20 Greatest Actresses of All-Time

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20 Greatest Actresses of All-Time. On the left of the screen is a list of the twenty greatest actresses of all-time. Actress Spotlight: The Greatest Actresses of all-time page will spotlight a new actress each week.

#1 Audrey Hepburn

#2 Grace Kelly

#3 Jodie Foster

#4 Lauren Bacall

#5 Katharine Hepburn

#6 Janet Leigh

#7 Meg Ryan

#8 Shelley Winters

#9 Ingrid Bergman

#10 Rene Russo

#11 Sally Field

#12 Jean Arthur

#13 Barbara Stanwyck

#14 Andie MacDowell

#15 Julie Christie

#16 Kim Novak

#17 Eva Saint Marie

#18 Molly Ringwald

#19 Geena Davis

#20 Faye Dunaway

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Oops, I left off one...

So she can't act. I DON'T CARE. : )

[johnny7]

Where's Sandra Bernhard?!

[Hatteras]

Has Paris Hilton been in any movies yet? Because she's an actress you know! So it would be convenient that maybe she was in a movie or something...

[new cruelty]

Last I saw Debbie Reynolds, she was kicking it hard on Will and Grace. But, alas, she didn't make it to the top of m recent memory list. And Doris who? ;)

[new cruelty]

Ack. How could I have missed her. She really tarted up after Saved by the Bell, didn't she? I mean in a good way.

[Liz]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Geena Davis was great in "The Long Kiss Goodnight."

[Your Nightmare]

I would put Sigourney Weaver ahead of about 5 of those, too.

[Hatteras]

I nominate Jessica Simpson for her stirring portrayal of Daisy Duke...

Truly a new milestone in cinematic history.

[Gunflint]

Foster...(although I do like her)

For what? Bedknobs and Broomsticks?
1)She's of the monotone movement, Ben Stein has a more dynamic vocal delivery.
2)I saw her reading cue cards in parts of Silence of the Lambs.
3)She's not all that easy on the eyes.

[djf]

Left this one off too. She was only in about 8 of the greatest movies ever made.


I'm always torn trying to rate her flicks, I love "Virginia Wolfe", but "Cat" is a tremendous effort. Not to mention one of the greatest attempts at movie making ever, I believe in inflation adjusted dollars it is still the most expensive movie ever made, Cleopatra.

[freedumb2003]

Foster -- "Silence of the Lambs" and "Contact."

I agree she is not easy on the eyes -- I think that is what makes her a good actress.

But one person's mead is another's poisson.

[freedumb2003]

And what ever happened to Fay Ray?

She got raped by a Giant Gorilla!

[Your Nightmare]

Let's not forget Jessica Lange. Great actress AND easy on the eyes. Michelle Pfeiffer is a pretty darn good actress, too.

[cowboyway]

Uma Thurman

[StrictTime]

ANDIE MCDOWELL????? Gawd....wooden as a fence post.

Replace her name with Toni Collette. Replace Meg Ryan with Meryl Streep.
Replace Molly Ringwald (!) with Meg Ryan. Replace Geena Davis with Kathy Bates.

There. Fixed.

[waud]

Like her or not how can you not have Jane Fonda on this list?

Cat Ballou, Coming Home (Academy Award), Klute (Academy Award)

Molly Ringwold? Andie MacDowell? Meg Ryan? Rene Russo?

[MotleyGirl70]

Nathan Lane

LMAO!

Great list.

7.Frances McDormand

" Okay, so we got a state trooper pulls someone over, we got a shooting, and these folks drive by, and we got a high-speed pursuit, ends here, and this execution-type deal."

[dhs12345]

Liked her best in "Earth girls are Easy." The baithing suit scene.... wow!

[Millee]

What?? MaSluttaDonna didn't make the cut??

I'd add Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates & Cate Blanchett to the list.