Exceptional Actress & Actors
by killah-69 | created - 14 Mar 2021 | updated - 1 day ago | Public1. Leslie Parrish
Actress | The Manchurian Candidate
She started as a model, and in 1955 became an actress. She acted under her birth name, Marjorie Hellen, until 1959. Afterwards she was known as Leslie Parrish. She appeared in more than 100 TV shows. She is known as one of the first women producers. She's always had a passion for music. She was ...
2. Erin Gray
Actress | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, ...
3. Ann-Margret
Actress | Made in Paris
Actress and singer Ann-Margret is one of the most famous sex symbols and actresses of the 1960s and beyond. She continued her career through the following decades and into the 21st century.
Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland County, Sweden, to Anna Regina (Aronsson) and ...
4. Zoe Margaret Colletti
Actress | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Zoe Margaret Colletti is an actress, known for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Annie (2014) and Wildlife (2018).
5. Sybil Danning
Actress | Battle Beyond the Stars
Statuesque 5'7" blonde beauty Sybil Danning reigns supreme as one of the sexiest, most dynamic, and commanding actresses to achieve cult B-movie queen status. Born in Austria as daughter of US Army major and Austrian mother she grew up on army bases in New Jersey, Maryland and Sacramento, CA.. ...
6. Nancy Kovack
Actress | Jason and the Argonauts
A native of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and ...
7. Diane Franklin
Actress | Better Off Dead...
Diane Franklin is an iconic 80s American film actress, known for her dark curly hair, and dialects. Beginning her acting career at the age of ten, Diane started with modeling, theater, commercials, and soap opera work. She then won the lead role of the dream girl, Karen, in cult classic THE LAST ...
8. Morena Baccarin
Actress | Deadpool
Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. She is of Italian as well as Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She moved to New York at the age of ten, when her father was transferred there. She ...
9. Sandee Currie
Actress | Terror Train
Sandee Currie was an actress, known for Terror Train (1980), Curtains (1983) and Street Justice (1987). She died on November 3, 1996.
10. Diana Muldaur
Actress | McCloud
Diana Muldaur is known for L.A. Law (1986), Star Trek: The Next Generation, McCloud, Born Free, The Other and McQ. In the eighties, Diana became the president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the academy handing out the Emmy awards). Diana's L.A. Law character, Rosalind Shays, was a ...
11. Barbara Bouchet
Actress | Gangs of New York
Stunningly beautiful and charismatic blonde Barbara Bouchet was born Barbel Goutscherola on August 15th, 1943 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, known as Reichenberg, during the German occupation. Her father, Fritz, was a war photographer.
Her family was forced to leave the country when Barbara was a ...
12. Hannah Fierman
Actress | V/H/S
Hannah Fierman was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. She is an actress and producer, known for V/H/S (2012), American Hell (2014) and The Lucid: Hair (2022).
13. Rebecca Ferguson
Actress | The Greatest Showman
Rebecca Ferguson was born Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in its Vasastaden district. Her father is Swedish. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is British, of Scottish and Northern Irish descent, and moved to Sweden at the age of 25. Rebecca attended an ...
14. Catherine Corcoran
Actress | Long Lost
Catherine Corcoran is best known for her starring roles in Troma Entertainments, 'Return to Nuke 'Em High' franchise and Epic Pictures feature, 'Terrifier.' Her career also includes a supporting role in the recent IFC Films feature, 'Chuck' alongside Liev Schreiber, and Naomi Watts; and a staring ...
15. Joanne Linville
Actress | Star Trek
Joanne Linville made her mark on television from the 1950s-1980s, appearing in such respected anthology series as Studio One (1948), Kraft Theatre (1947) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), among others. While her film work consisted mainly of smaller character roles and she never had regular ...
16. Allie Marie Evans
Actress | Maximum Ride
Allie Marie Evans - (born January 26 1996) is an American-Canadian actress. She made her film debut with the leading role in the feature adaption of James Patterson's best-selling series Maximum Ride directed by Jay Martin. Allie was most recently seen in the highly successful HBO series Euphoria ...
17. Mary Beth McDonough
Actress | The Waltons
Mary Beth McDonough was born on May 4, 1961 in Van Nuys, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Waltons (1972), Mortuary (1983) and The West Wing (1999). She has been married to Don since June 4, 2011. She was previously married to Rob Wickstrom.
18. Susan Howard
Actress | Dallas
Susan Howard, best known for her eight years as Donna Krebbs in the prime-time soap opera, Dallas (1978) was born Jeri Lynn Mooney in Marshall, Texas. "I grew up with my father telling me that I was talented and beautiful and wonderful. I respected and loved my father, so I believed him - until I ...
19. Katherine Woodville
Actress | Star Trek
Katherine Woodville was born on March 12, 1938 in Ewell, England. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960). She was married to Edward Albert, Jerrold Freedman and Patrick Macnee. She died on June 5, 2013 in Portland, Oregon, ...
20. Kathie Browne
Actress | Star Trek
Kathie Browne was born Jacqueline Sue Browne on September 19, 1930 in San Luis Obispo, California. She got her break in TV after appearing in a Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams's play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", making her TV debut in 1957 in The Gray Ghost (1957), The Sheriff of Cochise ...
21. France Nuyen
Actress | Battle for the Planet of the Apes
France Nuyen was born on July 31, 1939 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Joy Luck Club (1993) and South Pacific (1958). She was previously married to Robert Culp and Dr. Thomas Gaspar Morell.
22. Julia Fox
Actress | Uncut Gems
Julia Fox was born on February 2, 1990 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Uncut Gems (2019), No Sudden Move (2021) and Day by Day (2020).
23. Yvonne Craig
Actress | Batgirl
Yvonne Joyce Craig was born on May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois. As a young teenager, Yvonne showed such promise as a dancer that she was accepted to Denham's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Her training progressed until she left the company in 1957 over a disagreement on casting changes. She ...
24. Sharon Acker
Actress | Happy Birthday to Me
Although she was presented in 1969 the first Film Star of Tomorrow by The Motion Picture Exhibitors of Canada, the status of Sharon Acker as a star never materialized. Not that she was inactive, quite the opposite, but she worked almost only for TV and appeared only in a few undistinguished movie ...
25. Emma Laird
Actress | Mayor of Kingstown
Emma Laird was born on September 8, 1998 in Scotland. She is an actress, known for Mayor of Kingstown (2021), From Life (2018) and The Crowded Room (2022).
26. Jan Shutan
Actress | Star Trek
Jan Shutan is best remembered as Lieutenant Mira Romaine, an officer on the starship Enterprise, whose mind is invaded by non-corporeal life forms in Star Trek: The Lights of Zetar (1969). Aside from this iconic role, her face might also be familiar for her many TV commercials. She started with ads...
27. Lee Meriwether
Actress | Batman: The Movie
Today, sexy Lee Meriwether is best remembered for her roles in a few science fiction/fantasy cult productions made between 1966 and 1969. Batman (1966), Star Trek (1966), The Time Tunnel (1966) and Land of the Giants (1968).
Firstly Batman (1966), in which she played both evil Catwoman and ...
28. Britt Ekland
Actress | The Man with the Golden Gun
Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a ...
29. Kate Beahan
Actress | The Wicker Man
Kate Beahan was born on October 12, 1974 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and assistant director, known for The Wicker Man (2006), Flightplan (2005) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
30. Louise Sorel
Actress | Days of Our Lives
A flashy, aggressive, cold and calculating villainess and eternally hopeless meddler on a number of daytime soap operas, Louise Sorel has given her opulent, show-stopping characters major doses of humor and grit that have allowed her to become one of daytime's more popular figures for over six ...
31. Faith Domergue
Actress | This Island Earth
Sultry, brunette Faith Domergue was born in New Orleans, part Creole, but primarily of Irish and English extraction. She was adopted when she was six weeks old. In 1927 her adoptive parents took her to live in California, where she was educated at Catholic schools in Santa Monica. She had her first...
32. Samantha Morton
Actress | Minority Report
Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
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33. Katy Mixon
Actress | Hell or High Water
Katy Mixon was born on March 30, 1981 in Pensacola, Florida, USA. She is known for Hell or High Water (2016) and Four Christmases (2008). She has been married to Breaux Greer since October 2016. They have two children.
34. Jessica Chastain
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
35. Nancy Allen
Actress | RoboCop
Nancy Anne Allen was born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, the youngest of three children. Her father, Eugene Allen, was a New York police lieutenant. At a young age, she trained for a dancing career at the High School of Performing Arts, and then attended Jose Quintano's School ...
36. Diana Ewing
Actress | Star Trek
Diana Ewing was born on January 4, 1946 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), The Way We Were (1973) and Mission: Impossible (1966).
37. Charlene Polite
Actress | Star Trek
Born in Ohio, Charlene graduated from Youngstown University, in the mid-1960s, where she married her first husband, poet Frank Polite. Following graduation, she acted in regional theater, including the Pittsburgh (PA) Playhouse, where she had a post-graduate scholarship. Later, she moved to San ...
38. Leslie Bibb
Actress | Iron Man
Leslie Louise Bibb was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on November 17, 1973, and raised in Nelson County, Virginia. Later she and her mother, along with her three older sisters, moved to Richmond, where Leslie attended an all-girls Catholic high school, St. Gertrude.
In 1990 The Oprah Winfrey Show (...
39. Mariette Hartley
Actress | The Incredible Hulk
Mariette Hartley was born Mary Loretta, a name she dislikes, in Weston, Connecticut. She was raised in accordance with the principles espoused by her behavioral psychologist grandfather, John B. Watson, who believed that children should never be held or cuddled. She says that the lack of warmth at ...
40. Sandra Smith
Actress | The Interns
Sandra Smith was born on June 27, 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for The Interns (1970), Star Trek (1966) and Mannix (1967). She was previously married to Billy James and Steve Reeves.
41. Grace Lee Whitney
Actress | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Grace Lee Whitney was a versatile actress and vocalist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Beginning as a "girl singer" on Detroit's WJR radio, she soon opened in nightclubs for Billie Holiday and Buddy Rich, and toured with the Spike Jones and Fred Waring Bands. Grace debuted on Broadway in "Top Banana",...
42. Sally Kellerman
Actress | M*A*S*H
Sally Kellerman arrived quite young on the late 1950s film and television scene with a fresh and distinctively weird, misfit presence. It is this same uniqueness that continued to make her such an attractively offbeat performer. The willowy, swan-necked, flaxen-haired actress shot to film comedy ...
43. Amanda Fuller
Actress | Last Man Standing
Amanda Fuller was born on August 27, 1984 in Sacramento, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Last Man Standing (2011), Red White & Blue (2010) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).
44. Marianna Hill
Actress | High Plains Drifter
A familiar character actress, Mariana Hill is the daughter of a building contractor. From her native southern California, her family moved around quite a bit, including to Canada, Spain and Great Britain. As a result, she became familiar with different accents and dialects, whether a French accent ...
45. Kim Darby
Actress | True Grit
The child of professional dancers, Kim Darby began her career studying dance with her father, as well as Nico Charisse. At fourteen, she was granted special admission to Tony Barr's acting workshop at Desilu Studios on the Paramount Pictures lot. He wrote later that it was her remarkable openness, ...
46. Sherry Jackson
Actress | The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Gorgeous, brown-eyed, chestnut-maned Sherry Jackson began her promising career as a pig-tailed, pleasant-looking child actress. Born in Idaho on February 15, 1942, she was the only daughter of four children born to Maurita Kathleen Gilbert and Curtis Loys Jackson, Sr. Her father died when she was 6...
47. Bobbie Bresee
Actress | Armed Response
Buxom and beautiful blonde actress Bobbie Bresee had a sadly short-lived reign as a scream queen in a handful of enjoyably trashy 80s low-budget horror pictures. Bobbie was born in 1947 in San Diego, California. She was a music teacher and onetime "Playboy" Bunny prior to embarking on an acting ...
48. Elaine Giftos
Actress | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
After a youthful career in the New York City Ballet under the guidance of the famed dance-master George Balanchine, Elaine Giftos starred on Broadway, before moving to Hollywood to act in movies and on TV. She has co-starred with Barbra Streisand and Jack Nicholson, with Woody Allen and Gene Wilder...
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