Smart 100sexy Actresses

1. Aga Radwanska

Aga Radwanska is a Polish former professional tennis player. Known for making intelligent use of the court,she won twenty career singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in July 2012. Her achievements include winning the Women's Tennis Association Fan Favourite Award...

2. Jennifer Granholm

Self | The Robert MacNeil Report

Jennifer Granholm was born on February 5, 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She has been married to Daniel Kevin Mulhern since May 23, 1986. They have three children.

3. Rachel Brosnahan

Actress | House of Cards

Rachel Brosnahan was born in in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1990 and is an American actress. She is best known for her role as 'Midge' Maisel in the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) for which she has won two Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television ...

attended NYU Tisch Scool of the Arts in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Undead Lisa, 2009

4. Michelle Obama

Producer | Leave the World Behind

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to former President Barack Obama.

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois,...

5. Elizabeth Banks

Actress | The Hunger Games

Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Elizabeth describes ...

graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania

6. Victoria Raileanu

Actress | The Whistleblower

Victoria Raileanu is a Romanian film and theater actress .She was born on July 24, 1988 in Riscani, Moldova. She graduated from University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 2010.In 2006, she plays first role in the TV series "Daria, iubirea mea".Other notable roles in Doctori de mame (2008) ...

worked at Trupa IELE, Improvizatoare

7. Anna Jacoby-Heron

Actress | Contagion

Anna Jacoby-Heron was born on September 29, 1995 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Contagion (2011), Newly Single (2017) and Stranger Things (2016).

graduated from L.A. County High School for the Arts

8. Alicia von Rittberg

Actress | Fury

Alicia von Rittberg, born on December 10, 1993 in Munich, made her debut in front of the camera at the age of six in the popular TV-show "Dingsda," in which small children had to explain different everyday concepts. But her real acting career began only a few years later: in 2006 she appeared in a ...

is studying Corporate Management and Economics at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen

9. Daniella Kertesz

Actress | World War Z

Daniella Kertesz was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She is an actress, known for World War Z (2013), Shtisel (2013) and Incitement (2019).

was an avid dancer, studying dance from age three and attending the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance

10. Allison Williams

Actress | Girls

Allison Howell Williams, born April 13, 1988, is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her role as "Marnie Michaels" on the HBO comedy-drama series, Girls (2012). Williams was born and raised in New Canaan, Connecticut and is the daughter of former NBC Nightly News anchor...

graduated from Yale

11. Carey Mulligan

Actress | Never Let Me Go

Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.

Her first major appearance was ...

attended the International School of Düsseldorf, was educated at Woldingham School in Surrey

12. Eva Amurri

Actress | Saved!

Eva Maria Olivia Amurri Martino (born March 15, 1985) is an American film and television actress Amurri Martino was born in New York City, to Italian director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon. She attended Friends Seminary (Manhattan) for middle school, and graduated from Saint ...

graduated from Brown

13. Olga Fedori

Actress | The Wolfman

Olga Fedori was born on March 17, 1984 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wolfman (2010), Holby City (1999) and Of Their Own.

graduated from Harvard with BA Cum Laude

14. Kate McKinnon

Actress | Ghostbusters

Kathryn McKinnon Berthold (born January 6, 1984), known professionally as Kate McKinnon, is an American actress and comedienne, who is best known as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live and The Big Gay Sketch Show, and for playing the role of Dr. Jillian Holtzmann in the 2016 Ghostbusters ...

graduated from Columbia

15. Maggie Grace

Actress | Taken

Maggie stars as "Althea" on the popular AMC series "Fear the Walking Dead". She is most often recognized from the hit series "Lost" , "Californication" on Showtime, and the "Taken" and "Twilight" franchises. Maggie has also starred on Broadway in William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Picnic" ...

attended Thomas Worthington High School

16. Zoe Kazan

Actress | Ruby Sparks

Zoe Swicord Kazan was born in Los Angeles, California, to screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. She is the granddaughter of director Elia Kazan. She is of Greek (from her paternal grandfather), English, and German descent.

Kazan received her BA in Theater from Yale University. In the fall ...

attended Yale

17. Whitney Cummings

Writer | Whitney

Whitney Ann Cummings is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer and pod-caster. A native of Washington, D.C., Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where she had studied with the intention of becoming a ...

Graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Pennsylvania in three years.

18. Anna Paquin

Actress | The Piano

Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.

She was born on July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mary (Brophy), an English teacher from Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a Canadian phys-ed teacher. Anna moved ...

attended Columbia

19. Jenny Slate

Actress | Obvious Child

Jenny Sarah Slate is an American actress, comedian, and author. Born and raised in Milton, Massachusetts, Slate was educated at Milton Academy and studied literature at Columbia University, where she became involved in the improvise and comedy scene. She lent voice performances to the animated ...

graduated from Columbia

20. Thora Birch

Actress | Ghost World

For some people, oatmeal starts the day off right - for Thora Birch, it launched a healthy career in front of the camera. It's hard to believe that the actress, who slunk into stardom with her turn as the disillusioned daughter in American Beauty (1999), is even related to the apple-cheeked blonde ...

graduated from dropped out, earned diploma through correspondence school

21. Catherine Princess of Wales

Soundtrack | Royal Carols: Together at Christmas

Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, United Kingdom. She is the oldest of three children with a younger sister, Philippa ("Pippa") Charlotte and a younger brother, James William. Her mother Carole worked as a flight attendant while her father Michael ...

was a boarder at Marlborough College, a co-educational independent boarding school in Wiltshire, and graduated from the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland

22. Vanessa Bayer

Actress | Trainwreck

Vanessa Bayer was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended Orange High School. She is best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975). In 2004, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. During her college career, she worked as an...

graduated from the University of Pennsylvania

23. Scottie Thompson

Actress | 12 Monkeys

Scottie Thompson grew up performing as a ballet dancer. She transitioned into her acting career when she landed a recurring role on the Showtime series "Brotherhood" after graduating from Harvard University with a degree in Performance Studies. She has gone on to continue working in various ...

graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in Performance Studies and Literature, focusing on French and Postcolonial works

24. 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)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

attended Harvard University and emerged with a degree in Psychology

25. Julia Stiles

Actress | 10 Things I Hate About You

Lovely, Julia (O'Hara) Stiles, of Irish, English and German heritage, was born on March 28, 1981 in New York City, the outgoing daughter and eldest of three children of a Greenwich Village artist mother, Judith Newcomb Stiles, and an elementary school teacher father, John O'Hara.

Encouraged to take ...

graduated from Columbia

26. Ellie Kemper

Actress | Bridesmaids

Ellie Kemper, born Elizabeth Claire Kemper on May 2, 1980, is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is best-known for her role as "Erin Hannon" in the NBC series The Office (2005), as well as her supporting roles in the films Bridesmaids (2011) and 21 Jump Street (2012)). She plays the ...

graduated from Princeton

27. Jordana Brewster

Actress | Fast & Furious 7

Raven-haired beauty Jordana Brewster was born on April 26, 1980 in Panama City, Panama. Her mother, Maria João Leal de Sousa, is a Brazilian-born model who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1978. Her father, Alden Brewster, is an American-born investment banker, who has English, ...

graduated from Yale

28. Rachel Nichols

Actress | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Rachel Emily Nichols was born in Augusta, Maine, the daughter of Alison and James Nichols, a schoolteacher. She has English, French Canadian, German, Irish, Italian and Scottish ancestry. She attended and graduated from Cony High School in Augusta, where she competed in the high jump. She attended ...

attended Columbia University in New York City, where she eventually graduated with a double major in math and economic

29. Mindy Kaling

Actress | The Office

Vera Mindy Chokalingam is an Indian-American actress, comedienne, producer, writer and director from Cambridge, Massachusetts known for playing Kelly Kapoor in The Office, Disgust in Inside Out, and creating The Mindy Project. She also appeared in Wreck-It Ralph, Despicable Me, The 40-Year-Old ...

graduated from Dartmouth

30. Claire Danes

Actress | My So-Called Life

New Yorker Claire Catherine Danes was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Carla (Hall), a day-care provider and artist, and Christopher Danes, a computer consultant and photographer. She has an older brother, Asa. Her paternal grandfather, Gibson Andrew Danes, was a Dean of the Yale School of Art ...

attended Yale

31. Tatyana Ali

Actress | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Tatyana Marisol Ali was born on January 24, 1979, in North Bellmore, New York, to Sonia, a nurse from Panama, and Sheriff Ali, a retired police officer from Trinidad. At the age of four, she started singing and got a taste of fame when she begged her mother to take her to an audition for Sesame ...

graduated from Harvard

32. Mary Kate Schellhardt

Actress | Apollo 13

Mary Kate Schellhardt grew up in an artistic family. Always in acting class, Mary Kate studied in Chicago at the Piven Theatre Workshop where she developed through the Viola Spolin techniques in theatre games.

At the age of 13, she was discovered by casting director Gail Levin, during a nationwide ...

graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois

33. Becki Newton

Actress | Ugly Betty

Becki grew up in Guilford, Connecticut. She started performing in local productions and summer stock theater at age 13. She studied European History at the University of Pennsylvania, during which time she spent several semesters abroad. After graduating, Becki immediately moved to NYC to pursue ...

graduated from University of Pennsylvania

34. Maggie Gyllenhaal

Actress | Secretary

Maggie Gyllenhaal was born on November 16, 1977 in New York City, New York as Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal, the daughter of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...

graduated from Columbia

35. Sarah Wayne Callies

Actress | The Walking Dead

Actor, director, and writer Sarah Wayne Callies most recently starred in the ABC series "The Company You Keep". On the comedy front, Sarah appeared as Anita Dyck in the breakout comedy series, "Letterkenny." Prior to that, Sarah starred in the NBC series "Council Of Dads." Sarah is best known for ...

graduated from Dartmouth

36. Diane Kruger

Actress | Inglourious Basterds

Diane Kruger was born Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany, to Maria-Theresa, a bank employee, and Hans-Heinrich Heidkrüger, a computer specialist. She studied ballet with the Royal Ballet in London before an injury ended her career. She returned to Germany and became a top ...

successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet School in London

37. Amy Smart

Actress | Starship Troopers

Amy Smart was born in Topanga Canyon, California to Judy, who worked at a museum, and John Boden Smart, a salesman. She has German, English, and Irish ancestry.

Smart was a relatively new arrival when she first gained notice for her supporting roles in the 1999 hit teen films Varsity Blues (1999) and...

studied ballet

38. Rashida Jones

Actress | Parks and Recreation

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. Her father is African-American and her mother is ...

graduated from Harvard

39. Mayim Bialik

Actress | Beaches

Mayim Bialik grew up in San Diego and got her first acting job (Pumpkinhead (1988)) when she was just 12 years old. A number of TV roles followed until in 1990 she was cast in Blossom (1990), the role which made her famous.

By 1993, while Blossom was still airing, she had already won a deferred ...

graduated from UCLA, then finished her Ph.D in neuroscience, with a focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents.

40. Danica McKellar

Actress | The Wonder Years

Together with her younger sister, Crystal McKellar, she began acting at a young age in her mother's dance studio. In 1982 the family moved to Los Angeles and a few years later she appeared in her first commercial. A few guest appearances in The Twilight Zone (1985) was followed by her breakthrough ...

graduated summa cum laude from UCLA. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn entitled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on Z^2. Their results are termed the 'Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem'.

41. Kate Beckinsale

Actress | Underworld: Evolution

Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her ...

attended Oxford

42. Kathryn Hahn

Actress | Afternoon Delight

Kathryn Marie Hahn is an American actress and comedian. She became a worldwide phenomenon when she starred as Agatha Harkness in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries WandaVision (2021) for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding ...

graduated with a bachelor's degree in theater from Northwestern University. She later attended Yale

43. Amanda Peet

Actress | 2012

Amanda Peet was born and raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Penny (Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet, a lawyer, and has an older sister. Her father was of mostly English and German ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish family (from Germany, Russia, and Hungary). Peet's ...

attended Columbia

44. Jennifer Connelly

Actress | A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...

attended Yale and Stanford

45. Aisha Tyler

Actress | Archer

Aisha Tyler is an award-winning director, actor, comedian, New York Times bestselling author, podcaster and activist. She is an Emmy-winning television host and multiple award-winning voice actor for Archer (2009).

Aisha's feature directorial debut, Axis (2017), was shot in just seven days on ...

attended Dartmouth

46. Jennifer Westfeldt

Actress | Kissing Jessica Stein

Jennifer is an American actress and filmmaker, who is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the indie hits, Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) and Friends with Kids (2011).

A graduate from Yale University, Jennifer started her career as a New York-based theater actor, starring in over 25 ...

graduated from Yale

47. Julie Bowen

Actress | Happy Gilmore

Julie Bowen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the middle daughter of Suzanne and John Luetkemeyer Jr., a real estate developer. Her early education was at Calvert School in Baltimore, and Garrison Forest School, Maryland. She moved on to St. George's School, Rhode Island and then attended ...

graduated from Brown

48. Lauren Graham

Actress | Gilmore Girls

Lauren Graham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Donna Grant and Lawrence Graham, a candy industry lobbyist. Her father was from New York and her mother was from the American South, and Lauren has Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry. She grew up in Northern Virginia, USA (Fairfax, Arlington, and ...

Graduate of Barnard College/Columbia University with a Bachelor's Degree in English. Graduate of Southern Methodist University with a Master's Degree in Acting

49. Connie Britton

Actress | American Ultra

Connie Britton began playing country music fading sensation Rayna Jaymes in Nashville (2012) after having wrapped production for the five season long Friday Night Lights (2006) alongside Kyle Chandler. She previously appeared in Universal's Friday Night Lights (2004) -the movie- directed by Peter ...

graduated from Dartmouth

50. Rachel Dratch

Actress | Just Go with It

Rachel Dratch grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Drama and Psychology, she moved out to Chicago, where she studied with Del Close at Improvolympic. She was on the house team, "Victim's Family", with Adam McKay. Rachel went on to tour with ...

graduated from Dartmouth

51. Cindy Crawford

Actress | Fair Game

Cindy Crawford was born on February 20, 1966 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Fair Game (1995), 54 (1998) and Cougar Town (2009). She has been married to Rande Gerber since May 29, 1998. They have two children. She was previously married to Richard Gere.

attended Northwestern, studied chemical engineering on scholarship

52. Brooke Shields

Actress | The Blue Lagoon

"Want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." If you have not heard of Brooke Shields before, this tagline from her Calvin Klein Jeans ad had to grab your attention. Not that she has not had a previously noteworthy resume. She was born on May 31, 1965 in New York City, to Teri (...

graduated from Princeton

53. Amy Brenneman

Actress | Judging Amy

Amy Frederica Brenneman was born in New London, Connecticut, to Frederica (Shoenfield), a judge in the Connecticut State Superior Court, and Russell Langdon Brenneman, Jr., an environmental lawyer. Amy's mother was one of the first women to graduate from Harvard. Amy is also a graduate of Harvard, ...

Amy's mother was one of the first women to graduate from Harvard. Amy is also a graduate of Harvard, where she majored in comparative religion

54. Laura Linney

Actress | The Big C

Laura Leggett Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father was prominent playwright Romulus Linney, whose own great-grandfather was a congressman from North Carolina. Her mother, Miriam Anderson (Leggett), is a nurse. Although she did not live in her ...

attended Northwestern before transferring to Brown

55. Elisabeth Shue

Actress | Leaving Las Vegas

Elisabeth Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Anne Brewster (Wells), who worked for the Chemical Banking Corporation, and James William Shue, a lawyer and real estate developer. She is of German and English ancestry, including descent from Mayflower passengers. Shue's parents divorced while ...

graduate of both Wellesley College and Harvard

56. Lisa Kudrow

Actress | Friends

Hardly the dumb blonde of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Lisa was born in Encino, California on July 30, 1963. Her mother, Nedra S. (Stern), worked as a travel agent, and her father, Lee N. Kudrow, is a physician. Her parents are both from Jewish families (from Belarus, Russia, and ...

graduated from Vassar College with a degree in biology, and after graduation, began working with her father — a world renowned headache specialist — on a study concerning hemispheric dominance and headache types.

57. Helen Hunt

Actress | As Good as It Gets

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.

attended UCLA

58. 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 ...

graduated from Yale

59. Jane Lynch

Actress | Wreck-It Ralph

Jane Marie Lynch is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series Glee (2009-2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recognition for her roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films, such as Best in ...

attended Cornell

60. Madonna

Soundtrack | A League of Their Own

The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops re-inventing herself, Madonna has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide. Her film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from film ...

attended University of Michigan

61. Sharon Stone

Actress | Basic Instinct

Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro ...

When she was 15 she accepted a scholarship to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

62. 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 ...

graduated Yale

63. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

attended Yale

64. Geena Davis

Actress | Thelma & Louise

As a child, Geena dreamed of being an actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self-esteem because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high school graduation, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire and then transferred the next year to Boston ...

attended Boston

65. Glenne Headly

Actress | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

For fourteen years, she said that family was the most important thing to her and she set most of her time aside to be a "present" mother to her son. Movies, plays and television were chosen, for the most part, when they occurred in town or on a school break. She took one year to homeschool her son ...

graduated from the American College of Switzerland

66. Kathryn Bigelow

Director | Zero Dark Thirty

A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...

graduated from Columbia

67. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

attended Stanford University as an undergraduate before going on to graduate from the Yale

68. 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 ...

After attending Vassar College, she continued onto the Yale

69. JoBeth Williams

Actress | Poltergeist

The product of a musical family, (Margaret) JoBeth Williams was born on December 6, 1948, in Houston, Texas, to Frances Faye (Adams), a dietitian, and Fredric Roger Williams, a wire/cable company manager and opera singer. Her father encouraged her early interest in theater during high school.

She ...

graduated from Brown

70. Candice Bergen

Actress | Miss Congeniality

One cool, eternally classy lady, Candice Bergen was elegantly poised for trendy "ice princess" stardom when she first arrived on the '60s screen, but she gradually reshaped that débutante image in the '70s, both on- and off-camera. A staunch, outspoken feminist with a decisive edge, she went on to ...

attended University of Pennsylvania

71. Goldie Hawn

Actress | Private Benjamin

Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland to Laura Hawn, a jewelry shop/dance school owner & Rut Hawn, a band musician. She has a sister, Patti Hawn, and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth. She was raised in the Jewish...

attended American University in D.C.

72. Stockard Channing

Actress | Practical Magic

One of Broadway and Hollywood's perennial and cleverer talents who tends to shine a smart, cynical light on her surroundings, Stockard Channing was born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard on February 13, 1944 in New York City to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother of Irish descent. Her parents ...

Graduated from Harvard University (specifically, its then female-only Radcliffe College), with a BA in history and literature.

73. Kim Poirier

Actress | Dawn of the Dead

Kim Poirier was born on February 6, 1980 in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Dawn of the Dead (2004), American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002) and Decoys (2004). She has been married to Alex Saunders since May 29, 2016. They have two children.

studied numerology, healing, and nutrition

74. Mira Sorvino

Actress | Mighty Aphrodite

Mira Katherine Sorvino was born on September 28, 1967 in Manhattan. She is the daughter of Lorraine Davis, an actress turned drama therapist, and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino. Her father's family were Italian immigrants. The young Sorvino was intelligent, an avid reader and an exceptional ...

graduated magna cum laude from Harvard

75. Camila Morgado

Actress | Bom Dia, Verônica

Camila Morgado was born on April 12, 1975 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Good Morning, Verônica (2020), Olga (2004) and Seven Women (2003).

attended Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

76. Alicia von Rittberg

Actress | Fury

Alicia von Rittberg, born on December 10, 1993 in Munich, made her debut in front of the camera at the age of six in the popular TV-show "Dingsda," in which small children had to explain different everyday concepts. But her real acting career began only a few years later: in 2006 she appeared in a ...

is studying Corporate Management and Economics at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen

Die Lawine (TV Movie) Jill Westermann, 2007

77. Gretchen Mol

Actress | The Thirteenth Floor

Gretchen Mol was born November 8, 1972, in Deep River, Connecticut, the daughter of a school principal, James Mol, and his artist wife, Janet. Deep River is a small community located on the Chester Bowles Highway (Rt. 9), nine miles northwest of Old Saybrook (home of the legendary Katharine Hepburn...

moved to the Big Apple as a teenager to study acting and musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and at the William Esper Studio

Girl 6 Girl #12, 1996

78. Marie-Josée Croze

Actress | Les invasions barbares

Marie-Josée Croze first studied fine arts before opting for the stage at La Veillée-Prospero Theatre workshop in Montreal. In 1993 she got her first movie part in La Florida (1993) and started working for numerous Canadian TV series and movies.

In 2000, with her performance in Denis Villeneuve's ...

studied fine arts before opting for the stage at La Veillée-Prospero Theatre workshop in Montreal

Lance et compte: Le choix (TV Movie) Vendeuse Boutique, 1991

79. Elena Satine

Actress | Cowboy Bebop

Elena Satine was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and grew up in Sochi. She began her professional career at the tender age of 6 when she appeared on the popular children's variety show "Morning Star". On a spontaneous trip to New York City, the young actress attended an open call for at the Professional ...

After graduating with honors, Elena continued her dramatic studies at the legendary Moscow Art Theater School, founded by Konstantin Stanislavski, graduated from New York's "Professional Performing Arts School"

Ripple Effect Atrash Staff, 2007

80. Petra Kvitová

Actress | Ordinace v ruzové zahrade 2

Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player.

Kvitová turned professional in 2006 and has won 27 career singles titles, two of which are Grand Slam titles, the Wimbledon Championships in 2011 and in 2014. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her career-high ranking of world No. 2 ...

81. Daniella Kertesz

Actress | World War Z

Daniella Kertesz was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She is an actress, known for World War Z (2013), Shtisel (2013) and Incitement (2019).

was an avid dancer, studying dance from age three and attending the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance

Adumot (TV Series) Noa Shperling

Lama Lo Kaduregel (2003) ... Noa Shperling, 2003

82. Veronika Vernadskaya

Actress | The Darkest Hour

Veronika Vladimirovna Vernadskaya (born 7 May 1995, Moscow) is a Russian actress known for her roles in the Russian-American film "The Darkest Hour" and the film "Mukha". Educated at the Theatre of the Young Muscovites on Sparrow Hills and the Moscow Art Theatre School, Vernadskaya started her ...

educated at the Theatre of the Young Muscovites on Sparrow Hills and the Moscow Art Theatre School

Mukha Lena (as Veronika Ozerova), 2008

83. Victoria Raileanu

Actress | The Whistleblower

Victoria Raileanu is a Romanian film and theater actress .She was born on July 24, 1988 in Riscani, Moldova. She graduated from University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 2010.In 2006, she plays first role in the TV series "Daria, iubirea mea".Other notable roles in Doctori de mame (2008) ...

worked at Trupa IELE, Improvizatoare

Daria, iubirea mea (TV Series) Daria Aioanei, 2006

84. Marley Shelton

Actress | Planet Terror

Marley Eve Shelton was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Eagle Rock, CA. She is the daughter of Carol (Stromme), a teacher and singer, and Christopher Shelton, who worked as a director and producer. She has three sisters: Koren Shelton, Erin Shelton and Samantha Shelton. Both of her ...

attended UCLA, where she majored in Film and Theatre

The Family Man (TV Series) Heather

Torn Between Two Brothers (1990) ... Heather, 1990

85. Mary Kate Schellhardt

Actress | Apollo 13

Mary Kate Schellhardt grew up in an artistic family. Always in acting class, Mary Kate studied in Chicago at the Piven Theatre Workshop where she developed through the Viola Spolin techniques in theatre games.

At the age of 13, she was discovered by casting director Gail Levin, during a nationwide ...

graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, an acting conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

What's Eating Gilbert Grape Ellen Grape, 1993

86. Ana Mackenzie

Actress | The Resident

Ana Mackenzie is an actor and producer who has worked in entertainment for the last two decades. As an actor, she has worked extensively in television (FOX's The Resident, NBC's Chicago P.D., FreeForm's The Secret Life of the American Teenager), commercials, and film. She produces and casts ...

completed 2 years of college as a theater major

Ghost Image Keiner Plaza Pedestrian (as Ana Lucasey), 2007

87. Nicola Peltz Beckham

Actress | Lola

Nicola Peltz is emerging as a force to be reckoned with, on both the big and small screen. Her most prominent roles include the series Bates Motel (2013), and the films The Last Airbender (2010) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).

Nicola was born in Westchester County, New York, to Claudia (...

Deck the Halls Mackenzie, 2009

88. Anna Jacoby-Heron

Actress | Contagion

Anna Jacoby-Heron was born on September 29, 1995 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Contagion (2011), Newly Single (2017) and Stranger Things (2016).

graduated from L.A. County High School for the Arts

Contagion Jory Emhoff, 2011

89. Bella Thorne

Actress | The Duff

Actress and singer Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne, known for Shake It Up (2010), The DUFF (2015), Blended (2014), and Midnight Sun (2018), was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida, to Tamara (Beckett) and Delancey Reinaldo "Rey" Thorne. She has three siblings, Remy Thorne, Dani Thorne and Kaili Thorne, ...

90. Keeley Hazell

Actress | Ted Lasso

Keeley Hazell was born in the London borough of Lewisham, grew up in Grove Park and attended the Ravensbourne School in Bromley. Her mother, Amber, was a dinner lady and her father, Roy, was a window fitter; they separated when she was thirteen years old. At 16 years of age, Hazell left school to ...

91. Olga Fonda

Actress | Agent X

Olga Tchakova (known professionally as Olga Fonda) is a Russian-American film and television actress and model. She is also known for her role as Nadia Petrova in The Vampire Diaries (2013-2014).

While vacationing in Los Angeles, California, Fonda was scouted by agent Paul Fisher to pursue modeling,...

92. Gigi Hadid

Actress | Ocean's Eight

Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid is an American model. She was signed to IMG Models in 2013. In November 2014, Hadid made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council.

Gigi Hadid was born and raised in Los Angeles to...

93. Bella Hadid

Actress | Ramy

Isabella Khairiah "Bella" Hadid was born on October 9, 1996 in Washington, D.C. & raised in Los Angeles, California to real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid and former model Yolanda Hadid. Her mother is a Dutch-born American, and her father is Palestinian American. Hadid has two siblings, an older ...

94. Kristen Stewart

Actress | Snow White and the Huntsman

Though most famous for her role as Isabella "Bella" Swan in The Twilight (2008) Saga, Kristen Stewart has been a working actor since her early years in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, John Stewart and Jules Stewart, both work in film and television. The family includes three boys, Kristen's ...

95. Natasha Blasick

Actress | Paul T. Goldman

Natasha Blasick was born in the city of Odessa, Ukraine on the Black Sea. Her first languages are Russian and Ukrainian. She grew up in a Soviet-style apartment that housed two families. She made her debut as a lead actress in the film Death of Evil (2009). She is the older daughter of Sergei and ...

96. Jewel

Soundtrack | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Jewel was born on May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Ride with the Devil (1999) and Clueless (1995). She was previously married to Ty Murray.

97. Rachel Blanchard

Actress | The Summer I Turned Pretty

Rachel attended Havergal College, an all girls school in Toronto. After high school she went on to attend Queens university in Kingston, Ontario Canada. To prepare for her role as Cher in the Clueless (1996) TV series, Rachel actually did go to some high schools in L.A. where she was surprised to ...

98. Laura Neiva

Actress | À Deriva

Laura Neiva was born on September 21, 1993 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Adrift (2009), Jonah (2015) and Rio, I Love You (2014). She has been married to Chay Suede since February 2, 2019. They have one child.

99. Alicia von Rittberg

Actress | Fury

Alicia von Rittberg, born on December 10, 1993 in Munich, made her debut in front of the camera at the age of six in the popular TV-show "Dingsda," in which small children had to explain different everyday concepts. But her real acting career began only a few years later: in 2006 she appeared in a ...

is studying Corporate Management and Economics at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen

Die Lawine (TV Movie) Jill Westermann, 2007

100. Sophie Turner

Actress | Game of Thrones

Sophie Belinda Jonas (née Turner; born February 21, 1996) is an English actress. Turner made her professional acting debut as Sansa Stark on the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011) (2011-2019), which brought her international recognition and critical praise. For her performance, ...