The Best Actresses Ever - 1970s
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 15 Sep 2018 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicPoints from my "The Best Films Ever Made"-Lists. Only Actresses in films from 1970s. Vol. 1 = 100%, Vol. 2 = 50%, Vol. 3 = 33%, Vol. 4 = 25%, Vol. 5 = 20 %, Vol. 6 = 17%
1. 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 ...
4302 points
2. Romy Schneider
Actress | L'important c'est d'aimer
Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 in Vienna, Austria into a family of actors. Making her film debut at the age of 15, her breakthrough came two years later in the very popular trilogy Sissi (1955). Her mother, supervising her daughter's career, immediately approved Romy's participation ...
4075 points
3. Liv Ullmann
Actress | Viskningar och rop
Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-1950s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut. She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar ...
3831 points
4. 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 ...
2849 points
5. Stéphane Audran
Actress | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Stéphane Audran was born on November 8, 1932 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France as Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville. She was an actress, known for Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie (1972), Babettes Fest (1987) and Der Schlachter (1970). She was married to Claude Chabrol and ...
2300 points
6. 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 ...
2262 points
7. 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 ...
2252 points
8. Simone Signoret
Actress | Les diaboliques
The face of Simone Signoret on the Paris Metro movie posters in March 1982 looked even older than her 61 years. She was still a box-office draw, but the film L'étoile du Nord (1982) would be her last theatrical release; she played the landlady. Signoret had a long film apprenticeship during ...
2141 points
9. Talia Shire
Actress | Rocky
Talia Rose Shire is an American actress who played roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather films and Adrian Balboa in the Rocky series. For her work in The Godfather Part II and Rocky, Shire was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, and for the ...
2030 points
10. 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...
1985 points
11. Lea Massari
Actress | L'avventura
Lea Massari was born on June 30, 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Indian Summer (1972). She has been married to Carlo Bianchini since November 13, 1963.
1819 points
12. Monica Zetterlund
Actress | Äppelkriget
Monica Zetterlund was born on September 20, 1937 in Hagfors, Värmlands län, Sweden. She was an actress and writer, known for The Apple War (1971), The New Land (1972) and The Emigrants (1971). She was married to Magnus Roger, Sture Åkerberg, Göran Pettersson and Torbjörn Zetterlund. She died on May...
1635 points
13. Brigitte Mira
Actress | Angst essen Seele auf
Brigitte Mira was born on April 20, 1910 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975) and Chinese Roulette (1976). She was married to Frank Guerente, Paul Cornelius, Peter Schütte, Horst Fabian and Reinhold Tabatt. She died ...
1626 points
14. Stefania Sandrelli
Actress | Il conformista
She was born in Viareggio (Tuscany, Italy) on June 5th, 1946. She won a beauty contest when she was just 15 years old, which led to her first role in "Il federale" together with the great Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi. She was then cast by Germi for the Italian comedy "Divorzio all'Italiana", working ...
1604 points
15. Lyudmila Gurchenko
Actress | Ma-ma
Lyudmila Gurchenko was a popular actress in the Soviet Union during the 1950s - 1980s, she was best known for Carnival Night (1956), Five Evenings (1979) and Siberiade (1979).
She was born Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko on 12 November 1935, in Kharkov, Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR. She studied...
1594 points
16. Geraldine Chaplin
Actress | Hable con ella
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, to Oona Chaplin (née O'Neill) and legendary entertainer Charles Chaplin (A.K.A. Charlie Chaplin). She is a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and a great-granddaughter of stage actor James O'Neill. She attended the Royal Ballet ...
1506 points
17. Marisa Berenson
Actress | Cabaret
Marisa Berenson was born on February 15, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Cabaret (1972), Barry Lyndon (1975) and Cinéman (2009). She was previously married to Aaron Richard Golub and Jim Randall.
1485 points
18. Eileen Brennan
Actress | Clue
A supremely gifted, versatile player who could reach dramatic depths, as exemplified in her weary-eyed, good-hearted waitress in The Last Picture Show (1971), or comedy heights, as in her sadistic drill captain in Private Benjamin (1980), Eileen Brennan managed to transition from lovely Broadway ...
1410 points
19. Gena Rowlands
Actress | The Notebook
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes ...
1371 points
20. Milena Vukotic
Actress | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Milena Vukotic was born on April 23, 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Letters to Juliet (2010) and A Good Woman (2004).
1335 points
21. Isabelle Huppert
Actress | Elle
Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...
1323 points
22. Marie-France Pisier
Actress | Cousin cousine
Marie-France first came to the fore as an actress of the Nouvelle Vague movement in the 1960's. She had spent her early childhood in French Indochina, where her father was employed as colonial governor, but the family moved to Paris when she was twelve. Just five years later, she was spotted by a ...
1257 points
23. Barbra Streisand
Actress | Yentl
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...
1229 points
24. Mariangela Melato
Actress | Flash Gordon
Mariangela Melato was born on September 19, 1941 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Swept Away (1974) and Love & Anarchy (1973). She died on January 11, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
1211 points
25. Alisa Freyndlikh
Actress | Stalker
Alisa Brunovna Freindlikh was born on December 8, 1934, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). Her father, named Bruno Frejndlikh, was a notable actor. Alisa Freindlikh graduated from Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography in 1957.
From 1961-1983 Alisa Freindlikh was a ...
1206 points
26. Florinda Bolkan
Actress | Cari genitori
A sensual, versatile legend of arthouse and grindhouse Italian cinema, Florinda Bolkan was born Florinda Soares Bulcão in Uruburetama, Ceará, Brazil, as the youngest of three children from a Brazilian father and an Indios mother. Her father, diplomat José Pedro Soares Bulcão, died when she was 14, ...
1198 points
27. Bozena Dykiel
Actress | Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera
Bozena Dykiel was born on August 26, 1948 in Grabowo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988), Mokry szmal (1986) and Day of the Wacko (2002).
1197 points
28. Margarita Terekhova
Actress | Zerkalo
Margarita Terekhova is a popular Russian actress best known for her roles in Mirror (1975) by director Andrei Tarkovsky and in the popular TV series 'The Dog in the Manger' (1977) and 'D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora' (1978).
She was born Margarita Borisovna Terekhova on August 25, 1942, in Turinsk, ...
1196 points
29. 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...
1133 points
30. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
1104 points
31. Lyudmila Saveleva
Actress | Voyna i mir
Lyudmila Savelyeva is a Russian actress known as Natasha Rostova in epic film War and Peace (1965), a powerful adaptation of the eponymous masterpiece by Lev Tolstoy.
She was born Lyudmila Mikhailovna Savelyeva on 24 January 1942, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), while the city suffered the heroic ...
1086 points
32. Veronica Cartwright
Actress | Alien
Born in Bristol, England, Veronica is the older sister of the popular child actress Angela Cartwright. In her early career, Veronica was cast in a number of popular movies such as William Wyler's The Children's Hour (1961), Spencer's Mountain (1963) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). As such,...
1084 points
33. Cybill Shepherd
Actress | Cybill
Cybill Lynne Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Patty, a homemaker, and William Shepherd, a small business owner. Named after her grandfather, Cy, and her father, Bill, Shepherd's career began at a young age in modeling, when she won the "Miss Teenage Memphis" contest in 1966 and the "...
1081 points
34. Sharmila Tagore
Actress | Gulmohar
A Bengali actress who achieved success young, Sharmila appeared in numerous Bengali classics before making the jump to Hindi cinema, which first made her a romantic actress and later a legendary actress thanks to her intense films opposite Superstar Rajesh Khanna. A distant relative of poet ...
1075 points
35. Monica Vitti
Actress | L'avventura
Monica Vitti was born on November 3, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on February 2, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
1071 points
36. Brooke Adams
Actress | Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Brooke Adams was born on February 8, 1949 in New York City, to Rosalind (Gould), an actress, and Robert Kaufmann Adams, a former CBS vice president. She was educated at the prestigious High School for the Performing Arts and the School of the American Ballet.
Starting her career on the stage, her ...
1066 points
37. Eva Mattes
Actress | Enemy at the Gates
Versatile stage and screen actress best known for Werner Herzog films (Best Supporting winner at Cannes for "Woyzeck"). Possibly her most acclaimed starring role is as her mentor 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder' in "A Man Called EVA" (Fassbinder, who treated Eva Mattes kindly, was sometimes referred to ...
1056 points
38. Natalya Krachkovskaya
Actress | Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu
Natalya Krachkovskaya was born on November 24, 1938 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973), Ma-ma (1976) and Master i Margarita (2006). She was married to Vladimir Krachkovskiy. She died on March 3, 2016 in Moscow, Russia.
1042 points
39. Mónica Randall
Actress | Cristina Guzmán
Mónica Randall was born on November 18, 1942 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and director, known for Cristina Guzmán (1968), Retrato de familia (1976) and La escopeta nacional (1978).
1039 points
40. Mari Törőcsik
Actress | Kölyök
She graduated in 1957 after which she went to work to the National Theatre. Her first role was Solveig in Peer Gynt. She was a student in the College when Zoltan Fabri gave her the main character cast in the film: Korhinta (1955). She is a well-balanced (sense and sensibility) actress, who can act ...
1028 points
41. Penelope Allen
Actress | Dog Day Afternoon
Penelope Allen is known for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Thin Red Line (1998) and Bad Lieutenant (1992). She was previously married to Charles F. Laughton.
1015 points
42. Carol Kane
Actress | The Princess Bride
American stage, screen and television actress, and comedian Carol Kane (b. Carolyn Laurie Kane, June 18, 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio), was born to Elaine Joy (née Fetterman), a jazz singer and pianist, and Michael Myron Kane, an architect. Her family is Jewish (from Russia, Poland, and Austria). Due ...
1007 points
43. Krystyna Janda
Actress | Przesluchanie
Krystyna Janda was born on December 18, 1952 in Starachowice, Swietokrzyskie, Poland. She is an actress and director, known for Interrogation (1989), Pestka (1995) and A Few People, a Little Time (2005). She was previously married to Andrzej Seweryn and Edward Klosinski.
991 points
44. Galina Volchek
Actress | Don Kikhot
Galina Volchek was born on December 19, 1933 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was an actress and director, known for Don Kikhot (1957), Autumn Marathon (1979) and King Lear (1970). She was married to Mark Abelev and Evgeniy Evstigneev. She died on December 26, 2019 in Moscow, Russia.
980 points
45. Cloris Leachman
Actress | The Last Picture Show
The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She ...
969 points
46. Delphine Seyrig
Actress | The Day of the Jackal
Delphine was born in Beirut on the 10th April 1932 into an intellectual Protestant family. Her Alsatian father, Henri Seyrig, was the director of the Archaeological Institute and later France's cultural attaché in New York during World War Two. Her Swiss mother, Hermine De Saussure, was an adept of...
962 points
47. Silvana Mangano
Actress | Dune
Silvana Mangano was born on April 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy and was raised in poverty during World War II. She trained as a dancer for seven years and supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, she obtained role in a Maria Della Costa film...
955 points
48. Liza Minnelli
Soundtrack | Cabaret
Liza Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946, the daughter of Judy Garland and movie director Vincente Minnelli. She was practically raised at MGM studios while her parents worked long hours there and she made her film debut at 14 months of age in the movie In the Good Old Summertime (1949). Her ...
952 points
49. Annie Cordy
Actress | Les souvenirs
Annie Cordy was born on June 16, 1928 in Brussels, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Memories (2014), Le Chat (1971) and Le chanteur de Mexico (1956). She was married to Henri Bruno. She died on September 4, 2020 in Vallauris, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
948 points
50. Shabana Azmi
Actress | Fire
One of the leading lights of the 1965-1990's Indian New Wave, Shabana Azmi (alongside the late Smita Patil) was one of the main female actors who dominated the films of the so-called "Parallel Cinema" in India in the 1970s and 1980s. Born to noted Urdu progressive poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and ...
939 points
51. Maja Komorowska
Actress | Bilans kwartalny
Maja Komorowska was born on December 23, 1937 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She is an actress, known for A Woman's Decision (1975), Cwal (1996) and Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989). She was previously married to Jerzy Hubert Tyszkiewicz.
936 points
52. Mimsy Farmer
Actress | More
Mimsy Farmer first began acting at age 16, when a press agent noticed her and offered her work in the film, Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), an unbilled bit with one line as a girl in the lobby. Her first billed film was a featured part in Spencer's Mountain (1963), starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara...
926 points
53. Stella Stevens
Actress | The Poseidon Adventure
The early film career of Stella Stevens could be said to mirror that of Marilyn Monroe. She began by playing a succession of sensuous, blond glamour girls, from naïve virgins and funny coquettes to precocious or briny-tongued floozies. Her early maturity on screen may have reflected her own ...
919 points
54. Louise Fletcher
Actress | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to Episcopal minister Robert Fletcher and his wife Estelle, both of whom were deaf, Louise Fletcher was introduced to performing at a young age by the aunt who taught her to speak. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, she took a trip out west with her...
902 points
55. Angela Winkler
Actress | Suspiria
Angela Winkler was born on January 22, 1944 in Templin, Brandenburg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Suspiria (2018), The Tin Drum (1979) and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975).
897 points
56. Katya Paskaleva
Actress | Koziyat rog
Katya Paskaleva played in 46 pictures in less than four decades. Her name turned into a synonym of the Bulgarian cinema. Her female characters are not glossy beauties, they win us over through the melancholic grace of Madonnas. She broke up the relief of Bulgarian cinema femininity and recreated ...
876 points
57. Lyudmila Polyakova
Actress | Voskhozhdenie
Lyudmila Polyakova was born on January 28, 1939 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for The Ascent (1977), Vas ozhidayet grazhdanka Nikanorova (1978) and Unizhennye i oskorblennye (1991).
865 points
58. 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 ...
863 points
59. Elza Radzina
Actress | Teatris
Elza Radzina was born on February 10, 1917 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Teatris (1978), King Lear (1970) and Tayna chyornykh drozdov (1983). She died on August 18, 2005 in Riga, Latvia.
862 points
60. Valentina Shendrikova
Actress | Korol Lir
Valentina Konstantinovna Shendrikova was born in Leningrad. Graduated from the Theater School of B.V. Shchukin (1971). In 1967-1979 she was the actress of the theater of Vladimir Mayakovskiy. In the cinema since 1970. Her first role - Cordelia - in the movie "King Lear". Shendrikova was awarded the...
862 points
61. Natalya Varley
Actress | Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika
Natalya Varley was born on June 22, 1947 in Constanta, Romania. She is an actress and writer, known for Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967), Viy (1967) and Twelve Chairs (1971). She is married to Vladimir. She was previously married to Vladimir Tikhonov.
854 points
62. Irene Papas
Actress | The Guns of Navarone
Irene Papas was born on September 3, 1929 in Chilimodion, Corinth, Greece. She was an actress and director, known for The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Message (1976) and Electra (1962). She was married to José Kohn and Alkis Papas. She died on September 14, 2022 in Chiliomodion, Corinthia, Greece.
848 points
63. Shirley Stoler
Actress | The Deer Hunter
Her harsh, hard-edged, pudding face was Laughtonesque in style, incapable of warmth much less a smile. It was held up by an immense frame that was both intimidating and foreboding at the same time. In return, these characteristics allowed character actress Shirley Stoler to play a couple of the ...
842 points
64. Lili Darvas
Actress | Szerelem
Hungarian-born Lili Darvas (pronounced 'Darvash') was a major star first in Budapest, then on the German stage with Max Reinhardt's theatre company during the 1920s, touring Europe with plays by Goethe, Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Shaw. She received her education at the Budapest Lyceum and made her ...
841 points
65. Marie Dubois
Actress | Jules et Jim
Marie Dubois was born on January 12, 1937 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Jules and Jim (1962), La Menace (1977) and Shoot the Piano Player (1960). She was married to Serge Rousseau. She died on October 15, 2014 in Lescar, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
841 points
66. Bernadette Lafont
Actress | Paulette
Bernadette Lafont was born at the Protestant Health Home of Nîmes in Gard, the only child of a pharmacist and a housewife from the Cévennes. Her mother always wanted a boy to name Bernard and, once she gave birth to a girl, she enjoyed to hold this against all the catholics she knew as the proof ...
838 points
67. 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 ...
836 points
68. Tatyana Tkach
Actress | Beloe solntse pustyni
Tatyana Tkach was born on September 30, 1944 in Yakut ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Sakha Republic, Russia]. She is an actress, known for White Sun of the Desert (1970), The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979) and Zimniy kruiz (2012).
835 points
69. Sondra Locke
Actress | Every Which Way But Loose
Sondra Locke was born May 28, 1944 as Sandra Louise Smith, in Shelbyville, Tennessee, a quiet little town about 60 miles southeast of Nashville. She was the daughter of Raymond Smith, a military man stationed at nearby Tullahoma, and Pauline Bayne. Smith departed the scene before Sondra's birth. In...
834 points
70. 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 ...
833 points
71. Giovanna Ralli
Actress | C'eravamo tanto amati
Giovanna Ralli was born on January 2, 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), The Mercenary (1968) and A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971). She was previously married to Ettore Boschi.
828 points
72. Jirina Bohdalová
Actress | Fany
Jirina Bohdalová was born on May 3, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress and writer, known for Fany (1995), The Immortal Aunt (1993) and Oldies But Goldies (2012).
828 points
73. Ruth Gordon
Actress | Rosemary's Baby
When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, a sea captain, to let her pursue acting she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She acted in a few silents made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. She made her Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. The next 20 ...
828 points
74. Vivian Pickles
Actress | Harold and Maude
English character actress Vivian Kay Pickles is one of three siblings born in London and educated at Le Collège Feminin de Bouffément in Paris, a women's college set up in 1924. Her uncle was Wilfred Pickles, a veteran actor and radio broadcaster. Vivian began her acting career aged fourteen, ...
828 points
75. Ellen Geer
Actress | Harold and Maude
Ellen Geer, the daughter of actors Will Geer and Herta Ware, has worked continuously for 40 years in television and motion pictures since making her debut in Richard Lester's "Petulia (1968)" (1968) in support of Julie Christie and George C. Scott. Probably best remembered for her turn as the ...
828 points
76. Emilia Krakowska
Actress | Chlopi
Emilia Krakowska was born on February 20, 1940 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Chlopi (1973), Chlopi (1972) and Pierwsza milosc (2004).
827 points
77. Simi Garewal
Actress | Karz
Simi Garewal was born on October 17, 1947 to a Punjabi Sikh family in India. Her father was J.S Garewal who was in the military. Her mother was a homemaker. Her family migrated to London in early 1953 when she was barely 6 years old. In 1961, she moved back to India in order to become an actress. ...
823 points
78. Norma Crane
Actress | Fiddler on the Roof
Norma Crane was born on November 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Studio One (1948) and Ben Casey (1961). She was married to Herbert Sargent. She died on September 28, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
822 points
79. Molly Picon
Actress | Fiddler on the Roof
Barely 5' tall, the little "yente" with the big, expressive talent and mischievous twinkle in her eye, Yiddish icon Molly Picon, entertained theater, radio, TV and film audiences for over seven decades. Born Malka Opiekun to Polish-Jewish parents in New York on February 28, 1898, she would ...
822 points
80. Shelley Duvall
Actress | The Shining
Shelley Alexis Duvall was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the first child to Bobbie Ruth (Massengale, 1929-2020), a real estate broker, and Robert Richardson Duvall (1919-1994), a lawyer. At the time of her birth, her mother was visiting her grandmother in Fort Worth, though Duvall was raised in Houston...
821 points
81. Priya Tendulkar
Actress | Mohra
Priya Tendulkar was born on October 19, 1954 in India. She was an actress, known for Mohra (1994), Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997) and Naam O Nishan (1987). She was married to Karan Razdan. She died on September 19, 2002 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
820 points
82. Hanna Schygulla
Actress | Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Lead icon of the influential New German Cinema of the 70's & 80's, Schygulla's natural blonde beauty and amazing versatility keep her among the world's top actresses. She won best actress at Cannes in 1983 for The Story of Piera (1983) (aka "The Story of Piera"), an Italian/German co-production. The...
818 points
83. Mariel Hemingway
Actress | Manhattan
Mariel Hemingway was born on November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Manhattan (1979), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and The Sex Monster (1999). She was previously married to Stephen Crisman.
817 points
84. Elena Solovey
Actress | We Own the Night
Elena Solovey is a Russian-American film and stage actress best known for her works with director Nikita Mikhalkov.
She was born Elena Yakovlevna Solovey on February 24, 1947, in Neustrelitz, East Germany. Her parents met in Berlin at the end of the Second World War. Her father, Yakov Solovey, was ...
816 points
85. Evgeniya Glushenko
Actress | Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu
Evgeniya Glushenko was born on September 4, 1952 in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1982), Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977) and Live and Remember (2008).
816 points
86. Antonina Shuranova
Actress | Voyna i mir
Antonina Nikolaevna Shuranova was born on April 30, 1936, in Sevastopol, Crimea, USSR (now in Crimea, Ukraine). She was one of three sisters raised by a single mother. Her father, named Nikolai Shuranov, was a Navy officer; he died when she was 3 years old. Her mother moved with three daughters to ...
816 points
87. Dorothy Stickney
Actress | I Never Sang for My Father
Stickney, who was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, studied acting in Minneapolis, after which she spent several years in summer stock and vaudeville. Her father, Victor Hugo Stickney, was a doctor who made house calls on horseback; he was among the first 10 elected to the National Cowboy Hall of ...
815 points
88. Estelle Parsons
Actress | Bonnie and Clyde
The charming, witty, and immeasurably talented Estelle Parsons was born November 20, 1927 in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Elinor and Eben Parsons. She attended the Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine, and later graduated from Connecticut College in 1949. She worked as a singer with a band before she ...
815 points
89. Valerie Perrine
Actress | Superman
Valerie Ritchie Perrine is an American actress and model. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her ...
814 points
90. Tatum O'Neal
Actress | Paper Moon
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, winning at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon (1973) opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. She also starred as Amanda Wurlitzer in The Bad News Bears (1976...
814 points
91. Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Actress | Sluzhebnyy roman
Svetlana Nemolyaeva is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980). Since 1959 - leading actress of the Moscow Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky.
The filmography of the actress opens with the episodic role of Svetochka in the Soviet comedy film Twins (1945) ...
812 points
92. Cécile Vassort
Actress | La caméra explore le temps
Cécile Vassort was born on June 2, 1941 in Arpajon, Seine-et-Oise [now Essonne], France. She is an actress, known for La caméra explore le temps (1957), Rocambole (1964) and One Deadly Summer (1983).
808 points
93. Anna Nehrebecka
Actress | Chce sie zyc
Anna Nehrebecka was born on December 16, 1947 in Bytom, Slaskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Life Feels Good (2013), The Promised Land (1975) and Czule miejsca (1981). She is married to Byczewski, Iwo. They have two children. She was previously married to Gabriel Nehrebecki.
808 points
94. Kalina Jedrusik
Actress | La double vie de Véronique
Kalina Jedrusik was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1931. Her parents brought her up together with two other children. In 1953 she debuted on stage and year later married famous Polish writer Stanislaw Dygat (Jezioro Bodenskie, Disneyland). Her long list of theatre work includes plays by Jaroslaw ...
808 points
95. Natalya Andreychenko
Actress | Voenno-polevoy roman
Natalya Andreychenko was born on May 3, 1956 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress and writer, known for Wartime Romance (1983), Meri Poppins, do svidaniya (1984) and Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda (1989).
805 points
96. Cornelia Sharpe
Actress | Serpico
Cornelia Sharpe was born on October 18, 1943 in Selma, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Serpico (1973), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). She was previously married to Martin Bregman and Joseph Gallison.
805 points
97. 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...
804 points
98. Nina Urgant
Actress | Ukrotitelnitsa tigrov
Nina Urgant was a Russian character actress known as Raya in Belorussky Station (1971) by director Andrey Smirnov.
She was born Nina Nikolayevna Urgant on 4 September 1929, in Luga, Leningrad province, Soviet Union (now Russia). Her father, Nikolai Urgant, was an officer in the Soviet Red Army who ...
804 points
99. Raisa Kurkina
Actress | Beloe solntse pustyni
Raisa Kurkina was born on October 7, 1927 in Pokrovka, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for White Sun of the Desert (1970), Shans (1984) and Birches in the Steppe (1957).
804 points
100. Lyubov Sokolova
Actress | Dzhentlmeny udachi
Liubov Sergeevna Sokolova (Lyubov Sokolova) was born on July 31, 1921, in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, USSR. Her father was an artisan furniture maker, and her mother was a saleswoman. Young Sokolova was fascinated with acting and became involved in the drama class at her school. Her first public ...
804 points
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