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| The voting's over. Now it's time to find out who the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of all time are, as voted by you. Watch Channel 4's 100 Greatest Movie Stars to find out if these nominees made it onto the final list. |
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| Al Pacino |
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Alfredo Pacino was born on 25 April 1940 in New York and brought up by his grandparents
near the Bronx Zoo. Not allowed out of the house until he was seven, he was inspired at 14 by a performance of Chekhov's The Seagull. He took acting classes after leaving school and at 26 went to the Actors Studio to study with Lee Strasberg. Within three years he'd made his movie debut and on the strength of his second feature, Coppola offered him the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. An Oscar nomination and movie stardom followed despite turning down Apocalypse Now, Kramer Vs. Kramer and the role of Han Solo. |
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| Albert Finney |
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Born in Manchester in 1936, Albert Finney came to the cinema from theatre, where he had
been very successful. His first film was The Entertainer alongside Laurence Olivier in 1960, but he received real recognition for Saturday
Night Sunday Morning made later that year. International fame came in 1963 when Finney took the title role in the film adaptation of Tom Jones, for which he received an Oscar nomination. Finney decided against a move to Hollywood, choosing instead to continue working in theatre.
However, he continued to appear in excellent films, including Two For The Road, Murder On The Orient Express and the Coen brothers'
Millar's Crossing. |
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| Amitabh Bachchan |
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In the 1970s, Bollywood was a one man industry and Amitbah Bachchan was its king.
The Shahenshah of Bollywood, Bachchan was born in India in 1942, son of the well-known poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. After graduating
from Delhi University, he travelled to Bombay to be an actor, but struggled initially because at 6'3" he was considered too tall by many
film-makers. Bachchan did not find fame until his thirteenth film, Zanjeer, in which he played a strict police officer, but after that
he would achieve near deity in India. He appeared in Deewaar, Sharaabi and Hum throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s and each time his career
was declared over he returned with bigger and better successes. He also presented India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Voted superstar of the Millennium in an online poll, over Sir Laurence Olivier and Chaplin, he is so popular that once, when he was
injured during the filming of Coolie in 1983, all of India offered prayers at temples and mosques for him to recover. |
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| Angelina Jolie |
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The daughter of Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie was born in LA in 1975. After meeting Jonny
Lee Miller on the set of Hackers, she married him with his name written across her back in her own blood. Such behaviour was not out of
character for Jolie, who won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted, a film set in a mental institution. After divorcing Lee Miller just as he
disappeared off the celebrity radar, she appeared in the deeply pointless Gone In 60 Seconds but gave an uplifting performance in Tomb Raider. |
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