The Best Actress 1981
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 3 weeks ago | updated - 3 weeks ago | PublicFrom my list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027011625/
1. Krystyna Janda
Actress | Przesluchanie
Krystyna Janda was born on December 18, 1952 in Starachowice, Swietokrzyskie, Poland. She is an actress and director, known for Interrogation (1989), Pestka (1995) and A Few People, a Little Time (2005). She was previously married to Andrzej Seweryn and Edward Klosinski.
2345 points
2. Barbara Sukowa
Actress | Hannah Arendt
A strikingly beautiful German lead actress, Barbara Sukowa broke into TV and films as the protégée of famed director Rainer Werner Fassbinder with his masterpiece mini-series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and the moody film drama Lola (1981) in the title role. In the latter, Barbara won critical ...
1604 points
3. 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, ...
1544 points
4. Macha Méril
Actress | Profondo rosso
Macha Méril was born on September 3, 1940 in Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]. She is an actress and producer, known for Deep Red (1975), Belle de Jour (1967) and Vagabond (1985). She was previously married to Michel Legrand and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
1537 points
5. Karin Baal
Actress | Die Halbstarken
Blonde, blue-eyed Karin Baal was born as Karin Blauermel in Berlin. She grew up fatherless, raised by her mother who toiled as a seamstress and factory worker. After completing secondary school at age sixteen, Karin commenced training as a fashion illustrator. By pure chance, she learned that the ...
1522 points
6. 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...
1431 points
7. Jutta Lampe
Actress | Die bleierne Zeit
Jutta Lampe was born on December 13, 1943 in Flensburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Marianne & Juliane (1981), Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979) and The Possessed (1988). She was married to Peter Stein. She died on December 3, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
803 points
8. Rosel Zech
Actress | Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
Rosel Zech was born on July 7, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Veronika Voss (1982), Salmonberries (1991) and The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985). She died on August 31, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
801 points
9. Magda Vásáryová
Actress | Rusalka
Magda Vásáryová was born on August 26, 1948 in Banská Stiavnica, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]. She is an actress, known for Rusalka (1977), Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1974) and Eugene Onegin (1988). She was previously married to Milan Lasica and Dusan Jamrich.
801 points
10. 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 ...
801 points
11. Jane Fonda
Actress | Klute
Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...
801 points
12. Nicole Garcia
Writer | Mal de pierres
Nicole Garcia was born on April 22, 1946 in Oran, France [now Algeria]. She is an actress and writer, known for From the Land of the Moon (2016), My American Uncle (1980) and Alias Betty (2001).
794 points
13. Geraldine Chaplin
Actress | Hable con ella
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, to Oona Chaplin (née O'Neill) and legendary entertainer Charles Chaplin (A.K.A. Charlie Chaplin). She is a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and a great-granddaughter of stage actor James O'Neill. She attended the Royal Ballet ...
794 points
14. 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 ...
790 points
15. Ildikó Bánsági
Actress | Szenvedély
Ildikó Bánsági was born on October 19, 1947 in Budapest, Hungary. She is an actress, known for Passion (1998), Fekete gyémántok (1977) and Confidence (1980).
788 points
16. Diane Keaton
Actress | Annie Hall
Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...
781 points
17. Fernanda Montenegro
Actress | Central do Brasil
Arlette Pinheiro Esteves da Silva was born on 16th October 1929 in Rio de Janeiro. She adopted the name "Fernanda" because she thought it sounded good. "Montenegro" came after her family doctor.
In late 40s she was translating and adapting famous theater plays to radio. She begun her artistic life ...
780 points
18. 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 ...
778 points
19. Haydée Padilla
Actress | Comisario Ferro
Haydée Padilla was born on November 15, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Comisario Ferro (1999), The Stranger (1987) and El arreglo (1983). She was married to Sergio De Cecco and Federico Luppi. She died on December 14, 2022 in Argentina.
769 points
20. Natja Brunckhorst
Actress | Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Natja Brunckhorst was born on September 26, 1966 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Christiane F. (1981), Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001) and La mer (2006).
768 points
21. Marie Rivière
Actress | Le rayon vert
Marie Rivière was born on December 22, 1956 in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France. She is an actress and director, known for The Green Ray (1986), Autumn Tale (1998) and Memory Lane (2010).
765 points
22. Anne-Laure Meury
Actress | L'ami de mon amie
Anne-Laure Meury was born on April 1, 1964. She is an actress and editor, known for Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987), Télévision de chambre (1982) and Marie-Antoinette (1975).
765 points
23. Andréa Ferréol
Actress | Le dernier métro
Andréa Ferréol was born on January 6, 1947 in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is an actress, known for The Last Metro (1980), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) and The Phantom of the Opera (1990).
758 points
24. 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 ...
750 points
25. Geneviève Mnich
Actress | Le chevalier de Pardaillan
Geneviève Mnich was born on February 19, 1942 in Cuffies, Aisne, France. She is an actress, known for Le chevalier de Pardaillan (1988), Le journal (1979) and Dangerous Liaisons (1980). She was previously married to Maurice Bénichou.
743 points
26. Christine Lahti
Actress | Chicago Hope
Christine Lahti was born April 4, 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, to Elizabeth Margaret (Tabar), a painter and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. She is of half Finnish and half Austro-Hungarian descent. She studied fine arts at Florida State University and received a bachelors degree in ...
743 points
27. 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 ...
742 points
28. Margit Carstensen
Actress | Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
Margit Carstensen was born on February 29, 1940 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1974) and Possession (1981). She died on June 1, 2023 in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
742 points
29. Cristina Hoyos
Actress | Carmen
Cristina Hoyos was born on June 13, 1946 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Carmen (1983), Montoyas y Tarantos (1989) and Juncal (1989).
742 points
30. 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 ...
739 points
31. Barbara Grabowska
Actress | Goraczka (Dzieje jednego pocisku)
Barbara Grabowska was born on November 28, 1954 in Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Fever (1981), Ostatni prom (1989) and Najdluzsza wojna nowoczesnej Europy (1980). She died on August 12, 1994 in Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland.
738 points
32. Christine Paul
Actress | Deep End
Christine Paul was born in 1948 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Deep End (1970), Za rok, za dzien, za chwile... (1977) and Teddy Bear (1981).
734 points
33. Lisa Eichhorn
Actress | The Vanishing
Lisa Eichhorn was born on February 4, 1952 in Glens Falls, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Vanishing (1993), Cutter's Way (1981) and The Europeans (1979). She has been married to Richard Moxon since August 31, 2005. She was previously married to Ben Nye III and John ...
733 points
34. 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 (...
732 points
35. 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 ...
732 points
36. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
730 points
37. Tuesday Weld
Actress | Once Upon a Time in America
Susan Ker Weld was born on August 27, 1943 (Friday), in New York City. When her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, died three years later at the age of 49, the cute little girl, whose name by then had somehow been transmogrified into "Tuesday", took over the role of the family breadwinner. She became a ...
723 points
38. 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 ...
723 points
39. Hanna Schygulla
Actress | Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Lead icon of the influential New German Cinema of the 70's & 80's, Schygulla's natural blonde beauty and amazing versatility keep her among the world's top actresses. She won best actress at Cannes in 1983 for The Story of Piera (1983) (aka "The Story of Piera"), an Italian/German co-production. The...
721 points
40. Christine Kaufmann
Actress | Taras Bulba
Born in Austria to a French mother and a German father, young Christine Kaufmann conquered the hearts of post-war German movie audiences in movies like Der schweigende Engel (1954), Ein Herz schlägt für Erika (1956) and, most famously, Rosen-Resli (1954). Discovered at the tender age of ...
721 points
41. Laura Antonelli
Actress | Passione d'amore
Laura Antonelli was born on November 28, 1941 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Passion of Love (1981), Malicious (1973) and The Innocent (1976). She was married to Enrico Piacentini. She died on June 22, 2015 in Ladispoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
718 points
42. Clio Goldsmith
Actress | La storia vera della signora dalle camelie
Clio Goldsmith was born on June 16, 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress, known for Lady of the Camelias (1981), La caduta degli angeli ribelli (1981) and Honey (1981). She was previously married to Mark Shand and Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri.
708 points
43. 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.
703 points
44. Susan Tyrrell
Actress | Cry-Baby
A bizarre, gloriously one-of-a-kind Hollywood gypsy and self-affirmed outcast, San Francisco-born actress Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer) was a teenager when she made her stage debut in "Time Out for Ginger" in 1962. A product of the entertainment industry, her father was a top agent at ...
703 points
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