DPL - Actresses

Academy Award Winning Actresses

(Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress)
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A

Andrews, Julie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1964 - Best Actress - Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins
Ashcroft, Peggy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1984 - Best Supporting Actress - A Passage to India as Mrs. Moore
Astor, Mary (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1941 - Best Supporting Actress - The Great Lie as Sandra Kovak

B

Bainter, Fay (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1938 - Best Supporting Actress - Jezebel as Aunt Belle
Bancroft, Anne (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1962 - Best Actress - The Miracle Worker as Annie Sullivan
Barrymore, Ethel (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1944 - Best Supporting Actress - None but the Lonely Heart as Ma Mott
Basinger, Kim (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1997 - Best Supporting Actress - L.A. Confidential as Lynn Bracken
Bates, Kathy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1990 - Best Actress - Misery as Annie Wilkes
Baxter, Anne (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1946 - Best Supporting Actress - The Razor's Edge as Sophie MacDonald
Brady, Alice (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1937 - Best Supporting Actress - In Old Chicago as Molly O'Leary
Bergman, Ingrid (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1944 - Best Actress - Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anton
1956 - Best Actress - Anastasia as The Woman (Anastasia)
1974 - Best Supporting Actress - Murder on the Orient Express as Greta Ohlsson
Berry, Halle (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2001 - Best Actress - Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
Binoche, Juliet (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1996 - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient as Hana
Blanchett, Cate (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2004 - Best Supporting Actress - The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn
Booth, Shirley (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1952 - Best Actress - Come Back, Little Sheba as Lola Delaney
Bullock, Sandra (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2009 - Best Actress - The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
Burstyn, Ellen (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1974 - Best Actress - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Alice Hyatt

C

Cher (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1987 - Best Actress - Moonstruck as Loretta Castorini
Christie, Julie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1965 - Best Actress - Darling as Diana Scott
Colbert, Claudette (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1934 - Best Actress - It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews
Connelly, Jennifer (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2001 - Best Supporting Actress - A Beautiful Mind as Alicia Nash
Cotillard, Marion (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2007 - Best Actess - La Vie en Rose as Edith Piaf
Crawford, Joan (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1945 - Best Actress - Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce Beragon
Cruz, Penelope (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2008 - Best Supporting Actress - Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena

D

Darwell, Jane (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1940 - Best Supporting Actress - The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
Davis, Bette (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1935 - Best Actress - Dangerous as Joyce Heath
1938 - Best Actress - Jezebel as Julie Marsden
Davis, Geena (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1988 - Best Supporting Actress - The Accidental Tourist as Muriel Pritchett
de Havilland, Olivia (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1946 - Best Actress - To Each His Own as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris
1949 - Best Actress - The Heiress as Catherine Sloper
Dench, Judi (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1998 - Best Supporting Actress - Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth
Dennis, Sandy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1966 - Best Supporting Actress - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Honey
Dressler, Marie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1931 - Best Actress - Min and Bill as Min Divot
Dukakis, Olympia (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1987 - Best Supporting Actress - Moonstruck as Rose Castorini
Duke, Patty (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1962 - Best Supporting Actress - The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller
Dunaway, Faye (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1976 - Best Actress - Network as Diana Christiansen

E

Field, Sally (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1979 - Best Actress - Norma Rae as Norma Rae Webster
1984 - Best Actress - Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
Fletcher, Louise (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1975 - Best Actress - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched
Fonda, Jane (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1971 - Best Actress - Klute as Bree Daniels
1978 - Coming Home as Sally Hyde
Fontaine, Joan (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1941 - Best Actress - Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth
Foster, Jodie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1988 - Best Actress - The Accused as Sarah Tobias
1991 - Best Actress - The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
Fricker, Brenda (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1989 - Best Supporting Actress - My Left Foot as Mrs. Brown

G

Garson, Greer (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1942 - Best Actress - Mrs. Miniver as Mrs. Miniver
Gaynor, Janet (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1928 - Best Actress - Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, and Sunrise as The Wife
Goldberg, Whoopi (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1990 - Best Supporting Actress - Ghost as Oda Mae Brown
Gordon, Ruth (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1968 - Best Supporting Actress - Rosemary's Baby as Minnie Castevet
Grahame, Gloria (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1952 - Best Supporting Actress - The Band and the Beautiful as Rosemary
Grant, Lee (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1975 - Best Supporting Actress - Shampoo as Felicia Carp

H

Harden, Marcia Gay (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2000 - Best Supporting Actress - Pollock as Lee Krasner
Hawn, Goldie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1969 - Best Supporting Actress - Cactus Flower as Toni Simmons
Hayes, Helen (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1932 - Best Actress - The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet
1970 - Best Supporting Actress - Airport as Ada Quonsett
Hayward, Susan (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1958 - Best Actress - I Want to Live! as Barbara Graham
Heckart, Eileen (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1972 - Best Supporting Actress - Butterflies are Free as Mrs. Baker
Hepburn, Audrey (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1953 - Best Actress - Roman Holiday as Princess Ann
Hepburn, Katharine (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1933 - Best Actress - Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace
1968 - Best Actress - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton
1981 - On Golden Pond as Ethel Thayer
Hiller, Wendy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1958 - Best Supporting Actress - Separate Tables as Pat Cooper
Holliday, Judy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1950 - Best Actress - Born Yesterday as Emma 'Billie' Dawn
Holm, Celeste (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1947 - Best Supporting Actress - Gentleman's Agreement as Anne Dettrey
Hudson, Jennifer (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2006 - Best Supporting Actress - Dreamgirls as Effie White
Hull, Josephine (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1950 - Best Supporting Actress - Harvey as Veta Louise Simmons
Hunt, Helen (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1997 - Best Actress - As Good as it Gets as Carol Connelly
Hunt, Linda (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1983 - Best Supporting Actress - The Year of Living Dangerously as Billy Kwan
Hunter, Holly (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1993 - Best Actress - The Piano as Ada McGrath
Hunter, Kim (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1951 - Best Supporting Actress - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella Kowalski
Huston, Anjelica (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1985 - Best Supporting Actress - Prizzi's Honor as Maerose Prizzi

I

Jackson, Glenda (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1970 - Best Actress - Women in Love as Gudrum Brangwen
1973 - Best Actress - A Touch of Class as Vicki Allessio
Jolie, Angelina (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1999 - Best Supporting Actress - Girl, Interrupted as Lisa Rowe
Jones, Jennifer (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1943 - Best Actress - The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette
Jones, Shirley (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1960 - Best Supporting Actress - Elmer Gantry as Lulu Bains

K

Keaton, Diane (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1977 - Best Actress - Annie Hall as Annie Hall
Kedrova, Lila (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1964 - Best Supporting Actress - Zorba the Greek as Madame Hortense
Kelly, Grace (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1954 - Best Actress - The Country Girl as Georgie Elgin
Kidman, Nicole (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2002 - Best Actress - The Hours as Virginia Woolf

L

Lange, Jessica (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1982 - Best Supporting Actress - Tootsie as Julie Nichols
1994 - Best Actress - Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
Leachman, Cloris (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1971 - Best Supporting Actress - The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper
Leigh, Vivien (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1939 - Best Actress - Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara
1951 - Best Actress - A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
Leo, Melissa (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2010 - Best Supporting Actress - The Fighter as Alice Ward
Loren, Sophia (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1961 - Best Actress - Two Women as Cesira

M

MacLaine, Shirley (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1983 - Best Actress - Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway
Magnani, Anna (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1955 - Best Actress - The Rose Tatto as Serafina Delle Rose
Malone, Dorothy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1956 - Best Supporting Actress - Written on the Wind as Marylee Hadley
Matlin, Marlee (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1986 - Best Actress - Children of Lesser God as Sarah Norman
McCambridge, Mercedes (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1949 - Best Supporting Actress - All the King's Men as Sadie Burke
McDaniel, Hattie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1939 - Best Supporting Actress - Gone with the Wind as Mammy
McDormand, Frances (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1996 - Best Actress - Fargo as Marge Gunderson
Minnelli, Liza (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1972 - Best Actress - Caberet as Sally Bowles
Mirren, Helen (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2006 - Best Actress - The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II
Mo'Nique (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2009 - Best Supporting Actress - Precious as Mary Lee Johnston
Moreno, Rita (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1961 - Best Supporting Actress - West Side Story as Anita

N

Neal, Patricia (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1963 - Best Actress - Hud as Alma Brown

O

O'Neal Tatum (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1973 - Best Supporting Actress - Paper Moon as Addie Loggins

P

Page, Geraldine (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1985 - Best Actress - The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts
Paltrow, Gwyneth (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1998 - Best Actress - Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps
Parsons, Estelle (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1967 - Best Supporting Actress - Bonnie and Clyde as Blanche
Paquin, Anna (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1993 - Best Supporting Actress - The Piano as Flora McGrath
Paxinou, Katina (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1943 - Best Supporting Actress - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pilar
Pickford, Mary (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1929 - Best Actress - Coquette as Norma Besant
Portman, Natalie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2010 - Best Actress - Black Swan as Nina Sayers

Q

Rainer, Luise (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1936 - Best Actress - The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held
1937 - Best Actress - The Good Earth as O-Lan
Redgrave, Vanessa (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1977 - Best Supporting Actress - Julia as Julia
Reed, Donna (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1953 - Best Supporting Actress - From Here to Eternity as Alma 'Lorene' Burke
Revere, Anne (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1945 - Best Supporting Actress - National Velvet as Mrs. Brown
Roberts, Julia (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2000 - Best Actress - Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich
Rogers, Ginger (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1940 - Best Actress - Kitty Foyle as Kitty Foyle
Ruehl, Mercedes (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1991 - Best Supporting Actress - The Fisher King as Anne Napolitano
Rutherford, Margaret (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1963 - Best Supporting Actress - The V.I.P.s as The Duchess of Brighton

S

Saint, Eva Marie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1954 - Best Supporting Actress - On the Waterfront as Edie Doyle
Sarandon, Susan (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1995 - Best Actress - Dead Man Walking as Sister Helen Prejean
Shearer, Norma (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1930 - Best Actress - The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin
Signoret, Simone (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1959 - Best Actress - Room at the Top as Alice Aisgill
Smith, Maggie (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1969 - Best Actress - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie
1978 - Best Supporting Actress - California Suite as Diana Barrie
Sondergaard, Gale (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1936 - Best Supporting Actress - Anthony Adverse as Faith Paleologus
Sorvino, Mira (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1995 - Best Supporting Actress - Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash
Spacek, Sissy (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1980 - Best Actress - Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn
Spencer, Octavia (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2011 - Best Supporting Actress - The Help as Minny Jackson
Stapleton, Maureen (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1981 - Best Supporting Actress - Reds as Emma Goldman
Steenburgen, Mary (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1980 - Best Supporting Actress - Melvin and Howard as Lynda Dummar
Straight, Beatrice (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1976 - Best Supporting Actress - Network as Louise Schumacher
Streep, Meryl (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1979 - Best Supporting Actress - Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
1982 - Best Actress - Sophie's Choice as Sophie Zawistowska
2011 - Best Actress - The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
Swank, Hilary (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1999 - Best Actress - Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena
2004 - Best Actress - Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
Swinton, Tilda (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2007 - Best Supporting Actress - Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder

T

Tandy, Jessica (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1989 - Best Actress - Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan
Taylor, Elizabeth (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1960 - Best Actress - Butterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous
1966 - Best Actress - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha
Theron, Charlize (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2003 - Best Actress - Monster as Aileen Wuornos
Thompson, Emma (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1992 - Best Actress - Howards End as Margaret Wilcox
Tomei, Marisa (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1992 - Best Supporting Actress - My Cousin Vinny as Mona Lisa Vito
Trevor, Claire (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1948 - Best Supporting Actress - Key Largo as Gaye Dawn

U

Umeki, Miyoshi (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1957 - Best Supporting Actress - Sayanora as Katsumi

V

Van Fleet, Jo (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1955 - Best Supporting Actress - East of Eden as Kate

W

Weisz, Rachel (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2005 - Best Supporting Actress - The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle
Wiest, Dianne (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1986 - Best Supporting Actress - Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly
1994 - Best Supporting Actress - Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
Winslet, Kate (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2008 - Best Actress - The Reader as Hanna Schmitz
Winters, Shelley (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1959 - Best Supporting Actress - The Diary of Anne Frank as Mrs. Petronella Van Daan
1965 - Best Supporting Actress - A Patch of Blue as Rose-Ann D'Arcy
Witherspoon, Reese (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2005 - Best Actress - Walk the Line as June Carter
Woodward, Joanne (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1957 - Best Actress - The Three Faces of Eve as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane
Wright, Teresa (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1942 - Best Supporting Actress - Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon
Wyman, Jane (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1948 - Best Actress - Johnny Belinda as Belinda McDonald

X

Young, Loretta (Wikipedia, IMDb)
1947 - Best Actress - The Farmer's Daughter as Katrin Holstrom

Z

Zellweger, Renée (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2003 - Best Supporting Actress - Cold Mountain as Ruby Thewes
Zeta-Jones, Catherine (Wikipedia, IMDb)
2002 - Best Supporting Actress - Chicago as Velma Kelly A-B-C-D-E-F- G-H-I-J-K-L- M-N-O-P-Q-R- S-T-U-V-W-X -Y-Z

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