10 actresses and their highlights in the last 20 years
by pasteur | created - 06 Oct 2010 | updated - 06 Oct 2010 | Public
1. 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 ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 Pretty Woman (1990), Flatliners (1990), The Pelican Brief (1993), Prêt- à- Porter (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Stepmom (1998), Notting Hill (1999), Erin Brockovich (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Closer (2004), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Duplicity (2009), Eat Pray Love (2010)
2. Jodie Foster
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 Little Man Tate (1990), The Silence of Lambs (1991), Sommersby (1993), Nell (1994), Contact (1997), Anna and the King (1999), Un Long Dimanche des Fiançailles (2004), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007)
3. Emma Thompson
Actress | Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who 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. ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 Dead Again (1991), Impromptu (1991), Howards' End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Carrington (1995), The Winter Guest (1997), Primary Colors (1998), Imagining Argentina (2003), Love Actually (2003), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Brideshead Revisited (2008), An Education (2009)
4. 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 ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 Postcards from the Edge (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), The House of Spirits (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Marvin's Room (1996), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (19999), The Hours (2002), Adaptation (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Evening (2007), Lions for Lambs (2007), Doubt (2008), Mamma Mia! (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
5. Michelle Pfeiffer
Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. 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 their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 The Russia House (1990), Frankie and Johnie (1991), Love Field (1992), Batman Returns (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), Dangerous Minds (1995), Up Close and Personal (1996), A Thousand Acres (1997), I Am Sam (2001), White Oleander (2002), Hairspray (2007), Chéri (2009)
6. Holly Hunter
Actress | Broadcast News
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...
career highlights in 1990-2010 The Piano (1993), The Firm (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), Crash (1996), A Life Less Ordinary (1997), Living out Loud (1998), Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000), O Brother Where Art Thou (2000), Thirteen (2003), Levity (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Nine Lives (2005)
7. Jessica Lange
Actress | Tootsie
Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...
career highlights in 1990-2010 Men Don't Leave (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Night and the City (1991), Blue Sky (1994), Rob Roy (1995), A Thousand Acres (1997), Cousin Bette (1998), Titus (1999), Big Fish (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Bonneville (2006)
8. Susan Sarandon
Actress | Thelma & Louise
It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 The White Palace (1990), Thelma and Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), The Client (1994), Little Women (1994), Dead Man Walikng (1995), Stepmom (1998), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Romance and Cigarettes (2005), In the Valley of Elah (2007), Enchanted (2007), The Lovely Bones (2009)
9. Brenda Blethyn
Actress | Pride & Prejudice
After forty years of hard work on stage and both television and film, there are not many other actresses who deserved the success, recognition and stardom which Brenda Blethyn has now achieved.
Born in 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, she started her career at British Rail in the 1960s. Saving money...
career highlights in 1990-2010 A River Runs through It (1992), Secrets & Lies (1996), Girls' Night (1998), Little Voice (1998), Saving Grace (2000), Lovely & Amazing (2001), Sonny (2002), Beyond the Sea (2004), On a Clear Day (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), London River (2009)
10. Emily Watson
Actress | Gosford Park
Emily Watson was born and raised in London, the daughter of Katharine (Venables), an English teacher, and Richard Watson, an architect. After a self-described sheltered upbringing, Watson attended university for three years in Bristol, studying English literature. She applied to drama school and ...
career highlights in 1990-2010 Breaking the Waves (1996), The Boxer (1997), Hilary and Jackie (1998), Angela's Ashes (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Separate Lies (2005), The Proposition (2005), Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Within the Whirlwind (2009)
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