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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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| Tom Cruise |
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born in 1962 in Syracuse, New York. A troubled childhood led to a year in a Franciscan monastery at the age of 14, and he took up acting after an injury put paid to his high school wrestling ambitions. Wrestling and the priesthood's loss proved to be acting's gain - at 18 Cruise landed his first movie role in Endless Love. By 1983 he was a lead actor and after famously saucing Rebecca de Mornay (on the train, on the stairs and on his dad's leather chair) in classic 80s hit Risky Business, he hit the superstar league as Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in Top Gun. Oscar nominations followed as he took on more mature roles. In 1990 he took up scientology, and says it cured his dyslexia. To date, he's been nominated for three Academy Awards. |
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| Tom Hanks |
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Tom Hanks was born in Concord, California, July 1956. His parents split when he was five, and Hanks experienced a nomadic youth as his father looked for work. After dropping out of university his movie debut came in the 1980 slasher pic He Knows You're Alone. After two years in cross-dressing sitcom Bosom Buddies, he was remembered by Ron Howard from his bit part in Happy Days and invited to read for Splash. After his Oscar-nominated turn in Big, it was not until 1993 with Sleepless In Seattle and Philadelphia that he could be counted as a major player. An Oscar regular ever since, he did give the rest a chance by turning down the lead in American Beauty. |
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| Toshiro Mifune |
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Legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, found himself looking for work in a ruined Japan after World War II. His application to become a cameraman at Toho studio was mixed up and Mifune found himself auditioning before one of the greatest directors of all time, Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa cast him in Drunken Angel in 1948 and thereafter the two worked together fruitfully in such classics as Rashoman, Seven Samurai, Throne Of Blood and Red Beard. Few actors have ever moved as boldly or quickly as Mifune or had his sense of timing. A true star of world cinema. |
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