America 2006 愛を問うひと Broken 2009 ターミネーター4 Terminator Salvation 声のみ

37. Geena Davis

Actress | Thelma & Louise

As a child, Geena dreamed of being an actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self-esteem because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high school graduation, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire and then transferred the next year to Boston ...

ジーナ・デイヴィス 1982 トッツィー Tootsie 1985 フレッチ/殺人方程式 Fletch 1985 トランシルバニア 6-5000 Transylvania 6-5000 1986 ザ・フライ The Fly 1988 ビートルジュース Beetlejuice 1988 偶然の旅行者 The Accidental Tourist 1989 ボクの彼女は地球人 Earth Girls Are Easy) 1990 クイック・チェンジ Quick Change 1991 テルマ&ルイーズ Thelma & Louise 1992 プリティ・リーグ A League of Their Own 1992 靴をなくした天使 Hero 1994 愛に気づけば… Angie 1994 眠れない夜はあなたと Speechless 1995 カットスロート・アイランド Cutthroat Island 1996 ロング・キス・グッドナイト The Long Kiss Goodnight 1999 スチュアート・リトル Stuart Little 2002 スチュアート・リトル2 Stuart Little 2 2005 スチュアート・リトル3 森の仲間と大冒険 Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

38. Téa Leoni

Actress | The Family Man

Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni was born on February 25, 1966 in New York City. Her father, Anthony Pantaleoni, was a corporate lawyer, and her mother, Emily Ann (Patterson), worked as a dietitian and nutritionist. She is of Italian (from a paternal great-great-grandfather), Polish, English, Irish, ...

ティア・レオーニ 1991スウィッチ/素敵な彼女? Switch 1992 プリティ・リーグ A League of Their Own 1994 ワイアット・アープ Wyatt Earp 1995 バッドボーイズ Bad Boys 1996 アメリカの災難 Flirting with Disaster 1998 ディープ・インパクト Deep Impact 2000 天使のくれた時間 The Family Man 2001 ジュラシック・パークIII Jurassic Park III 2002 さよなら、さよならハリウッド Hollywood Ending 2004 最高のともだち House of D 2004 スパングリッシュ 太陽の国から来たママのこと Spanglish 2005 ディック&ジェーン 復讐は最高! Fun with Dick and Jane 2007 You Kill Me 2008 オー!マイ・ゴースト Ghost Town 2011 ペントハウス Tower Heist



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