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Best British Actress
You sent in your Best British Actress nominees, and we've created a list of the top 50 of all time for you to vote on. So, whether you're wild about Winslet, or mad for Mortimer, cast your votes now.

 
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10 - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Born in Swansea, 1969, Zeta-Jones acted throughout her childhood and starred in a British revival of 42nd Street when just fifteen. She became the tabloids' favourite homegrown beauty with The Darling Buds Of May, before conquering Hollywood in 1998 with her feisty heroine in The Mask Of Zorro.

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9 - Keira Knightley
The hottest of Britain's new generation of actresses, Keira Knightley got her break in Hollywood playing Natalie Portman's double in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

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8 - Kathy Burke
Kathy Burke is one of Britain's best-loved comic actresses, who also earned a reputation as a fine dramatic actress in films like Nil By Mouth and Elizabeth.

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7 - Helen Mirren
Revered for her work on stage, television and film, Dame Helen Mirren is one of Britain's most prolific and daring actresses and, as hit comedy Calendar Girls (2003) amply demonstrated, still a sex symbol to boot.

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6 - Julie Andrews
The whole world knows her as the sugary Mary Poppins or the goody goody governess to the Von Trapp children in the Sound Of Music, but people often forget that Julie Andrews had an incredibly varied career, including Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Victor/Victoria.

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