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Cameron Diaz
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 Born in San Diego in 1972, her first role was in The Mask opposite Jim Carrey. Honing her skills in a clutch of smaller films, she boosted her profile again in My Best Friend's Wedding and A Life... |
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Meryl Streep
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 Born in New Jersey in 1949, Streep wanted to be an actress from an early age and after leaving school studied drama at Vasser, Dartmouth and Yale. Broadway beckoned before she gained the first of 12... |
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Ingrid Bergman
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 Born in Stockholm in 1915, Ingrid Bergman was orphaned at 12 and took up acting to escape her loneliness and shyness. After leaving drama school she quickly became Sweden's leading film star,... |
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Meg Ryan
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 Born in 1961. Meg Ryan first made an impression in the soap opera As The World Turns. After showing up in Top Gun (she briefly dated co-star Anthony Edwards before dropping him for Dennis Quaid) she... |
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Elizabeth Taylor
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 Born in London, 1932 to American art-dealing parents. At the onset of war she was signed by Universal Studios and later by MGM, her illustrious acting career, which garnered four Oscar nominations... |
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Vivien Leigh
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 Born in India in 1913, Vivien Leigh would achieve stardom in one of Hollywood's most famous ever films Gone With the Wind and the rest is part of film history. She would win an Oscar for her role in... |
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Angelina Jolie
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 The daughter of Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie was born in LA in 1975. She won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted, a film set in a mental institution. She also appeared in the deeply pointless Gone In 60... |
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Doris Day
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 Born in Cincinnati in 1924, Doris Day was one of America's most prolific actresses and was soon signed by Warner Brothers after being talked into screen-testing for them by her agent. She appeared in... |
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Grace Kelly
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 Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia in 1928. Kelly debuted in a bit part in Fourteen Hours (1951) before starring opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon. She was a favourite of Alfred Hitchcock, making... |
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Winona Ryder
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 Born Winona Horowitz, Ryder went to acting classes at the American Conservatory Theatre. Winona caused a media sensation in 2001 after being arrested for shoplifting. She claimed at the time that it... |
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Juliette Binoche
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 Born in Paris in 1964, Juliette Binoche first attracted attention in Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary. Since then she has starred in numerous arthouse hits (The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Three... |
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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 Gwyneth Paltrow was born to award-winning actress Blythe Danner and film director Bruce Paltrow in Los Angeles in 1972. While driving to see Silence of the Lambs with Steven Spielberg he offered her... |
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Julie Christie
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 A 60s icon, whose acting talent and beauty propelled her to fame in films like Billy Liar, Dr Zhivago and Far From The Madding Crowd. Born in 1941 in Assam, India,winning the Best Actress Oscar for... |
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Uma Thurman
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 Uma Thurman was born in Boston in 1970. Although she's appeared in some great films (Beautiful Girls, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction), she has been missing a big hit since, a problem which should be rectified... |
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Jane Fonda
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 Born in 1937 in New York, the daughter of screen legend Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda was always destined for Hollywood. Fonda's screen debut came in 1960 in the film Tall Story. A successful career... |
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Halle Berry
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 Halle Berry was born in Ohio in 1968. Berry got her first acting job in the TV series Living Dolls, before Spike Lee gave Halle her big break in Jungle Fever, in which she played a crack addict. She... |
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