December 4, 200816 yr Author Based on our votes, Kate Winslet is the most talented actress in category 31-35 years!
December 4, 200816 yr Author Category 36-40, round 1: Cate Blanchett vs. Catherine Zeta Jones Cate by Reeyo Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 play Oleanna, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics' Best Newcomer Award. She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994–95 Company B production of Hamlet. Blanchett appeared in the TV mini-series Heartland, the mini-series Bordertown, and in an episode of Police Rescue. She also appeared in the 1994 telemovie of Police Rescue and in the 50 minute drama Parklands (1996), which received a limited release in Australian cinemas. Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role in 1997 film Paradise Road. Her first leading role, also in 1997, was in Oscar and Lucinda. She win an AFI Award as Supporting Actress in the same year for her role in Thank God He Met Lizzie. Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She won a British Academy (BAFTA) Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in The Lord of the Rings, which hold the record as the highest grossing film trilogy of all time. In 2004, she played in film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, yet again earning a nomination for BFCA award for Best Acting Ensemble. In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. In 2006, she starred in Babel and Notes on a Scandal. Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film. In 2007, she won the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for portraying one of six incarnations of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There and also reprised her role as Elizabeth I in the sequel to Elizabeth entitled Elizabeth: the Golden Age. At the 80th Annual Academy Awards Blanchett received two Academy Award nominations including Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There. She next appeared on screen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and will appear in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at the end of 2007. 2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (wikipedia) Catherine by Julia Her film debut was in 1001 Nights (also known as Sheherazade). Her Welsh and exotic looks, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful British television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May, that brought her to public attention. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native (1994) and the mini-series Catherine the Great (1995). She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993). In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix "Sala" in the action film, The Phantom, based on the comic created by Lee Falk. The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro. Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film. In 1999, she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, and alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting. In 2000, she starred in the critically-acclaimed Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. Traffic earned praise from the wide press. Zeta-Jones' performance earned her her first Golden Globe nomination, as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. In 2003, Zeta-Jones played Velma Kelly in the film Chicago. Her performance was praised by the press. Subsequently, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. In 2003, she voiced Marina in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean's Twelve. In 2005, she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. In 2007, she starred in the romantic comedy No Reservations. She stars in and produces the rugby union-related comedy, Coming Out. 2008 Death Defying Acts, Stompanato 2009 The Rebound (wikipedia) 1. WHICH ONE IS MORE TALENTED? 2. WHICH ONE IS PRETTIER?
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