ACT
by tonitkupi | created - 13 Mar 2019 | updated - 4 weeks ago | Public
1. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
ROPE (1948)
REAR WINDOW (1954)
VERTIGO (1958)
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
BANDOLERO! (1968)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) #
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
HARVEY (1950)
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
1985 HONORARY AWARD
2. Gregory Peck
Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child...
SPELLBOUND (1945)
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (1947)
THE PARADINE CASE (1947)
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (1952)
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
MACKENNA'S GOLD (1969)
CAPE FEAR (1962)
CAPE FEAR (1991)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (1944)
THE YEARLING (1946)
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (1947)
TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH (1949)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) #
3. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
SUSPICION (1941)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947)
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
CHARADE (1963)
2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
PENNY SERENADE (1941)
NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944)
1970 HONORARY AWARD
4. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
CASABLANCA (1942)
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
SABRINA (1954)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
CASABLANCA (1942)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) #
THE CAINE MUTINY (1954)
5. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION (1971)
ON GOLDEN POND (1981)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
ON GOLDEN POND (1981) #
1981 HONORARY AWARD
6. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
THE HUSTLER (1961)
COOL HAND LUKE (1967)
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION (1971)
THE STING (1973)
ABSENCE OF MALICE (1981)
THE VERDICT (1982)
THE COLOR OF MONEY (1986)
NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994)
TWILIGHT (1998)
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (1999)
ROAD TO PERDITION (2002)
1 OSCAR 9 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
ROAD TO PERDITION (2002)
LEADING:
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
THE HUSTLER (1961)
HUD (1963)
COOL HAND LUKE (1967)
RACHEL, RACHEL (1968)
ABSENCE OF MALICE (1981)
THE VERDICT (1982)
THE COLOR OF MONEY (1987) #
NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)
1986 HONORARY AWARD
7. Peter O'Toole
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)
THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
THE LAST EMPEROR (1987)
TROY (2004)
RATATOUILLE (2007)*
8 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
BECKET (1964)
THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
GOODBYE, MR CHIPS (1969)
THE RULING CLASS (192)
THE STUNT MAN (1980)
MT FAVORITE YEAR (1982)
VENUS (2007)
2003 HONORARY AWARD
8. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
THE THIRD MAN (1949)
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
1971 HONORARY AWARD
9. Steve McQueen
Actor | The Great Escape
He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)
PAPILLON (1973)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)
10. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
SAYONARA (1957)
THE CHASE (1966)
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)
THE GODFATHER (1972)
SUPERMAN (1978)
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993)
2 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
A DRY WHITE SEASON (1989)
LEADING:
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
VIVA ZAPATA! (1952)
JULIUS CAESAR (1953)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) #
SAYONARA (1957)
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972)
THE GODFATHER (1972) #
11. Spencer Tracy
Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg
Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard...
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1958)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
2 OSCAR 7 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
SAN FRANCISCO (1936)
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937) #
BOYS TOWN (1938) #
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)
BAD DAY AT BLAKC ROCK (1955)
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1958)
INHERIT THE WIND (1960)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
12. William Holden
Actor | Stalag 17
Billy Wilder proclaimed William Holden to be "the ideal motion picture actor". For almost four decades, the handsome, affable 'Golden Holden' was among Hollywood's most durable and engaging stars. He was born William Franklin Beedle Jr., one of three sons to a high school English teacher, Mary ...
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
SABRINA (1954)
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
NETWORK (1976)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
SUNSET BLVD (1950)
STALAG 17 (1953) #
NETWORK (1976)
13. Laurence Olivier
Actor | Sleuth
Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...
REBECCA (1940)
THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941)
SPARTACUS (1960)
MARATHON MAN (1976)
1 OSCAR 9 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
MARATHON MAN (1976)
LEADING:
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
REBECCA (1940)
HENRY V (1944)
HAMLET (1948) #
RICHARD III (1955)
THE ENTERTAINER (1960)
OTHELLO (1965)
SLEUTH (1972)
THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978)
1979 HONORARY AWARD
14. Clark Gable
Actor | It Happened One Night
William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle ...
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) #
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
15. Gary Cooper
Actor | High Noon
Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ...
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957)
2 OSCAR 3 NOMINAITONS
LEADING:
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)
SERGEANT YORK (1941) #
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942)
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1943)
NIGH NOON (1952) #
1961 HONORARY AWARD
16. Jack Lemmon
Actor | The Apartment
Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE (1965)
THE FRONT PAGE (1974)
THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979)
MISSING (1982)
THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE (2000)*
2 OSCAR 6 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
MISTER ROBERTS (1955) #
LEADING:
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (1962)
SAVE THE TIGER (1973) #
THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979)
TRIBUTE (1980)
MISSING (1982)
17. George C. Scott
Actor | Patton
George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
THE HUSTLER (1961)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR (1964)
PATTON (1970)
1 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
THE HUSTLER (1961)
LEADING:
PATTON (1970) #
THE HOSPITAL (1971)
18. Audrey Hepburn
Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.
After her parents' divorce, ...
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
SABRINA (1954)
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)
CHARADE (1963)
MY FAIR LADY (1964)
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) #
SABRINA (1954)
THE NUN'S STORY (1959)
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
19. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
SUMMERTIME (1955)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
ON GOLDEN POND (1981)
4 OSCAR 8 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
MORNING GLORY (1933) #
ALICE ADAMS (1935)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
SUMMERTIME (1955)
THE RAINMAKER (1956)
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)
LONG DAY'S JOURNE INTO NIGHT (1962)
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) #
THE LION IN WINTER (1968) #
ON GOLDEN POND (1981) #
20. Vivien Leigh
Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire
If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940)
THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
2 OSCAR
LEADING:
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) #
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) #
21. Grace Kelly
Actress | Dial M for Murder
On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her high school graduation in 1947, Grace ...
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
REAR WINDOW (1954)
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
MOGAMBO (1953)
LEADING:
THE COUNTRY GIRL (1954) #
22. Elizabeth Taylor
Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
CLEOPATRA (1963)
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
2 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
RAINTREE COUNRTY (1957)
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)
BUTTERFLIED 8 (1960) #
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) #
23. Joan Fontaine
Actress | Suspicion
Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...
REBECCA (1940)
SUSPICION (1941)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS:
LEADING:
REBECCA (1940)
SUSPICION (1941) #
THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943)
24. Ingrid Bergman
Actress | Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...
CASABLANCA (1942)
SPELLBOUND (1945)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
UNDER CAPRICORN (1949)
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)
3 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) #
LEADING:
FOR WHON THE BELL TOLLS (1943)
GASLIGHT (1944) #
THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S (1945)
JOAN OF ARC (1948)
ANASTASIA (1956) #
AUTUMN SONATA (1978)
25. Bette Davis
Actress | All About Eve
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)
2 OSCAR 9 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1934)
DANGEROUS (1935) #
JEZEBEL (1938) #
DARK VICTORY (1939)
THE LETTER (1940)
THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)
NOW, VOYAGER (1942)
MR. SKEFFINGTON (1944)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
THE STAR (1952)
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE (1962)
26. Marilyn Monroe
Actress | Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and ...
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
NIAGARA (1953)
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955)
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
27. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
STAGECOACH (1939)
RIO BRAVO (1959)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
SANDS OF WIO JIMA (1949))
TRUE GRIT (1969) #
28. Charles Laughton
Actor | Witness for the Prosecution
Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). ...
THE PARADINE CASE (1947)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
SPARTACUS (1960)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII (1933) #
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
29. Charlton Heston
Actor | Ben-Hur
With features chiseled in stone, and renowned for playing a long list of historical figures, particularly in Biblical epics, the tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome Charlton Heston was one of Hollywood's top leading men of his prime and remained active in front of movie cameras for over sixty ...
BEN-HUR (1959)
TOMBSTONE (1993)
1 OSCAR
LEADING:
BEN-HUR (1959) #
30. Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution
Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
MOROCCO (1930)
31. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952)
PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
SPARTACUS (1960)
3 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
CHAMION (1949)
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952)
LIUS FOR LIFE (1956)
1996 HONORARY AWARD
32. Ray Milland
Actor | The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland became one of Paramount's most bankable and durable stars, under contract from 1934 to 1948, yet little in his early life suggested a career as a motion picture actor.
Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones in the Welsh town of Neath, Glamorgan, to Elizabeth Annie (Truscott) and Alfred ...
THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)
DIAL M FRO MURDER (1954)
LOVE STORY (1970)
THE LAST TYCOON (1976)
1 OSCAR
LEADING:
THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) #
33. David Niven
Actor | Murder by Death
His mother was the French Lady Comynyplatt Henrietta de Gacher, his father was the British Lieutenant William Graham Niven, who died in the war when David was six years old. Niven was considered a difficult child to educate and had to change schools often until he finally went to Sandhurst Military...
THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947)
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956)
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)
1 OSCAR
LEADING:
SEPARATE TABLES (1958) #
34. Gene Kelly
Soundtrack | Singin' in the Rain
Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third son of Harriet Catherine (Curran) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of Irish and German ancestry.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in...
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
SINGIN'N IN THE RAIN (1952)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945)
1952 HONORARY AWARD
35. Judy Garland
Actress | The Wizard of Oz
One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.
She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in ...
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
A STAR IS BORN (1954)
SUPPORTING:
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
1940 JUVENILE AWARD
36. Ava Gardner
Actress | The Night of the Iguana
Ava Lavina Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, North Carolina, to Mary Elizabeth (née Baker) and Jonas Bailey Gardner. Born on a tobacco farm, where she got her lifelong love of earthy language and going barefoot, Ava grew up in the rural South. At age 18, her picture in the window ...
SHOW BOAT (1951)
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (1952)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
MOGAMBO (1953)
37. James Dean
Actor | East of Eden
James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
GIANT (1956)
38. Burt Lancaster
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
AIRPORT (1970)
FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
1 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
ELMER GENTRY (1960) #
BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (1962)
ATLANTIC CITY, USA (1980)
39. Eli Wallach
Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
One of Hollywood's finest character / "Method" actors, Eli Wallach was in demand for over 60 years (first film/TV role was 1949) on stage and screen, and has worked alongside the world's biggest stars, including Clark Gable, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Yul Brynner, Peter O'Toole,...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)
THE GOOD,THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
MACKENNA'S GOLD (1969)
THE GODFATHER: PART III (1990)
THE HOLIDAY (2006)
THE GHOST WRITER (2010)
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (2010)
2011 HONORARY AWARD
40. Lee Van Cleef
Actor | Escape from New York
One of the great movie villains, Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. was born in Somerville, New Jersey, to Marion Lavinia (Van Fleet) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Sr. His parents were of Dutch ancestry. Van Cleef started out as an accountant. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard minesweepers and sub ...
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965) THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966) ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)
41. Charles Bronson
Actor | Death Wish
The archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features--one film critic described his rugged looks as "a Clark Gable who had been left out in the sun too long"--Charles Bronson was born Charles Buchinsky, one of 15 children of struggling parents in Pennsylvania. His mother, Mary (Valinsky), ...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
42. Robert Mitchum
Actor | Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum was an underrated American leading man of enormous ability, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet (Gunderson), a Norwegian immigrant, and James Thomas Mitchum, a shipyard/railroad worker. His father died in a ...
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
CAPE FEAR (1962)
THE LAST TYCOON (1976)
CAPE FEAR (1991)
1 NOMINATIONS:
SOPPORTING:
STORY OF G.I. JOE (1945)
43. Richard Burton
Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in ...
CLEOPATRA (1963)
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
1984 (1984)
7 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
MY COUSIN RACHEL (1952)
THE ROBE (1953)
BECKET (1964)
THE SPY WHO CAME NI FROM THE COLD (1965)
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS (1969)
EQUUS (1977)
44. Sidney Poitier
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
THE JACKAL (1997)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) #
LILIES ON THE FIELD (1963)
2002 HONORARY AWARD
45. 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...
MARY POPPINS (1964)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
SHREK 2 (2004)*
SHREK FOREVER AFTER (2010)*
AQUAMAN (2018)*
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
MARY POPPINS (1964)#
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
VICTOR VICTORIA (1982)
46. Anne Bancroft
Actress | The Graduate
Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...
THE GRADUATE (1967)
THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
G.I. JANE (1997)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1998)
HEARTBREAKERS (2001)
1 OSCAR 4 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE MIRACLE WORKER (1962) #
THE PUMPKLIN EATER (1964)
THE GRADUATE (1967)
THE TURNING POINT (1977)
AGNES OF GOD (1985)
47. Mia Farrow
Actress | Rosemary's Baby
Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the ...
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)
48. Yul Brynner
Actor | The King and I
Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible. It was not until the publication of the books "Yul: The Man Who Would Be King" ...
THE KING AND I (1956)
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
1 OSCAR
LEADING:
THE KING AND I (1956) #
49. Jason Robards
Actor | All the President's Men
Powerful and highly respected American actor Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hope Maxine (Glanville) and stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. He had Swedish, English, Welsh, German, and Irish ancestry. Robards was raised mostly in Los Angeles. A star athlete at ...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN WEST (1968)
ALL THE RESIDNET'S MEN (1976)
PHILADELPHIA (1993)
CRIMSON TIDE (1995)
ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998)
MAGNOLIA (1999)
2 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
ALL THE RESIDNET'S MEN (1976) #
JULIA (1977) #
LEVIN AND HOWARD (1980)
50. Natalie Wood
Actress | Rebel Without a Cause
Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.
Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
3 OSCAR NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
SPLENDRO IN THE GRASS (1961)
LOVE WITH IN PROPER STRANGER (1963)
SUPPORTING:
REBEL WIHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
51. 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 ...
PARADISE ROAD (1997)
ELIZABETH (1998)
THE TALENTED MR.RIPLEY (1999)
THE GIFT (2000)
BANDITS (2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
THE SHIPPING NEWS (2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETUNR OF THE KING (2003)
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)
THE AVIATOR (2004)
BABEL (2006)
THE GOOD GERMAN (2006)
NOTES ON A SCANDAL (2006)
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (2007)
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)
ROBIN HOOD (2010)
HANNA (2011)
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (2012)
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013)
THE MONUMENTS MEN (2014)
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014)
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (2014)*
THOR: RAGNAROK (2017)
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD (2019)*
DON'T LOOK UP (2021)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021)
3 OSCAR 5 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
ELIZABETH (1998)
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (2007)
BLUE JASMINE (2013) #
CAROL (2015)
TÁR (2022)
SUPPORTING:
THE AVIATOR (2004) #
NOTES ON A SCANDAL (2006)
I'M NOT HERE (2007)
52. Russell Crowe
Actor | Les Misérables
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995)
VIRTUOSITY (1995)
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)
THE INSIDER (1999)
GLADIATOR (2000)
PROOF OF LIFE (2000)
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
CINDERELLA MAN (2005)
A GOOD YEAR (2006)
3:10 TO YUMA (2007)
AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007)
BODY OF LIES (2008)
STATE OF PLAY (2009)
ROBIN HOOD (2010)
THE NEXT THREE DAYS (2010)
BROKEN CITY (2013)
MAN OF STEEL (2013)
NOAH (2014)
THE WATER DIVINER (2014)
THE NICE GUYS (2016)
THE MUMMY (2017)
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG (2020)
UNHINGED (2020)
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (2022)
THE POPE'S EXORCIST (2023)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE INSIDER (1999)
GLADIATOR (2000) #
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)
53. 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 ...
LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL (1994)
HEAT (1995)
ANYWHERE BUT HERE (1999)
STAR WARS: EPISODE I (1999)
STAR WARS: EPISODE II (2002)
COLD MOUNTAIN (2003)
CLOSER (2004(
STAR WARS: EPISODE III (2005)
V FOR VENDETTA (2005)
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (2007)
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (2008)
BROTHERS (2009)
BLACK SWAN (2010)
THOR (2011)
THOR: THE DARK WORLD (2013)
JACKIE (2016)
ANNAHILATION (2018)
AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019)
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (2022)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEAINDG:
BLACK SWAN (2010) #
JACKIE (2016)
SUPPORTING:
CLOSER (2004)
54. 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 ...
SERVING SARA (2002)
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002)
THEWEDDING DATE (2005)
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007)
DOUBT (2008)
THE FIGHTER (2010)
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (2012)
THE MASTER (2012)
MAN OF STEEL (2013)
HER (2013)
AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013)
BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (2016)
ARRIVAL (2016)
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)
JUSTICE LEAGUE (2017)
VICE (2018)
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (2021)
6 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013)
SUPPORTING:
JUNEBUG (2005)
DOUBT (2008)
THE FIGHTER (2010)
THE MASTER (2012)
VICE (2018)
55. Colin Farrell
Actor | The Lobster
Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.
Farrell was born on ...
7AMERICAN OUTLAWS (2001)
HART'S WAR (2002)
MINORITY REPORT (2002)
PHONE BOOTH (2002)
THE RECRUIT (2003)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
DAREDEVIL (2003)
ALEXANDER (2004)
THE NEW WORLD (2005)
ASK THE DUST (2006)
IN BRUGES (2008)
PRIDE AND GLORY (2008)
THE WAY BAKC (2010)
LONDON BOULEVARD (2010)
HORRIBLE BOSSES (2011)
TOTAL RECALL (2012)
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012)
DEAD MAN DOWN (2013)
TRUE DETECTIVE (2015) SEASON 2
SOLACE (2015)
FANTASITC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (2016)
ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. (2017)
WIDOWS (2018)
THE GENTLEMEN (2019)
THE BATMAN (2022)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022)
56. Margot Robbie
Actress | Suicide Squad
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)
SUITE FRANCAISE (2014)
FOCUS (2015)
SUICIDE SQUAD (2016)
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (2016)
I, TONYA (2017)
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (2018)
DREAMLAND (2019)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)
BIRDS OF PREY: AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN (2020)
AMSTERDAM (2022)
2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
I, TONYA (2017)
SUPPORTING:
BOMBSHELL (2019)
57. Ryan Gosling
Actor | Blue Valentine
Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...
REMEMBER THE TITNAS (2000)
MURDER BY NUMBERS (2002)
THE NOTEBOOK (2004)
FRACCTURE (2007)
BLUE VALENTINE (2010)
DRIVE (2011)
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (2011)
THE IDES OF MARCH (2011)
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (2012)
GANSTER SQUAD (2013)
THE BIG SHORT (2015)
TE NICE GUYS (2016)
LA LA LAND (2016)
BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017)
FIRST MAN (2018)
THE GRAY MAN (2022)
3 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
HALF NELSON (2006)
LA LA LAND (2016)
SUPPORTING:
BARBIE (2023)
58. Keanu Reeves
Actor | The Matrix
Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patric Reeves, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988) POINT BREAK (1991) DRACULA (1992) SPEED (1994) A WALK IN THE CLOUDS (1995) THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (1997) THE MATRIX (1999) THE GIFT (2000) SWEET NOVEMBER (2001) THE MATRIX RELOADED (2003) THE MATRIX REVOLUTION (2003) SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE (2003) CONSTANTINE (2005) THE LAKE HOUSE (2006) STREET KINGS (2008) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008) HENRY'S CRIME (2010) 47 RONIN (2013) JOHN WICK (2014) JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (2017) JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 - PARABELLUM (2019)
59. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)
THE PATRIOT (2000)
A KNIGHT'S TALE (2001)
MONSTRER'S BALL (2001)
THE FOUR FEATHERS (2002)
NED KELLY (2003)
BROKEBAKC MOUNTAIN (2005)
CASANOVA (2005)
CANDY (2006)
THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
BROKEBAKC MOUNTAIN (2005)
SUPPORTING:
THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) #
60. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
AVE VENTRUA: PET DETECTIVE (1994) THE MASK (1994) DUMB AND DUBMER (1994) BATMAN FOREVER (1995) ACE VENTRUA : WHEN NATURE CALLS (1995) LIAR LIAR (1997) THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) HOW TO GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000) BRUCE ALMIGHTY (2003) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004) THE NUMBER 23 (2007) YES MAN (2008) I LOVE YOU PHILIP MORRIS (2009)
61. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
X-MEN (2000)
SWORDFISH (2001)
X2: X-MEN UNITED (2003)
VAN HELSING (2004)
THE FOUNTAIN (2006)
THE PRESTIGE (2006)
FLUSHED AWAY (2006)*
DECEPTION (2008)
AUSTRALIA (2008)
REAL STEEL (2011)
PRISONERS (2013)
CHAPPIE (2015)
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (2017)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
LES MISERABLES (2012)
62. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
RETURN TO PARADISE (1998)
8 MM (1999)
GLDAIATOR (2000)
SIGNS (2002)
THE VILLAGE (2004)
LADDER 49 (2004)
HOTEL RWANDA (2004)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (2007)
RESERVATION ROAD (2007)
TWO LOVERS (2008)
THE MASTER (2012)
THE IMMIGRANT (2013)
HER (2013)
IRRATIONAL MAN (2015)
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2017)
THE SISTERS BROTHERS (2018)
JOKER (2019)
1 OSCAR 3 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
WALK THE LINE (2005)
THE MASTER (2012)
SUPPORTING:
GLDAIATOR (2000)
JOKER (2019) #
63. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
DIE HARD (1988)
DIE HARD 2 (1990)
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
PULP FICTION (1994)
NOBODY'S FOOL (1994)
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)
FOUR ROOMS (1995)
TWELVE MONKEYS (1995)
LAST MAN STANDING (1996)
THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997)
THE JACKAL (1997)
MERCURY RISING (1998)
ARMAGEDDON (1998)
THE SIEGE (1998)
THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
THE STORY OF US (1999)
UNBREAKABLE (2000)
THE KID (2000)
BANDITS (2001)
HART'S WAR (2002)
TEARS OF THE SUN (2003)
OCEANS' TWELVE (2004)
ALPHA DOG (2006)
LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN (2006)
16 BLOCKS (2006)
PERFECT STRANGER (2007)
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (2007)
SURROGATES (2009)
COP OUT (2010)
THE EXPENDABLES (2010)
RED (2010)
CATCH .44 (2011)
THE EXPENDABLES 2 (2012)
THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (2012)
LAY THE FAVORITE (2012)
LOOPER (2012)
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (2013)
RED 2 (2013)
MARAUDERS (2016)
SPLIT (2016)
DEATH WISH (2018)
GLASS (2019)
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (2019)
64. Eric Bana
Actor | Dirty John
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family ...
FINDING NEMO (2003)*
HULK (2003)
TROY (2004)
MUNICH (2005)
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (2008)
MARY AND MAX (2009)
HANNA (2011)
DEADFALL (2012)
CLOSED CIRCUIT (2013)
LONE SURVIVOR (2013)
DELIVER US FROM EVIL (2014)
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE (2016)
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD (2017)
THE DRY (2021)
65. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
ON THE EDGE (2001)
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (2003)
COLD MOUNTAIN (2003)
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (2006)
BATMAN BEGINS (2005)
THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)
THE EDGE OF LOVE (2008)
INCEPTION (2010)
IN TIME (2011)
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (2015)
ANTHROPOID (2016)
FREE FIRE (2016)
DUNKIRK (2017)
PEAKY BLINDERS (2013-2019)
A QUIET PLACE PART II (2020)
OPPENHEIMER (2023)
1 OSCAR
LEADING:
OPPENHEIMER (2023) #
66. Ryan Reynolds
Actor | Deadpool 2
Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. ...
BLADE: TRINITY (2004) FIREFLIES ON THE GARDEN (2008) GREEN LANTERN (2011) SAFE HOUSE (2012) WOMAN IN GOLD (2015) SELF/LESS (2015) DEADPOOL (2016) CRIMINAL (2016) DEADPOOL 2 (2018) FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW (2019) BULLET TRAIN (2022) THE ADAM PROJECT (2022)
67. Rachel McAdams
Actress | The Notebook
Rachel Anne McAdams was born on November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra Kay (Gale), a nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture mover. She is of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rachel became involved with acting as a teenager and by the age of 13 ...
THE NOTEBOOK (2004)
THE FAMILY STONE (2005)
STATE OF PLAY (2009)
SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)
THE VOW (2012)
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (2011)
A MOST WANTED MAN (2014)
SOUTHPAW (2015)
TRUE DETECTIVE (2015) SEASONA 2
SPOTLIGHT (2015)
DOCTOR STRANGE (2015)
GAME NIGHT (2018)
DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (2022)
1 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
SPOTLIGHT (2015)
68. Christopher Plummer
Actor | Beginners
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
MALCOM X (1992)
WOLF (1994)
TWELVE MONKEYS (1995)
THE INSIDER (1999)
NUREMBERG (2000)#
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)
NATIONAL TREASURE (2004)
ALEXANDER (2004)
MUST LOVE DOGS (2005)
SYRIANA (2005)
THE NEW WORLD (2005)
INSIDE MAN (2006)
THE LAKE HOUSE (2006)
UP (2009)*
BEGINNERS (2010)
PRIEST (2011)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTO (2011)
REMEMBER (2015)
THE ECEPTION (2016)
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (2017)
KNIVES OUT (2019)
THE LAST FULL MEASURE (2019)
1 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
THE LAST STATION (2009)
BEGINNERS (2010) #
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (2017)
69. Romy Schneider
Actress | L'important c'est d'aimer
Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into a family of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthrough came two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (1955). Her mother, supervising her daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participation ...
THE SWIMMING POOL (1969)
70. Alain Delon
Actor | Le samouraï
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being ...
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960) THE SWIMMING POOL (1969) ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES (2008)
71. Catherine Deneuve
Actress | 8 femmes
Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (...
BELLE DE JOUR (1967)
TRISTANA (1970)
THE LAST METRO (1980)
L'AFRICAIN (1983)
INDOCHINE (1992)
ASTÉRIX AND OBÉLIX: GOD SAVE BRITANNIA (2012)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
INDOCHINE (1992)
72. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
A BREATH OF SCANDAL (1960)
NINE (2009)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
TWO WOMEN (1960) #
MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (1964)
1991 HONORARY AWARD
73. Ornella Muti
Actress | Flash Gordon
Ornella Muti was born on March 9, 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Oscar (1991) and The Most Beautiful Wife (1970). She was previously married to Federico Fachinetti and Alessio Orano.
THE TAMING OF THE SCOUNDREL (1980) THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (1998)
74. Anthony Quinn
Actor | Alexis Zorbas
Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
ALEXIS ZORBAS (1964)
HIGH ROLLERS (1976)
REVENGE (1990)
JUNGLE FEVER (1991)
MOBSTERS (1991)
A WALK IN THE CLOUDS (1995)
2 OSCAR 2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
WILD IS THE WIND (1957)
ALEXIS ZORBAS (1964)
SUPORTING:
VIVA ZAPATA (1952) #
LUST FOR LIFE (1956) #
75. Omar Sharif
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and ...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
FUNNY GIRL (1968)
MACKENNA'S GOLD (1969)
FUNNY LADY (1975)
THE 13TH WARRIOR (1999)
HIDALGO (2004)
10,000 BC (2008)*
1 NOMINATIONS
SUPPORTING:
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
76. Jacqueline Bisset
Actress | Bullitt
Jacqueline Bisset has been an international film star since the late '60s. She received her first roles mainly because of her stunning beauty, but over time she has become a fine actress respected by fans and critics alike. Bisset has worked with directors John Huston, François Truffaut, George ...
AIRPORT (1970) MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) DOMINO (2005)
77. Giulietta Masina
Actress | Le notti di Cabiria
Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy. She began her career on the radio with the program "Terzoglio" (1942), about the adventures of ...
THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957)
78. Brigitte Bardot
Actress | Le mépris
Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was ...
CONTEMPT (1963)
79. Marcello Mastroianni
Actor | La dolce vita
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...
8½ (1963)
3 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (1961)
A SPECIAL DAY (1977)
DARK EYES (1987)
80. Claudia Cardinale
Actress | C'era una volta il West
Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy ...
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960) 8½ (1963) ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
81. Anouk Aimée
Actress | 8½
The daughter of actress Geneviève Sorya, in 1948 she played the part of Juliette in The Lovers of Verona (1949). During the 1950s and 1960s she made various films, including Montparnasse 19 (1958) and La Dolce Vita (1960), but only Lola (1961) , Jacques Demy, and A Man and a Woman (1966) Claude ...
A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966)
8½ (1963)
A MAN AND A WOMAN: 20 YEARS LATER (1986)
1 NOMINATIONS:
LEADING:
A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966)
82. Toshirô Mifune
Actor | Yôjinbô
Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in ...
RASHOMON (1950) SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) THRONE OF BLOOD (1957) THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958) YOJIMBO (1961) SANJURO (1962)
83. Liv Ullmann
Actress | Viskningar och rop
Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-1950s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut. She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar ...
PERSONA (1966)
CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972)
2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE EMIGRANTS (1971)
FACE TO FACE (1976)
2021 HONORARY AWARD
84. Jean-Louis Trintignant
Actor | Amour
Born 1930 in Piolenc in south France as son of a wealthy industrialist. Studied law in Aix-en-Provence. Started theatrical acting in 1950, but was regarded untalented at first, until Roger Vadim discovered him for the movies. When the press stalked him 1956 because of rumors of an affair with ...
A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966) THE CONFORMIST (1970) A MAN AND A WOMAN: 20 YEARS LATER (1986) TREE COLORS: RED (1994) AMOUR (2012)
85. Isabelle Adjani
Actress | Possession
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, to Emma Augusta "Gusti" (Schweinberger) and Mohammed Adjani. Her father was a Kabyle Algerian, from Iferhounène, and her mother was a Bavarian German. She grew up speaking German fluently. After winning a school ...
THE DRIVER (1978)
2 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
THE STORY OF ADELE H (1975)
CAMILLE CLAUDEL (1988)
86. Gérard Depardieu
Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac
Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, to Anne Jeanne Josèphe (Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, who was a metal worker and fireman. Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Café de la Gare", along ...
THE LAST METRO (1980)
THE COMDADS (1983)
THE FUGITIVES (1986)
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (1998)
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (1998)^
ASTERIX AND OBELIXS VS. CAESAR (1999)
102 DALMATIANS (2000)
VIDOCQ (2001)
ASTERIX AND OBELIX MEET CLEOPATRA (2002)
36TH PRECINCT (2004)
LA VIE EN ROSE (2007)
BABYLON A.D (2008)
MESRINE PART 1: KILLER INSTICT (2008)
MESRINE PART 2: PUBLIC ENEMY #1 (2008)
ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES (2008)
ASTÉRIX AND OBÉLIX: GOD SAVE BRITANNIA (2012)
LIFE OF PI (2012)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1990)
87. Jean-Paul Belmondo
Actor | Pierrot le fou
The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before ...
BREATHLESS (1960) PIERROT LE FOU (1965) HAPPY EASTER (1984)
88. Jean Reno
Actor | Léon
Jean Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents (from Andalucía) who moved to North Africa to seek work. His father was a linotypist. Reno settled in France at 17. He began studying drama and has credits in French television and theater as well as films. ...
LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL (1994) FRENCH KISS (1995) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) GODZILLA (1998) RONIN (1998) THE CRIMSON RIVERS (2000) WASABI (2001) CRIMSON RIVERS 2: ANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE (2004) HOTEL RWANDA (2004) EMPIRE OF THE WOLVES (2005) THE DA VINC CODE (2006) FLUSHED AWAY (2006)* THE PROMISE (2016) LA RAGAZZA NELLA NEBBIA (2017)
89. Philippe Noiret
Actor | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Philippe Noiret was one of French cinema's most familiar faces who appeared in more than 140 films in a career that spanned more than half a century.
He was born on October 1, 1930, in Lille, Nord, France, into a middle class family of shopkeepers. His father was fond of literature. Young Noiret ...
L'AFRICAIN (1983) CINEMA PARADISO (1988)
90. Pierre Richard
Actor | Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti
Certainly one of France's supreme farceurs in the classic tradition, comedian Pierre Richard was born to an upper crust family with an embarrassing riches of middle names as he was christened Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defays. Working and building up his trade at the Paris Music Hall in...
THE TOY (1976) THE UMBRELLA COUP (1980) THE COMDADS (1983) THE FUGITIVES (1986)
91. Irène Jacob
Actress | La double vie de Véronique
This beautiful, dark-haired French actress made a hit with a supporting role in her first film, as the piano teacher in Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" (1987). Educated in London and Geneva, and a Paris resident since the age of 18, Jacob became a promising starlet with her Malle success and...
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (1987) THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (1991) THREE COLORS: RED (1994) U.S. NARSHALS (1998)
92. Juliette Binoche
Actress | The English Patient
Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, France, to Monique Yvette Stalens, a director, teacher, and actress, and Jean-Marie Binoche, a sculptor, director, and actor. Her mother was born in Czestochowa, Poland, of French, Walloon Belgian, and Polish descent, while her father is French. Juliette was only...
THREE COLORS:BLUE (1993)
THREE COLORS: WHITE (1994)
THREE COLORS: RED (1994)
THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
CHOCOLAT (2000)
THE 33 (2015)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
CHOCOLAT (2000)
SUPPORTING:
THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) #
93. Sophie Marceau
Actress | La boum
Sophie Marceau was born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu in Paris, France, to Simone (Morisset), a shop assistant, and Benoît Maupu, a truck driver. She grew up far from the studio spotlights. When she was 14 she was living in the Paris suburb of Gentilly with her father. She learned from friends that ...
HAPPY EASTER (1984) BRAVEHEART (1995) THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) ANTHONY ZIMMER (2005)
94. Fanny Ardant
Actress | 8 femmes
Fanny Ardant was the youngest of five children born to a cavalry officer and his wife. She was raised in Monte Carlo where she was educated at a convent school. A voracious reader, she discovered Proust when she was 15, and felt as though his writings were for her.
When she was 17 her father died, ...
SABRINA (1995) ELIZABETH (1998)
95. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orléans, France, she ...
TAXI (1998)
TAXI 2 (2000)
TAXI 3 (2003)
LOVE ME IF YOU DARE (2003)
BIG FISH (2003)
A VERY LONG ENAGEMENT (2004)
A GOOD YEAR (2006)
LA VIE EN ROSE (2007)
PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009)
NINE (2009)
INCEPTION (2010)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)
CONTAGION (2011)
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012)
THE IMMIGRANT (2013)
ALLIED (2016)
1 OSCAR 1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
LA VIE EN ROSE (2007) #
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (2014)
96. Audrey Tautou
Actress | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Audrey Justine Tautou was born on August 9, 1976 in Beaumont, France, to Evelyne Marie Laure (Nuret), a teacher, and Bernard Tautou, a dental surgeon. Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at 'Cours Florent'. In 1998 she won the best young actress award...
AMELIE (2001) A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (2004) THE DA VINCI CODE (2006) THERESE (2012)
97. Vincent Cassel
Actor | Black Swan
Blue-eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and a journalist mother, Sabine Litique. Often labeled as a tough guy because of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine (1995), the young actor, ...
LA HAINE (1995) ELIZABETH (1998) THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC (1999) THE CRIMSON RIVERS (2000) SHREK (2001)* SECRET AGENTS (2004) OCEN'S TWELVE (2004) DERAILED (2005) OCEAN'S THIRTEEN (2007) EASTERN PROMISES (2007) MESRINE PART 1: KILLER INSTICT (2008) MESRINE PART 2: PUBLIC ENEMY #1 (2008) BLACK SWAN (2010) A DANGEROUS METHOD (2011) TRANCE (2013) CHILD 44 (2015) JASON BOURNE (2016)
98. Isabelle Huppert
Actress | Elle
Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...
AMOUR (2012)
1 NOMINATIONS
LEADING:
ELLE (2016)
99. Bruno Ganz
Actor | Der Untergang
Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).
Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a ...
WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) DOWNFALL (2004) THE READER (2008) UNKNOWN (2011) THE COUNSELLOR (2013) REMEMBER (2015) THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (2018)
100. Sebastian Koch
Actor | Das Leben der Anderen
Sebastian Koch is one of the most internationally sought-after German actors of his generation. After stage engagements in Berlin, Bochum and Darmstadt, the Karlsruhe native was twice awarded the "Grimme Prize" in 2002 for the title role in Peter Keglevic's "Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung...
THE TUNNEL (2001) THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006) BLACK BOOK (2006) UNKNOWN (2011) A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (2013) THE DANISH GIRL (2015) BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015) HOMELAND (2015-2016)^ BEL CANTO (2018)
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