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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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| 65- Cameron Diaz |
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Born in San Diego in 1972 Diaz, a striking natural blonde, travelled the world as a model before suddenly being cast in The Mask opposite Jim Carrey. The film was an enormous success and Diaz, who had no previous acting experience, jumped at the opportunity to join the major league. Honing her skills in a clutch of smaller films, she boosted her profile again in My Best Friend's Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary (both 1997). Since then she has shown an admirable tendency to shun cushy roles in favour of darker, kookier or more obscure pictures, such as Very Bad Things and Being John Malkovich, for which she received a BAFTA nomination.
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| 64- James Dean |
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James Dean became a screen icon, despite only appearing in three films, after he died in a car crash in September 1955. Born in Indiana in 1931, his first starring role came in East Of Eden, but his image was fixed forever in cinema history in Rebel Without A Cause. His portrayal of the red-coated rebel Jim Stark would strike a cord with American culture and propel him to superstardom across the world. Dean died shortly after finishing work on Giant behind the wheel of his Porsche Spyder. He was the first actor to be nominated posthumously for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in East Of Eden.
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| 63- Clark Gable |
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Adolf Hitler's favourite actor was born in Cadiz, Ohio in 1901. Gable abandoned his oil-driller father at the age of 21 and sought his fortune in the theatre. It took him ten years, during which he married and divorced a drama teacher and was rejected by studios for having big ears, to land a decent Hollywood role, in The Painted Desert. But in 1931 he shot 12 films and by the end of the year he was a rising star. Frank Capra's surprise hit It Happened One Night won Gable an Oscar, and in 1939 he starred in a little film called Gone With The Wind. Never the same after serving in the Second World War, he died in 1960.
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| 62- Robert Downey Jr |
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One of America's finest actors, Robert Downey Jr. has always had to fight personal demons as complex as many of the characters he plays on-screen. Born in 1965, Greenwich Village, in New York, he is the son of famous filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. His first part in a movie came in his father's own film Pound, when he was only five years old. Thereafter, he got his big break alongside Molly Ringwald in James Toback's 1987 film The Pick Up Artist before playing a drug addict in Less Than Zero. Downey Jr. earned an Oscar nomination in 1992, for his portrayal of legendary screen icon Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin. Unfortunately, his recent well-publicised battle against drug addiction has meant that, apart from Natural Born Killers, we have been denied his undoubted talent onscreen for some time.
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| 61- Robert Redford |
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-->Charles Robert Redford Jr was born in Santa Monica in 1937. After attending the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship, Redford travelled around Europe trying to make a living as a painter before settling in New York. He studied art at the Brooklyn Pratt Institute and simultaneously underwent acting training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After Broadway roles of steadily increasing stature, he debuted in War Hunt (1962) and found fame with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969). He won the best director Oscar at the first attempt with Ordinary People in 1980 and impressed again with Quiz Show (1995). He owns a large portion of Utah.
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