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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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| Ralph Fiennes |
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Born in Suffolk in 1962, the son of a photographer and a novelist who encouraged all six of their children to be creative (his siblings now include a director, a producer, a musician, and Joseph Fiennes). Ralph (it is, of course, pronounced "Rafe", and indeed the original spelling, Raph, is sometimes still used) trained at RADA and was an excellent Shakesperean actor on stage before appearing with Juliette Binoche in Wuthering Heights. International stardom followed with Schindler's List, and since then he has thoughtfully applied his smouldering charisma to various serious, meaty roles, his only blip being The Avengers in 1998. Was married to ER's Alex Kingston. |
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| Richard Burton |
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Born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales in 1925. Jenkins, the 12th child of a coal miner, won a scholarship to Oxford thanks to his tutor Philip Burton, who also gave him his stage name. Initially Burton split himself between stage and screen, making his film debut in 1948 in The Last Days Of Dolwyn, and blowing John Gielgud off stage a year later in The Lady's Not For Burning. He hit the headlines when he married Cleopatra co-star Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. By the time of his sudden death in 1984 he had been nominated for Oscars seven times. |
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| Richard Gere |
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Born in Philadelphia in 1949, Gere was a keen musician as a child, playing various instruments at high school. He won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts, but switched back to music after his studies, playing bluegrass and trying to start a rock band. But he was also an actor, starring in Grease on Broadway. After a brief sojourn in Tibet, he became a sex symbol in American Gigolo, before his talent for looking good in uniform propelled him to stardom in An Officer And A Gentleman (1982). Since then he has shone in the blockbuster, Pretty Woman. |
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| Rita Hayworth |
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Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Cansino in 1918 in New York and by the age of three was learning to dance as a member of The Dancing Cansinos. She changed her name to Rita Hayworth in 1935 and made her film debut as a dancer in Dante's Inferno aged only 16. After working in many supporting roles, she got a prominent part in Only Angels Have Wings in 1939 and then appeared in Blood And Sand. Hayworth had her first big success in the 1941 film The Strawberry Blonde and became a star after dancing with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich. After turning in an explosive performances in Gilda, Miss Sadie Thompson and They Came To Cordura her career was curtailed by the onset of Alzheimer's. |
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