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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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| Cameron Diaz |
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Born in San Diego in 1972 Diaz, a striking natural blonde, travelled the world as a model before suddenly being cast in The Mask opposite Jim Carrey. The film was an enormous success and Diaz, who had no previous acting experience, jumped at the opportunity to join the major league. Honing her skills in a clutch of smaller films, she boosted her profile again in My Best Friend's Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary (both 1997). Since then she has shown an admirable tendency to shun cushy roles in favour of darker, kookier or more obscure pictures, such as Being John Malkovich, Very Bad Things and Being John Malkovich, for which she received a BAFTA nomination. |
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| Cary Grant |
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Archibald Leach was born in poverty in Bristol, 1904. His story is one of the most extraordinary in all cinema, and he was one of its greatest stars. Leach ran away from home aged 13 (his mother had departed four years before to a mental institution) to join a travelling acrobatic troupe, ending up in New York. He sang in England and on Broadway before making it to Hollywood. He starred suavely in countless classics, but his real personality always remained shrouded in mystery. His greatest role was that of Cary Grant, who was a fiction, as revealed in the self-produced, veiled autobiography of None But The Lonely Heart, where Grant played a poor, struggling man in an English slum. |
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| Cate Blanchett |
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Born in Melbourne, 1969. Upon graduating from the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992, Blanchett joined the Sydney Theatre Company and the next year was awarded both best newcomer and best actress, for two different productions, by the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle. TV roles (including in Police Rescue, syndicated in the UK) followed before she was picked up by Bruce Beresford for Paradise Road. After playing Lucinda in Oscar and Lucinda she hit the A-list with Elizabeth in 1998. Since then she has landed a starring role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which she plays Galadriel. |
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| Catherine Deneuve |
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Catherine Deneuve was born on 22 October 1943 in Paris to the veteran stage and screen actor Maurice Dorleac. She made her screen debut at 13 but despite the backing of star-maker Roger Vadim she didn't attract much attention until the mid-60s. She worked with Polanski, Bunuel and Truffaut, set up her own production company in 1971 and recorded an album with Serge Gainsbourg (obligatory for any French actress). 1992 saw her nominated for an Oscar for her role in Indochine. She was so impressed by Breaking the Waves that she wrote to Lars von Trier, and he later rewrote the part of Selma's best friend Kathy in Dancer in the Dark for her. |
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