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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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| 55- Kate Winslet |
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Kate Winslet was destined to be an actress. Born in Reading in 1975, he parents were both stage actors and her grandparents ran a theatre company. Winslet's first acting role was in a Sugar Puffs advert aged only 11 and she then worked in television. Her first film role, in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, won her critical acclaim and Winslet followed it with appearances in Sense And Sensibility, Jude and Hamlet. International fame came in 1997 thanks to Titanic, in which she played the upper class Rose Dewitt alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Always at home in British film, Winslet recently appeared in Enigma, about code breaking in World War II, and Iris, about the writer Iris Murdoch.
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| 54- Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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Born in Graz, Austria, in 1947. Arnie defied his father, who wanted him to be a footballer, to take up bodybuilding and by 1968 had won the sinister-sounding Junior Mr Europe title. In America he won numerous contests including Mr World, Mr Universe and Mr Olympia before giving up bodybuilding to star in a film about bodybuilding, Pumping Iron (1977). From there he played the lead in two Conan films and followed them with The Terminator (1984). Somehow, Arnie then became the world's biggest movie star, and he proceeded to make a series of hugely successful blockbusters, mixing in light comedies in the 90s. A staunch Republican, it has been suggested that he might one day run for office.
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| 53- Harvey Keitel |
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Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Keitel had a difficult childhood. He stuttered, was thrown out of school for truancy, joined the Marines at 16 and when he quit, sold shoes to earn a crust. He studied The Method with Lee Strasberg and at 26 answered an ad placed by student director Martin Scorsese for the latter's Who's That Knocking At My Door? He went on to appear in Marty's first three films and was famously replaced by Martin Sheen on Coppola's Apocalypse Now. As befits someone of Keitel's intensity and passion, his favourite film is The Sound Of Music. Oscar nominated for his role in Bugsy (1991).
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| 52- 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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| 51- Will Smith |
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Born in Philadelphia in 1968, Smith began his entertainment career as part of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, transferring his Fresh Prince alter ego in 1990 to a sitcom that seemed to run forever on NBC and BBC2. He became a movie star with Bad Boys (1995) and the mega-hits Independence Day and Men In Black. After achieving fame as an actor he resumed his music career with a popular brand of commercial hip-hop, seemingly in a bid to take over the world (he even tried to make the year 2000 known as the "Willennium"). He flopped by his standards in Wild Wild West and The Legend Of Bagger Vance before landing the title role in Michael Mann's immense Muhammad Ali biopic.
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