Curated playlist
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Meryl StreepDino De Laurentiis insulted Meryl Streep in Italian, not knowing she spoke it. She answered him in Italian too.
- Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman was born on the 20th of June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was given the Hawaiian name Hōkūlani, which means heavenly star. The inspiration for the name was a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo. Since…
- Kate WinsletKate Winslet pleaded for the part of Rose in James Cameron's Titanic while he still preferred Claire Danes and Gwyneth Paltrow. She told the director that she was Rose, and she could not see why he was seeing anyone else. The plea worked.…
- Queen LatifahQueen Latifah picked her name from a book of Arabic names at age eight. She added the title "Queen" herself.
- Angelina JolieAngelina Jolie has appeared in films that grossed more than $6.9 billion worldwide, and Hollywood has named her its highest-paid actress several times. As a teenager, though, she took at-home courses on embalming because she hoped to…
- Claire DanesClaire Catherine Danes, born on the 12th of April 1979, is an American actress who holds three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world twice, in 2012…
- Halle BerryHalle Berry once stood at a podium holding an Academy Award in one hand and a Razzie in the other. She had turned up in person to collect the Worst Actress prize for Catwoman, and she took the stage with a laugh. "I never in my life…
- Michelle Williams (actress)Michelle Williams, the American actress, was paid $1,000 for reshooting an entire film role. In late 2017, a month before All the Money in the World reached cinemas, Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct. He had been playing the…
- Glenn CloseGlenn Close has been nominated for eight Academy Awards and has never won one. No other actress has been nominated so many times without a win. Her shelf is hardly empty, though. She has three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and…
- Jessica ChastainJessica Chastain missed so many days of her final year at El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento that she did not qualify for graduation. Many of those days went to reading Shakespeare. She later earned an adult diploma. In 2022,…
- Anya Taylor-JoyAnya Taylor-Joy was born in Miami on the 16th of April 1996, in a city her parents were only visiting on vacation. She calls her birth there a "fluke". That accident gave her American citizenship. She nevertheless grew up in Buenos Aires…
- Helen MirrenDame Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff on the 26th of July 1945, at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the Hammersmith district of London. Neither the first name nor the surname on that record would last. The woman who…
- Drew BarrymoreDrew Barrymore was seven years old when she hosted Saturday Night Live on the 20th of November 1982, and nobody has hosted at a younger age since. The American actress went on to build a career that ran from child stardom to her own…
- Sarah PaulsonSarah Paulson once described her mother's first days in New York City in a few blunt lines. "My mom was 27 years old when we moved. She didn't know a single person in New York City. She got a job at Sardi's Restaurant." The girl who…