Thursday, July 22, 2010

Top Ten Favorite Actresses

10. Angelina Jolie

Notable Movies: George Wallace, Gia, Girl Interrupted, Gone in 60 Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Good Sheppard, A Mighty Heart, Changeling, Salt

Notable Roles: Gia Marie Carangi, Lisa Rowe, Sway, Lara Croft, Olympias, Mariane Pearl, Christie Collins

Academy Awards: 1 win (A Girl Interrupted) 1 Nomination (Changeling)






"I use to tell Walter, "Never start a fight... but always finish it." I didn't start this fight... but by God, I'm going to finish it!"








9. Kate Beckinsale

Notable Movies: The Last Days of Disco, Serendipity, Pearl Harbor, The Golden Bowl, Laurel Canyon, Underworld, The Aviator, Van Helsing, Click, Underworld: Evolution, Snow Angels

Notable Roles: Nurse Evelyn Johnson, Selene, Ava Gardner, Anna Valerious






"You don't own me Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!"








8. Scarlett Johansson

Notable Movies: Lost in Translation, Girl with the Pearl Earring, A Love Song for Bobby Long, The Island, Match Point, The Black Dahlia, The Prestige, The Other Boleyn Girl, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Iron Man 2, The Avengers

Notable Roles: Griet, Mary Boleyn, Silken Floss, Natalie Rushman






"I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking pictures of your feet."







7. Nicole Kidman

Notable Movies: To Die For, Batman Forever, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge, The Others, The Hours, Cold Mountain, Birth, Happy Feet, The Golden Compass, Australia

Notable Roles: Dr. Chase Meridian, Satine, Virginia Woolf, Ada Monroe, Norma Jean, Marisa Coulter

Academy Awards: 1 Win (The Hours) 1 Nomination (Moulin Rouge)




"Dear Mr. Inman, I began by counting the days, then the months. I don't count on anything anymore except the hope that you will return, and the silent fear that in the years since we saw each other, this war, this awful war, will have changed us both beyond all reckoning."








6. Diane Keaton

Notable Movies: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Annie Hall, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Reds, The Godfather Part III, Marvin's Room, Something's Gotta Give

Notable Roles: Kay Corleone, Annie Hall, Louise Bryant, Amelia Earhart

Academy Awards: 1 Win (Annie Hall) 3 Nominations (Reds, Marvin's Room, Something's Gotta Give)





"La-di-da, la-di-da, la la."








5. Marion Cottilard

Notable Movies: Big Fish, A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year, La Vie en Rose, Public Enemies, Nine, Inception

Notable Roles: Tina Lombardi, Edith Piaf, Billie Frechette, Luisa Contini, Mallorie "Mal" Cobbs

Academy Awards: 1 win (La Vie en Rose)







"Americans want beauties, not me. I'm not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where's my feather up the ass? They think I'm sad, they're dumb. I don't connect to them."









4. Kate Winslet

Notable Movies: Heavenly Creatures, Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Quills, Iris, The Life of David Gale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Little Children, The Reader, Revolutionary Road

Notable Roles: Juliet Hulme, Marianne Dashwood, Rose DeWitt Bukater, Iris Murdoch, Clementine Kruczynski, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Hanna Schmitz

Academy Awards: 1 Win (The Reader) 5 Nominations (Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children)





"Meet me... in Montauk..."











3. Penelope Cruz

Notable Movies: The Girl of Your Dreams, Blow, Vanilla Sky, Don't Move, Volver, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Broken Embraces, Nine, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Notable Roles: Raimunda, Maria Elena, Carla Albanese

Academy Awards: 1 Win (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) 1 Nomination (Volver)





"Only unfulfilled love can be romantic"











2. Cate Blanchett

Notable Movies: Elizabeth, The Man who Cried, The Shipping News, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, Veronica Guerin, The Aviator, Babel, The Good German, Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, I'm Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Robin Hood

Notable Roles: Queen Elizabeth I, Galadriel, Veronica Guerin, Katherine Hepburn, Sheba Hart, Bob Dylan, Daisy Fuller, Lady Marian

Academy Awards: 2 Wins (The Aviator, I'm Not There) 2 Nominations (Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth: The Golden Age)





"I too, can command the wind, sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare when you dare to try me!"












1. Natalie Portman

Notable Movies: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Cold Mountain, Garden State, Closer, Revenge of the Sith, V for Vendetta, The Other Boleyn Girl, Brothers, Thor

Notable Roles: Padme Amidala, Evey Hammond, Anne Boleyn, Jane Foster

Academy Awards: 1 Nomination (Closer)





"A man's love is worthless. Our mother's loved, look where it got her, a feeble husband. Love is of no value without power and position. If I gave the king a son, he would not be a bastard."

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