Great actors & actresses
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1. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
2. 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...
3. 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 ...
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
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,...
5. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
6. 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 ...
7. Sally Field
Actress | Forrest Gump
Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...
8. Lauren Bacall
Actress | To Have and Have Not
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a ...
9. 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 an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
10. Tobin Bell
Actor | Saw
Tobin Bell is an American actor with a career in film, television and theater spanning three decades. He was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Mass. His mother is the British actress Eileen Bell. He is perhaps best known for his role as the iconic villain "Jigsaw" in the Saw film ...
11. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
12. Regina King
Actress | Ray
Regina King was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gloria, a special education teacher, and Thomas King, an electrician. She began her career in the television show 227 (1985), followed by a role in Boyz n the Hood (1991). She began to be recognized by a mainstream audience after her role as Cuba ...
13. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
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...
14. Monica Bellucci
Actress | Malèna
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born on September 30, 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to ...
15. Maia Morgenstern
Actress | The Passion of the Christ
Maia Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film." In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she ...
16. Burgess Meredith
Actor | Clash of the Titans
One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century, who often suffered lesser roles, Burgess Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts, before joining Eva Le Gallienne's Student Repertory stage company in 1929. By 1934 he was a star ...
17. Glenn Close
Actress | Fatal Attraction
Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
18. Enrique Rambal
Actor | El ángel exterminador
Enrique Rambal was born on May 8, 1924 in Valencia, Spain. He was an actor and director, known for The Exterminating Angel (1962), El mártir del Calvario (1952) and Los caudillos (1968). He was married to Mercedes Borqué and Lucy Gallardo. He died on December 15, 1971 in Mexico City, Mexico.
19. 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 ...
20. Alfonso Mejía
Actor | Los olvidados
Alfonso Mejía was born on November 16, 1934 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for The Young and the Damned (1950), El túnel 6 (1955) and Padre nuestro (1953). He was married to Carmelita. He died on December 29, 2021 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
21. Maty Huitrón
Actress | El privilegio de amar
Maty Huitrón was born on January 30, 1936 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for El privilegio de amar (1998), Lazos de amor (1995) and Cantando nace el amor (1954). She died on January 14, 2019 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
22. Adela Noriega
Actress | El privilegio de amar
Adela Noriega was born in Mexico City on October 24th 1969. Her father died, and she was left alone with her mother, a two-year elder sister and a younger brother. She started in the telenovela "Juana Iris" when she was 15 and also in the TV show "Chacun Chacun". She starred in a video-clip of ...
23. Azela Robinson
Actress | El manantial
Azela Robinson was born on August 26, 1965 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The Spring (2001), Sortilegio (2009) and Cuna de Lobos (2019).
24. 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 well as ...
25. Viola Davis
Actress | Fences
Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...
26. Jennifer Lopez
Producer | Hustlers
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24, 1969 in The Bronx, New York City, New York to teacher Lupe López and computer specialist David López. The two Puerto Ricans were brought to the continental United States during their childhoods and eventually met while living in New York City. Their ...
27. Carl Weathers
Actor | Predator
Carl Weathers was born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana. A famous and successful football star at San Diego State, he played with the Oakland Raiders and retired from the sport in 1974, in order to give full attention to his goal: to be a real actor.
Weathers first played small parts ...
28. Diana Bracho
Actress | Y tu mamá también
Diana Bracho's father is Julio Bracho who along with Emilio 'Indio' Fernández is considered the best director of the Golden Age of the Mexican Cinema (1940-1950). As a kid, Diana played bit parts in two or three of his father's films. She studied acting in England, and got her first major role in ...
29. Jacqueline Andere
Actress | El ángel exterminador
Jacqueline Andere was born on August 20, 1938 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is an actress, known for The Exterminating Angel (1962), The Other Woman (2002) and Trampas de amor (1969). She was previously married to José María Fernández Unsáin.
30. Yadhira Carrillo
Actress | La otra
She started her career in 1994, when she won on one beauty contest, and after that she went to Televisa C.E.A. school of acting. Because of her exotic looks, the producer, Carla Estrada, gave a chance in her telenovela Te sigo amando (1996), and she continued to act in her projects "Maria Isabel" (...
31. Alejandro Camacho
Actor | Bajo la metralla
Alejandro Camacho was born on July 11, 1954 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and producer, known for Bajo la metralla (1983), Hurricane (1997) and High Risk (1981). He was previously married to Rebecca Jones.
32. Sergio Goyri
Director | Morir a mi manera
He was born on November 14, 1958 in the city of Puebla, Mexico. He is not only an actor, but has also featured himself as a singer and director.
Some of the soaps that he has made are: 'I Still Love You', 'The Grand Prize', "Stolen Life", "Days Without Moon", "The Curse", "Conceived Without Sin" , "...
33. Alexis Ayala
Actor | Amar a muerte
Alexis Ayala was born on August 9, 1965 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Amar a muerte (2018), Hijas de la luna (2018) and Yo amo a Juan Querendón (2007).
34. Alejandro Tommasi
Actor | El manantial
Alejandro Tommasi was born on August 14, 1957 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor, known for The Spring (2001), The Power of Destiny (2011) and Alborada (2005).
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