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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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| Kate Winslet |
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Kate Winslet was destined to be an actress. Born in Reading in 1975, he parents were both stage actors and her grandparents ran a theatre company. Winslet's first acting role was in a Sugar Puffs advert aged only 11 and she then worked in television. Her first film role, in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, won her critical acclaim and Winslet followed it with appearances in Sense And Sensibility, Jude and Hamlet. International fame came in 1997 thanks to Titanic, in which she played the upper class Rose Dewitt alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Always at home in British film, Winslet recently appeared in Enigma, about code breaking in World War II, and Iris, about the writer Iris Murdoch. |
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| Katharine Hepburn |
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Born in Hatford, Connecticut in 1907, Hepburn was brought up by her surgeon father and suffragette mother to be strong-willed, free-spirited and physically fit. Her Broadway career was a success despite her constant arguments with directors, and her contract with RKO to make movies was signed despite the fact that she had wilfully demanded an extremely high fee. But her first film, A Bill Of Divorcement, was a hit and she turned out to be one of Hollywood's best-loved performers, although she refused to play the celebrity game. Having cannily acquired the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, she began a fruitful relationship, on and off-screen, with Spencer Tracy. She kept appearing in hit films well into the 90s. |
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| Kevin Costner |
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An actor with a reputation for never giving up, Kevin Costner was born in California in 1955. After embarking on a job in marketing, Costner's life changed after a chance meeting with screen legend Richard Burton who told him to commit to acting fully if that was what he wanted to do. Costner quit his job and moved to Hollywood. Fame came a time later in Lawrence Kadan's Silverado. After the success of his films Robin Hood, The Bodyguard and the multi-Oscar winner Dances with Wolves, Costner was the biggest star on the planet. In recent tiimes, hits have been harder to come by for Kevin Costner, but he continues to fight to make good films, such as the critical success Thirteen Days. |
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| Kevin Spacey |
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Kevin Spacey was born in 1959 in New Jersey. A naughty child - he set his sister's tree house on fire and was sent to military academy only to be thrown out of that - he joined the drama course at Julliard on the advice of former classmate Val Kilmer. Quitting after two years to perform in the New York Shakespeare Festival, he was on Broadway within a year and by 1986 had made his movie debut playing a thief in Heartburn. After the indignity of See No Evil, Hear no Evil he had to wait six years for his Oscar-winning turn as Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects, following this soon after with a second gong for his take on middle class America gone wrong in American Beauty (1999). |
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