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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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| 95- Uma Thurman |
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Uma Thurman was born in Boston in 1970, and grew up on campus at Amherst College, where her father is a noted professor of Buddhist Studies. She blew out college to start a film career and made her debut at 17. Kiss Daddy Goodnight was panned but Thurman soon made an impression as a deflowered virgin in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Her steamy performance in Henry & June led to some unwelcome attention from fans, which knocked her confidence until Pulp Fiction rescued her in 1993. Although she's appeared in some great films (Beautiful Girls, Gattaca), she has been missing a big hit since, a problem which should be rectified with the release of Tarantino's forthcoming Kill Bill, in which she stars.
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| 94- Leonardo DiCaprio |
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Born in LA in 1974, Leonardo was a TV actor (including, early on, milk commercials) and bit-part player in movies before hitting his stride with This Boy's Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and The Basketball Diaries, all tricky roles sensitively handled. The more palatable Romeo & Juliet led to his casting in the unsinkable Titanic, for which he was about the only thing not to be nominated for an Oscar. Since then he has been lined up to feature in both American Psycho and a Godfather prequel, opting instead for Scorsese's Gangs Of New York.
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| 93- Kevin Costner |
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An actor with a reputation for never giving up, Kevin Costner was born in California in 1955. After embarking on a job in marketing, Costner's life changed after a chance meeting with screen legend Richard Burton who told him to commit to acting fully if that was what he wanted to do. Costner quit his job and moved to Hollywood. Fame came a time later in Lawrence Kadan's Silverado. After the success of his films Robin Hood, The Bodyguard and the multi-Oscar winner Dances with Wolves, Costner was the biggest star on the planet. In recent tiimes, hits have been harder to come by for Kevin Costner, but he continues to fight to make good films, such as the critical success Thirteen Days.
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| 92- Amitabh Bachchan |
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In the 1970s, Bollywood was a one man industry and Amitbah Bachchan was its king. The Shahenshah of Bollywood, Bachchan was born in India in 1942, son of the well-known poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. After graduating from Delhi University, he travelled to Bombay to be an actor, but struggled initially because at 6'3" he was considered too tall by many film-makers. Bachchan did not find fame until his thirteenth film, Zanjeer, in which he played a strict police officer, but after that he would achieve near deity in India. He appeared in Deewaar, Sharaabi and Hum throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s and each time his career was declared over he returned with bigger and better successes. He also presented India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Voted superstar of the Millennium in an online poll, over Sir Laurence Olivier and Chaplin, he is so popular that once, when he was injured during the filming of Coolie in 1983, all of India offered prayers at temples and mosques for him to recover.
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| 91- Julie Christie |
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Born in 1941 in Assam, India, Julie Christie grew up on her father's tea plantation. She was educated in England and Europe and planned to become an artist or a linguist before enrolling at the London's Central School of Music and Drama. She made her professional debut on stage with the Frinton Repertory of Essex and appeared in the TV series A For Andromeda. Her third film role, where she played Billy Liar's girlfriend and escape route, catapulted her to more than stardom: she became a 60s icon, winning the Best Actress Oscar for Darling. She spent the 70s in America, largely with Warren Beatty, and on her return to England in the 80s her film choices were primarily determined by her ardent political beliefs.
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