TOP 100 Actors and Actresses Working Today: 2017

1. Meryl Streep

Born: June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, USA 
Academy Award recognition: 19 nominations | 3 wins
Distinguished performances: 

• Kramer Vs Kramer (1979)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• Ironweed (1987)
• The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• The Iron Lady (2011)
• August: Osage County (2013)

2. Daniel Day-Lewis

Born: April 29, 1957 in Greenwich, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations | 3 wins
Distinguished performances:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Boxer (1997)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Lincoln (2012)

3. Denzel Washington

Born: December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Cry Freedom (1987)
• Glory (1989)
• Malcom X (1992)
• The Hurricane (1999)
• Training Day (2001)
• Flight (2012)
• Fences (2016)

4. Jack Nicholson

Born: April 22, 1937 in Neptune, New Jersey, USA
Academy Award recognition: 12 nominations | 3 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Easy Rider (1969)
• Chinatown (1974)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Batman (1989)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• The Departed (2006)

5. Cate Blanchett

Born: May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Elizabeth (1998)
• Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
• The Aviator (2004)
• Notes on a Scandal (2006)
• I'm Not There (2007)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Blue Jasmine (2013)
• Carol (2015)

6. Kate Winslet

Born: October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Titanic (1997)
• Quills (2000)
• Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• The Reader (2008)
• Carnage (2011)
• Steve Jobs (2015)

7. Tilda Swinton

Born: November 5, 1960 in London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Orlando (1992)
• The Deep End (2001)
• Michael Clayton (2007)
• Julia (2008)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• I Am Love (2009)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
• Snowpiercer (2013)

8. Gary Oldman

Born: March 21, 1958 in New Cross, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
• State of Grace (1990)
• Léon: The Professional (1994)
• The Contender (2000)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

9. Glenn Close

Born: March 19, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The World According to Garp (1982)
• The Big Chill (1983)
• The Natural (1984)
• Fatal Attraction (1987)
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Meeting Venus (1991)
• Albert Nobbs (2011)

10. Michael Fassbender

Born: April 2, 1977 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Hunger (2008)
• Fish Tank (2009)
• Shame (2011)
• Prometheus (2012)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Steve Jobs (2015)
• Macbeth (2015)

11. Nicole Kidman

Born: June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• To Die For (1995)
• Moulin Rouge! (2001)
• The Others (2001)
• The Hours (2002)
• Birth (2004)
• Rabbit Hole (2010)
• The Paperboy (2012)
• Lion (2016)

12. Michelle Pfeiffer

Born: April 29, 1958 in Santa Ana, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Married to the Mob (1988)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
• Batman Returns (1992)
• Love Field (1992)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• White Oleander (2002)
• Chéri (2009)

13. Joaquin Phoenix

Born: October 28, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances: 

• Gladiator (2000)
• Quills (2000)
• Walk the Line (2005)
• Two Lovers (2008)
• The Master (2012)
• Her (2013)
• Inherent Vice (2014)

14. Viola Davis

Born: August 11, 1965 in Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Solaris (2002)
• Antwone Fisher (2002)
• Doubt (2008)
• The Help (2011)
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
• Get on Up (2014)
• Fences (2016)

15. Isabelle Adjani

Born: June 27, 1955 in Paris, France
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Story of Adèle H. (1975)
• Possession (1981)
• One Deadly Summer (1983)
• Camille Claudel (1988)
• Queen Margot (1994)
• Adolphe (2002)
• La Journée de la jupe (2008)

16. Jake Gyllenhaal

Born: December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Jarhead (2005)
• End of Watch (2012)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Enemy (2013)
• Nightcrawler (2014)
• Nocturnal Animals (2016)

17. Jane Fonda

Born: December 21, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Period of Adjustment (1962)
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
• Klute (1971)
• Julia (1977)
• Coming Home (1978)
• On Golden Pound (1981)
• The Morning After (1986)
• Youth (2015)

18. Ralph Fiennes

Born: December 22, 1962 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Schindler's List (1993)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Sunshine (1999)
• Red Dragon (2002)
• The Constant Gardener (2005)
• The Duchess (2008)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• A Bigger Splash (2016)

19. Julianne Moore

Born: December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Safe (1995)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• The End of the Affair (1999)
• The Hours (2002)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• A Single Man (2009)
• Maps to the Stars (2014)
• Still Alice (2014)

20. Kevin Spacey

Born: July 26, 1959 in South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Swimming with Sharks (1994)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Se7en (1995)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• American Beauty (1999)
• The Shipping News (2001)
• Casino Jack (2010)

21. Tom Hanks

Born: July 9, 1956 in Concord, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Big (1988)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Cast Away (2001)
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Sully (2016)

22. Marion Cotillard

Born: September 30, 1975 in Paris, France
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
• La môme (2007)
• Nine (2009)
• Inception (2010)
• De rouille et d'os (2012)
• The Immigrant (2013)
• Deux jours, une nuit (2014)
• Macbeth (2015)

23. Robert DeNiro

Born: August 17, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 2 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• Meet the Parents (2000)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

24. Greta Gerwig

Born: August 4, 1983 in Sacramento, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Nights and Weekends (2008)
• Greenberg (2010)
• Damsels in Distress (2011)
• Frances Ha (2013)
• Mistress America (2015)
• Maggie's Plan (2016)
• 20th Century Women (2016)

25. Javier Bardem

Born: March 1, 1969 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Jámon Jámon (1992)
• Before Night Falls (2000)
• Los lunes al sol (2002)
• Mar adentro (2004)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
• Biutiful (2010)
• Skyfall (2012)

26. Judi Dench

Born: December 9, 1934 in York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• A Room with a View (1985)
• Mrs Brown (1997)
• Chocolat (2000)
• Iris (2001)
• Notes on a Scandal (2006)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
• Skyfall (2012)
• Philomena (2013)

27. Michelle Williams

Born: September 9, 1980 in Kalispell, Montana, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Land of Plenty (2004)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Wendy and Lucy (2008)
• Blue Valentine (2010)
• My Week with Marilyn (2011)
• Take This Waltz (2012)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)

28. Isabelle Huppert

Born: March 16, 1953 in Paris, France
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• La dentellière (1977)
• Loulou (1980)
• Une affaire de femmes (1988)
• Madame Bovary (1991)
• La pianiste (2001)
• White Material (2009)
• L'avenir (2016)
• Elle (2016)

29. Dustin Hoffman

Born: August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• The Graduate (1967)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Rain Man (1988)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Barney's Version (2011)

30. Al Pacino

Born: April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 8 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Godfather (1972)
• Serpico (1973)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Scent of a Woman (1992)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Donnie Brasco (1997)
• Danny Collins (2015)

31. Jessica Chastain

Born: March 24, 1977 in Sacramento, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Help (2011)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• The Debt (2011)
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
• A Most Violent Year (2014)
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2013)
• Miss Sloane (2016)

32. Ellen Burstyn 

Born: December 7, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
• Same Time, Next Year (1978)
• Silence of the North (1981)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• The Stone Angel (2007)

33. Sean Penn

Born: August 17, 1960 in Santa Monica, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• At Close Range (1986)
• Carlito's Way (1993)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
• I Am Sam (2001)
• Mystic River (2003)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Milk (2008)

34. Hugo Weaving

Born: April 4, 1960 in Ibadan, Nigeria
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Proof (1991)
• The Interview (1998)
• Little Fish (2005)
• Last Ride (2009)
• Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
• The Turning (2013)
• Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

35. Catherine Deneuve

Born: October 22, 1943 in Paris, France
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
• Belle de jour (1967)
• Le dernier métro (1980)
• Indochine (1992)
• Place Vendôme (1998)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Elle s'en va (2013)
• La tête haute (2015)

36. Morgan Freeman

Born: June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Street Smart (1987)
• Glory (1989)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Se7en (1995)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Invictus (2009)

37. Annette Bening

Born: May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Grifters (1990)
• Bugsy (1991)
• The American President (1995)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Being Julia (2004)
• The Kids Are All Right (2010)
• 20th Century Women (2016)

38. Samantha Morton

Born: May 13, 1977 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Under the Skin (1997)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
• Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
• In America (2002)
• Morvern Callar (2002)
• Control (2007)
• The Messenger (2009)

39. Jessica Lange

Born: April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Frances (1982)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Sweet Dreams (1985)
• Music Box (1989)
• Blue Sky (1994)
• Titus (1999)
• In Secret (2013)

40. Naomi Watts

Born: September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Mulholland Dr. (2001)
• The Ring (2002)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• King Kong (2005)
• The Painted Veil (2006)
• Mother and Child (2009)
• The Impossible (2012) 

41. Michael Shannon

Born: August 7, 1974 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Bug (2006)
• Shotgun Stories (2007)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• The Runaways (2010)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• 99 Homes (2015)
• Nocturnal Animals (2016)

42. Edward Norton

Born: August 18, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Primal Fear (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• American History X (1998)
• Fight Club (1999)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• The Painted Veil (2006)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

43. Gael García Bernal

Born: November 30, 1978 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Amores Perros (2000)
• Y tu mamá también (2001)
• Bad Education (2004)
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
• Babel (2006)
• The Science of Sleep (2006)
• No (2012)
• Neruda (2016)

44. Toni Colette

Born: November 1, 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Muriel's Wedding (1994)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• The Hours (2002)
• About a Boy (2002)
• Japanese Story (2003)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• The Black Baloon (2008)
• Glassland (2016)

45. Shirley MacLaine

Born: April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations (for acting) | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Some Came Running (1958)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Irma de la Douce (1963)
• The Turning Point (1977)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Madame Sousatzka (1988)
• Postcards from the Edge (1990)
• In Her Shoes (2005)

46. Juliette Binoche

Born: March 9, 1964 in Paris, France
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• Three Colors: Blue (1993)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Chocolat (2000)
• Caché (2005)
• Certified Copy (2010)
• Camille Claudel (2013)
• Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

47. Jeff Bridges

Born: December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 7 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
• American Heart (1992)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• The Contender (2000)
• Crazy Heart (2009)
• True Grit (2010)
• Hell or High Water (2016)

48. Leonardo DiCaprio

Born: November 11, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations (for acting) | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Departed (2006)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• Inception (2010)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• The Revenant (2015)

49. Julie Christie

Born: April 14, 1940 in Chabua, Assam Province, British India 
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Darling (1965)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• Afterglow (1997)
• Finding Neverland (2004)
• Away from Her (2007)

50. Carmen Maura

Born: September 15, 1945 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Law of Desire (1987)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
• ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)
• Shadows in a Conflict (1993)
• Lisboa (1999)
• Common Wealth (2000)
• Volver (2006)
• The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)

51. Ryan Gosling

Born: November 12, 1980 in London, Ontario, Canada
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Believer (2001)
• Half Nelson (2006)
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
• Blue Valentine (2010)
• The Ides of March (2011)
• Drive (2011)
• The Nice Guys (2016)
• La La Land (2016)

52. Michael Caine

Born: March 14, 1933 in Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Alfie (1966)
• Sleuth (1972)
• Educating Rita (1983)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Little Voice (1998)
• The Cider House Rules (1999)
• The Quiet American (2002)
• Youth (2015)

53. Giancarlo Giannini

Born: August 1, 1942 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore (1972)
• Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza... (1973)
• Seven Beauties (1975)
• Mi manda Picone (1984)
• Come due coccodrilli (1994)
• Celluloide (1996)
• Ti voglio bene Eugenio (2002)
• The Good Italian II: The Prince Goes to Milan (2016)

54. Diane Keaton

Born: January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Annie Hall (1977)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Reds (1981)
• Shoot the Moon (1982)
• Baby Boom (1987)
• Marvin's Room (1996)
• Something's Gotta Give (2003)
• The Family Stone (2005)

55. Geoffrey Rush

Born: July 6, 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Shine (1996)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Elizabeth (1998)
• Quills (2000)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Candy (2006)
• The King's Speech (2010)
• The Eye of the Storm (2011)

56. Vanessa Redgrave

Born: January 30, 1937 in Greenwich, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Morgan: A Suitable Case of Treatment (1966)
• Isadora (1968)
• Mary, Queen of Scotts (1971)
• Julia (1977)
• Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
• Howard's End (1992)
• Atonement (2007)
• Coriolanus (2011)

57. Scarlett Johansson

Born: November 22, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Ghost World (2001)
• Lost In Translation (2003)
• Girl With Pearl Earring (2003)
• A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
• Match Point (2005)
• Don Jon (2013)
• Her (2013)
• Under the Skin (2014)

58. Gong Li

Born: December 31, 1965 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
• The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)
• To Live (1994)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
• Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (2006)
• Coming Home (2014)

59. Sissy Spacek

Born: December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas, USA
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Carrie (1976)
• 3 Women (1977)
• Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
• Missing (1982)
• Crimes of the Heart (1986)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• In the Bedroom (2001)
• Get Low (2009)

60. Sonia Braga

Born: June 8, 1950 in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (1976)
• Eu Te Amo (1981)
• Gabriela (1983)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Moon Over Parador (1988)
• Memórias Póstumas (2001)
• Aquarius (2016)

61. Holly Hunter

Born: March 20, 1958 in Conyers, Georgia, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Broadcast News (1987)
• The Firm (1993)
• The Piano (1993)
• Living Out Loud (1998)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• Thirteen (2003)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• Strange Weather (2016)

62. Tom Wilkinson

Born: February 5, 1948 in Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Full Monty (1997)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• In the Bedroom (2001)
• Separate Lies (2005)
• Michael Clayton (2007)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
• Felony (2014)

63. Maria de Medeiros

Born: August 19, 1965 in Lisbon, Portugal
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Henry & June (1990)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Três Irmãos (1994)
• The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
• Il resto di niente (2004)
• Riparo (2007)
• Viagem a Portugal (2012)

64. Russell Crowe

Born: April 7, 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• The Insider (1999)
• Gladiator (2000)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Cinderella Man (2005)
• 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
• American Gangster (2007)
• The Nice Guys (2016)

65. Susan Sarandon

Born: October 4, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Atlantic City, USA (1980)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
• The Client (1994)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Igby Goes Down (2002)
• The Lovely Bones (2009)

66. Benicio Del Toro

Born: February 19, 1967 in San Germán, Puerto Rico
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Basquiat (1996)
• Traffic (2000)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Che: Part One (2008)
• Che: Part Two (2008)
• Sicario (2015)

67. Helen Mirren

Born: 26 July 1945 in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Cal (1984)
• The Madness of King George (1994)
• Gosford Park (2001)
• Calendar Girls (2003)
• The Queen (2006)
• The Last Station (2009)
• Hitchcock (2012)
• Trumbo (2015)

68. Charlotte Rampling

Born: February 5, 1946 in Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• On ne meurt que deux fois (1985)
• Under the Sand (2000)
• Swimming Pool (2003)
• Lemming (2005)
• The Eye of the Storm (2011)
• Melancholia (2011)
• 45 Years (2015)

69. Charlize Theron

Born: August 7, 1975 in Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Cider House Rules (1999)
• Monster (2003)
• North Country (2005)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• Young Adult (2011)
• Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

70. Emma Thompson

Born: 15 April 1959 in Paddington, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations (for acting) | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Howard's End (1992)
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• Sense & Sensibility (1995)
• Love Actually (2003)
• Stranger than Fiction (2006)
• Brideshead Revisited (2008)
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

71. Tom Hardy

Born: September 15, 1977 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Bronson (2008)
• Inception (2010)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
• Warrior (2011)
• Locke (2013)
• Legend (2015)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• The Revenant (2015)

72. Emily Blunt

Born: February 23, 1983 in Roehampton, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• My Summer of Love (2004)
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• The Young Victoria (2009)
• Your Sister's Sister (2011)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
• Into the Woods (2014)
• Sicario (2015)
• The Girl on the Train (2016)

73. Amy Adams

Born: August 20, 1974 in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Academy Award recognition: 5 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Junebug (2005)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Doubt (2008)
• The Fighter (2010)
• The Master (2012)
• American Hustle (2013)
• Big Eyes (2014)
• Arrival (2016)

74. Johnny Depp

Born: June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Donnie Brasco (1997)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Finding Neverland (2004)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
• Public Enemies (2009)
• Black Mass (2015)

75. Tadanobu Asano

Born: November 27, 1973 in Yokohama, Japan
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Acri (1996)
• Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (2003)
• Zatôichi (2003)
• Kâbê (2008)
• Viyon no tsuma (2009)
• My Man (2014)
• Journey to the Shore (2015)

76. Mads Mikkelsen

Born: November 22, 1965 in Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Elsker dig for evigt (2002)
• Pusher II (2004)
• Efter brylluppet (2006)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Flammen & Citronen (2008)
• The Hunt (2012)
• A Royal Affair (2012)

77. Christian Bale

Born: January 30, 1974 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• American Psycho (2000)
• The Machinist (2004)
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Fighter (2010)
• American Hustle (2013)
• The Big Short (2015)

78. Anthony Hopkins

Born: December 31, 1937 in Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Magic (1978)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• Nixon (1995)
• Amistad (1997)
• Proof (2005)
• Hitchcock (2012)

79. Dianne Wiest

Born: March 28, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Radio Days (1987)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• Rabbit Hole (2010)

80. Maggie Smith

Born: December 28, 1934 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 6 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Othello (1965)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
• Travels with My Aunt (1972)
• California Suite (1978)
• A Room with a View (1986)
• Gosford Park (2001)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
• Lady in the Van (2015)

81. Max von Sydow

Born: April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• Hawai (1966)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Pelle, The Conqueror (1987)
• Hamsun (1996)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

82. Rachel Weisz

Born: March 7, 1970 in Westminster, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Sunshine (1999)
• The Shape of Things (2003)
• The Constant Gardener (2005)
• The Whistleblower (2010)
• The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
• The Light Between Oceans (2016)
• Denial (2016)
• The Lobster (2016)

83. Bill Murray

Born: September 21, 1950 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination
Distinguished performances:

• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• Get Low (2010)
• Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
• St. Vincent (2014)

84. Laura Linney

Born: February 5, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• The Truman Show (1998)
• You Can Count on Me (2000)
• Mystic River (2003)
• Kinsey (2004)
• The Squid and the Whale (2005)
• The Savages (2007)
• Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
• Nocturnal Animals (2016)

85. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Born: February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Manic (2001)
• Mysterious Skin (2004)
• Brick (2005)
• The Lookout (2007)
• (500) Days of Summer (2009)
• 50/50 (2011)
• Don Jon (2013)
• Snowden (2016)

86. Helena Bonham Carter

Born: May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Howard's End (1992)
• Margaret's Museum (1995)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997)
• The Theory of Flight (1998)
• The Heart of Me (2002)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
• The King's Speech (2010)
• Great Expectations (2012)

87. Jamie Foxx

Born: December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Collateral (2004)
• Ray (2004)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Dreamgirls (2006)
• The Soloist (2009)
• Django Unchained (2012)

88. Donald Sutherland

Born: July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• M*A*S*H (1970)
• Klute (1971)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• Without Limits (1998)
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Aurora Borealis (2005)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

89. Jennifer Lawrence

Born: August 15, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• The Burning Plain (2008)
• Winter's Bone (2010)
• The Hunger Games (2012)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
• American Hustle (2013)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
• Joy (2015)

90. Mark Ruffalo

Born: November 22, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• You Can Count on Me (2000)
• My Life Without Me (2003)
• What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
• The Kids Are All Right (2010)
• The Avengers (2012)
• Foxcatcher (2014)
• Spotlight (2015)

91. Goldie Hawn

Born: November 21, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Cactus Flower (1969)
• Butterflies Are Free (1972)
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Foul Play (1978)
• Private Benjamin (1980)
• Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
• The Banger Sisters (2002)

92. Clint Eastwood

Born: May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations (for acting)
Distinguished performances:

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Where Eagles Dare (1968)
• Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Gran Torino (2008)

93. Debra Winger

Born: May 16, 1955 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Urban Cowboy (1980)
• An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• The Sheltering Sky (1990)
• Shadowlands (1993)
• A Dangerous Woman (1993)
• Rachel Getting Married (2008)

94. Robert Downey Jr.

Born: April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Chaplin (1992)
• The Singing Detective (2003)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
• Zodiac (2007)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• The Avengers (2012)

95. Natalie Portman

Born: June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Léon (1994)
• Beautiful Girls (1996)
• Anywhere But Here (1999)
• Closer (2004)
• Garden State (2004)
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Jackie (2016)

96. Jodie Foster

Born: November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 2 wins
Distinguished performances:

• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Five Corners (1987)
• The Accused (1988)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Nell (1994)
• The Brave One (2007)
• Carnage (2011)

97. Nuno Lopes

Born: May 6, 1978 in Lisbon, Portugal
Academy Award recognition: none
Distinguished performances:

• Alice (2005)
• Goodnight Irene (2008)
• Blood of My Blood (2011)
• Efeitos Secundários (2011)
• Cadences obstinées (2013)
• Posto-Avançado do Progresso (2016)
• São Jorge (2016)

98. Emily Watson

Born: January 14, 1967 in Islington, London, England, UK
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations
Distinguished performances:

• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Hilary and Jackie (1998)
• Angela's Ashes (1999)
• The Luzhin Defence (2000)
• Gosford Park (2001)
• Red Dragon (2002)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

99. Julia Roberts

Born: October 28, 1967 in Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win
Distinguished performances:

• Mystic Pizza (1988)
• Steel Magnolias (1989)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
• Notting Hill (1999)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• Closer (2004)
• August: Osage County (2013)

100. Brad Pitt

Born: December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations (for acting)
Distinguished performances:

• Thelma and Louise (1992)
• SE7EN (1995)
• 12 Monkeys (1995)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Babel (2006)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Inglorious Basterds (2009)
• Moneyball (2011)