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| Check out the Results pages to find out who you voted as the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. Click on any star's name to be taken to in-depth information about their work. |
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| 20- 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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| 19- Robin Williams |
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A comic genius who has firmly established himself as one of Hollywood's true stars, Robin Williams was born in Chicago in 1952. A Juillard acting student, Williams found early fame for his wild and exciting comic routines and for his part as the alien in the TV series Mork And Mindy. His big screen break came in Robert Altman's Popeye in 1980, leading to roles in films like The World According To Garp, and Moscow On The Hudson. Williams is at home with almost any kind of material, from comic to deadly serious, as can be seen in his roles in Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Aladdin and Good Will Hunting.
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| 18- Clint Eastwood |
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Born in San Francisco in 1930, Clint served in the army before winning a contract with Universal Studios in 1954. He played bit parts in films such as Tarantula and appeared in Rawhide after being spotted in the CBS car park. During filming breaks he starred in the Man With No Name trilogy, which topped box office charts on their release in 1964-66. A series of enigmatic hard man roles followed, with loose cannon cop 'Dirty' Harry Callahan the most successful. He made his directing debut with 1971's Play Misty For Me and has appeared in studio fodder to allow himself the freedom to make his own movies, notably the Oscar-winning Unforgiven.
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| 17- Mel Gibson |
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Mel Gibson, the sixth child of 11, was born in New York in 1956. His father worked on the railways but the threat of the Vietnam draft persuaded the family to move to Sydney. Raised in a strong Catholic family (Gibson's middle name is Columcille, which means "dove of the church"), Gibson initially wanted to be a journalist, but his sister submitted an application in his name to the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. After graduation he featured in a couple of small films before a bar-room brawl sent him on his way to stardom. With his face covered in stitches and bruises he auditioned for the post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max and walked off with the role. Since then he has won Best Picture and Director for his self financed epic Braveheart.
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| 16- Paul Newman |
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Paul Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925 and after being discharged from the navy at the end of the war studied at Yale Drama School and the New York Actors Studio. He made his movie debut in 1954's The Silver Chalice and thought his performance so bad, he took out an advert to apologise. He won his first Oscar nomination opposite Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1958 and was nominated four times in the 60s, the last for his directing debut Rachel, Rachel (1968). Turkeys such as When Time Ran Out were rare and he improved on his Oscar nomination for The Hustler by winning the award for the sequel, The Color Of Money, in 1986.
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