My favorite actresses of all time
by brutuslevi | created - 17 Oct 2013 | updated - 14 Jun 2014 | Public
1. Catherine Deneuve
Actress | 8 femmes
Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. 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 (...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. Belle de Jour (1967)
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
3. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
2. Anna Karina
Actress | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
Born in Denmark, she came to Paris at 18. She met Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and started as a top model. She met Jean-Luc Godard about a cameo in Breathless (1960), but she had to be naked and she refused to play in the movie. One year later, they wed and she became famous with the "Nouvelle ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. My life To Live (1962)
2. Pierrot le fou (1965)
3. A Woman is a Woman (1961)
3. Jeanne Moreau
Actress | Jules et Jim
When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation." She had made it to the Comédie ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. The Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
2. Jules et Jim (1962)
3. The Bride Wore Black (1967)
4. Marilyn Monroe
Actress | Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. 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 ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
2. Some Like It Hot (1959)
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
5. Sabine Azéma
Actress | Mélo
Sabine Azéma was born on September 20, 1949 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Mélo (1986), A Sunday in the Country (1984) and Private Fears in Public Places (2006).
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. Smoking/ No Smoking (1993)
2. Love Unto Death (1984)
3. Wild Grass (2009)
6. Fanny Ardant
Actress | 8 femmes
Fanny Ardant was the youngest of five children born to a cavalry officer and his wife. She was raised in Monte Carlo where she was educated at a convent school. A voracious reader, she discovered Proust when she was 15, and felt as though his writings were for her.
When she was 17 her father died, ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. The Woman Next Door (1981)
2. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
3. 8 Women (2002)
7. 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 ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. The Age Of Innocence (1993)
2. Batman Returns (1992)
3. Scarface (1983)
8. 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 ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. The Godfather: part 2 (1974)
2. Sleeper (1973)
3. Love and Death (1974)
9. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
3. Big Fish (2003)
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 ...
Her Top 3 acting performances:
1. Breaking the Waves (1997)
2. Punched drunk love (2002)
3. Corpse bride (2005)
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