Top 100 Most Beautiful Women In The World + 25 Other Smocking Hot Chicks
1.
Blake Lively
Actress, Summer Kind of Wonderful
Blake Lively was born in a showbiz family in California and quickly followed her parents' and siblings' steps. Her first role was "Trixie, the Tooth Fairy" in the 1998 movie Sandman, directed by her dad, Ernie Lively. Her big break came along a few years later, though. Blake was up to finish high school when she got the co-starring role of "Bridget" in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005...
2.
Ursula Andress
Actress, Dr. No
It's probably unsurprising that one of the most famous sequences in movie history features a woman who spent most of her time faking being an actress. When Swiss bombshell Ursula Andress emerges from the sea in Dr. No in the famed white bikini, she's living proof that what's truly unique about the movies is their unsurpassed visual power...
3.
Kate Beckinsale
Actress, Underworld
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her father was Richard Beckinsale...
4.
Marilyn Monroe
Soundtrack, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital. Prior to her birth, Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headed north to San Francisco, abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Marilyn grew up not knowing for sure who her father really was...
6.
Emilia Clarke
Actress, The Rains of Castamere
Emilia Clarke is a British actress, she was born in London and grew up in Berkshire, England. Her father is a theatre sound engineer and her mother is a businesswoman. Her father was working on a theatre production of "Show Boat" and her mother took her along to the performance. This is when, at the age of 3...
7.
Grace Kelly
Actress, Rear Window
In the summer of 1954, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant were on the French Riviera working on an Alfred Hitchcock movie, To Catch a Thief. It was probably the scene after she speeds along the Moyen Corniche to quickly get to the "picnic grounds", and away from a tailing police car, that she had time to look at the Mediterranean and the countryside along the coast...
8.
Salma Hayek
Producer, Frida
One of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses, Salma Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on 2nd September, 1966. Her father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, was a rich businessman, and her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, was an opera singer. Her paternal grandfather was Lebanese. At a very young age...
9.
Mila Kunis
Actress, Black Swan
The talented Milena "Mila" Markovna Kunis was born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, USSR (now independent Ukraine). Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. After attending one semester of college between gigs...
10.
Katy Perry
Soundtrack, Katy Perry: Part of Me
Katy Perry was born in California, the middle child of pastor parents. She has an older sister and younger brother, and is of English, Portuguese, German, and Irish descent. Raised in a deeply religious family, Perry's first experience of performing was singing in church. A passion for music grew and at the age of 15...
11.
Scarlett Johansson
Actress, Lost in Translation
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City. Her mother,Melanie Sloan, is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, and her father, Karsten Johansson, is Danish. Scarlett showed a passion for acting at a young age and starred in many plays. She has a sister named Vanessa Johansson, a brother named Adrian, and a twin brother named Hunter Johansson born three minutes after her...
12.
Beyoncé Knowles
Soundtrack, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Beyoncé was born in Houston, Texas. Her father, Mathew Knowles, manages Destiny's Child. Her mother, Tina Knowles, designs their glittering costumes. Solange Knowles, her sister (they're about 5 years apart), has released her debut album. She dances with her big sister during DC-3 concerts. Beyoncé is of African-American and Creole descent...
13.
Emma Watson
Emma Watson was born in Paris, France to English parents and moved to Oxfordshire when she was five where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing...
14.
Christina Hendricks
Actress, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Christina Rene Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her father, Robert, worked for the forestry department, and originally came from England, while her mother, Jackie Sue (Raymond), was a psychologist. Because of her father's profession, the family moved to Fairfax...
15.
Sharon Stone
Actress, Casino
Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker and her mother was an accountant and homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania and, at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania...
16.
Amanda Seyfried
Actress, Les Misérables
Amanda Seyfried was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to of Ann (Sander), an occupational therapist, and Jack Seyfried, a pharmacist. She is of German, and some English and Scots-Irish, ancestry. Amanda began modeling when she was 11-years-old. She acted in high school productions as well as taking singing lessons...
17.
Emma Stone
Actress, The Help
Emma Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, to Krista (Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeffrey Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish (from her paternal grandfather), English, German, Scottish, and Irish descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix...
18.
Megan Fox
Actress, Transformers
Megan Denise Fox was born May 16, 1986 in Rockwood, Tennessee. Megan began her training in drama and dance at age 5 and, at age 10, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where she continued her training and finished school. Megan began acting and modeling at age 13 after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head...
19.
Leighton Meester
Actress, That's My Boy
Although born in Texas when her mother was serving a jail sentence for her part in a marijuana-smuggling ring, Leighton Meester spent her early years in Marco Island, Florida with her grandparents where she became involved with the local playhouse and made her stage debut in a production of "The Wizard of Oz"...
20.
Kate Upton
Florida native Kate Upton always knew she wanted to be a model. Since signing with IMG Models in 2010, Kate has taken the world by storm. For the past two years, Kate has graced the cover of the legendary Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, which has led to an onslaught of media buzz about the 21-year-old...
21.
Heather Graham
Actress, The Hangover
Heather was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised by her strictly Catholic father, who worked for the FBI, and mother, a former school teacher and author. She and her sister, Aimee Graham, were forced to relocate often, as a result of their father's occupation, and Heather became increasingly shy...
22.
Hayden Panettiere
Actress, Racing Stripes
Hayden Leslie Panettiere was born on 21st August 1989 in Palisades, New York to Lesley Vogel and Skip Panettiere, along with younger brother Jansen Panettiere. She has Italian and German ancestry. Her mother got her started in the business by doing commercials when she was just 11 months old. Then...
23.
Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting
Actress, Hop
A model and commercial actress from the age of 6, Kaley Cuoco's first major role was in the TV movie Quicksand: No Escape with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. Her other television credits include guest-starring on the series Ellen(where she played "little Ellen" to the Ellen DeGenerescharacter)...
24.
Gina Carano
Actress, Haywire
Gina Joy Carano was born under a tornado warning in Dallas, Texas, to parents Dana (Cason) and Glenn Carano. Her father played for the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys as a backup quarterback for Roger Staubach and Danny White from 1977-1983. In 1984, he was the starting quarterback for the USFL Pittsburgh Maulers...
25.
Carmen Electra
Actress, Scary Movie
Carmen Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick on April 20, 1972. She grew up near Cincinnati, Ohio and got her first boost when a scout for Prince spotted her fronting for a rap group in Los Angeles, California. She released a self-titled album for Prince's Paisley Park label in 1993. She then toured Europe as Prince's opening act on his 1992 Diamonds and Pearls Tour...
26.
Jennifer Lawrence
Actress, The Hunger Games
Academy Award Winning Actress Jennifer Lawrence, best-known for playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 15, 1990, to Karen (Koch) and Gary Lawrence. She has two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, and has English, as well as some German, Irish, and Scottish, ancestry...
27.
Lauren London
Actress, I Love You, Beth Cooper
Lauren London first appeared in the film, ATL, opposite actor and recording artist, Tip "TI" Harris. Due to London's breakout success in ATL, she received an offer to star in the film, This Christmas, with Loretta Devine, Idris Elba and Regina King. Her next film role was in the teen romantic comedy...
28.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Actress, Belle
Gugu, short for Gugulethu, Xhosa for "Our Pride", was born in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. Her mother, Anne Raw, is a caucasian, English nurse, and her father, Patrick Mbatha, is a black, South African doctor. Her parents separated when she was a year old, though she is still close to her father...
29.
Eva Green
Actress, Casino Royale
Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 5, 1980, in Paris, France. She has a non-identical twin sister. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar. Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress who retired from acting and became a writer of children's books. Eva's mother was born in Algeria...
30.
Meagan Good
Actress, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Meagan Monique Good was born in 8 August 1981 in Panorama City, California, USA, to Tyra Wardlow-Doyle and Leondis "Leon" Good. She began appearing on commercials at the age of four. Then she started guest-starring on series like The Parent 'Hood,Touched by an Angel, Moesha, The Steve Harvey Show and The Division. She also starred in Raising Dad with Bob Saget.
31.
Amber Heard
Actress, Zombieland
Amber Heard starred in Paranoia, opposite Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman. The film was released by "Relativity Media" on August 16, 2013. She also starred inRobert Rodriguez's Machete Kills, which was released by "Open Road Films" on September 13, 2013 and McG's 3 Days to Kill...
33.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Actress, Scarface
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their life's work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1976...
34.
Sienna Miller
Actress, Stardust
Sienna Rose Miller was born in New York City but raised in London, England. Her father, Ed Miller, was an investment banker, then a Chinese art dealer, joined a cult and wrote a spiritual self-help book. Her mother, Josephine Miller, was a South African model and a personal assistant to David Bowie...
35.
Christina Aguilera
Soundtrack, Get Smart
Christina Aguilera is a bilingual singer. Her mother, Shelly Loraine (Fidler), is American-born, and has English, German, Irish, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), and French ancestry. Her father, Fausto Xavier Aguilera, is Ecuadorian. Her self-titled debut album went 10x platinum. She has received many honors including 6 Grammy Nominations and one win for Best New Artist...
37.
Evangeline Lilly
Actress, Real Steel
Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses.
38.
Mindy Robinson
Actress, V/H/S/2
Mindy Robinson is a Los Angeles based actress and reality star from Fall River, MA. As a TV personality she's had over thirty reoccurring appearances on network reality shows like Take Me Out, King of the Nerds, TMZ, Millionaire Matchmaker and the Soup. She has also had roles in over 100 scripted TV shows like CSI: Las Vegas...
39.
“ I saw her in Not Another Not Another Movie ” - Indiana Jones
40.
Jessica Biel
Actress, The Illusionist
Born in Ely, Minnesota, and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Jessica Biel has paid her dues in the Hollywood scene. A breakout star as Mary Camden on the WB's highest rated show, 7th Heaven, Jessica still manages to make a few appearances per season, even though she has left the show, in the midst of an exploding film career...
41.
Katie Cassidy
Actress, Taken
Katie Cassidy was born Katherine Evelyn Cassidy on November 25, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, David Cassidy, was a pop star in the 1970s. Her mother, Sherry Williams, was a high fashion model in the early 1970's. Sherry left her career to concentrate on raising her 3 daughters, with husband...
42.
Brooklyn Decker
Actress, Battleship
Actress and former model Brooklyn Decker is the oldest child of Tessa, a nurse and Stephen, a pacemaker salesman. She has a younger brother called Jordan. When Decker was a teenager, she was discovered by a talent spotter in a shopping mall in Charlotte, North Carolina and embarked on a modeling career. Her first modeling engagement was for a prom dress maker...
“ I have a weakness for blondes ” - Indiana Jones
43.
Tiffany Toth
Self, Bloopers and Outtakes
Buxom and shapely 5'8" blonde bombshell model and make-up artist Tiffany Toth was born on March 28, 1986 in Anaheim Hills, California. She's of mixed French, Irish, and Hungarian descent. Tiffany grew up in Orange County, California. Toth was the Playboy Cyber Girl of the Week for the third week of November...
45.
Julianne Hough
Julianne Alexandra Hough was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, the youngest of 5 children. Her mother is Mari Anne and her father is Bruce Robert Hough, a twice chairman of the Utah Republican Party. Her parents met in college, when they were both part of a ballroom dancing team. Her parents divorced and she has 9 stepsiblings from their second marriages...
46.
Sofía Vergara
Actress, Four Brothers
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, is a housewife. Her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, provides cattle to the meat industry. She has five siblings. She was educated at a private bilingual Spanish/English school...
47.
Eva Mendes
Actress, Hitch
Eva Mendes was born in Miami, Florida but raised in Los Angeles, California of Cuban-American heritage. In college, she began acting, studying underneath acting coach Ivana Chubbuck. This led to her desire to appear in feature films. Though taking many smaller roles in movies, she was little known until playing the girlfriend of Denzel Washington's character in Training Day...
48.
Chelan Simmons
Actress, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Chelan Simmons was born in Vancouver, Canada. One of three children (one older brother and an older sister), she has been a natural performer since the age of 2. Her first movie role was as the title creature's first victim, Laurie Ann Winterbarger, inStephen King's It. Her most recognizable roles are in Final Destination 3 as Ashley Freund...
49.
Elsa Pataky
Actress, Fast & Furious 6
Elsa Pataky grew up in Madrid and attended the Universidad de San Pablo CEU where she studied journalism and began to take an interest in acting. She joined Teatro Cámara de Ángel Gutiérrez, a theater company in Madrid, and left college when she was offered a role in the long-running Spanish TV series Al salir de clase...
50.
Kim Kardashian West
TV star, entrepreneur, fashion designer, and author (New York Times best-seller - "Kardashian Konfidential"), Kim Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father was of Armenian descent and her mother is of mostly English ancestry. Kim first burst onto the scene in 2007, after the premiere of her hit E...
52.
Elisabetta Fantone
Actress, Havana 57
With an incredible personality and an ultra feminine look, Elisabetta brings glamor to the entertainment world. Discovered in 2006 with the hit reality TV show Loft Story, Elisabetta immediately conquered the hearts of all. Born and raised in Montreal, it was not until high school that Elisabetta discovered her passion and ability for the arts...
53.
Zoe Saldana
Actress, Avatar
Zoe Saldana was born on June 19, 1978 in Passaic, New Jersey and raised in Queens, New York. When she was 10 years old, she and her family moved to the Dominican Republic where they would live for the next seven years. While living in the Dominican Republic, Zoe discovered a keen interest in performance...
55.
Alexandra Daddario
Alex was born on March 16, 1986 in New York City. She wanted to be an actress when she was young. Her first job came at age 16, when she got the role of "Laurie Lewis" on All My Children. Alex co-starred, with Logan Lerman & Brandon T. Jackson, in the role of 'Annabeth Chase" in the "Percy Jackson" movies...
57.
AJ Michalka
Actress, Super 8
Amanda began seriously studying acting at the age of 9, landing a lead role in a church musical, "Jailhouse Rock", then later booked a national commercial on her very first audition. She has been consistently working ever since, appearing on television shows on CBS, FOX, HBO, ABC, WB and NBC. Prior to becoming an actress...
58.
Jayne Mansfield
One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, movie and B movie actress, Jayne Mansfield was born on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and she was a talented pianist and violin player as a child. She moved to Dallas, Texas, after the death of her father at age three and the family bought a little home where she had violin concerts in the driveway of their home...
60.
Adriana Lima
Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the tender age of 13, Adriana entered the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, where her unique beauty, derived from her Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, and Caribbean heritage, won her second place...
62.
Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr was born in Sydney and raised in the small town of Gunnedah to John and Therese Kerr. Kerr's paternal grandmother lived on a farm, where she "raced motorbikes and rode horses." Her parents later moved the family to Brisbane when she and her younger brother Matthew were teenagers. She...
63.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Actress, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley was born in Plymouth, Devon, England (Freedom Fields Hospital), and grew up on her parents' country farm. She attended Tavistock College and has been modeling since 2003 for a variety of clothiers: Abercrombie & Fitch, Burberry, Bloomingdale's, Ralph Lauren, DKNY. She...
64.
Erin Heatherton
Erin Heatherton was born and grew up in Skokie, Illinois, the daughter of Laura (Stein) and Mark Bubley. She attended both Solomon Schechter (a Jewish day school) and Riles High School. She didn't fit well in her high school because of her tallness. Heatherton was discovered vacationing on South Beach...
65.
Lindsay Ellingson
American Fashion Model Lindsay Ellingson was born in San Diego, California. Ellingson was discovered at a ProScout event that she attended in Orange County, California. She is currently (2011) a Victoria's Secret Angel and walked the VS runway in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She has modeled for Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Proenza Schouler, Valentino, Christian Dior, and others.
67.
Chanel Iman
Her father is African American and her mother is half Korean and African American. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia but grew up in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is the owner of "The Red Bag Boutique" with daughter in Los Angeles. She helps local communities in Los Angeles and New York.
68.
Jessica Chastain
Actress, Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Chastain was raised in a middle-class family in a northern California suburb. She discovered dance at the age of nine. By the age of 13, she was in a dance troupe. She took her mother's maiden name and began performing in Shakespearean productions all over the Bay area. An actor in a production of "Romeo & Juliet" encouraged her to audition for Juilliard as a drama major...
69.
Yvonne Strahovski
Actress, Killer Elite
Yvonne was born and raised in Australia. Her parents were Polish immigrants. She attended the Santa Sabina College for her high school education. She then went on to study Performance at the University of Western Sydney's School of Contemporary Arts, graduating in 2003. Shortly afterwards, she landed her first role on television in an episode of Fear Factory...
70.
January Jones
Actress, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
January Jones was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but was raised in a small town of some 400 souls in the Mount Rushmore State for the first decade of her life. She is the daughter of Karen, a sporting goods store manager, and Marvin Jones, a gym teacher and fitness director. January is her real name...
71.
Jessica Alba
Actress, Sin City
Jessica Alba was born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981, to Catherine (Jensen), who is of Danish and French-Canadian descent, and Mark Alba, who is of Mexican ancestry. Her family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, when she was an infant. Three years later, her Air Force father brought the family back to California...
72.
Rebecca Hall
Actress, The Prestige
Rebecca Hall was born in London, UK, the daughter of Peter Hall, a stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Maria Ewing, an opera singer. Her father is English. Her mother, who is American, is of Dutch, Scottish, Sioux, and African American origin. Her parents separated when she was still young...
73.
Odette Annable
Actress, Cloverfield
Born Odette Juliette Yustman on 10 May, 1985, in Los Angeles, California, Odette started her career with a minor role in the movie Kindergarten Cop as "Rosa." After graduating from Woodcrest Christian High School in Riverside, California, where she was the homecoming queen, she turned to modeling with a few roles through the years...
74.
Monica Keena
Actress, Freddy vs. Jason
Monica Keena was born in New Jersey on May 28, 1979, to Bill and Mary Keena and was little sister to Samantha, the Keenas' first daughter. Growing up, Monica shone in all things arts. Dance, singing, acting, and drawing. At 13, Keena enrolled in the prestigious LaGuardia school for acting and made it...
75.
Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel, to a Jewish family. She is the only child of a doctor father (from Israel) and an artist mother (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel for Washington, D.C., when she was still very young...
76.
Maggie Grace
Actress, Taken
Maggie Grace was born on September 21, 1983, in Columbus, Ohio. She got her start in films in 2002 with Murder in Greenwichand Shop Club. In 2003, at the age of 20, she played a creepy, Goth-influenced estranged daughter of Wendy Crewson andTom Selleck in the drama Twelve Mile Road, but her big break didn't come until one year later...
77.
Dianna Agron
Actress, I Am Number Four
Dianna Elise Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia, to parents Ronald and Mary Agron. She grew up in a middle class family, in Savannah, before moving to Texas, and later, San Francisco, California, due to her father's career as a general manager for Hyatt. Dianna and her brother, Jason, were raised Jewish, and she graduated from Burlingame High School with honors...
80.
Alexis Knapp
Actress, Pitch Perfect
Alexis Knapp hails from Allegheny in Pennsylvania. She worked as a model before breaking into acting, starting with small roles in Couples Retreat and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. She also came to public attention during a high-profile relationship with Ryan Phillippe, which ended in November 2010. In July 2011...
81.
Gisele Bündchen
It was in 1994 when Gisele Bundchen was discovered at age 14 in a Brazilian fashion mall, and now she is "the" most famous face in the business. Since then, Gisele has graced the covers of countless magazines as any other model in the history, including Rolling Stone, Time, Forbes, Newsweek and all the fashion top magazines such as Vogue...
83.
Diane Kruger
Actress, Inglourious Basterds
Diane Kruger was born Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany. She studied ballet with the Royal Ballet in London before an injury ended her career. She returned to Germany and became a top fashion model. She later pursued acting and relocated to Paris at the suggestion of filmmaker Luc Besson (The Fifth Element)...
84.
Katheryn Winnick
Actress, Love & Other Drugs
Canadian-born Katheryn Winnick stars in The History Channel's breakout cable TV series, Vikings, now in its second season. Her role as "Lagertha" garnered her a nomination in the "Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress" category at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards. Katheryn is an accomplished martial artist...
85.
Olivia Wilde
Actress, Rush
Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City, to journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn. Her father is from an upper-class British family, and her mother, who is American-born, is of English, Irish, German, and Manx descent. Olivia was raised in Washington, D.C. and went to school there...
86.
Jennifer Garner
Actress, Dallas Buyers Club
Jennifer Garner, who catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the television series Alias, has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Pat, a retired English teacher, and her father, Bill, a former chemical engineer, Jennifer was the middle sibling of three girls...
87.
Hilary Duff
Actress, A Cinderella Story
Hilary Erhard Duff was born on September 28th, 1987, in Houston, Texas, to Bob and Susan Duff. When Hilary was six, she had been traveling in the Cechetti Ballet with her sisterHaylie Duff but decided she wanted to fulfill her dream of acting. Her first part was in the mini-series True Women...
88.
Jennifer Lopez
Actress, Out of Sight
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born in the Castle Hill section of the South Bronx on July 24, 1969. The middle of three musically-inclined sisters, Leslie Lopez, a homemaker and Linda López (aka Lynda Lopez), an entertainment consultant for New York's Channel 11, Jennifer always dreamed of being a multi-tasking superstar...
89.
Yaya DaCosta
Actress, The Kids Are All Right
Yaya Alafia was born and raised in New York City along with her sister and two brothers. She got her first acting gig at the age of eleven when her junior high school drama teacher, Ann Willis Ratray, encouraged her to audition for educational films. She continued to perform in school shows throughout high school and college and in 2005...
91.
Keke Palmer
Actress, Akeelah and the Bee
Keke Palmer was born Lauren Keyana Palmer in Robbins, Illinois--a small town 20 miles south of Chicago-- to Sharon and Larry Palmer, both former actors. Palmer showed vocal promise as a five-year-old, when she belted out "Jesus Loves Me" in her church choir. A year later the singer-actress had a solo in her kindergarten play but...
92.
Jamie Chung
Actress, Sucker Punch
Jamie Chung was born and raised in California, the daughter of Korean parents. She studied Economics at the University of California, Riverside. Chung's break came in 2004, when she was working in a sports bar. MTV held auditions for The Real Worldthere, she tried out, and was successful, appearing in the San Diego based fourteenth season...
94.
Evan Rachel Wood
Actress, The Wrestler
Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father is Ira David Wood III, and her mother is Sara Wood. She has two older brothers: Dana Wood, a musician, and Ira David Wood IV. Evan and her brothers sometimes performed at Theatre In The Park in Raleigh, North Carolina, where her father is the executive director and founder of the theatre...
95.
Denise Vasi
Actress, Magic Mike
A Brooklyn native, Vasi signed to Ford Models at the age of 12. She went on to grace the pages of international campaigns for ELLE, Marie Claire, GQ Italy and more. She appeared in numerous on-camera and print campaigns for leading cosmetic, hair care and fashion brands including Olay, Bobbi Brown, Dove...
96.
Charlize Theron
Actress, Prometheus
Charlize Theron grew up on a farm outside Benoni, South Africa, as the only child. She got an education as a ballet dancer and has danced both the "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker". There wasn't much for a young actress or dancer to do in South Africa, so she soon traveled to Europe and United States of America...
97.
Margot Robbie
Actress, The Wolf of Wall Street
Australian actress Margot Robbie was raised on the Gold Coast, spending much of her time at the farm belonging to her grandparents. She attended and graduated from Somerset College. In her late teens, she moved to Melbourne to pursue an acting career. Her first break came when she appeared in two films directed by Aash Aaron - Vigilante and I.C.U....
98.
Laura Vandervoort
Actress, Ted
Laura Vandervoort has been consistently working as an actress since she was 13 years old. Born in Toronto, Canada, Laura contracted meningitis at only six weeks of age and was hospitalized for weeks. She fought through the illness as an infant and has never stopped fighting for what she believes in...
99.
Yolanthe Cabau
Actress, Pain & Gain
Yolanthe Cabau van Kasbergen (born on March 19, 1985) is a Dutch/Spanish actress, born on the Spanish island of Ibiza. As a little girl all she wanted to do was acting and at the age of 16 she had her first significant part. Now she had to choose between going to acting school or acting in practice. She chose the last option and decided to pursue a serious acting career...
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