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Oscar for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior to the 49th Academy...
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| Angelina Jolie | 2008 |
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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported....
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Changeling | ||
| Melissa Leo | 2008 |
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Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960), also known as Margaret May II or Margaret May, is an American actress best known for playing the tough-minded shift-Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993–1997....
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Frozen River | ||
| Meryl Streep | 2008 |
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.
Streep made her professional...
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Doubt | ||
| Kate Winslet | 2008 |
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. Winslet made her film debut starring in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). She achieved recognition in a supporting role in Ang Lee's adaption of Sense...
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The Reader | ||
| Anne Hathaway | 2008 |
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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress who made her debut in the 1999 television series Get Real. After it was cancelled, she was cast as Mia Thermopolis in the Disney family comedy The Princess Diaries (2001), from...
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Rachel Getting Married | ||
| Cate Blanchett | 2007 |
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Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two SAGs, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th...
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age | ||
| Ellen Page | 2007 |
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Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987), known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno.
She is...
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Juno | ||
| Laura Linney | 2007 |
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Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and...
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The Savages | ||
| Julie Christie | 2007 |
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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India,...
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Away From Her | ||
| Marion Cotillard | 2007 |
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Marion Cotillard (born September 30, 1975) is a French actress who has appeared in almost 40 film and television productions since 1993.
Born into an acting family, Cotillard started on the stage as a child and during her teens progressed from roles...
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La Vie En Rose | ||
| Penélope Cruz | 2006 |
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Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974), better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jamón, Jamón, La Niña de tus ojos, and Belle époque. She has also starred in several...
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Volver | ||
| Judi Dench | 2006 |
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is a legendary English film, stage and television actress.
Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and made her...
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Notes on a Scandal | ||
| Meryl Streep | 2006 |
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.
Streep made her professional...
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The Devil Wears Prada | ||
| Kate Winslet | 2006 |
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. Winslet made her film debut starring in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). She achieved recognition in a supporting role in Ang Lee's adaption of Sense...
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Little Children | ||
| Helen Mirren | 2006 |
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Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career.
Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov in a corridor of the...
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The Queen | ||
| Keira Knightley | 2005 |
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Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced /ˌkɪərəˈnaɪtlɪ/; born 26 March 1985) is an English film actress. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2003 after co-starring in the films Bend It Like Beckham and the Pirates...
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Pride & Prejudice | ||
| Felicity Huffman | 2005 |
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Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic Super-Mom on the ABC show Desperate Housewives, which earned her an Emmy Award. A year later, her role as a trans woman...
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Transamerica | ||
| Charlize Theron | 2005 |
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Charlize Theron (pronounced /ʃɑrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/; born August 7, 1975) is a South African actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She became an American citizen in 2007.
She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the...
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North Country | ||
| Judi Dench | 2005 |
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is a legendary English film, stage and television actress.
Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and made her...
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Mrs. Henderson Presents | ||
| Reese Witherspoon | 2005 |
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Reese Witherspoon was born in March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisana. She is an Academy Award Winner actress and a film producer. Her career began at an early age doing television commercials and modeling. Her first big role was in 1990 with the...
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Walk the Line | ||
| Annette Bening | 2004 |
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Annette Francine Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress.
Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives...
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Being Julia | ||
| Catalina Sandino Moreno | 2004 |
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Catalina Sandino Moreno (born April 19, 1981) is a Colombian actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Maria Full of Grace.
Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother and a cattle breeder...
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Maria Full of Grace | ||
| Kate Winslet | 2004 |
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. Winslet made her film debut starring in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). She achieved recognition in a supporting role in Ang Lee's adaption of Sense...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | ||
| Imelda Staunton | 2004 |
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Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE, (born 9 January 1956) is an English actress best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Vera...
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Vera Drake | ||
| Hilary Swank | 2004 |
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Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994), where she played Julie Pierce, the first female...
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Million Dollar Baby | ||
| Keisha Castle-Hughes | 2003 |
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Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is a New Zealand film actress who rose to prominence playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana, in the 2002 film Whale Rider. She was cast as Pai at the age of eleven. Whale Rider was nominated for many awards, including...
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Whale Rider | ||
| Diane Keaton | 2003 |
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Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972),...
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Something's Gotta Give | ||
| Samantha Morton | 2003 |
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Samantha Jane Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress and film director.
A campaigner for social justice, she is an ambassador for the Save the Children organisation. Because of her acting and commitment to political activism, a Sunday Times...
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In America | ||
| Naomi Watts | 2003 |
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Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British-Australian actress. Watts began her career in Australian Television, where she appeared in commercials and series, including the soap opera Home and Away, the award winning mini-series Brides...
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21 Grams | ||
| Charlize Theron | 2003 |
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Charlize Theron (pronounced /ʃɑrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/; born August 7, 1975) is a South African actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She became an American citizen in 2007.
She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the...
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Monster | ||
| Salma Hayek | 2002 |
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Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican actress, director, and television and film producer. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.
Hayek is...
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Frida | ||
| Diane Lane | 2002 |
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Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress born and raised in New York City. Lane made her screen debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Laurence Olivier. Soon after, she was featured on the...
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Unfaithful | ||
| Julianne Moore | 2002 |
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Julianne Moore (born December 3, 1960) is an American actress.
She began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera, As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in...
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Far from Heaven | ||
| Renée Zellweger | 2002 |
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Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best...
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Chicago | ||
| Nicole Kidman | 2002 |
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Nicole Kidman was born in June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents are from Australia, where she lived a long part of her life, and she has both nationalities: American and Australian. Growing up she was always interested in acting and made...
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The Hours | ||
| Judi Dench | 2001 |
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is a legendary English film, stage and television actress.
Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and made her...
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Iris | ||
| Sissy Spacek | 2001 |
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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an American actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman.
International prominence would soon follow in the...
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In the Bedroom | ||
| Nicole Kidman | 2001 |
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Nicole Kidman was born in June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents are from Australia, where she lived a long part of her life, and she has both nationalities: American and Australian. Growing up she was always interested in acting and made...
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Moulin Rouge! | ||
| Renée Zellweger | 2001 |
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Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best...
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Bridget Jones's Diary | ||
| Halle Berry | 2001 |
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Halle Berry (pronounced /ˈhæli ˈbɛri/; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy...
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Monster's Ball | ||
| Joan Allen | 2000 |
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Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading...
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The Contender | ||
| Juliette Binoche | 2000 |
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Juliette Binoche (French pronunciation: [ʒylijɛt biˈnɔʃ]; born 9 March 1964) is a French film actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1983. While starting on the stage during her teens, Binoche had a dramatic education. After founding...
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Chocolat | ||
| Ellen Burstyn | 2000 |
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Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American stage and film actress.
Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie (née Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly, who was a building contractor. She describes...
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Requiem for a Dream | ||
| Laura Linney | 2000 |
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Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and...
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You Can Count on Me | ||
| Julia Roberts | 2000 |
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Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide. After receiving Academy...
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Erin Brockovich | ||
| Annette Bening | 1999 |
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Annette Francine Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress.
Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley, a church singer and soloist, and Grant Bening, a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives...
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American Beauty | ||
| Meryl Streep | 1999 |
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.
Streep made her professional...
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Music of the Heart | ||
| Julianne Moore | 1999 |
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Julianne Moore (born December 3, 1960) is an American actress.
She began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera, As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in...
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The End of the Affair | ||
| Janet McTeer | 1999 |
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Janet McTeer, OBE (born 5 August 1961) is a British actress.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Europe, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre...
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Tumbleweeds | ||
| Hilary Swank | 1999 |
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Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994), where she played Julie Pierce, the first female...
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Boys Don't Cry | ||
| Cate Blanchett | 1998 |
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Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two SAGs, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th...
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Elizabeth | ||
| Emily Watson | 1998 |
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Emily Anita Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She made an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves.
Watson was born in Islington, London, England, the daughter of an architect father and an English...
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Hilary and Jackie | ||
| Meryl Streep | 1998 |
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.
Streep made her professional...
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One True Thing | ||
| Fernanda Montenegro | 1998 |
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Fernanda Montenegro (born Arlete Pinheiro Esteves da Silva; October 16, 1929) is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress, mostly recognized for her leading role in Central Station.
She is commonly revered as one of Brazil's finest actresses...
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Central Station | ||
| Gwyneth Paltrow | 1998 |
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress.
The daughter of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, Paltrow dropped out of her university to follow an acting career. She began her career in theatre in 1990, and made her film...
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Shakespeare in Love | ||
| Helena Bonham Carter | 1997 |
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Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Bonham Carter made her film debut in the K. M. Peyton film, A Pattern of Roses, before appearing in her first leading role in Lady Jane. She is best known for her portrayals of Lucy...
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The Wings of the Dove | ||
| Kate Winslet | 1997 |
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. Winslet made her film debut starring in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). She achieved recognition in a supporting role in Ang Lee's adaption of Sense...
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Titanic | ||
| Judi Dench | 1997 |
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is a legendary English film, stage and television actress.
Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and made her...
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Mrs. Brown | ||
| Julie Christie | 1997 |
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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India,...
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Afterglow | ||
| Helen Hunt | 1997 |
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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, for which she won the Academy...
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As Good as It Gets | ||
