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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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| 85- Daniel Day-Lewis |
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-->Daniel Day-Lewis was born in London in 1957, son of the English Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic School. After his debut film performance in Sunday Bloody Sunday in 1971, Day-Lewis would return to the stage before gaining international recognition for My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985. A true chameleon, Day-Lewis followed it with A Room With A View, in which he played the wonderfully priggish Cecil Vyse. He won a Best Actor Oscar for his realistic portrayal of the quadriplegic Irish artist Christy Brown in the 1989 film My Left Foot, and enjoyed box office success in Michael Mann's Last Of The Mohicans in 1992, before appearing in The Name Of The Father and The Crucible. He will next be seen in Martin Scorsese's epic Gangs Of New York.
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| 84- Doris Day |
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Born in Cincinnati in 1924, Doris Day was one of America's most prolific actresses. She had first wanted to become a dancer, but this dream was ended by an automobile accident. Day turned to singing and was soon signed by Warner Brothers after being talked into screen-testing for them by her agent. She appeared in such films as It's A Great Feeling, Calamity Jane and Please Don't Eat The Daisies before moving onto The Doris Day Show in 1968 which was a huge TV hit. Today at 75, Day runs the Doris Day Animal League in California which campaigns for the proper care of household pets.
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| 83- Ralph Fiennes |
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Born in Suffolk in 1962, the son of a photographer and a novelist who encouraged all six of their children to be creative (his siblings now include a director, a producer, a musician, and Joseph Fiennes). Ralph (it is, of course, pronounced "Rafe", and indeed the original spelling, Raph, is sometimes still used) trained at RADA and was an excellent Shakesperean actor on stage before appearing with Juliette Binoche in Wuthering Heights. International stardom followed with Schindler's List, and since then he has thoughtfully applied his smouldering charisma to various serious, meaty roles, his only blip being The Avengers in 1998. Was married to ER's Alex Kingston.
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| 82- Judy Garland |
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Born Frances Gumm in Minnesota, 1922, Garland and her sisters changed their name in an effort to boost their Gumm Sisters Kiddie Act. A year later, aged nine, Frances changed her first name to Judy. When one sister married, Judy, pushed on by her mother whom she later described as "the real-life wicked witch of the west", went solo and was hired by MGM. She sang to a photo of Clark Gable in Broadway Melody before achieving immortality in 1939's The Wizard Of Oz. The wheels fell off when she developed a weight problem aged 21,which led to an addiction to various pills. She had success with A Star Is Born (1954) and Judgement At Nuremberg (1961), before dying of an overdose in 1969.
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| 81- Fred Astaire |
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Born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, 1899. Fred and his sister Adele started dancing on stage together at the age of seven, and were stars of vaudeville the world over in the 20s. The partnership was broken in 1931 when Adele married – Fred then pursued a stellar Hollywood career. A magical dancer, Astaire insisted on being filmed full-figure, rather than using the camera tricks employed by his rivals – however he did reputedly have to curl his fingers to disguise his scarily big hands. Astaire's dance routines were always imaginative and innovative – he dances on the ceiling of a hotel room in 1951's Royal Wedding, predating Lionel Richie by a full 35 years.
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