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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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50 - Olivia Williams
Following a tour of the US with Ian McKellen for Richard III, Williams was cast in Kevin Costner's The Postman. Her credibility was re-inforced with quirky independent comedy Rushmore, and then stardom attained in supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999).

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49 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste
The British actress won Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for her subtle performance as a woman reunited with her biological mother, in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies in 1996.

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48 - Merle Oberon
An exotic beauty probably best remembered as spirited Englishwoman Cathy to Olivier's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939), Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson was in fact half-English, half-Sinhalese.

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47 - Emily Mortimer
Bright young thing Emily Mortimer has gone from Hugh Grant reject in Notting Hill (1999) to love interest for Bruce Willis (The Kid, 2000) and Ewan McGregor (Young Adam, 2003) in the short space of a few years.

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46 - Flora Robson
Born in Durham just after the turn of the century, Flora McKenzie Robson was a distinguished character actor with a stage and screen career spanning some sixty years.

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