favourite arthouse actresses
by lily-a-b | created - 28 Feb 2021 | updated - 01 Mar 2021 | Public
1. Linda Manz
Actress | Days of Heaven
Linda Manz was born on August 20, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Days of Heaven (1978), The Wanderers (1979) and The Game (1997). She was married to Robert L. Guthrie. She died on August 14, 2020 in Palmdale, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Days of Heaven (1978), Out of the Blue (1980)
2. Paz de la Huerta
Actress | Enter the Void
Paz de la Huerta has starred in many feature films working with some of the best directors in Hollywood. To name a few they include Damian Chapa, Abel Ferrara, Jim Jarmusch, Henry Miller, Adam Shankman, Penny Marshall, Ethan Hawke, Henry Jaglom, David Arquette, Lasse Hallstrom and Griffin Dunne.
Paz...
Enter the Void (2009)
3. Béatrice Dalle
Actress | À l'intérieur
Rebellious. Passionate. Gifted. Beautiful. Béatrice Dalle could be a mix of some artist from many centuries ago and a rock star. Discovered in Betty Blue (1986), Dalle has become a sex symbol and a respected performer. Known for her problems with justice, her relationships with rapper JoeyStarr and...
Betty Blue (1986), Night on Earth (1991), Trouble Every Day (2001)
4. Isabelle Adjani
Actress | Possession
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, to Emma Augusta "Gusti" (Schweinberger) and Mohammed Adjani. Her father was a Kabyle Algerian, from Iferhounène, and her mother was a Bavarian German. She grew up speaking German fluently. After winning a school ...
Possession (1981), The Tenant (1976), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
5. Zoë Lund
Actress | Bad Lieutenant
Zoe Lund was born Zoe Tamerlis to a Swedish mother and Romanian father on February 9, 1962 in New York City. She was an accomplished composer/musician and devout political activist at an early age. In 1981 at age 19, Lund gave a stunning performance as Thana, a mousy, mute garment worker and rape ...
Ms. 45 (1981)
6. Faye Wong
Actress | Chung Hing sam lam
Her mother (now deceased) was a singer and her father a mining engineer. They moved with her older brother to Hong Kong when she was 18 and she began to take singing lessons. Her teacher introduced her to Cinepoly Records, where she first recorded under the name Wong Jing Man and was given the ...
Chungking Express (1994), 2046 (2004)
7. Natja Brunckhorst
Actress | Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Natja Brunckhorst was born on September 26, 1966 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for Christiane F. (1981), Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001) and La mer (2006).
Christine F. (1981)
8. Mink Stole
Actress | Serial Mom
Part of the original motley crew of cast players in underground shock master John Waters' bare-bones 8mm, 16mm and 35mm cult perversions during the late 60s and early 70s, Mink Stole would remain a thoroughly offbeat, outrageous presence in counterculture films for five decades.
She was born with ...
Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Cry-Baby (1990)
9. Nastassja Kinski
Actress | Tess
Nastassja Kinski was born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski on January 24, 1961 in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski. In 1976, she met director Roman Polanski, who urged her to study method acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States. Kinski starred in the Italian romantic ...
Paris, Texas (1984), Tess (1979), Cat People (1982), Maria's Lovers (1984)
10. Anna Karina
Actress | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
Born in Denmark, she came to Paris at 18. She met Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and started as a top model. She met Jean-Luc Godard about a cameo in Breathless (1960), but she had to be naked and she refused to play in the movie. One year later, they wed and she became famous with the "Nouvelle ...
Une Femme est une Femme (1961), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Bande à Part (1964)
11. Isabella Rossellini
Actress | Blue Velvet
Isabella Rossellini, the Italian actress and model who has made her home in America since 1979 and holds dual Italian and American citizenship, was born cinema royalty when she made her debut on June 18, 1952 in Rome. She is the daughter of two legends, three-time Oscar-winning Swedish-born actress ...
Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart
12. Laia Costa
Actress | Cinco lobitos
Laia Costa is a Spanish actress. She is known for Victoria (2015) and Newness (2017). She speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, French and English. Laia was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, for her role in the critically acclaimed Victoria, for which she became the first foreign actress...
Victoria (2015)
13. Daniela Vega
Actress | Una mujer fantástica
Daniela Vega Hernández is a Chilean transgender actress and lyrical singer. She was born in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile. She was the first child of Igor Vega, a printing owner, and Sandra Hernández, a housewife. After a time, the family moved to Ñuñoa, where her brother Nicolás was born. At the age...
A Fantastic Woman
14. Chloë Sevigny
Actress | We Are Who We Are
Chloë Sevigny is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress and director who is known for her groundbreaking work across film, television and theatre. Sevigny has spent her career working with innovative and revolutionary filmmakers and artists including Lars von Trier, Jim ...
Kids, Boys Don't cry, Gummo, Brown Bunny
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