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1. Robert De Niro
Actor |
Raging Bull Other Lists by maztergamer
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2. Meryl Streep
Actress |
Sophie's Choice

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress,

Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an
 
astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Films I have seen in
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3. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor |
There Will Be Blood

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the

second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (pseudonym Cecil Day-Lewis),
Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon.
His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important

figure in the history of British cinema and ...

My Left Foot

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4. Dustin Hoffman
Actor |
The Graduate

Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian

(Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and
prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish
family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman

graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...

Rain Man

5. Ben Kingsley
Actor |
Sexy Beast

Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in

Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji
Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian
descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an

English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...

Gandhi

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6. Shirley MacLaine
Actress |
Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond,

Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama
teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens
Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from

Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...

Terms Of Endearment

7. F. Murray Abraham
Actor |
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham was born on

October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in El
Paso, Texas. His father, Fred Abraham, was a Syrian (Antiochian
Orthodox Christian) immigrant. His mother, Josephine (Stello)

Abraham, was the daughter of Italian immigrants. Born...

Amadeus

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8. Kenneth Branagh
Actor |
Henry V

Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in

Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber
and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has
two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh

(born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...

Henry V

9. Dustin Hoffman
Actor |
The Graduate

Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian

(Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and
prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish
family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman

graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...

Tootsie

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10. Meryl Streep

Actress |
Sophie's Choice

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress,

Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an
astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born
Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf

(Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

French Lieutenant's Woman

11. Dennis Hopper

Actor |
Easy Rider

With an amazing cinematic career of more than five decades,

Dennis Hopper was a multi-talented and unconventional
actor/director, regarded by many as one of the true "enfants
terribles" of Hollywood. Hopper was born on May 17, 1936 in

Dodge City, Kansas, to Marjorie Mae (Davis) and James Millard ...

Blue Velvet

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12. Sissy Spacek

Actress |
In the Bedroom

As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and

played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on
December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances
(Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural
agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.

...

Coal Miner's Daughter

13. John Hurt

Actor |
Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight,

gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on
January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in
Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an

engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

The Elephant Man

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14. Henry Fonda

Actor |
12 Angry Men

Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Henry Fonda started his acting

debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur
theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. He moved to the
Cape Cod University Players and later Broadway, New York to

expand his theatrical career from 1926 to 1934. His first ...

On Golden Pond

15. Katharine Hepburn

Actress |
The Lion in Winter

Katharine Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford,

Connecticut to a suffragist and a doctor who both always
encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise
her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a child, she

was very close to her brother Tom; at 14 she was ...

On Golden Pond

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16. Robert De Niro

Actor |
Raging Bull

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born
on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists
Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather
was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English,

Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

The King Of Comedy

17. Willem Dafoe

Actor |
Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career,

Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility,
boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our
time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads

him to projects all over the world, large ...

Platoon

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18. Michael Douglas

Actor |
Behind the Candelabra

An actor with over fifty years of experience in theatre, film, and

television, Michael Douglas branched out into independent
feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Since then, as a producer

and as an actor-producer, he has shown an uncanny ...

Wall Street

19. Meryl Streep

Actress |
Sophie's Choice

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress,

Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an
astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born
Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf

(Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

Silkwood

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20. Burt Lancaster

Actor |
From Here to Eternity

Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to

Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker.
All of his grandparents were immigrants from Northern Ireland.
He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in

gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...

Atlantic City

21. Jack Nicholson

Actor |
Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and

screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-
time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two
actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an

Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...

The Shining

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22. Robert Duvall

Actor |
The Apostle

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on

January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an
amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military
officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at

Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...

Tender Mercies

23. Albert Finney

Actor |
Murder on the Orient Express

The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to

motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to
RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan
Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in

plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...

Under The Volcano

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24. Sally Field

Actress |
Forrest Gump

Sally Margaret Field was born in 1946 in Pasadena, California, to

actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard
Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then
married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter,

Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, Richard Field...

Places In The Heart

25. Robert De Niro

Actor |
Raging Bull

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born
on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists
Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather
was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English,

Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

Once Upon A Time In America

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