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Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting 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. Since its inception,...
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Penélope Cruz
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...
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films.
Swinton was born in London, England. Her mother, Judith Balfour (née Killen), was Australian, and her father, Major-General...
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an American recording artist, actress and model. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of the Fox reality television series American Idol. She made her film debut...
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Hannah Weisz (pronounced /ˈvaɪs/ "vyess"; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress and model. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. In 2001, she...
Cate Blanchett
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...
Renée Zellweger
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...
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta Jones (pronounced /ˈziːtə/ "zeeta"; born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress, currently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small...
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American film actress and former child model. Although starring as early as a teenager in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she gained critical...
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. She has appeared in films, television, and the theatre. Harden is a winner of the Tony Award and the Academy Award.
Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, San Diego,...
Angelina Jolie
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....
Judi Dench
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...
Kim Basinger
Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger (pronounced /ˈbeɪsɪŋər/ BAY-sing-ər, often mispronounced /ˈbæsɪndʒər/ bass-in-jər; born December 8, 1953) is an American film actress and former fashion model.
Following her role as a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again ...
Juliette Binoche
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...
Mira Sorvino
Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 68th Academy Awards for her performance in Mighty Aphrodite (1995).
Sorvino was born and raised in New York. She is...
Anna Paquin
Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is a New Zealand actress. Her breakthrough performance was in the New Zealand film The Piano, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994, making her the second youngest winner in...
Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American stage, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting...
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Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television and film actress.
Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. Her father was an FBI agent and her mother, also named Mercedes, was a school teacher. She was...
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in...
Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker (born February 17, 1945) is an Academy Award winning Irish actress.
Her mother, Bina, was a teacher at Stratford College, and her father, Desmond, was an officer in the Department of Agriculture and a journalist for The Irish Times....
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Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist.
Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, USA, the daughter of Lucille,...
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is an American actress.
Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra (née Christos) and Constantine S. Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants to the United States, her father from...
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has had a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award....
Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress and former fashion model.
Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston,...
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress.
Born as Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon, Ashcroft attended the Woodford School, Croydon and the Central School of Speech and Drama. A prolific stage actress...
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously.
Hunt was born in Morristown, New Jersey and grew up in Westport...
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Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American stage and screen actress. With a career that has spanned thirty-five years and six Academy Award nominations (including two wins), she may be most notable for her performances in Frances,...
Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress in film, theater and television. She was also elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Stapleton was born in Troy, New York, the daughter of Irene (née Walsh) and...
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress.
Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, the daughter of Nell, a school-board secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor who worked at the Missouri Pacific...
Meryl Streep
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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Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is an English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 57 years. Considered to be one of world's...
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Oscar winning English actress of stage, film and television. She is a member of the Redgrave family, the world-renowned theatrical dynasty. A former Trotskyist and leading member of the Workers'...
Beatrice Straight
Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress.
Born in Old Westbury, New York, Straight is the daughter of investment banker Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney. She...
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Lee Grant
Lee Grant (born October 31, 1927) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, the daughter of...
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress noted for her starring roles in American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female...
Tatum O'Neal
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She remains, at the age of 10, the youngest actor to win a competitive Academy Award.
O'Neal was born in Los Angeles,...
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Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart (March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.
Heckart was born Anna Eileen Heckart in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther (née Stark) and Leo Herbert. She was legally adopted by her...
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of only ten people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an...
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jean Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director and producer, whose career has spanned nearly four decades. Hawn is perhaps best known for her roles in Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Wildcats, Overboard, Bird on a Wire,...
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, the eccentric life-loving...
Estelle Parsons
Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American theatre, film and television actress, and occasional theatrical director.
After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the...
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Sandy Dennis
Sandra Dale “Sandy” Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American theater and film actress.
Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska, the daughter of Yvonne, a secretary, and Jack Dennis, a postal clerk. She had a brother, Frank. A high...
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Lila Kedrova
Lila Kedrova (Russian: Ли́ля Кедро́ва) (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Russian-born French actress.
Though born in Petrograd, Russia, Kedrova spent most of her life in France.
In 1932, she joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company....
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Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest....
Patty Duke
Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was able to make the rare successful transition from child star (winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16) to award...
Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of ten performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to...
Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man. She won the Academy...
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Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television.
Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Jewish parents Rose (née...
Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage...
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Miyoshi Umeki
Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, Umeki Miyoshi, or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki (May 8, 1929 – August 28, 2007)) was a naturalized American actress and standards singer. She was best known for her roles as Katsumi, the wife of Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), in the 1957...
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Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone (born January 30, 1925) is an American actress.
Malone's film career began in the mid 1940s, and in her early years she played small roles, mainly in B-movies. After a decade in films, she began to acquire a more glamorous image,...
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Jo Van Fleet
Jo Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American theatre and film actress.
Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role,...
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Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway and television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), and later appeared...
Donna Reed
Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American film and television actress.
Reed was born Donna Belle Mullenger on a farm near Denison, Iowa, the daughter of Hazel Jane (née Shives) and William Richard Mullenger. The eldest of five...
Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress.
Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she...
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Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951...
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull (3 January 1886 – 12 March 1957) was an American actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film.
Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts. She attended...
Mercedes McCambridge
Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004), nicknamed Mercy, was an American film actress, also known for her acting in radio dramas. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress."
McCambridge was born in...
Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910 - April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She appeared in over 60 films....
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917) is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve (1950).
Born in...
