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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film. Actors of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.
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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...
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Celia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress.
She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films,...
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...
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Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her roles in the films The Tamarind Seed, Ice Cold in Alex, No Trees in the Street and Woman in a Dressing Gown, and is remembered by most for her film works...
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many...
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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Although she starred in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater.
Page was born in...
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Angela Lansbury
Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned seven decades. Her first film appearance was in Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy Award nomination as a malevolent maid,...
Virginia Maskell
Virginia Elizabeth Maskell (27 February 1936 in Shepherd's Bush – 25 January 1968 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital), was an English actress.
After the outbreak of World War II, Maskell's family were evacuated to South Africa. After the war she returned...
Rachel Roberts
Rachel Roberts (20 September 1927 – 26 November 1980) was a Welsh actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts gave forthright performances in two key films of the 1960s.
After a Baptist upbringing (against which she rebelled), followed by the...
Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (French pronunciation: [simɔn siɲɔˈʀɛ]) (25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in...
Vivien Merchant
Vivien Merchant (22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982) was a British actress, who was born Ada Thompson. She performed in many stage productions and films, including Alfie (1966) and Frenzy (1972). Her performance in Alfie earned her Academy Award and...
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Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March 1943) is an English actress.
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn Redgrave trained in London, before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid 1960s she had appeared in several films,...
Pamela Franklin
Pamela Franklin (born 4 February 1950) is a British actress who appeared in films from 1961 until 1976.
Franklin was born in Yokohama, Japan, and grew up in the Far East, where her father was a trader. She was sent to the Elmhurst School of Ballet...
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...
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw, CBE (born 6 June 1932) is an English actress of both stage and film. The actress has won multiple BAFTA awards and Evening Standard British Film Awards for her film work and has appeared in many theatrical productions in a career...
Pat Heywood
Patricia Heywood (born 1 January 1927 in Gretna Green, Scotland) is a British character actress who has appeared in stage productions, movies, and television.
She was born as one of five children to John David Heywood who was an engineer. In her...
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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, excluding a 15 year hiatus, has appeared...
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Susannah York
Susannah York (born 9 January 1939) is an English film, stage and television actress.
York was born as Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London in 1939. The daughter of businessman Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher and his wife Joan Nita Mary...
Mary Wimbush
Mary Wimbush (19 March 1924, Kenton, Middlesex — 31 October 2005, Birmingham, West Midlands) was an English actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was perhaps...
Evin Crowley
Evin Crowley (born 5 December 1945) is a Northern Irish actress. She was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
Crowley started acting as an amateur at a small theatre, later to become the Lyric Theatre, in Belfast, before later being chosen to play the...
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Julie Christie
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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Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946, London) is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her numerous appearances in film and television dramas. She has also developed a second career as a cake decorator and cake shop proprietor. ...
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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...
Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was a two-time Tony Award-winning English leading actress with an exquisite sense of grandeur and refinement. She created the role of Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana...
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...
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Jenny Agutter
Jennifer Ann Agutter (born 20 December 1952) is a BAFTA- and Emmy award-winning English actress best known in recent years for her role as Tessa Phillips in the British TV drama series Spooks (broadcast on American PBS television and released on DVD...
Marisa Berenson
Marisa Berenson (born February 15, 1947, New York City) is an American actress and model.
Marisa Berenson is the elder daughter of Robert L. Berenson, an American diplomat turned shipping executive, who was of Lithuanian Jewish descent; his family's...
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Delphine Seyrig
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (April 10, 1932, Beirut, Lebanon – October 15, 1990) was a stage and film actress and a film director.
Seyrig was the daughter of an archaeologist Henry Seyrig and Hermine de Saussure, the sister of the composer...
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Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American actress.
Sidney, born Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, New York, was the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a...
Rosemary Leach
Rosemary Leach (born 18 December 1935) is a British stage, television and film actress.
She was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her parents were teachers related to Edmund Leach. She attended grammar school and RADA. After appearing in repertory...
Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa (born 1 January 1925 in Milan) is an Italian actress.
In her US career she starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William...
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Cindy Williams
Cynthia Jane "Cindy" Williams (born August 22, 1947) is an American actress best known for starring in the television situation-comedy series Laverne & Shirley, in the role of "Shirley Feeney".
Williams was born in Van Nuys, California, to John and...
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Ronee Blakley
Ronee Blakley (born August 24 1945) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and director.
Ronee Blakley was born in Nampa Idaho, daughter of civil engineer Ronald Blakley and his wife Carol.
Blakley’s early years were spent...
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Gwen Welles
Gwen Welles (March 4, 1947 - October 13, 1993) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as Gwen Goldberg, not, as has been misreported, the daughter of Rebecca Welles (1944-2004), which is impossible, but...
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Lelia Goldoni
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Annette Crosbie
Annette Crosbie, OBE (born 12 February 1934) is a Scottish character actress.
Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress. Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic...
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Geraldine Chaplin
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominated actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.
Geraldine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California, the first child of actor/director Charlie Chaplin and Oona...
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Georgia Engel
Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948) is an American film, television, and stage actress.
Engel was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ruth Caroline (née Hendron) and Benjamin Franklin Engel, who was a Coast Guard officer, eventually...
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an American actress.
Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the...
Mona Washbourne
Mona Washbourne (born 27 November 1903, Birmingham - died 15 November 1988, London) was an English actress of stage, film and television.
Mona Washbourne began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. While performing on stage in the...
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Mariel Hemingway
Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress, businessperson and writer.
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) Hemingway and John 'Jack' Hadley Nicanor Hemingway,...
Lisa Eichhorn
Lisa Eichhorn is an American actress born February 4, 1952, in Reading, Pennsylvania. She was divorced from John Curless in 1979.
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Eileen Brennan
Eileen Brennan (born September 3, 1932) is an American actress of film, television, and theater.
Brennan was born as Verla Eileen Regina Brennen in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Regina "Jeanne" Menehan, a silent film actress, and John Gerald...
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...
Teri Garr
Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American actress and comedienne.
Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio. Her father, Eddie Garr (né Gonnoud), was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over...
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Rohini Hattangadi
Rohini Hattangadi (born April 11, 1955) is an Indian film, Marathi theatre and television actress. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is mostly known for being the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best...
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Maureen Lipman
Maureen Diane Lipman CBE (born 10 May 1946) is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist, and comedienne.
Lipman was born in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma...
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Julie Walters
Julie Walters, CBE (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and novelist.
Walters was born as Julia Mary Walters in Smethwick, Birmingham, the daughter of Mary Bridget (née O'Brien), a postal clerk of Irish Catholic extraction, and Thomas...
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress, film director, and film producer.
Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting...
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'...
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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...
Liz Smith
Betty Smith, MBE (born 11 December 1921) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress, known as Liz Smith, best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family, and who also appeared in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate...
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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...
Holly Hunter
Holly P. Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Her films include Raising Arizona, Broadcast News, Always, and The Piano for which she won several acting awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress. She stars in the cable...
Anne Archer
Anne Archer (born August 24, 1947) is an American actress. Archer is noted for her role as the betrayed housewife in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction for which she received an Academy Award nomination. As a member of the ensemble cast in the film...
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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...
Susan Wooldridge
Susan Wooldridge (born July 31, 1952), is the daughter of British actress Margaretta Scott and composer John Wooldridge. She is also the sister of Hugh Wooldridge.
She was born in London, England, and educated at convent schools.
Wooldridge has been...
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Cher
Cher (pronounced /ˈʃɛr/; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice...
Maria Aitken
Maria Aitken (born 12 September 1945) is an English actress and director.
Aitken was born in Dublin, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and socialite Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. She is a great...
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (pronounced /ˈfаɪfər/; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. She made her screen début in 1980, but first garnered mainstream attention with her appearance in Scarface (1983). She rose to prominence during the late...
