Actresses

I just thought she should have her thread, she was a goddess Bio - extracts taken from wikipedia.org Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish actress who was, by reputation, one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever to be produced by MGM and the Hollywood studio system. She is the recipient of the 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In addition, she was named "the most beautiful woman who ever lived" by the The Guinness Book of World Records. Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (some sources cite her…

Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's parents did not get along well and divorced soon afterward. Mrs. de Havilland had a desire to be an actress but her dreams were curtailed when she married, but now she hoped to pass on her dream to Olivia and Joan. W…

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Jane fonda) Jump to: navigation, search Jane Fonda Birth name Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda Born December 21, 1937 (1937-12-21) (age 69) New York City, New York Years active 1960 - present Spouse(s) Ted Turner (21 December 1991 - 22 May 2001) (divorced) Tom Hayden (21 January 1973 - 1990) (divorced) 1 child Roger Vadim (14 August 1965 - 16 January 1973) (divorced) 1 child Academy Awards Best Actress 1971 Klute 1978 Coming Home Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries/Movie 1984 The Dollmaker Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1972 Klute 1978 Julia 1979 Coming Home BA…

Bio - find the whole one at wikipedia.org Elizabeth Taylor Birth name: Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor Date of birth: February 27, 1932 Place of birth: Hampstead, London, England Dame Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor, DBE (born February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. She was long considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and, arguably, the most beautiful actress of all time. Her trademark is her dazzling violet-blue eyes framed by a double row of eyelashes. The American Film Institute named Taylor among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 7. Early life and career She was born in Hampstead, London, the seco…

Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 – April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Later in life, she became an important actress in Mexican films. She was generally thought to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her era, and was the first Latin American movie star to have international appeal. In the Silent film era, Del Rio was considered a counterpart to Rudolph Valentino. With the arrival of the talkies, she became one of the principal Art Deco symbols of beauty. Del Río was one of the principal stars of Mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1…

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Early life and education Zegler was born on May 3, 2001,[4] in Hackensack, New Jersey, at the Hackensack University Medical Center. Her mother is Gina Zegler, and she has an older sister, Jacqueline.[5] Her mother is of Colombian descent,[6] and her father is of Polish descent.[7][8][9] Zegler was raised in Clifton, New Jersey, where she attended St. Philip the Apostle Preparatory School. She then attended the Catholic all-girls college-preparatory Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in the school's musicals all four years: as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2016), Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2017),[10] Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (2018), and P…

<span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>Anne Hathaway</span> Date of birth (location) 12 November 1982 Brooklyn, New York, USA

Madelaine Petsch is an American film actress. She was born on 18 August 1994 in Los Angeles, California, United Stats. She made her debut as a supporting role in science fiction film ''The Hive'' (2015). Petsch became popular for playing a role as Eliza in the movie ''The Curse of Sleeping Beauty'', released in 2016. She also appeared in many Television Drama series like ''Riverdale'' and many others. ''Riverdale" set, Vancouver, Jan 13 '17

Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Steven Fanning (a former baseball player who now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles) and Joy Fanning, who played tennis professionally. Her mother had wanted to name her "Hannah" and her father wanted to name her "Dakota"; she has always used Dakota among her friends and family. She has a sister, Elle, who is now also an actress. Fanning is of half German descent, and her last name is of Irish origin. She is a Baptist, having grown up in the Southern Baptist Convention. Fanning began acting at the age of five, after appearing with legendary musician Ray Charles in a television commercial for the Georgia State Lottery …

Grace Van Patten (born November 21, 1996)[1] is an American actress. She has appeared in two films distributed by Netflix: Tramps (2016) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and in Hulu's miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) and Tell Me Lies (2022). She is the daughter of director Timothy Van Patten and niece of actors Joyce Van Patten and Dick Van Patten. https://www.instagram.com/gracevanpatten/?hl=fr

Famke Janssen Info from imdb.com Date of birth (location) 5 November 1965 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Height 5' 11" (1.80 m) Famke was born in Holland, where she began her professional career as a model. She later moved to the United States, where she has made her home since 1984. Initially settling in New York, she majored in writing and literature at Columbia University and studied acting with Harold Guskin. She then went to Los Angeles, where she continued to study acting under Roy London. Famke made her feature film debut with Jeff Goldblum in Fathers & Sons (1992). Actress - filmography (In Production) (2000s) (1990s) The Four Saints (20…

Lucille Fay LeSueur was born on March 23, 1905 in San Antonio, TX. She passed on May 10, 1977 In New York City of a heart attack. She also has pancreatic cancer. In November of 1978 her daughter Christina wrote "Mommie Dearest". A book that changed the way we look at child abuse today. Many of Joan's peers, companions, and her other daughters Cathy and Cindy refused to support the book and said it was all a lie. But Bette Davis supported Christina's story.

Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 — July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress. Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. She established a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and later, as a freelance performer, became one of the highest paid entertainers in American cinema. Colbert was recognized as one of the leading female exponents of screwball comedy; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night (1934), and also received Academy Award nominat…

One of my faves. She was stunning in The Leopard. Bio>>> Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Jos

Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. Her acting artistry and high spirits made her the premier flapper and the film It (1927) made her world famous. Bow came to personify the "roaring twenties" and is described as its leading sex symbol. Early life Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York. She was the third child; the first two, also daughters, born in 1903 and 1904, died in infancy. Her mother Sarah Bow (1880-1923) was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again, because this time she might die as well. Despite this, Bow was conceived in fall of 1904. According…

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free her…

Born on August 29, 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a lead actress in many European countries before she came to America. Her first American film was the movie "Intermezzo", made in 1939. She is ranked #4 on the Greatest Female Star list of American Cinema by the American Film Institute. Her awards include: 1945-won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in "Gaslight" 1946-won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in The Bells of St. Mary 1947-won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for "Joan of Lorraine" 1957-won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actress in "Anastasia" 1975…

Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, model and singer, considered the embodiment of the 1950s "sex kitten." In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry - Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as immigration, Islam in France, race mixing, and homosexuality. Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie Mucel and Charles "Pilou" Bardot, an industrialist. At an early age her mother encouraged her interest in music and dance, she had modelled for popular magazine Elle by the time she was 15 years old. [1] In 1952, s…

Bio taken from wikipedia.org - I've shorten it, just go to wikipedia to find the whole one ... Ava Gardner Born: 24 December 1922 Brogden, North Carolina, USA Died: 25 January 1990 Westminster, London, England Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress. Gardner was born in the small farming community of Brogden, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children of poor tobacco farmers; her mother was a Baptist of Scots-Irish descent, while her father, Jonas Bailey Gardner, was an Irish American Catholic. In 1941, a Loews Theatres legal clerk, Barnard "Barney" Duhan, spotted Gardner's photo in the Tarr Photography Studio on 5th Avenue in New York. Th…

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness. After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girls school. Later, when her mother moved back to the Netherlands, she attended private schools as well. While vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and malnutrition. After the liberation, Audrey went to a ballet school in London on a scholarship and later b…

Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Ac…

Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941), known professionally simply as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer. As an actress, Ann-Margret is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Tommy (1975), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Grumpier Old Men (1995). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. In 2010, Ann-Margret won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her singing and acting careers span five decades,…

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born September 29, 1931 in Malmö, Skåne) is a Swedish model, actress and cult sex symbol. Ekberg was born in 1931, the oldest girl and the sixth of eight children. In her teens, she worked as a fashion model. In 1950, Ekberg entered the Miss Malmö competition at her mother's urging, leading to the Miss Sweden contest, which she won. She consequently went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe title, despite not speaking English. Although she did not win Miss Universe, as one of six finalists she did earn a starlet's contract with Universal Studios, as was the rule at the time.In America, Ekberg met Howard Hughes, who at the …