1.
Tom Hanks
Actor, The Da Vinci Code
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord,
California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos
Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally
surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of
mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured"
family...
2.
Meryl Streep
Actress, The Devil Wears Prada
Considered by many critics to be the
greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy
Award an astonishing 20 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 Streep...
3.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor, Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career
quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from
relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3, to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s, as the hunky lead actor in movies such as Romeo + Juliet and Titanic...
4.
Denzel Washington
Actor, Training Day
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on
December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three
children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal
minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After
graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University...
5.
Morgan Freeman
Actor, The Shawshank Redemption
With an authoritative voice and calm
demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the
most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1,
1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
6.
Sean Penn
Actor, Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer
capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength
during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention
for his stormy private life and political viewpoints. Sean Justin Penn
was born in Los Angeles, California, the second son of actress Eileen Ryan (née Annucci) and director...
7.
Christian Bale
Actor, The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in
Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents
Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Charles Howard Bale. His mother was a
circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a
commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries throughout
Bale's childhood...
8.
Robert De Niro
Actor, Goodfellas
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr.
His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry
is English, Dutch, German, French and Irish. He was trained at the
Stella Adler Conservatory and the American Workshop...
9.
Jennifer Lawrence
Actress, The Hunger Games
The highest-paid and most powerful actress
in the world, with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide,
Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actor of her
generation. Lawrence was born Jennifer Shrader Lawrence on August 15,
1990 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's
camp...
10.
Kevin Spacey
Actor, American Beauty
Kevin Spacey Fowler better known by his
stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film
director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a
stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film
and television. He gained critical acclaim in the...
11.
Cate Blanchett
Actress, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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 years old...
12.
Matthew McConaughey
Actor, Interstellar
American actor and producer Matthew David
McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen
(McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His
father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station
owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is of Scottish...
13.
Brie Larson
Actress, Room
Brie Larson has built an impressive career
as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and
emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying
drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the
American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
14.
Michael Fassbender
Actor, Inglourious Basterds
Michael Fassbender was born in Heidelberg,
Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele
(originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was
raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland,
where his family moved to when he was two years old. His parents ran a
restaurant (his father is a chef)...
15.
Jared Leto
Actor, Requiem for a Dream
In the vein of musicians-turned-actors,
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he
has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for
American band 30 Seconds to Mars,
Leto will always be remembered as an accomplished actor for the
numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to
be selective about his film roles...
16.
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 from Shakespearean tragedy
to modern-day mysticism and erotica...
17.
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 smaller amounts of Danish,
Swiss-German, and Norwegian, ancestry...
18.
Eddie Redmayne
Actor, The Theory of Everything
British actor Eddie Redmayne is the first, and thus far only, millennial male to have won an acting Oscar (for The Theory of Everything).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the
son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a
businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard Augustine Studdert
Redmayne...
19.
Michelle Williams
Actress, Shutter Island
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 first known as bad girl Jen
Lindley in the television series Dawson's Creek...
20.
Colin Firth
Actor, The King's Speech
Colin Andrew Firth was born into an
academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley
Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open
University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on
history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's
College) in Winchester...
21.
George Clooney
Actor, Gravity
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6,
1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former
beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and game show host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney spent most of this youth in Ohio and Kentucky...
22.
Julianne Moore
Actress, The Big Lebowski
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 Burlington, New Jersey, has German,
Irish, German-Jewish, and English ancestry...
23.
Matt Damon
Actor, The Bourne Identity
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige,
an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has
an older brother named Kyle who is now a sculptor. His father is of
English and Scottish descent...
24.
Anthony Hopkins
Actor, Hannibal
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31,
1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur
Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English
descent. Influenced by Richard Burton,
he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in
1957. In 1965, he moved to London and joined the National Theatre...
25.
Bradley Cooper
Actor, Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January
5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is
of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father,
Charles John "Charlie" Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a
stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the Honors English
program at Georgetown University in 1997...
26.
Christoph Waltz
Actor, Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his works with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained. For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award...
27.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Actor, 12 Years a Slave
English actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave,
for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations,
along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing
Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things, the Operative in Serenity...
28.
Benicio Del Toro
Actor, Snatch
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s
as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come
along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream
public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican
policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. Benicio was born on February 19...
29.
Viola Davis
Actress, The Help
Actress Viola Davis was born on her
grandmother's farm, at the then-Singleton Plantation in St. Matthews,
South Carolina. When she was two months old her family moved to Central
Falls, Rhode Island, where her father, Dan Davis, worked as a horse
groomer and trainer. Her mother, Mary Alice (Logan), a maid and factory
worker...
30.
Bryan Cranston
Actor, Breaking Bad
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston,
an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were
German, and his father was of Austrian, German, Irish and Jewish
ancestry. He was raised partly by his grandparents...
31.
Javier Bardem
Actor, No Country for Old Men
Javier Bardem is the youngest member of a
family of actors that has been making films since the early days of
Spanish cinema. He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to
actress Pilar Bardem (MarÃa del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro...
32.
Alicia Vikander
Actress, Ex Machina
Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress,
dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra
Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl-Vikander,
an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist.
She is of Swedish and one quarter Finnish descent. Alicia began acting
as a child in minor stage productions at The Göteborg Opera...
33.
Steve Carell
Actor, The Office
Steve Carell, one of America's most
versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in
Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet T. (Koch), a
psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His
mother is of Polish descent and his father is of Italian and German
ancestry (Steve's grandfather had changed the surname from "Caroselli"
to "Carrell")...
34.
Jamie Foxx
Actor, Django Unchained
Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer,
and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for
Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a
Musical or Comedy, for his work in the 2004 biographical film Ray. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film Collateral...
35.
Jessica Chastain
Actress, The Martian
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 was in a dance troupe by
age thirteen...
36.
Tom Hardy
Actor, Mad Max: Fury Road
With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception,
English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream
audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily
working on both stage and screen since his television debut in the
miniseries Band of Brothers...
37.
Charlize Theron
Actress, Mad Max: Fury Road
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron
(née Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz) and Charles Jacobus Theron. She was
raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with
some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner military figure
Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle...
38.
Mark Rylance
Actor, Bridge of Spies
Widely regarded as the greatest stage
actor of his generation, Mark Rylance has enjoyed an esteemed career on
stage and on screen, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of
Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He is also the winner of 2 Olivier Awards and 3 Tony Awards...
39.
Emma Stone
Actress, The Help
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born in
Scottsdale, Arizona, to Krista (Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeffrey
Charles Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish
(from her paternal grandfather), English, German, Scottish, and Irish
descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the Valley Youth
Theatre in Phoenix...
40.
Michael Keaton
Actor, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Quirky, inventive and handsome American
actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting
performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a
nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift. He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously...
41.
Johnny Depp
Actor, Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp is perhaps one of the most
versatile actors of his day and age in Hollywood. He was born John
Christopher Depp II in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to Betty
Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a
civil engineer. Depp was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school
when he was 15...
42.
J.K. Simmons
Actor, Whiplash
J.K. Simmons is an American actor. He was
born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia
(Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher.
He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of
Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music). He had originally planned to be a
singer and studied at the University of Montana to become a composer...
43.
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor, The Avengers
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of
the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits
to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four
decades in the business. Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New
York, the son of writer, director and filmographer Robert Downey Sr. and actress Elsie Downey (née Elsie Ann Ford)...
44.
Gary Oldman
Actor, The Dark Knight Rises
Gary Oldman is a talented British born
movie actor who played Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy, Drexl in True
Romance, and George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He starred in
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the remake of RoboCop. He is also an
English filmmaker, musician and author. Renowned for his "big" acting
style...
45.
Anne Hathaway
Actress, Les Misérables
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway,
a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish
descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role
came in the short-lived television series Get Real...
46.
Nicole Kidman
Actress, Moulin Rouge!
Elegant blonde 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 psychologist...
47.
Rachel Weisz
Actress, The Mummy
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March,
1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and
George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938.
Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from
Vienna, is of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. Rachel has a sister,
Minnie, a curator and photographer...
48.
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor, Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance, Unbreakable, Shaft, Formula 51, Black Snake Moan, Snakes on a Plane, and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe...
49.
Jeremy Renner
Actor, The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Lee Renner was born in Modesto,
California, the son of Valerie (Tague) and Lee Renner, who managed a
bowling alley. After a tumultuous yet happy childhood with his four
younger siblings, Renner graduated from Beyer High School and attended
Modesto Junior College. He explored several areas of study...
50.
Naomi Watts
Actress, King Kong
Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September
28, 1968 in Shoreham, England, to Myfanwy Edwards "Miv" (Roberts), an
antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), the road manager to Pink Floyd.
Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when Naomi was
seven and she began to follow her mother and her brother around
England...
51.
Forest Whitaker
Actor, Arrival
Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a
king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an
Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the
2006 film The Last King of Scotland, and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to win an Academy Award for Best Actor...
52.
Jeff Bridges
Actor, The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without billing...
53.
Ryan Gosling
Actor, La La Land
Canadian actor Ryan Gosling is the first person born in the 1980s to have been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar (for Half Nelson).
He was born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London,
Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and
Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman...
54.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor, The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton
(Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a
grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a
great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG...
55.
Idris Elba
Actor, Prometheus
An only child, Idris Elba was born Idrissa
Akuna Elba in Hackney, London, England and raised in East Ham. His
father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his
mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended
school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting...
56.
Don Cheadle
Actor, Hotel Rwanda
Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas
City, Missouri on November 29, 1964. His childhood found him moving from
city to city with his family: mother Bettye (North), a teacher, father
Donald Frank Cheadle, Sr., a clinical psychologist, sister Dawn, and
brother Colin. After graduating high school in Denver...
57.
Mark Ruffalo
Actor, The Avengers
Mark Ruffalo was born in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, to Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser, and Frank
Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter. His father's ancestry is
Italian, and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half Italian
descent. Mark moved with his family to Virginia Beach, Virginia...
58.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor, Donnie Darko
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California, to producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner (née Achs) and director Stephen Gyllenhaal. He is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie Darko. His godmother is actress Jamie Lee Curtis. His mother is from a Jewish family, and his father's ancestry includes Swedish, English and Swiss-German...
59.
Carey Mulligan
Actress, Drive
Carey Mulligan is a British actress, born
May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a
university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her father
is of Irish descent and her mother is Welsh, originally from Llandeilo.
Her first major appearance was playing Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice alongside Keira Knightley...
60.
Tommy Lee Jones
Actor, No Country for Old Men
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba,
Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty
shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself
worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St.
Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school for boys in Dallas...
61.
Woody Harrelson
Actor, No Country for Old Men
Academy Award-nominated and Emmy
Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in
Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson.
He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, and, after receiving degrees in theater
arts and English from Hanover College, had a brief stint in New York
theater...
62.
Robert Duvall
Actor, The Godfather: Part II
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden
Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred
Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career
military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama
at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a two-year hitch in the
army after graduating in 1953...
63.
Michael Caine
Actor, The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph
Micklewhite in London, to Ellen Frances Marie (Burchell), a charlady,
and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish-market porter. He left school at
age 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the
British army and serving in Korea during the Korean War...
64.
Russell Crowe
Actor, Gladiator
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington,
New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both
of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss,
was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his
paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham), English...
65.
Tim Robbins
Actor, The Shawshank Redemption
Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins
(née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with
honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater
group...
66.
Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan).
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 American-born artist (from Cincinnati...
67.
Annette Bening
Actress, American Beauty
Annette Carol Bening was born on May 29,
1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children of Shirley
(Ashley), a soloist and church singer, and Arnett Grant Bening, an
insurance salesman. She is of German and British Isles ancestry. Her
family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there...
68.
Marion Cotillard
Actress, Inception
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud,
an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is Breton. Raised in
Orléans, France, she made her acting debut as a child with a role in one
of her father's plays...
69.
Lupita Nyong'o
Actress, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1,
1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy 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 learn Spanish...
70.
Penélope Cruz
Actress, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
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 focus her
energies on dance...
71.
Dustin Hoffman
Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los
Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a
furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was
raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania).
Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to
Santa Monica City College...
72.
Joel Edgerton
Actor, Warrior
Joel Edgerton was born on June 23, 1974 in
Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, to Marianne and Michael
Edgerton, who is a solicitor and property developer. His brother is
filmmaker Nash Edgerton.
He went to Hills Grammar School in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, and
after leaving, he attended Nepean Drama School in 1994...
73.
Peter Dinklage
Actor, Game of Thrones
Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since
his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in
numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed
Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones. For this he won an
Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden
Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series...
74.
Will Smith
Actor, Men in Black
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. (born
September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper,
and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music.
In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in
Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two
Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards...
75.
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 several years as a
result...
76.
Laurence Fishburne
Actor, The Matrix
One of Hollywood's most talented and
versatile performers and the recipient of a truckload of NAACP Image
awards, Laurence John Fishburne III was born in Augusta, Georgia on July
30, 1961, to Hattie Bell (Crawford), a teacher, and Laurence John
Fishburne, Jr., a juvenile corrections officer. His mother transplanted
her family to Brooklyn after his parents divorced...
77.
Adam Driver
Actor, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Adam Douglas Driver was born in San Diego,
California. His mother, Nancy (Needham) Wright, is a paralegal from
Mishawaka, Indiana, and his father, Joe Douglas Driver, who has deep
roots in the American South, is from Little Rock, Arkansas. His
stepfather is a Baptist minister. His ancestry includes English...
78.
Casey Affleck
Actor, Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer,
Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a
powerful leading man with performances in multiple upcoming projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher...
79.
Ed Harris
Actor, A Beautiful Mind
By transforming into his characters and
pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned the reputation as one of
the most talented actors of our time. Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New
Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a
bookstore worker who also sang professionally...
80.
David Oyelowo
Actor, Selma
David Oyelowo (pronounced -
"oh-yellow-oh"), is a classically trained stage actor who has quickly
become one of Hollywood's most sought-after talents. He graduated from
the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and received the
"Scholarship for Excellence" from Nicholas Hytner in 1998. David starred
as Martin Luther King Jr...
81.
John Hawkes
Actor, American Gangster
John Hawkes was born John Marvin Perkins
in Alexandria, Minnesota, to Patricia Jeanne (Olson) and Peter John
Perkins, a farmer. He is of British and Scandinavian descent. John moved
to Austin, Texas to begin his career as an actor and musician. He
co-founded the Big State Productions Theatre Company and appeared in the
group's original play...
82.
Daniel Brühl
Actor, Inglourious Basterds
Daniel Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain. His father was German TV director Hanno Brühl
(1937-2010), who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His Spanish mother was a
teacher. He also has a brother and a sister, Oliver and Miriam. Shortly
after his birth, his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up
and attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium...
83.
James McAvoy
Actor, X-Men: First Class
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in
Glasgow, Scotland, to Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse, and James
McAvoy senior, a bus driver. He was raised on a housing estate in
Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and
Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 7. He went to St Thomas
Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill...
84.
Kathy Bates
Actress, Titanic
Multi-talented 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. Kathy has English, as well as Irish...
85.
Josh Brolin
Actor, W.
Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin.
He has recently seen a massive surge in his career, finding well-known
roles such as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United
States. Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California...
86.
Viggo Mortensen
Actor, A History of Violence
Since his screen debut as a young Amish Farmer in Peter Weir's Witness, Viggo Mortensen's
career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and
Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother was
American...
87.
Tom Cruise
Actor, Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen year-old
Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in
the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100
movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you
that his ambition was to join the priesthood. Nonetheless...
88.
Miles Teller
Actor, Whiplash
Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor and musician. For his performance in the film The Spectacular Now, he won the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared in the films Rabbit Hole, Footloose, Project X, That Awkward Moment, Divergent, Two Night Stand, Whiplash.
89.
Aaron Eckhart
Actor, The Dark Knight
90.
Michael Shannon
Actor, Man of Steel
Michael Corbett Shannon was born and
raised in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Geraldine Hine, a lawyer, and
Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University.
His grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon. Shannon began
his professional stage career in Chicago. His first acting role was in
"Winterset" at the Illinois Theatre Center...
91.
James Franco
Actor, 127 Hours
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks, James Franco was born in Palo Alto, California on April 19, 1978. His mother, Betsy Franco,
is Jewish, and his father, Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, was of
Portuguese and Swedish descent, and ran a Silicon Valley business.
James's mother, a writer, has occasionally acted...
92.
Paul Giamatti
Actor, Sideways
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has
worked steadily and prominently for over twenty years, and is best
known for leading roles in the films American Splendor, Sideways, and Barney's Version (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, and San Andreas...
93.
Walton Goggins
Actor, Django Unchained
In the past few years, Walton Goggins has
had pivotal roles in films by two of Hollywood's most important auteurs:
Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg. His integral role as 'Chris
Mannix,' a southern renegade who claims to be the new sheriff of Red
Rock in Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT, marks his second collaboration
with the Academy Award-winning writer/director...
94.
Anna Kendrick
Actress, Pitch Perfect
Anna Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine,
to Janice (Cooke), an accountant, and William Kendrick, a teacher. She
has an older brother, Michael Cooke Kendrick,
who has also acted. She is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent. For
her role as "Dinah" in "High Society" on Broadway, Anna Kendrick was
nominated for a Tony Award (second youngest ever)...
95.
John Goodman
Actor, Monsters, Inc.
John Stephen Goodman is a U.S. film,
television, and stage actor. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to
Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman, and Leslie Francis
Goodman, a postal worker who died when John was a small child. He is of
English, Welsh, and German ancestry. John is best known for his role as
Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne...
96.
Channing Tatum
Actor, 21 Jump Street
Channing Tatum was born in a small town,
Cullman, Alabama, 50 miles north of Birmingham. He is the son of Kay
(Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Matthew Tatum, who worked in
construction. Growing up, he was full of energy and somewhat
troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in different sports
such as track and field...
97.
Michael B. Jordan
Actor, Creed
Michael B. Jordan, middle of three
children, was born in Santa Ana, California and raised in Newark, New
Jersey by Donna (Davis), and Michael A. Jordan. His middle name Bakari
means "noble promise" in Swahili. Jordan has starred in three of the
most critically acclaimed television dramas of the past decade...
98.
Ethan Hawke
Actor, Gattaca
Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6,
1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and
James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at
the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years
old. His mother raised him alone for the next five years...
99.
Glenn Close
Actress, Fatal Attraction
Six time Academy Award-nominated actress
Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the
daughter of Elizabeth Mary Hester "Bettine" (Moore) and William
Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class northeastern families. Glenn...
100.
Laura Linney
Actress, The Truman Show
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 father's house (her parents having divorced when she was an
infant)...
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