Actresses with Most Oscar Nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Combined
by judas1982 | created - 21 Nov 2016 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. 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 ...
21 Noms.
1. The Deer Hunter - 1979 : BSA (1)
2. Kramer vs. Kramer - 1980 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. The French Lieutenant's Woman - 1981 : BA (1)
4. Sophie's Choice - 1982 : BA (2) [WON]
5. Silkwood - 1983 : BA (3)
6. Out Of Africa - 1985 : BA (4)
7. Ironweed - 1987 : BA (5)
8. A Cry In The Dark - 1988 : BA (6)
9. Postcards From The Edge - 1990 : BA (7)
10. The Bridges Of Madison County - 1995 : BA (8)
11. One True Thing - 1998 : BA (9)
12. Music Of The Heart - 1999 : BA (10)
13. Adaptation - 2003 : BSA (3)
14. The Devil Wears Prada - 2006 : BA (11)
15. Doubt - 2008 : BA (12)
16. Julie And Julia - 2009 : BA (13)
17. The Iron Lady - 2011 : BA (14) [WON]
18. August : Osage County - 2013 : BA (15)
19. Into The Woods - 2014 : BSA (4)
20. Florence Foster Jenkins - 2016 : BA (16)
21. The Post - 2017 : BA (17)
2. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...
12 Noms.
1. Morning Glory - 1932/33 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Alice Adams - 1935 : BA (2)
3. The Philadelphia Story - 1940 : BA (3)
4. Woman of the Year - 1942 : BA (4)
5. The African Queen - 1951 : BA (5)
6. Summertime - 1955 : BA (6)
7. The Rainmaker - 1956 : BA (7)
8. Suddenly, Last Summer - 1959 : BA (8)
9. Long Day's Journey into Night - 1962 : BA (9)
10. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967 : BA (10) [WON]
11. The Lion in Winter - 1968 : BA (11) [WON]
12. On Golden Pond - 1981 : BA (12) [WON]
3. Bette Davis
Actress | All About Eve
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...
10 Noms.
1. Dangerous - 1935 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Jezebel - 1938 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Dark Victory - 1939 : BA (3)
4. The Letter - 1940 : BA (4)
5. The Little Foxes - 1941 : BA (5)
6. Now, Voyager - 1942 : BA (6)
7. Mr. Skeffington - 1944 : BA (7)
8. All About Eve - 1950 : BA (8)
9. The Star - 1952 : BA (9)
10. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 1962 : BA (10)
4. 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 ...
8 Noms.
1. The World According to Garp - 1982 : BSA (1)
2. The Big Chill - 1983 : BSA (2)
3. The Natural - 1984 : BSA (3)
4. Fatal Attraction - 1987 : BA (1)
5. Dangerous Liaisons - 1988 : BA (2)
6. Albert Nobbs - 2011 : BA (3)
7. The Wife - 2018 : BA (4)
8. Hillbilly Elegy - 2020 : BSA (4)
5. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
8 Noms.
1. Mrs Brown - 1997 : BA (1)
2. Shakespeare In Love - 1998 : BSA (1) [WON]
3. Chocolat - 2000 : BSA (2)
4. Iris - 2001 : BA (2)
5. Mrs Henderson Presents - 2005 : BA (3)
6. Notes on a Scandal - 2006 : BA (4)
7. Philomena - 2013 : BA (5)
8. Belfast - 2021 : BSA (3)
6. 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 ...
8 Noms.
1. Elizabeth - 1998 : BA (1)
2. The Aviator - 2004 : BSA (1) [WON]
3. Notes on a Scandal - 2006 : BSA (2)
4. I'm Not There - 2007 : BSA (3)
5. Elizabeth: The Golden Age - 2007 : BA (2)
6. Blue Jasmine - 2013 : BA (3) [WON]
7. Carol - 2015 : BA (4)
8. Tar - 2022 : BA (5)
7. Geraldine Page
Actress | Sweet Bird of Youth
Considered by many to be one of the greatest American actresses of all time, Geraldine Page was a master craftswoman who seemed to bring out the most inner detail of the character she was playing. Her dedication to her craft has earned her the respect of many of today's great actors including Meryl...
8 Noms.
1. Hondo - 1953 : BSA (1)
2. Summer and Smoke - 1961 : BA (1)
3. Sweet Bird of Youth - 1962 : BA (2)
4. You're A Big Boy Now - 1966 : BSA (2)
5. Pete 'n' Tillie - 1972 : BSA (3)
6. Interiors - 1978 : BA (3)
7. The Pope Of Greenwich Village - 1984 : BSA (4)
8. The Trip to Bountiful - 1985 : BA (4) [WON]
8. Jane Fonda
Actress | Klute
Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...
7 Noms.
1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - 1969 : BA (1)
2. Klute - 1971 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Julia - 1977 : BA (3)
4. Coming Home - 1978 : BA (4) [WON]
5. The China Syndrome - 1979 : BA (5)
6. On Golden Pond - 1981 : BSA (1)
7. The Morning After - 1986 : BA (6)
9. 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...
7 Noms.
1. Sense and Sensibility - 1995 : BSA (1)
2. Titanic - 1997 : BA (1)
3. Iris - 2001 : BSA (2)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004 : BA (2)
5. Little Children - 2006 : BA (3)
6. The Reader - 2008 : BA (4) [WON]
7. Steve Jobs - 2015 : BSA (3)
10. Ingrid Bergman
Actress | Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...
7 Noms.
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1943 : BA (1)
2. Gaslight - 1944 : BA (2) [WON]
3. The Bells of St. Mary's - 1945 : BA (3)
4. Joan of Arc - 1948 : BA (4)
5. Anastasia - 1956 : BA (5) [WON]
6. Murder on the Orient Express - 1974 : BSA (1) [WON]
7. Autumn Sonata - 1978 : BA (6)
11. Greer Garson
Actress | Pride and Prejudice
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent, Garson displayed no early interest in becoming an actress. Educated at the University of London intending to become a ...
7 Noms.
1. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - 1939 : BA (1)
2. Blossoms in the Dust - 1941 : BA (2)
3. Mrs. Miniver - 1942 : BA (3) [WON]
4. Madame Curie - 1943 : BA (4)
5. Mrs. Parkington - 1944 : BA (5)
6. The Valley of Decision - 1945 : BA (6)
7. Sunrise at Campobello - 1960 : BA (7)
12. 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 ...
6 Noms.
1. Junebug - 2005 : BSA (1)
2. Doubt - 2008 : BSA (2)
3. The Fighter - 2010 : BSA (3)
4. The Master - 2012 : BSA (4)
5. American Hustle - 2013 : BA (1)
6. Vice - 2018 : BSA (5)
13. Maggie Smith
Actress | Gosford Park
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...
6 Noms.
1. Othello - 1965 : BSA (1)
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 1969 : BA (1) [WON]
3. Travels with My Aunt - 1972 : BA (2)
4. California Suite - 1978 : BSA (2) [WON]
5. A Room With A View - 1986 : BSA (3)
6. Gosford Park - 2001 : BSA (4)
14. 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 ...
6 Noms.
1. Mississippi Burning - 1988 : BSA (1)
2. Fargo - 1996 : BA (1) [WON]
3. Almost Famous - 2000 : BSA (2)
4. North Country - 2005 : BSA (3)
5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 2017 : BA (2) [WON]
6. Nomadland - 2020 : BA (3) [WON]
15. 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...
6 Noms.
1. Tootsie - 1982 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Frances - 1982 : BA (1)
3. Country - 1984 : BA (2)
4. Sweet Dreams - 1985 : BA (3)
5. Music Box - 1989 : BA (4)
6. Blue Sky - 1994 : BA (5) [WON]
16. Ellen Burstyn
Actress | Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...
6 Noms.
1. The Last Picture Show - 1971 : BSA (1)
2. The Exorcist - 1973 : BA (1)
3. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 1974 : BA (2) [WON]
4. Same Time, Next Year - 1978 : BA (3)
5. Resurrection - 1980 : BA (4)
6. Requiem for a Dream - 2000 : BA (5)
17. Vanessa Redgrave
Actress | Coriolanus
On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier, announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, ...
6 Noms.
1. Morgan - 1966 : BA (1)
2. Isadora - 1968 : BA (2)
3. Mary, Queen of Scots - 1971 : BA (3)
4. Julia - 1977 : BSA (1) [WON]
5. The Bostonians - 1984 : BA (4)
6. Howard's End - 1992 : BSA (2)
18. Sissy Spacek
Actress | In the Bedroom
As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.
...
6 Noms.
1. Carrie - 1976 : BA (1)
2. Coal Miner's Daughter - 1980 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Missing - 1982 : BA (3)
4. The River - 1984 : BA (4)
5. Crimes of the Heart - 1986 : BA (5)
6. In the Bedroom - 2001 : BA (6)
19. Thelma Ritter
Actress | Rear Window
Thelma Ritter appeared in high school plays and was trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In the 1940s she worked in radio. Her movie career was started with a bit part in the 1946 Miracle on 34th Street (1947). In the movie she played a weary Xmas shopper. Her performance in the short ...
6 Noms.
1. All About Eve - 1950 : BSA (1)
2. The Mating Season - 1951 : BSA (2)
3. With A Song In My Heart - 1952 : BSA (3)
4. Pickup On South Street - 1953 : BSA (4)
5. Pillow Talk - 1959 : BSA (5)
6. Birdman of Alcatraz - 1962 : BSA (6)
20. Deborah Kerr
Actress | The King and I
Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...
6 Noms.
1. Edward, My Son - 1949 : BA (1)
2. From Here to Eternity - 1953 : BA (2)
3. The King and I - 1956 : BA (3)
4. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - 1957 : BA (4)
5. Separate Tables - 1958 : BA (5)
6. The Sundowners - 1960 : BA (6)
21. Annette Bening
Actress | American Beauty
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, ...
5 Noms.
1. The Grifters - 1990 : BSA (1)
2. American Beauty - 1999 : BA (1)
3. Being Julia - 2004 : BA (2)
4. The Kids Are All Right - 2010 : BA (3)
5. Nyad - 2023 : BA (4)
22. 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 ...
5 Noms.
1. Taxi Driver - 1976 : BSA (1)
2. The Accused - 1988 : BA (1) [WON]
3. The Silence of the Lambs - 1991 : BA (2) [WON]
4. Nell - 1994 : BA (3)
5. Nyad - 2023 : BSA (2)
23. Michelle Williams
Actress | Blue Valentine
A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
5 Noms.
1. Brokeback Mountain - 2005 : BSA (1)
2. Blue Valentine - 2010 : BA (1)
3. My Week with Marilyn - 2011 : BA (2)
4. Manchester by the Sea - 2016 : BSA (2)
5. The Fabelmans - 2022 : BA (3)
24. Nicole Kidman
Actress | Moulin Rouge!
Elegant 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 ...
5 Noms.
1. Moulin Rouge! - 2001 : BA (1)
2. The Hours - 2002 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Rabbit Hole - 2010 : BA (3)
4. Lion - 2016 : BSA (1)
5. Being the Ricardos - 2021 : BA (4)
25. Julianne Moore
Actress | Far from Heaven
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 ...
5 Noms.
1. Boogie Nights - 1997 : BSA (1)
2. The End Of The Affair - 1999 : BA (1)
3. Far From Heaven - 2002 : BA (2)
4. The Hours - 2002 : BSA (2)
5. Still Alice - 2014 : BA (3) [WON]
26. 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 ...
5 Noms.
1. Atlantic City - 1981 : BA (1)
2. Thelma & Louise - 1991 : BA (2)
3. Lorenzo's Oil - 1992 : BA (3)
4. The Client - 1994 : BA (4)
5. Dead Man Walking - 1995 : BA (5) [WON]
27. Shirley MacLaine
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...
5 Noms.
1. Some Came Running - 1958 : BA (1)
2. The Apartment - 1960 : BA (2)
3. Irma la Douce - 1963 : BA (3)
4. The Turning Point - 1977 : BA (4)
5. Terms of Endearment - 1983 : BA (5) [WON]
28. Anne Bancroft
Actress | The Graduate
Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...
5 Noms.
1. The Miracle Worker - 1962 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Pumpkin Eater - 1964 : BA (2)
3. The Graduate - 1967 : BA (3)
4. The Turning Point - 1977 : BA (4)
5. Agnes of God - 1985 : BA (5)
29. Audrey Hepburn
Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.
After her parents' divorce, ...
5 Noms.
1. Roman Holiday - 1953 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Sabrina - 1954 : BA (2)
3. The Nun's Story - 1959 : BA (3)
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961 : BA (4)
5. Wait Until Dark - 1967 : BA (5)
30. Elizabeth Taylor
Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...
5 Noms.
1. Raintree County - 1957 : BA (1)
2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 1958 : BA (2)
3. Suddenly, Last Summer - 1959 : BA (3)
4. BUtterfield 8 - 1960 : BA (4) [WON]
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1966 : BA (5) [WON]
31. Olivia de Havilland
Actress | Gone with the Wind
Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...
5 Noms.
1. Gone With The Wind - 1939 : BSA (1)
2. Hold Back the Dawn - 1941 : BA (1)
3. To Each His Own - 1946 : BA (2) [WON]
4. The Snake Pit - 1948 : BA (3)
5. The Heiress - 1949 : BA (4) [WON]
32. Norma Shearer
Actress | The Divorcee
She won a beauty contest at age fourteen. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister Athole Shearer (Mrs. Howard Hawks) to New York. Ziegfeld rejected her for his "Follies," but she got work as an extra in several movies. She spent much money on eye doctor's services trying to ...
5 Noms.
1. The Divorcee - 1929/30 : BA (1) [WON]
Their Own Desire - 1929/30 : BA (1)
2. A Free Soul - 1930/31 : BA (2)
3. The Barretts of Wimpole Street - 1934 : BA (3)
4. Romeo and Juliet - 1936 : BA (4)
5. Marie Antoinette - 1938 : BA (5)
33. Susan Hayward
Actress | With a Song in My Heart
Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she...
5 Noms.
1. Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman - 1947 : BA (1)
2. My Foolish Heart - 1949 : BA (2)
3. With a Song in My Heart - 1952 : BA (3)
4. I'll Cry Tomorrow - 1955 : BA (4)
5. I Want to Live! - 1958 : BA (5) [WON]
34. Jennifer Jones
Actress | The Towering Inferno
One of the world's most underrated Academy Award-winning actresses, Jennifer Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley on 2 March 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Flora Mae (Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley, who ran a travelling stage show. As a young aspiring actress, she met and fell for young, handsome, aspiring ...
5 Noms.
1. The Song of Bernadette - 1943 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Since You Went Away - 1944 : BSA (1)
3. Love Letters - 1945 : BA (2)
4. Duel in the Sun - 1946 : BA (3)
5. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - 1955 : BA (4)
35. Irene Dunne
Actress | The Awful Truth
Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20, 1898, in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Joseph Dunne, who inspected steamships, and Adelaide Henry, a musician who prompted Irene in the arts. Her first production was in Louisville when she appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age...
5 Noms.
1. Cimarron - 1930/31 : BA (1)
2. Theodora Goes Wild - 1936 : BA (2)
3. The Awful Truth - 1937 : BA (3)
4. Love Affair - 1939 : BA (4)
5. I Remember Mama - 1948 : BA (5)
36. Emma Stone
Actress | La La Land
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...
4 Noms.
1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - 2014 : BSA (1)
2. La La Land - 2016 : BA (1) [WON]
3. The Favourite - 2018 : BSA (2)
4. Poor Things - 2023 : BA (2) [WON]
37. Penélope Cruz
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...
4 Noms.
1. Volver - 2006 : BA (1)
2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 2008 : BSA (1) [WON]
3. Nine - 2009 : BSA (2)
4. Parallel Mothers - 2021 : BA (2)
38. 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 ...
4 Noms.
1. Annie Hall - 1977 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Reds - 1981 : BA (2)
3. Marvin's Room - 1996 : BA (3)
4. Something's Gotta Give - 2003 : BA (4)
39. 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 ...
4 Noms.
1. Doubt - 2008 : BSA (1)
2. The Help - 2011 : BA (1)
3. Fences - 2016 : BSA (2) [WON]
4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - 2020 : BA (2)
40. Renée Zellweger
Actress | Chicago
Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Renée ...
4 Noms.
1. Bridget Jones's Diary - 2001 : BA (1)
2. Chicago - 2002 : BA (2)
3. Cold Mountain - 2003 : BSA (1) [WON]
4. Judy - 2019 : BA (3) [WON]
41. Kathy Bates
Actress | Misery
Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress 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...
4 Noms.
1. Misery - 1990 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Primary Colors - 1998 : BSA (1)
3. About Schmidt - 2002 : BSA (2)
4. Richard Jewell - 2019 : BSA (3)
42. Saoirse Ronan
Actress | Hanna
Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...
4 Noms.
1. Atonement - 2007 : BSA (1)
2. Brooklyn - 2015 : BA (1)
3. Lady Bird - 2017 : BA (2)
4. Little Women - 2019 : BA (3)
43. Jennifer Lawrence
Actress | The Hunger Games
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
4 Noms.
1. Winter's Bone - 2010 : BA (1)
2. Silver Linings Playbook - 2012 : BA (2) [WON]
3. American Hustle - 2013 : BSA (1)
4. Joy - 2015 : BA (3)
44. 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. ...
4 Noms.
1. Howards End - 1992 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Remains of the Day - 1993 : BA (2)
3. In The Name Of The Father - 1993 : BSA (1)
4. Sense and Sensibility - 1995 : BA (3)
45. 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. ...
4 Noms.
1. The Madness Of King George - 1994 : BSA (1)
2. Gosford Park - 2001 : BSA (2)
3. The Queen - 2006 : BA (1) [WON]
4. The Last Station - 2009 : BA (2)
46. 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 ...
4 Noms.
1. Steel Magnolias - 1989 : BSA (1)
2. Pretty Woman - 1990 : BA (1)
3. Erin Brockovich - 2000 : BA (2) [WON]
4. August: Osage County - 2013 : BSA (2)
47. 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...
4 Noms.
1. Broadcast News - 1987 : BA (1)
2. The Piano - 1993 : BA (2) [WON]
3. The Firm - 1993 : BSA (1)
4. Thirteen - 2003 : BSA (2)
48. Maureen Stapleton
Actress | Reds
Academy Award-winner Maureen Stapleton was born June 21, 1925 in Troy, New York, to Irene (née Walsh) and John P. Stapleton. Her family was of Irish descent. Maureen moved to New York City at the age of eighteen and did modeling to pay the bills. Already a Tony Award-winner, she made her Academy ...
4 Noms.
1. Lonelyhearts - 1958 : BSA (1)
2. Airport - 1970 : BSA (2)
3. Interiors - 1978 : BSA (3)
4. Reds - 1981 : BSA (4) [WON]
49. Shelley Winters
Actress | The Poseidon Adventure
Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mother, Rose Winter, was born in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her father, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. She had one sibling...
4 Noms.
1. A Place in the Sun - 1951 : BA (1)
2. The Diary of Anne Frank - 1959 : BSA (1) [WON]
3. A Patch of Blue - 1965 : BSA (2) [WON]
4. The Poseidon Adventure - 1972 : BSA (3)
50. Barbara Stanwyck
Actress | Double Indemnity
Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the ...
4 Noms.
1. Stella Dallas - 1937 : BA (1)
2. Ball of Fire - 1941 : BA (2)
3. Double Indemnity - 1944 : BA (3)
4. Sorry, Wrong Number - 1948 : BA (4)
51. Julie Christie
Actress | Doctor Zhivago
Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...
4 Noms.
1. Darling - 1965 : BA (1) [WON]
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 1971 : BA (2)
3. Afterglow - 1997 : BA (3)
4. Away from Her - 2007 : BA (4)
52. Jane Wyman
Actress | Falcon Crest
Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she attempted, with the help ...
4 Noms.
1. The Yearling - 1946 : BA (1)
2. Johnny Belinda - 1948 : BA (2) [WON]
3. The Blue Veil - 1951 : BA (3)
4. Magnificent Obsession - 1954 : BA (4)
53. Glenda Jackson
Actress | Women in Love
Few in modern British history have come as far or achieved as much from humble beginnings as Glenda Jackson did. From acclaimed actress to respected MP (Member of Parliament), she was known for her high intelligence and meticulous approach to her work. She was born to a working-class household in ...
4 Noms.
1. Women in Love - 1970 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday - 1971 : BA (2)
3. A Touch of Class - 1973 : BA (3) [WON]
4. Hedda - 1975 : BA (4)
54. Ethel Barrymore
Actress | The Spiral Staircase
Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of ...
4 Noms.
1. None but the Lonely Heart - 1944 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. The Spiral Staircase - 1946 : BSA (2)
3. The Paradine Case - 1947 : BSA (3)
4. Pinky - 1949 : BSA (4)
55. Jane Alexander
Actress | Kramer vs. Kramer
Angular in features, reserved in demeanor and more-or-less plaintive in appearance, actress Jane Alexander has played down the glamour card for the most part. Her true brilliance has come from the remarkable range and depth of her talent. Heralded as one of the finest 70s actresses to arrive in ...
4 Noms.
1. The Great White Hope - 1970 : BA (1)
2. All the President's Men - 1976 : BSA (1)
3. Kramer vs. Kramer - 1979 : BSA (2)
4. Testament - 1983 : BA (2)
56. Agnes Moorehead
Actress | The Magnificent Ambersons
Agnes was born of Anglo-Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged her to perform in church pageants. Aged three, she sang 'The Lord is my Shepherd' on a public stage and seven years later joined the St. Louis Municipal Opera ...
4 Noms.
1. The Magnificent Ambersons - 1942 : BSA (1)
2. Mrs. Parkington - 1944 : BSA (2)
3. Johnny Belinda - 1948 : BSA (3)
4. Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte - 1964 : BSA (4)
57. Lee Grant
Actress | In the Heat of the Night
Academy Award-winner Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal on October 31, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City, to Witia (Haskell), a teacher and model, and Abraham Rosenthal, an educator and realtor. Her father was of Romanian Jewish descent, and her mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Lee ...
4 Noms.
1. Detective Story - 1951 : BSA (1)
2. The Landlord - 1970 : BSA (2)
3. Shampoo - 1975 : BSA (3) [WON]
4. Voyage of the Damned - 1976 : BSA (4)
58. Joanne Woodward
Actress | Rachel, Rachel
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27, 1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, to Wade Woodward and Elinor Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward in a modest household. Her one older brother, Wade Jr., who was the favorite of her father, eventually became an architect. Elinor Woodward was a ...
4 Noms.
1. The Three Faces of Eve - 1957 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Rachel, Rachel -1968 : BA (2)
3. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams - 1973 : BA (3)
4. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge - 1990 : BA (4)
59. Rosalind Russell
Actress | Auntie Mame
The middle of seven children, she was named, not for the heroine of "As You Like It" but for the S.S. Rosalind on which her parents had sailed, at the suggestion of her father, a successful lawyer.
After receiving a Catholic school education, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New ...
4 Noms.
1. My Sister Eileen - 1942 : BA (1)
2. Sister Kenny - 1946 : BA (2)
3. Mourning Becomes Electra - 1947 : BA (3)
4. Auntie Mame - 1958 : BA (4)
60. Marsha Mason
Actress | The Goodbye Girl
Marsha Mason has a wonderful, extremely engaging "feel good" quality about her, an innate warmth that makes you root for her whether she's playing a stubborn single mom, brittle prostitute, or strung-out alcoholic. She was a resoundingly respected and popular film actress of the 1970s and 1980s ...
4 Noms.
1. Cinderella Liberty - 1973 : BA (1)
2. The Goodbye Girl - 1977 : BA (2)
3. Chapter Two - 1979 : BA (3)
4. Only When I Laugh - 1981 : BA (4)
61. Dianne Wiest
Actress | The Birdcage
One of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on 28 March 1946. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but she was bitten by acting bug after some stage work, most notably playing Desdemona to James Earl Jones' Othello on ...
3 Noms.
1. Hannah and Her Sisters - 1986 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Parenthood - 1989 : BSA (2)
3. Bullets over Broadway - 1994 : BSA (3) [WON]
62. Olivia Colman
Actress | The Favourite
Olivia Colman was born on January 30, 1974 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Favourite (2018), Tyrannosaur (2011) and The Lost Daughter (2021). She has been married to Ed Sinclair since August 2001. They have three children.
3 Noms.
1. The Favourite - 2018 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Father - 2020 :BSA (1)
3. The Lost Daughter - 2021 : BA (2)
63. 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 ...
3 Noms.
1. An Education - 2009 : BA (1)
2. Promising Young Woman - 2020 : BA (2)
3. Maestro - 2023 : BA (3)
64. Laura Dern
Actress | Jurassic Park
Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact with her father for ...
3 Noms.
1. Rambling Rose - 1991 : BA (1)
2. Wild - 2014 : BSA (1)
3. Marriage Story - 2019 : BSA (2) [WON]
65. Julie Andrews
Actress | The Sound of Music
Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...
3 Noms.
1. Mary Poppins - 1964 : BA (1) [WON]
2. The Sound of Music - 1965 : BA (2)
3. Victor Victoria - 1982 : BA (3)
66. 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 ...
3 Noms.
1. Aliens - 1986 : BA (1)
2. Gorillas in the Mist - 1988 : BA (2)
3. Working Girl - 1988 : BSA (1)
67. 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 ...
3 Noms.
1. Dangerous Liaisons - 1988 : BSA (1)
2. The Fabulous Baker Boys - 1989 : BA (1)
3. Love Field - 1992 : BA (2)
68. Piper Laurie
Actress | The Hustler
Piper Laurie was a three-time Oscar nominee, nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in 'The Hustler' with Paul Newman.
Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Charlotte Sadie (Alperin) and Alfred Jacobs, a ...
3 Noms.
1. The Hustler - 1961 : BA (1)
2. Carrie - 1976 : BSA (1)
3. Children of a Lesser God - 1986 : BSA (2)
69. Jessica Chastain
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
3 Noms.
1. The Help - 2011 : BSA (1)
2. Zero Dark Thirty - 2012 : BA (1)
3. The Eyes of Tammy Faye - 2021 : BA (2) [WON]
70. Charlize Theron
Producer | Monster
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...
3 Noms.
1. Monster - 2003 : BA (1) [WON]
2. North Country - 2005 : BA (2)
3. Bombshell - 2019 : BA (3)
71. 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, ...
3 Noms.
1. Norma Rae - 1979 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Places in the Heart - 1984 : BA (2) [WON]
3. Lincoln - 2012 : BSA (1)
72. Joan Allen
Actress | Room
Joan Allen was born on August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, Illinois, the youngest of four children. She is the daughter of homemaker Dorothea Marie (Wirth) and gas station owner James Jefferson Allen. Her mother's family was German, and her father had English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry. She ...
3 Noms.
1. Nixon - 1995 : BSA (1)
2. The Crucible - 1996 : BSA (2)
3. The Contender - 2000 : BA (1)
73. Angela Lansbury
Actress | The Manchurian Candidate
Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...
3 Noms.
1. Gaslight - 1944 : BSA (1)
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1945 : BSA (2)
3. The Manchurian Candidate - 1962 : BSA (3)
74. Marisa Tomei
Actress | My Cousin Vinny
Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to Patricia "Addie" (Bianchi), a teacher of English, and Gary Tomei, a lawyer, both of Italian descent. Marisa has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy ...
3 Noms.
1. My Cousin Vinny - 1992 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. In the Bedroom - 2001 : BSA (2)
3. The Wrestler - 2008 : BSA (3)
75. 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 ...
3 Noms.
1. Closer - 2004 : BSA (1)
2. Black Swan - 2010 : BA (1) [WON]
3. Jackie - 2016 : BA (2)
76. Anjelica Huston
Actress | The Grifters
Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 to director and actor John Huston and Russian prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' Soma. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in 1968 first dipped her toe into the world of show business, taking on the lead role of her father's ...
3 Noms.
1. Prizzi's Honor - 1985 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Enemies, A Love Story - 1989 : BSA (2)
3. The Grifters - 1990 : BA (1)
77. Faye Dunaway
Actress | Bonnie and Clyde
An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...
3 Noms.
1. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967 : BA (1)
2. Chinatown - 1974 : BA (2)
3. Network - 1976 : BA (3) [WON]
78. 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 ...
3 Noms.
1. You Can Count on Me - 2000: BA (1)
2. Kinsey - 2004 : BSA (1)
3. The Savages - 2007 : BA (2)
79. Octavia Spencer
Actress | Hidden Figures
Spencer is a native of Montgomery, Alabama, which she claims is the proverbial buckle of the Bible belt. She's the sixth of seven siblings and holds a BS in Liberal Arts from Auburn University. A "closet" lover of acting, this practical Alabamian knew that she'd someday work in the film industry, ...
3 Noms.
1. The Help - 2011 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Hidden Figures - 2016 : BSA (2)
3. The Shape of Water - 2017 : BSA (3)
80. Debra Winger
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Mary Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruth (Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. She is from a Jewish family (originally from Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire). Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Debra...
3 Noms.
1. An Officer and a Gentleman - 1982 :BA (1)
2. Terms of Endearment - 1983 : BA (2)
3. Shadowlands - 1993 : BA (3)
81. Gloria Swanson
Actress | Sunset Blvd.
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public. Gloria certainly didn't intend on ...
3 Noms.
1. Sadie Thompson - 1927/28 : BA (1)
2. The Trespasser - 1929/30 : BA (2)
3. Sunset Boulevard - 1950 : BA (3)
82. Joan Crawford
Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; ...
3 Noms.
1. Mildred Pierce - 1945 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Possessed - 1947 : BA (2)
3. Sudden Fear - 1952 : BA (3)
83. Greta Garbo
Actress | Ninotchka
Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...
3 Noms.
1. Anna Christie - 1929/30 : BA (1)
2. Camille - 1937 : BA (2)
3. Ninotchka - 1939 : BA (3)
84. Joan Fontaine
Actress | Suspicion
Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...
3 Noms.
1. Rebecca - 1940 : BA (1)
2. Suspicion - 1941 : BA (2) [WON]
3. The Constant Nymph - 1943 : BA (3)
85. Natalie Wood
Actress | Rebel Without a Cause
Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.
Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...
3 Noms.
1. Rebel Without a Cause - 1955 : BSA (1)
2. Splendor in the Grass - 1961 : BA (1)
3. Love with the Proper Stranger - 1963 : BA (2)
86. Eleanor Parker
Actress | The Sound of Music
Eleanor Jean Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the last of three children born to a mathematics teacher and his wife. Eleanor caught the acting bug early and began performing in school plays. She was was so serious about becoming an actor, that she attended the Rice Summer ...
3 Noms.
1. Caged - 1950 : BA (1)
2. Detective Story - 1951 : BA (2)
3. Interrupted Melody - 1955 : BA (3)
87. Diane Ladd
Actress | Wild at Heart
The amazingly gifted and versatile, Ms. Diane Ladd, received immense praise for her dramatic efforts throughout the course of her electric and unique seventy-year career. Her timeless offbeat charm and beauty reminiscent of a lamented Hollywood Golden Era actress gleam in the most understated roles...
3 Noms.
1. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 1974 : BSA (1)
2. Wild at Heart - 1990 : BSA (2)
3. Rambling Rose - 1991 : BSA (3)
88. Claudette Colbert
Actress | It Happened One Night
One of the brightest film stars to grace the screen was born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903, in Saint Mandé, France where her father owned a bakery at 57, rue de la République (now Avenue Général de Gaulle). The family moved to the United States when she was three. As Claudette ...
3 Noms.
1. It Happened One Night - 1934 : BA (1) [WON]
2. Private Worlds - 1935 : BA (2)
3. Since You Went Away - 1944 : BA (3)
89. Wendy Hiller
Actress | A Man for All Seasons
Wendy Hiller, daughter of Frank and Marie Hiller, was born on 15th August 1912 in Bramhall, near Stockport, Cheshire, England. She was educated at Winceby House School, Bexhill then moved on to Manchester Repertory Theatre. She appeared on stage in Sir John Barry's tour of Evensong, then as Sally ...
3 Noms.
1. Pygmalion - 1938 : BA (1)
2. Separate Tables - 1958 : BSA (1) [WON]
3. A Man for All Seasons - 1966 : BSA (2)
90. Claire Trevor
Actress | Key Largo
Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Fifth Avenue merchant-tailor Noel Wemlinger, an immigrant Frenchman from Paris who lost his business during the Depression, and his Belfast-born wife, Benjamina, known as "Betty". Young ...
3 Noms.
1. Dead End - 1937 : BSA (1)
2. Key Largo - 1948 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. The High and the Mighty - 1954 : BSA (3)
91. Anne Revere
Actress | Gentleman's Agreement
Veteran character actress Anne Revere became another in the long line of talented artists whose careers would crash under the weight of the "Red Scare" hysteria that tore through Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Manhattan and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War figure Paul Revere, ...
3 Noms.
1. The Song of Bernadette - 1943 : BSA (1)
2. National Velvet - 1945 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. Gentleman's Agreement - 1947 : BSA (3)
92. Celeste Holm
Actress | All About Eve
Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance. She would study acting at the University of Chicago and make her stage debut in 1936. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19 in 'The Time of Your Life'. She appeared in many ...
3 Noms.
1. Gentleman's Agreement - 1947 : BSA (1) [WON]
2. Come to the Stable - 1949: BSA (2)
3. All About Eve - 1950 : BSA (3)
93. Gladys Cooper
Actress | My Fair Lady
Gladys Cooper was the daughter of journalist William Frederick Cooper and his wife Mabel Barnett. As a child she was very striking and was used as a photographic model beginning at six years old. She wanted to become an actress and started on that road in 1905 after being discovered by Seymour ...
3 Noms.
1. Now, Voyager - 1942 : BSA (1)
2. The Song of Bernadette - 1943 : BSA (2)
3. My Fair Lady - 1964 : BSA (3)
94. Teresa Wright
Actress | Shadow of a Doubt
A natural and lovely talent who was discovered for films by Samuel Goldwyn, the always likable Teresa Wright distinguished herself early on in high-caliber, Oscar-worthy form -- the only performer ever to be nominated for Oscars for her first three films. Always true to herself, she was able to ...
3 Noms.
1. The Little Foxes - 1941 : BSA (1)
2. Mrs. Miniver - 1942 : BSA (2) [WON]
3. The Pride of the Yankees - 1942 : BA (1)
95. Edith Evans
Actress | The Whisperers
Edith Evans was the greatest actress on the English stage in the 20th century, treading the boards for over half-a-century. She made her professional stage debut in 1912 and excelled in both classic and modern roles in the West End of London and on Broadway, as well as the Shakespeare Memorial ...
3 Noms.
1. Tom Jones - 1963 : BSA (1)
2. The Chalk Garden - 1964 : BSA (2)
3. The Whisperers - 1967 : BA (1)
96. Fay Bainter
Actress | Jezebel
Fay Bainter's career began as a child performer in 1898. For some time, she was a member of the traveling cast of the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles. In 1912, she made her Broadway debut in 'The Rose of Panama', but this and her subsequent play 'The Bridal Path' (1913), were conspicuous ...
3 Noms.
1. Jezebel - 1938 : BSA (1) (WON)
2. The White Banners - 1938 : BA (1)
2. The Children's Hour - 1961 : BSA (2)
97. Madeline Kahn
Actress | Paper Moon
Madeline Kahn was born Madeline Gail Wolfson of Russian Jewish descent on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Freda Goldberg (later known as Paula Kahn), who was still in her teens, and Bernard B. Wolfson, a garment manufacturer. She began her acting career in high school and went on to...
2 Noms.
1. Paper Moon - 1973 : BSA (1)
2. Blazing Saddles - 1974 : BSA (2)
98. 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 ...
2 Noms.
1. What's Love Got to Do with It - 1993 : BA (1)
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 2022 : BSA (1)
99. Scarlett Johansson
Actress | Lost in Translation
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
2 Noms.
1. Marriage Story - 2019 : BA (1)
2. Jojo Rabbit - 2019 : BSA (1)
100. Margot Robbie
Actress | Suicide Squad
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...
2 Noms.
1. I, Tonya - 2017 : BA (1)
2. Bombshell - 2019 : BSA (1)
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