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5 - Julie Walters
Walters' breakthrough came with her title role in Educating Rita (1983), which garnered her a Golden Glode and a BAFTA. Hollywood beckoned but Walters continued working in Britain. Her major screen success wouldn't arrive until 2000, when she played dance instructor Mrs. Wilkinson in the international hit Billy Elliot.
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4 - Maggie Smith
The inimitable Dame Maggie Smith is one of Britain's best-loved performers, remembered not just in classic Oscar-winning fare like The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) but loved for contemporary favourites such as the Harry Potter films.
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3 - Emma Thompson
One of Britain's leading luvvies (alongside former husband Kenneth Branagh), Emma Thompson is a supremely talented actress, impressing in everything from costume dramas like Sense And Sensibility (winning an Oscar for her Best Adapted Screenplay) to 'weighty' dramas The Remains Of The Day and In The Name Of The Father.
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2 - Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet was destined to be an actress. Born in Reading in 1975, her parents were both stage actors and her grandparents ran a theatre company. After an impressive film debut in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, Winslet became an international star after her part in Titanic (1997).
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1 - Judi Dench
Beloved British acting institution Judi Dench must hold the record for winning an Oscar with the least time spent on screen - she won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Shakespeare In Love, despite the fact she spent less than eight minutes on screen.
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