Oscar Winning Actress

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Academy Award for Best Actress

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1.

Brie Larson
Actress, Room

Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging
recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student
ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
(2015 - 88th) - Room - tushanudesh

2.

Julianne Moore

Actress, The Big Lebowski

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 Burlington, New Jersey, has German, Irish,
German-Jewish, and English ancestry...
(2014 - 87th) - Still Alice - tushanudesh

3.

Cate Blanchett
Actress, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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 years old...
(2013 - 86th) - Blue Jasmine - tushanudesh

4.

Jennifer Lawrence
Actress, The Hunger Games

Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is best known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger
Games, Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook, and Rosalyn Rosenfeld inAmerican Hustle. Jennifer Shrader
Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp...
(2012 - 85th) - Silver Lining Playbook - tushanudesh

5.

Meryl Streep
Actress, The Devil Wears Prada

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy
Award an astonishing 19 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 Streep...
(2011 - 84th) - The Iron Lady - tushanudesh

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Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta

Natalie Portman was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel, to a Jewish family. She is the only
child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an American-born artist (from Cincinnati,
Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel for Washington...

 (2010 - 83rd) - Black Swan - tushanudesh

7.

Sandra Bullock
Actress, Gravity

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga
Bullock (ne Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American
voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of Irish, English, French, and German descent. Sandra grew up on the road
with her parents and younger sister...
(2009 - 82nd) - The Blind Side - tushanudesh

8.

Kate Winslet
Actress, Titanic

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 from Shakespearean tragedy to modern-day
mysticism and erotica...
(2008 - 81st) - The Reader - tushanudesh

9.

Marion Cotillard
Actress, Inception

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 Breton. Raised in Orlans, France, she made her acting debut as a child with a role in
one of her father's plays...
(2007 - 80th) - La Vie en Rose - tushanudesh

10.

Helen Mirren
Actress, The Queen

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. Mirren attended St...
(2006 - 79th) - The Queen - tushanudesh

11.

Reese Witherspoon
Actress, Walk the Line

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 at Southern Baptist Hospital (now Memorial Medical
Center) in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the second child of Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Reese) and Dr. John Draper
Witherspoon, Sr. Her father was a military surgeon specializing in ear, nose and throat...
(2005 - 78th) - Walk the Line - tushanudesh

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Hilary Swank
Actress, Million Dollar Baby

Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Judith Kay (Clough), a secretary, and Stephen Michael Swank, who served
in the National Guard and was also a traveling salesman. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez,
was of Mexican descent, and her other roots include German, English, and Scottish...
(2004 - 77th) - Million Dollar Baby - tushanudesh

13.

Charlize Theron
Actress, Mad Max: Fury Road

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg-area, in South Africa, the only child
of Gerda Theron (ne Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz) and Charles Jacobus Theron. She was raised on a farm outside
the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner military
figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle...
(2003 - 76th) - Monster - tushanudesh

14.

Nicole Kidman
Actress, Moulin Rouge!

Elegant redhead Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in
Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas. Kidman is the daughter of Janelle
Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical psychologist...
(2002 - 75th) - The Hours - tushanudesh

15.

Halle Berry
Actress, X-Men: The Last Stand

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 named Heidi Berry...
(2001 - 74th) - Monster's Ball - tushanudesh

16.

Julia Roberts
Actress, Notting Hill

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 love of animals...
(2000 - 73rd) - Erin Brockovich - tushanudesh

17.

Hilary Swank
Actress, Million Dollar Baby

Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Judith Kay (Clough), a secretary, and Stephen Michael Swank, who served
in the National Guard and was also a traveling salesman. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez,
was of Mexican descent, and her other roots include German, English, and Scottish...
(1999 - 72nd) - Boys Don't Cry - tushanudesh

18.

Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress, Se7en

A tall, wafer thin, delicate beauty, Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer
and directorBruce Paltrow and Tony award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family,
while her mother has German, and some English and Irish, ancestry. When Gwyneth was eleven...
(1998 - 71st) - Shakespeare in Love - tushanudesh

19.

Helen Hunt
Actress, Mad About You

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon
Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.
(1997 - 70th) - As good as it Gets - tushanudesh

20.

Frances McDormand
Actress, Fargo

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born
parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Vernon Weir McDormand, a minister from Nova
Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.A. in Theater from Bethany College in 1979
and her MFA from Yale in 1982...
(1996 - 69th) - Fargo - tushanudesh

21.

Susan Sarandon
Actress, Thelma & Louise

Susan Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City, New York, to Lenora Marie (Criscione) and
Phillip Leslie Tomalin, a television producer and advertising executive. She is of Italian (mother) and English, Irish,
Welsh, and German (father) descent. Soon after the 1968 Democratic convention...
(1995 - 68th) - Dead Man Walking - tushanudesh

22.

Jessica Lange
Actress, Big Fish

Jessica Phyllis Lange was born 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota, to Dorothy Florence (Sahlman) and Albert John Lange,
a traveling salesman and teacher. She is of Finnish (mother) and Dutch and German (father) descent. She obtained a
scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama...
(1994 - 67th) - Blue sky - tushanudesh

23.

Holly Hunter
Actress, The Incredibles

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin
Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of
seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first acting part was as Helen Keller in a
fifth-grade play...
(1993 - 66th) - The Piano - tushanudesh

24.

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 is Scottish-born...
(1992 - 65th) - Howards End - tushanudesh

25.

Jodie Foster
Actress, The Silence of the Lambs

Alicia Christian Foster was born in Los Angeles on November 19, 1962. She is the daughter of Evelyn Ella
"Brandy" (Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III, an Air Force lieutenant colonel and later real estate broker. Brandy
had filed for divorce in 1959 after having three children with Lucius, but the exes had a brief re-encounter in 1962
which resulted in Alicia's birth...
(1991 - 64th) - The silence of the Lambs - tushanudesh

26.

Kathy Bates
Actress, Titanic

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 Irish...
(1990 - 63rd) - Misery - tushanudesh