FAVORITE “CURRENT” ACTRESSES
by jzappa | created - 29 Sep 2020 | updated - 30 Sep 2020 | PublicI'm not so much separating girls and guys as I am listing the female actors of "now" that I want to bring attention to.
1. Nicole Beharie
Actress | 42
Nicole Beharie is an American actress.
Her critically acclaimed film debut was in the film American Violet (2008) alongside Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson and Will Patton. Beharie also played Ernie Davis' girlfriend in the movie The Express (2008). Her upcoming projects include My Last Day Without ...
Shame (2011), Black Mirror: Striking Vipers (2019)
2. Jennifer Carpenter
Actress | Dexter
Jennifer was born in Kentucky. Her mother is Catherine Mitchell and her father is Robert Carpenter.
She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. During her last two years of high school, she studied drama at the Walden Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. She then trained at the ...
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Dexter (2006-2013), Quarantine (2008), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
3. 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 ...
The Debt (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), The Help (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Interstellar (2014), Molly's Game (2017)
4. Sami Gayle
Actress | Vampire Academy
Actress Sami Gayle stars as "Nicky Reagan-Boyle" on CBS' cop drama Blue Bloods.
Gayle began her acting career as Baby June in the off-Broadway production of "Gypsy," starring Patti LuPone. She then reprised her role when the production transferred to Broadway shortly thereafter. Gayle later ...
Detachment (2011), Noah (2014)
5. Betty Gilpin
Actress | The Hunt
Elizabeth Folan Gilpin is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan in the Netflix comedy series GLOW (2017-2019), for which she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also starred as Dr. ...
Ghost Town (2010), GLOW (2017-2019)
6. Lorenza Izzo
Actress | Knock Knock
Lorenza Francesca Izzo Parsons is a Chilean actress and model. She has appeared in films, including Aftershock (2012), The Green Inferno (2013), Knock, Knock (2015), and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Izzo was born in Santiago, Chile, to Chilean model Rosita Parsons . She...
The Green Inferno (2013), Knock Knock (2015), Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
7. Dafne Keen
Actress | Logan
Dafne Keen Fernández is a British and Spanish actress who played the role of the mutant Laura Kinney / X-23 in Logan (2017) and Lyra in the HBO series His Dark Materials (2019).
She is the daughter of British actor Will Keen, and Spanish actress, theatre director and writer María Fernández Ache.
Keen...
Logan (2017)
8. Riley Keough
Actress | Mad Max: Fury Road
Actress and model Danielle Riley Keough was born in Santa Monica, California to musicians Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough. She is the eldest grandchild of legendary singer Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley. Keough started modeling as a teenager. She first appeared on a runway for ...
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), American Honey (2016), Logan Lucky (2017), Hold the Dark (2018), The House That Jack Built (2018), Paterno (2018)
9. Lola Kirke
Actress | Gone Girl
Kirke was born in London, and raised in New York City from the age of five. Her father, Simon Kirke, is the former drummer of the rock bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother, Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, owns Geminola, a vintage boutique in New York City that supplied a number of outfits for the ...
Gone Girl (2014)
10. Sasha Lane
Actress | American Honey
Sasha Bianca Lane is an American actress. She made her film debut in American Honey (2016) directed by Andrea Arnold.
Lane was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Dallas, Texas. Her father is African-American, and her mother, who is from New Zealand, is of European and Maori descent. After her ...
American Honey (2016)
11. Renée Marino
Actress | Jersey Boys
Renée Marino is making her feature film debut as Mary Delgado, Frankie Valli's wife, in the Clint Eastwood-directed "Jersey Boys" film. Renée was playing the role on Broadway when, one fateful Sunday afternoon, Mr. Eastwood came to see it... and the rest is history! Her additional Broadway credits ...
Jersey Boys (2014), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019)
12. Margo Martindale
Actress | August: Osage County
Margo Martindale was born July 18, 1951 in Jacksonville, Texas, to Margaret (Pruitt) and William Everett Martindale, a lumber company owner and dog handler. She is the youngest of three children, and the only daughter. Margo attended Lon Marris College, and later transferred to University of ...
The Firm (1993), Eye of God (1997), The Hours (2002), The Laramie Project (2002), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Rocket Science (2007), The Savages (2007), Justified (2011), Downsizing (2017)
13. Cristin Milioti
Actress | Palm Springs
Cristin Milioti was born and raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She has Jewish, Italian, Belgian, Czech, and Irish ancestry, and calls her family "Olive Garden Italian." In middle school, she found her love of acting at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in New York. She attended Cherry Hill High School ...
The Sopranos (2006-2007), 30 Rock: TGS Hates Women (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Fargo (2015), Black Mirror: USS Callister (2017)
14. Chloë Grace Moretz
Actress | Kick-Ass
Moretz is best known for her work in the sci-fi thriller series The Peripheral, created by Scott B. Smith; the Mattson Tomlin-directed sci-fi thriller Mother/Android; Neil Jordan's thriller Greta; Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud, which claimed the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award at the ...
(500) Days of Summer (2009), Kick-Ass 1 & 2 (2010 & 2013), Hugo (2011), 30 Rock (2011-2013), Carrie (2013), Movie 43 (2013), The Equalizer (2014), Suspiria (2018)
15. Lupita Nyong'o
Actress | 12 Years a Slave
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...
12 Years a Slave (2013), Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi & The Rise of Skywalker (2015, 2017 & 2019), The Jungle Book (2016), Black Panther (2018), Us (2019)
16. Kaitlin Olson
Actress | Finding Dory
Born in Portland, Oregon, Kaitlin cultivated her passion for acting at the University of Oregon, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts. After her stint on stage, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting professionally. She began at The Groundlings Theatre in Hollywood, training ...
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-2020), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-2019), The Heat (2013), Vacation (2015)
17. Mary-Louise Parker
Actress | Weeds
Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the youngest of four children of Judge John Morgan Parker, and the former Caroline Louise Morell. She is of mostly Swedish, English, and Scottish descent. Her father's occupation took the family both around...
Longtime Companion (1989), Grand Canyon (1991), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), The Client (1994), Red Dragon (2002), Angels in America (2003), Weeds (2005-2012), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
18. Sarah Paulson
Actress | 12 Years a Slave
Sarah Paulson was born on December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Florida, to Catharine Gordon (Dolcater) and Douglas Lyle Paulson II. She spent most of her early years in New York and Maine, before settling in Manhattan to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the High School for Performing Arts. ...
Deadwood (2005), Serenity (2005), Game Change (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson (2016), The Post (2017), Bird Box (2018), Ocean's Eight (2018)
19. Aubrey Plaza
Actress | Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress and comedian known for her deadpan style. She portrayed April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation (2009), and after appearing in supporting roles in several films, had her first leading role in the 2012 comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (...
Funny People (2009), Parks and Recreation (2009-2015), Life After Beth (2014), Child's Play (2019)
20. Noomi Rapace
Actress | Män som hatar kvinnor
Swedish actress Noomi Rapace was born in Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden to Swedish actress Nina Norén and Spanish Flamenco singer Rogelio de Badajoz (Rogelio Durán). Her parents did not stay together, and when she was five she moved to Iceland with her mother and stepfather, where she lived for...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), The Girl who Played with Fire (2009), The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Passion (2012), Prometheus (2012), Dead Man Down (2013), The Drop (2014)
21. Maya Rudolph
Actress | Bridesmaids
Maya Rudolph was born on July 27, 1972 in Gainesville, Florida, to Richard Rudolph, a music producer, and soul singer Minnie Riperton. Her mother was African-American and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Lithuania, Russia, Germany, and Hungary). In 1973, Maya, her parents, and her...
As Good As It Gets (1997), Saturday Night Live (2000-2019), Duplex (2002), Wake Up Ron Burgundy (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Away We Go (2009), MacGruber (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), Sisters (2015), Maya & Marty (2016), Big Mouth (2017), The Happytime Murders (2018)
22. Rhea Seehorn
Actress | Better Call Saul
Rhea Seehorn studied painting and drawing from a young age, following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother. Although she continued in the visual arts, she also had a growing passion for the movies and theatre and secretly wanted to become an actor.
Not knowing how to pursue the profession,...
Better Call Saul (2015-2021), Veep (2019)
23. Hailee Steinfeld
Actress | True Grit
Hailee Steinfeld was born on December 11, 1996 in Tarzana, California, to Cheri (Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal fitness trainer. She has a brother, Griffin. Her uncle is Jake Steinfeld, a fitness trainer, and her great-uncle is actor Larry Domasin. Her father is of ...
True Grit (2010), Barely Lethal (2015)
24. 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 ...
Superbad (2007), The House Bunny (2008), The Help (2011), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Movie 43 (2013), Birdman (2014), The Interview (2014), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), Irrational Man (2015), La La Land (2016)
25. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actress | 10 Cloverfield Lane
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an actress known for her versatile work in a variety of film and television projects. Possibly most known for her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), she has also starred in critically acclaimed independent films such as Smashed (2012), for which...
Final Destination 3 (2006), Death Proof (2007), The Thing (2011), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Swiss Army Man (2016), Fargo (2017), Birds of Prey (2020)
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