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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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| Barbra Streisand |
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Barbra Streisand emerged from the womb nose-first in Brooklyn, 1942. She started on the
road to superstardom by winning a nightclub contest in Greenwich Village, and from there sang in clubs before taking a small role on
Broadway in 1962's I Can Get It for You Wholesale. The production as a whole was unremarkable, but Streisand was a sensation. By the
time of her film debut in Funny Girl (1968), Streisand had had hit TV shows and records. A notoriously egotistical tyrant on set, she
turned to directing and founded her own production company in the 80s. |
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| Ben Kingsley |
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Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on 31st December 1943 in Scarborough.
His dad was a Ugandan Asian doctor and his mother an actress. He grew up in Manchester and got into acting after seeing Ian Holm's
Hamlet at the age of 19. His father suggested he change his name to further his career - he took his stage surname from his grandfather,
a Zanzibar-based spice trader nicknamed King Clove - and he was accepted into the RSC in 1967. He also wanted to be a singer and was
once courted by Beatles impresario Brian Epstein. Kingsley found fame and Oscar success as Gandhi. He read 23 volumes of Gandhi's
collected works and spun cotton in preparation for the part. |
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| Benicio Del Toro |
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Born in Puerto Rico in 1967. Intending to follow his family into law, he enrolled on a
business course at the University of California in San Diego. After taking an acting class in his first year he decided to drop out,
much to the distress of his father. He studied with Stella Adler and paid for his tuition by helping build one of her school's theatres.
Most of his early roles were either as drug lords or their henchman, the exception being his forgettable movie debut playing Duke the Dog
Faced Boy in a Pee Wee Herman film. People eventually got beyond the dark circles under his eyes, and he came to attention by mumbling
almost incomprehensibly in The Usual Suspects before his Oscar success for Traffic. |
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| Bette Davis |
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Born in Massachusetts in 1908, Davis became "the first lady of the American screen" despite a difficult journey to the top. After failing numerous auditions and screen tests, Davis made her screen debut in 1931's The Bad Sister, thereafter starring in a number of Warner Brothers productions of dubious quality. Despite winning an Oscar in 1935 for Dangerous (she was nominated a record ten times) Warners kept giving her bum roles, and she tried unsuccessfully to break out of her contract. After winning another Oscar in 1938 for Jezebel, she seemed all washed up by 1962's Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?. But she triumphed again. She died in 1989 - her preferred epitaph was "She did it the hard way". |
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