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Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren, born Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova is an English Film Actress, Stage Actress, Voice Actress and Author. Helen Mirren was honored in 2003 by Queen Elizabeth with the title DBE or Dame of the British Empire which is the female equivalent of being knighted. Helen Mirren won the Academy Award in 2006 for Best Actress in her role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.

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Born: July 26, 1945 in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom

Spouse: Taylor Hackford (m. 1997)

Children: None

Education: Middlesex University, St. Bernard’s High School, Westcliff-on-Sea

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

Books: Helen Mirren on Cleopatra – Shakespeare on Stage (2013), In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures (2007), Midsummers Night’s Dream: An A+ Study Guide (2006)

Awards: 2006 Academy Award for Best Actress in The Queen

Filmography

Age of Consent (1969)

Oh Lucky Man! (1973)

Caligula (1979)

The Friendship Plot of Dr. Fu Man Chu (1980)

The Long Good Friday (1980)

Excalibur (1981)

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

White Nights (1985)

The Mosquito Coast (1986)

Pacsali’s Island (1988)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

The Comfort of Strangers (1990)

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)

The Madness of King George (1994)

Some Mother’s Son (1996)

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

The Pledge (2001)

No Such Thing (2001)

Last Orders (2001)

Greenfingers (2001)

Gosford Park (2001)

Calendar Girls (2003)

The Clearing (2004)

Raising Helen (2004)

Shadowboxer (2005)

The Queen (2006)

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Inkheart (2008)

State of Play (2009)

The Last Station (2009)

Love Ranch (2010)

The Debt (2010)

The Tempest (2010)

Brighton Park (2010)

RED (2010)

Arthur (2011)

Hitchcock (2012)

Phil Spector (2013)

Monsters University (2013)

Red 2 (2013)

The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

Woman in Gold (2015)

Eye In The Sky (2015)

Trumbo (2015)

Collateral Beauty (2016)

The Fate of the Furious (2017)

The Leisure Seeker (2017)

Winchester (2018)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon, born Susan Abigail Tomalin is an American Film Actress, Voice Actress and Singer. Susan Sarandon won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1995 in her role as Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking.

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Born: October 4, 1946 in Jackson Heights, New York

Spouse: Tim Robbins (1988-2009), Chris Sarandon (m. 1967-1979)

Children: Eva Amurri, Miles Robbins, Jack Henry Robbins

Education: The Catholic University of America (1964-1968), Edison High School (1964)

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Awards: 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress in Dead Man Walking

Filmography

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Pretty Baby (1978)

Atlantic City (1980)

The Hunger (1983)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Bull Durham (1988)

A Dry White Season (1989)

White Palace (1990)

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Light Sleeper (1992)

Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)

The Client (1994)

Little Women (1994)

Safe Passage (1994)

Dead Man Walking (1995)

Twilight (1998)

Stepmom (1998)

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Anywhere But Here (1999)

The Banger Sisters (2002)

Igby Goes Down (2002)

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Noel (2004)

Shall We Dance? (2004)

Alfie (2004)

Elizabethtown (2005)

Romance & Cigarettes (2005)

Irresistible (2006)

Bernard and Doris (2006)

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Mr. Woodcock (2007)

Enchanted (2007)

Speed Racer (2008)

The Greatest (2009)

Solitary Man (2009)

The Lovely Bones (2009)

You Don’t Know Jack (2010)

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)

Robot and Frank (2012)

Arbitrage (2012)

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Snitch (2013)

The Big Wedding (2013)

The Last of Robin Hood (2013)

Tammy (2014)

The Calling (2014)

3 Generations (2015)

The Meddler (2015)

A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)

Viper Club (2018)

Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange, born Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American Film Actress, Television Actress and Author. Jessica Lange won the Academy Award in 1994 for Best Actress in her role as Carly Marshall in Blue Sky.

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Born: April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota

Spouse: Paco Grande (m. 1970-1981)

Children: Shura Baryshnikov, Hanna Jane Shepard, Samuel Walter Shepard

Education: University of Minesota

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)

Books: It’s All About a Little Bird, 50 Photographs, In Mexico, Highway 61

Awards: 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress in Blue Sky

Filmography

King Kong (1976)

All That Jazz (1979)

How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Tootsie (1982)

Frances (1982)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)

Country (1984)

Sweet Dreams (1985)

Crimes of the Heart (1986)

Far North (1988)

Everybody’s All American (1988)

Music Box (1989)

Men Don’t Leave (1990)

Cape Fear (1991)

O Pioneers! (1992)

Night and the City (1992)

Blue Sky (1994)

Losing Isaiah (1995)

Rob Roy (1995)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)

A Thousand Acres (1997)

Hush (1998)

Cousin Bette (1998)

Titus (1999)

Prozac Nation (2001)

Normal (2003)

Masked and Anonymous (2003)

Big Fish (2003)

Broken Flowers (2005)

Don’t Come Knocking (2005)

Neverwas (2005)

Bonneville (2006)

Sybil (2007)

Cheri (2009)

Grey Gardens (2009)

The Vow (2012)

The Big Valley (2012)

In Secret (2013)

The Gambler (2014)

Wild Oats (2016)

Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco (2017)

Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter, born Holly P. Hunter is an American Film Actress, Voice Actress and Producer. Holly Hunter won the Academy Award in 1993 for Best Actress in her role as Ada McGrath in The Piano.

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Born: March 20, 1958 in Conyers, Georgia

Spouse: Janusz Kaminski (m. 1995-2001)

Children: Press MacDonald, Claude MacDonald

Education: Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Height: 5′ 2″ (1.57 m)

Awards: 1993 Academy Award for Best Actress in The Piano

Filmography

The Burning (1981)

Svengali (1983)

Swing Shift (1984)

Blood Simple (1984)

Raising Arizona (1987)

A Gathering of Old Men (1987)

End of the Line (1987)

Broadcast News (1987)

Miss Firecracker (1989)

Roe vs. Wade (1989)

Animal Behavior (1989)

Always (1989)

Once Around (1991)

Crazy in Love (1992)

The Positively True Adventure (1993)

The Piano (1993)

The Firm (1993)

Copycat (1995)

Home for the Holidays (1995)

Crash (1996)

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Living Out Loud (1998)

Woman Wanted (1999)

Jesus’ Son (1999)

Things You Can Tell By Just Looking At Her (2000)

Timecode (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Harlan County War (2000)

When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)

Searching for Debra Winger (2002)

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Levity (2003)

thirteen (2003)

Rack like Uke (2003)

Little Black Book (2004)

The Incredibles (2004)

Nine Lives (2005)

The Big White (2005)

Jackie (2012)

Won’t Back Down (2012)

Paradise (2013)

Manglehorn (2014)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Strange Weather (2016)

Breakable You (2017)

The Big Sick (2017)

Song to Song (2017)

Incredibles 2 (2018)

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster, born Alicia Christian Foster is an American Film Actress, Director and Producer. Jodie Foster won the Academy Award in 1991 for Best Actress in her role as Clarise Starling in Silence of the Lambs.

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Born: November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California

Spouse: Alexandra Hedison (m. 2014)

Children: Kit Bernard Foster, Charles Bernard Foster

Education: Yale University (1985), Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles (1980), Hopper College, The Center for Early Education

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m)

Awards: 1991 Academy Award for Best Actress in Silence of the Lambs

Filmography

Menace on the Mountain (1970)

Napoleon and Samantha (1972)

Kansas City Bomber (1972)

Tom Sawyer (1973)

One Little Indian (1973)

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Smile, Jenny, You’re Dead (1974)

Echoes of a Summer (1976)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Bugsy Malone (1976)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976)

Freaky Friday (1976)

Beach House (1977)

Candleshoe (1977)

Foxes (1980)

Carny (1980)

O’Hara’s Wife (1982)

Svengali (1983)

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

The Blood of Others (1984)

Five Corners (1987)

Siesta (1987)

Stealing Home (1988)

The Accused (1988)

Catchfire (1990)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Little Man Tate (1991)

Shadows and Fog (1991)

Sommersby (1993)

Maverick (1994)

Nell (1994)

Home for the Holidays (1995)

Contact (1997)

The Baby Dance (1998)

Anna and the King (1999)

Directors: Robert Zemeckis (2000)

Panic Room (2002)

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

Flightplan (2005)

Inside Man (2006)

The Brave One (2007)

Nim’s Island (2008)

Life: A Cosmic Story (2010)

The Beaver (2011)

Carnage (2011)

Elysium (2013)

Money Monster (2016)

Hotel Artemis (2018)

Becoming Iconic (2018)

Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard is a French Film Actress, Television Actress, Singer, Songwriter and Musician. She won the Academy Award in 2008 for Best Actress in her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose and was nominated for Best Actress in 2015 for her role in Two Days, One Night.

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Born: September 30, 1975 in Paris, France

Spouse: Guillaume Canet (m. 2007)

Children: Louise Canet, Marcel Canet

Education: Conservatoire a Rayonnement Departemental d’Orleans

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Height: 5′ 6″ (1.69 m)

Awards: 2008 Academy Award Winner for Best Actress in La Vie en rose

Filmography

L’Histoire du garcon qui voul (1994)

My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument (1996)

Chloe (1996)

La Belle Verte (1996)

Taxi (1998)

War in the Highlands (1999)

Furia (1999)

Blue Away to America (1999)

Taxi 2 (2000)

Pretty Things (2001)

Vertigo: A Woman in Trouble (2001)

A Private Affair (2002)

Taxi 3 (2003)

Love Me If You Dare (2003)

Big Fish (2003)

Innocence (2004)

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

Love Is in the Air (2005)

Mary (2005)

Burnt Out (2005)

The Black Box (2005)

Edy (2005)

Cavalcade (2005)

You and Me (2006)

Dikkenek (2006)

A Good Year (2006)

La Vie en rose (2007)

Public Enemies (2009)

The Last Flight (2009)

Nine (2009)

Forehead Tittaes (2010)

Inception (2010)

Little White Lies (2010)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Contagion (2011)

Rust and Bone (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Blood Ties (2013)

The Immigrant (2013)

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

Dior and I (2014)

Two Days, One Night (2014)

The Little Prince (2015)

Macbeth (2015)

April and the Extraordinary World (2015)

From the Land of the Moon (2016)

It’s Only the End of the World (2016)

Allied (2016)

Assassin’s Creed (2016)

Ismael’s Ghosts (2017)

Angel Face (2018)

Little White Lies 2 (2019)

Maria Aitken

Maria Aitken, born Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken is an English Film Actress, Theatre Director, Teacher and Writer.

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Born: September 12, 1945 in Dublin, Ireland

Spouse: Patrick McGrath (m. 1991), Nigel Davenport (m. 1972-1981), Richard Durden (m. 1968-1971)

Children: Jack Davenport

Education: University of Oxford, Sherborne Girls School

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

Books: A Girdle Round the Earth, Acting in Restoration Comedy, Women Adventures: Travelers, Explorers and Seekers

Biography

Maria Aitken graduated from Oxford with a degree in English Language and Literature and has directed several plays in the West End and on Broadway. Her production of The 39 Steps, which ran in London for nine years, also played three years on Broadway and won Olivier and Tony Awards. In 2011 she directed Frank Langella in Man and Boy on Broadway. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Yale, NY and Juilliard drama schools and her extensive acting career includes leading roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End.

Her movie career includes appearances in Doctor Faustus (1967), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Half Moon Street (1986), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Fool (1990), The Grotesque (1995), Fierce Creatures (1997), Jinnah (1998) and Asylum (2005). Aitken was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role as Wendy in A Fish Called Wanda. She is the author of A Girdle Round the Earth, a story of some of the more remarkable women travelers of the last 200 years, and Style: Acting in High Comedy, published in 1996. She has been a patron of the British Thyroid Foundation since 1992 and was appointed a Trustee of the Noel Coward Foundation in 2012.