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Best Actress Academy Award winners

  • Vivien LeighVivian Mary Hartley arrived in the world on the 5th of November 1913 within the British Indian hill station of Darjeeling.
  • Katharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was born on the 12th of May 1907 in Hartford Connecticut. Her mother Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn led the Connecticut Woman…
  • Meryl StreepMary Louise Streep was born on the 22nd of June 1949 in Summit, New Jersey. Her mother Mary Wilkinson Streep worked as an artist while her father Harry…
  • Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on the 27th of February 1932 at Heathwood, her family's home at 8 Wildwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
  • Joan CrawfordLucille Fay LeSueur was born in San Antonio, Texas, on the 23rd of March 1904. Her father Thomas E. LeSueur abandoned the family when she was only ten months…
  • Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow entered the world on the 27th of September 1972 in Los Angeles. Her father Bruce Paltrow worked as a film producer and director while…
  • Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson arrived at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1977 to study English. Her father Eric Thompson had been a beloved children's television writer known…
  • Bette DavisRuth Elizabeth Davis arrived in the world on the 5th of April 1908, within the industrial city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
  • Ginger RogersVirginia Katherine McMath stood in Fort Worth, Texas, during the summer of 1925. She was only fourteen years old when she entered a Charleston dance contest.
  • Natalie PortmanNatalie Hershlag was born on the 9th of June 1981, in Mount Scopus, Jerusalem. Her birth took place at Hadassah Medical Center to Jewish parents.
  • Brie LarsonBrianne Sidonie Desaulniers was born on the 1st of October 1989, in Sacramento, California. Her parents were homeopathic chiropractors who ran a practice…
  • Audrey HepburnAudrey Kathleen Hepburn was born on the 4th of May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium.
  • Julie ChristieJulie Frances Christie entered the world on the 14th of April 1940 at Singlijan, a tea estate in Chabua, Assam. Her father Frank St John Christie managed the…
  • Julie AndrewsJulia Elizabeth Wells arrived in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on the 1st of October 1935. Her mother Barbara Ward Wells had married Edward Charles Ted Wells in…