Spencer Tracy
Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938)
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Gary Cooper
Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941) -
Patty Duke
Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962) -
Jason Robards
Benjamin Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976) -
Robert De Niro
Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980) -
Sissy Spacek
Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) -
Jeremy Irons
Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990) -
Susan Sarandon
Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995) -
Geoffrey Rush
David Helfgott in Shine (1996) -
Julia Roberts
Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000) -
Jim Broadbent
John Bayley in Iris (2001) -
Helen Mirren
Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) -
Christian Bale
Dicky Eklund in The Fighter (2010) -
Melissa Leo
Alice Ward in The Fighter (2010) -
Meryl Streep
Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) -
Jennifer Connelly
Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001) -
Sandra Bullock
Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009)
