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1. Robert De Niro Actor | Raging Bull One
of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17,
1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal
grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is English, Dutch,
German, French and Irish. He was trained at...
2. Jack Nicholson Actor | Chinatown Jack
Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a
three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also
notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received Oscar
nomination in every decade from the 1960s through the...
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 ...
Actor | Fences Denzel
Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New
York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father,
Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school,
Denzel enrolled at ...
5. 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 ...
6. Tom Hanks Producer | Cast Away Thomas
Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford
Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed
"Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly
English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
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 ...
Actor | There Will Be Blood Born
in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of
Cecil Day-Lewis (pseudonym Nicholas Blake), Poet Laureate of the U.K.,
and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His
maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an
important figure in the history of British cinema and ...
Actor | In the Heat of the Night A
native of Cat Island, The Bahamas (though born in Miami during a mainland
visit by his parents), Poitier grew up in poverty as the son of farmers
Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier, who
also drove a cab. He had little formal education and at the age of 15 was
sent to Miami to live with ...
10. Gregory Peck Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird Eldred
Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mary
(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 ...
Actor | Inception Few
actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo
DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a
supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget
horror movies, such as Critters 3(1991), to a major teenage
heartthrob in the 1990s,...
12. Spencer Tracy Actor | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Spencer
Tracy was born four years after his brother Carroll to truck salesman John
Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy. He attended Marquette Academy along
with Pat O'Brien and the two left school to
enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. He was still at Norfolk Navy
Yard in Virginia at the ...
13. Shah Rukh Khan Actor | Don 2 Sharukh Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in New
Delhi, India. He married Gauri Khan on 25 October 1991. They have three
children, son Aryan Khan (b. 1997), son AbRam
(b.2013) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000). Khan
started out his career by appearing in several television serials during
1988-1990. He ...
14. Cary Grant Actor | Charade Once
told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant",
Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
15. 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.
16. 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 25 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 ...
17. 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 ...
18. Bruce Lee Actor | Meng long guo jiang Bruce
Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of
modern popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the
early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the
martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream
North American and ...
19. Henry Fonda Actor | 12 Angry Men Henry
Jaynes Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to Elma Herberta
(Jaynes) and William Brace Fonda, who worked in advertising and printing. His
recent ancestry included Dutch, English, and Scottish.
20. Morgan Freeman Actor | Se7en With
an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular
American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US
cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna
(Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young
Freeman...
21. James Cagney Actor | The Roaring Twenties One
of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an
accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was
born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn
(Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur ...
22. Johnny Depp Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Johnny
Depp is perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his day and age in
Hollywood.
23. Charles Chaplin Writer | The Great Dictator Considered
to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie
Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He
is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with
his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
24. Montgomery Clift Actor | From Here to Eternity Edward
Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire life) was born on October 17,
1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, just after his twin sister Roberta (1920-2014) and
eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. He was the son of Ethel
"Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift
(1886-...
25. Harrison Ford Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark Harrison
Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born
John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of
Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish
immigrants from Minsk,...
Actress | The Lion in Winter Born
May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the daughter of a doctor and a
suffragette, both of whom always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it
fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a
child, she was also very close to her brother, Tom, and was ...
27. 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 ...
28. Ingrid Bergman Actress | Notorious 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 ...
29. 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 on in her youth and kept the world hooked ...
30. 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...
31. 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 ...
32. Audrey Hepburn Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's Audrey
Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. She was a
blue-blood and a cosmopolitan from birth. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra,
was of a Dutch descent, and her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Hepburn-Ruston,
was born in Úzice, Bohemia, and of an English and
Austrian ...
33. Kate Winslet Actress | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ask
Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word
"ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has
made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more
devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the
gamut...
34. Halle Berry Actress | Catwoman Halle
Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was
African-American, and worked as a hospital attendant. Her mother, Judith Ann
(Hawkins), who is Caucasian, has English and German ancestry, and is a
retired psychiatric nurse. Halle has an older sister, Heidi Berry. Halle ...
35. Sophia Loren Actress | La ciociara Sophia
Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, on September
20, 1934. Her father, Riccardo Scicolone, 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 ...
36. 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 ...
37. Marilyn Monroe Actress | Some Like It Hot Marilyn
Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. 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
professional struggles within the film industry. Her life and ...
38. Viola Davis Actress | Fences Actress
Viola Davis was born on her grandmother's farm, at the then-Singleton
Plantation in St. Matthews, South Carolina. When she was two months old her
family moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island, where her father, Dan Davis,
worked as a horse groomer and trainer. Her mother, Mary Alice (Logan), ...
39. 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
...
40. Jodie Foster Actress | The Silence of the Lambs Jodie
Foster was born Alicia Christian Foster on November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles.
She is the daughter of Evelyn Ella "Brandy" (Almond), a producer,
and Lucius Fisher Foster III, an Air Force lieutenant colonel and real estate
broker. Brandy had filed for divorce in 1959 after having three children...
41. 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.
Actress | 8 femmes Catherine
Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France. Her parents were
actors. 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 (1963). But her
breakthrough ...
43. Grace Kelly Actress | Rear Window 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 ...
44. Helen Mirren Actress | RED Dame
Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her
mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class
English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from
Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...
45. Angela Bassett Actress | Strange Days Captivating,
gifted, and sensational, Angela Bassett's presence has been felt in theaters
and on stages and television screens throughout the world. Angela Evelyn
Bassett was born on August 16, 1958 in New York
City, to Betty Jane (Gilbert), a social worker, and Daniel Benjamin Bassett,
a ...
46. Greta Garbo Actress | Ninotchka Greta
Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September
18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl
Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which
left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...
Actress | The Heiress Olivia
Mary de Havilland was born July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan, to British parents
Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an
English professor and patent attorney. Her sister, Joan, later to become
famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year.
Her ...
48. Setsuko Hara Actress | Banshun Setsuko
Hara became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her
signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and
home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin. To some extent, reality mirrored her
roles in ...
49. 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...
50. 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...
51. 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 ...
52. Kirk Douglas Actor | Spartacus 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. ...
Actor | 8˝ 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 ...
54. Al Pacino Actor | Serpico One
of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself
during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an
enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
55. 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.
56. Will Smith Music_department | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Willard
Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American
actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in
television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the
most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five
Golden ...
57. 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 ...
58. 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 Theresa (Fetsko)
and Arthur Sigmund Newman. Paul's father was Jewish, the son of emigrants
from Poland and Hungary; he owned...
59. 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, Ulster-Scots, and
Irish ancestry.
60. Mohanlal Actor | Dasharatham Mohanlal
was born to Viswanathan Nair (father) and Santhakumari
(mother) in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, in
the southern part of India on 21st May 1960. Starting his career with a
classic villain role, he has now become an outstanding actor of Malayalam
Cinema in Kerala. Without no doubt, ...
61. Gary Cooper Actor | High Noon Born
to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper (not in
film business). Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena
Montana and Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. His first stage experience was
during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one
year before getting a part in a...
62. Anthony Hopkins Actor | The Silence of the Lambs Anthony
Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne
(Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half
Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at
College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
63. Gérard Depardieu Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac Gérard
Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France,
to Anne Jeanne Josčphe (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 "Cafe de la Gare", along ...
64. Forest Whitaker Actor | The Last King of Scotland Forest
Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2",
220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan
dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and
has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American
male to...
65. Dustin Hoffman Actor | Tootsie Dustin
Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry
Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia
Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and
Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
66. 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 greatest leading men and remained active in front of movie
cameras for over sixty years. As ...
67. Tom Cruise Actor | Top Gun In
1976, if you had told fourteen year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas
Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too
distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all
time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to
join the priesthood. ...
Actor | Pulp Fiction Samuel
L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared
in over 100 films, including Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane(2006), and the Star Wars
prequel trilogy (1999-2005),...
69. Peter O'Toole Actor | Lawrence of Arabia A
leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was 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 ...
70. Robin Williams Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire Robin
McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago,
Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm
J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin),
was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald
Williams, was a Ford ...
71. Eddie Murphy Actor | The Nutty Professor Edward
Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles
Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and
actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a
...
72. Antonio Banderas Actor | The Mask of Zorro Antonio
Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking
his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international film star known
for playing Zorro in the eponymous film series.
73. Don Cheadle Actor | Crash Donald
Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 29, 1964. His
childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye
(North), a teacher, father Donald Frank Cheadle, Sr., a clinical
psychologist, sister Dawn, and brother Colin. After graduating high school
in...
74. 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 ...
75. 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 ...
76. 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
...
77. Rita Hayworth Actress | Gilda Rita
Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on
October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. Her
father, Eduardo Cansino Reina,
was a dancer as was his father before him. He emigrated from Spain in 1913.
Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly ...
78. Natalie Wood Actress | West Side Story Natalie
Wood was born on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, as Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko. Her
parents, Maria Stepanovna (Zudilov)
and Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko,
were Russian-born émigrés, of Ukrainian and Russian descent, who spoke barely
comprehensible English; they changed the ...
79. Joan Crawford Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Joan
Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23,
1905, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her
parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers.
It wasn't an easy life; ...
80. Susan Sarandon Actress | Thelma & Louise Susan
Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City, NY, to homemaker
Lenora Marie (Criscione) and Phillip Leslie
Tomalin, an advertising executive. She is of Italian descent on her mother's
side and English, Irish, Welsh, and German on her father's.
81. Glenn Close Actress | Fatal Attraction Seven time Academy
Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich,
Connecticut. She is the daughter of Bettine (Moore)
and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of
her parents were from upper-class northeastern families.
82. Joan Fontaine Actress | Rebecca Born
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what
was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent
attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older
sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the
family moved to ...
83. Julianne Moore Actress | The Hours Julianne
Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3,
1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a
paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S.
in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...
84. Whoopi Goldberg Actress | Ghost Whoopi
Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on
November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and
her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent
ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in...
85. Angelina Jolie Actress | Maleficent Angelina
Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who became popular after 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 prominently involved in international ...
86. Jane Fonda Actress | Barbarella 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 ...
87. 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-'50s 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 ...
88. 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)).
89. 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 ...
90. Deborah Kerr Actress | The King and I Deborah
Kerr was born on 30 September 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland, the daughter of
Captain Arthur Kerr-Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House,
Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air
Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford
Repertory ...
91. Emma Thompson Actress | Sense and Sensibility Emma
Thompson was born in London on April 15, 1959, into a family of actors - her
father was Eric Thompson, who has passed away, and her
mother, Phyllida Law,
has co-starred with Thompson in several films (her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well). Her
father was English-born and her mother...
Actress | Hairspray Michelle
Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California, to Donna Jean (Taverna) and
Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor. 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 ...
93. Faye Dunaway Actress | Network Faye Dunaway was one of the hottest
actresses in the 1970s playing neurotic, highly driven women with sex appeal.
Life in the 1990s has not been as good. In a much-publicized incident, she
was dropped as the lead in the Broadway musical "Sunset Boulevard",
and her attempt at starring in a ...
94. 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 ...
95. Nicole Kidman Actress | Moulin Rouge! Elegant
blonde 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.
96. Salma Hayek Actress | Frida One
of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses, Salma Hayek was born on
September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has
freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten by her
well-to-do businessman father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, and her ...
97. Sigourney Weaver Actress | Avatar Sigourney
Weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver in Leroy Hospital in Manhattan, New
York City. Her father, TV producer Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., originally wanted
to name her Flavia, because of his passion for Roman history (he had already
named her elder brother Trajan). Her mother, Elizabeth ...
98. Kathy Bates Actress | Misery Multi-talented
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. Kathy has English, as well as...
99. Lucy Liu Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Born
to immigrants in Queens, New York, Lucy Liu has always tried to balance an
interest in her cultural heritage with a desire to move beyond a strictly
Asian-American experience. Lucy's mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, is from
Beijing, and her father, Tom Liu, a civil engineer, is from Shanghai. ...
100. 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
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