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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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| 40- Gary Oldman |
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Born Leonard Gary Oldham in New Cross, south London, in 1958. The sudden departure of his father, a welder, when Oldman was 7 was the start of an unhappy childhood – he left his brutal boys' school to become a sales clerk, performing at the Greenwich Young People's Theatre in his spare time. He won a scholarship to the Rose Buford College of Speech and Drama and got his film break starring alongside Phil Daniels and Tim Roth in Mike Leigh's Meantime. Since then he has played everyone from Sid Vicious to Ludwig van Beethoven, has dated Isabella Rossellini and divorced Uma Thurman. In 1997 he unexpectedly established himself as an accomplished director with the harrowing Nil By Mouth, winner of the 1998 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay.
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| 39- Marilyn Monroe |
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-->Norma Jean Mortenson was born in LA in 1926. An illegitimate child, her mother's family had a history of mental imbalance and suicide. With her mother resident in mental institutions for much of her childhood, Norma Jean lived in foster homes where she suffered neglect and even attempted rape. At 16 she married; at 17 she attempted suicide. Surviving to make a living as a model, she was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1946, establishing herself by the mid-50s. Worshipped as a (dyed) blonde sexpot, Monroe never got away from this image despite a keen desire to better herself. Always dogged by ill health and depression, she died of an overdose in 1962, a uniquely alluring but tragic icon, perhaps best remembered for Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Seven Year Itch (1955).
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| 38- 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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| 37- Cate Blanchett |
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Born in Melbourne, 1969. Upon graduating from the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992, Blanchett joined the Sydney Theatre Company and the next year was awarded both best newcomer and best actress, for two different productions, by the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle. TV roles (including in Police Rescue, syndicated in the UK) followed before she was picked up by Bruce Beresford for Paradise Road. After playing Lucinda in Oscar and Lucinda she hit the A-list with Elizabeth in 1998. Since then she has landed a starring role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which she plays Galadriel.
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| 36- Humphrey Bogart |
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Born in New York on 23 January 1899, although many people, including Bogart's fourth wife Lauren Bacall, romantically claim it was 25 December of the same year. The son of a surgeon and a magazine illustrator, Bogart became one of cinema's greatest ever stars despite a slight physical deformity, acquired in an accident while serving in the US Navy, which gave him a lisp and an unconventional, rigid delivery. He initially specialised in playing tough guys, but had the ability to reveal their hidden insecurities, and his roles grew more diverse as his career progressed. He won the Best Actor Academy Award for The African Queen. He died in 1957, although thanks to computer trickery he appeared on TV in 1988, in the horror series Tales From The Crypt.
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