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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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| Shirley MacLaine |
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Born in Virginia in 1934, Shirley MacLaine was enrolled in a course of ballet classes by her parents because she had weak ankles. After graduating from high school, she left for New York to become an actress and caught the attention of Paramount Pictures, after taking up the lead role of the play The Pajama Game, when the main actress was injured. She got her first film role in 1955 in The Trouble With Harry, and followed it with roles in Hot Spell and Around The World In Eighty Days. Having received three Oscar nominations for The Apartment, Irma La Deuce and The Turning Point, MacLaine finally won in 1983 for Terms of Endearment. |
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| Shirley Temple |
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The first child star, Shirley Temple was a world icon by the time she was a toddler. The dimples and the golden curly hair wowed audiences in depression era America and Temple was the top box office draw in the mid 1930s. Having made her debut at three, in War Babies (1932), Temple appeared in films like Red Haired Alibi, To The Last Man, Out All Night and Change Of Heart. After appearing in the musical Stand Up And Cheer, she was signed by Fox and won an Academy Award in 1934 for outstanding contribution to screen entertainment aged five! After many more hits, her star was dimmed by adolescence, but she continued to be one of America's most loved personalities. |
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| Sidney Poitier |
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Possibly no one man had such a powerful effect on Hollywood as Sidney Poitier. The first black leading man, he blazed a trail that opened up the American movie industry to black actors. Born in Miami, but raised in the Bahamas, Poitier grew up in poverty, before coming to America as a teenager, taking a series of bad jobs and joining the army. Having joined the American Negro Theatre and appeared on Broadway in Anna Lucasta in 1948, he got his screen break in No Way Out in 1950 as a hospital intern who deals with racist punks. Poitier then appeared in several films in the lead role, at a time when America was racially divided, and won an Oscar for his performance in Lilies Of The Field in 1963. His defining role came as the police detective Virgil Tibbs in In The Heat Of The Night alongside Rod Steiger's redneck cop. Poitier's achievements were recognised at the Oscars in 2002, where Denzel Washington presented him with a Life-Time Achievement Award. |
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| Sigourney Weaver |
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Susan Weaver (the Sigourney came from The Great Gatsby) was born in New York in 1949. Daughter to an actress and the president of NBC, she enjoyed a privileged Upper East Side childhood and attained degrees from Stanford and Yale. Frustrated at Yale, where Meryl Streep walked off with all the best roles, she worked off Broadway before making her movie debut with a blink-and-you'll-miss-her part in Annie Hall. Her major break came with her role as Ripley in Alien, though she needed persuading not to turn it down. Oscar-nominated for the sequel, she has successfully mixed comedy and action with more demanding roles, notably as Janey Carver in The Ice Storm. |
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