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Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor, director, film producer, and restaurateur. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2025.

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress. Recognized as one of the most versatile performers of her era, Streep is noted for her technical precision, command of dialects, and professional longevity. She is an alumna of Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama, holding a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts. Her artistic process often includes refining her characters' dialogue so that their motivations possess a psychological depth and agency that transcend traditional archetypes. Beyond her creative work, she is a prominent advocate for gender parity, labor protections, and a challenge to the influence of the male gaze in film criticism and production.

American playwright (1888–1953)

Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.

Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer and author. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 New Year Honours.

American jazz singer (1915–1959)

Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.

American actress (1931–2005)

American entertainer (1903–2003)

Bette Midler is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-decade career Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.

American actor (born 1936)

British actor (1908–1990)

American actor (1922–2000)

American actress and singer

American actress (born 1931)

American actress and singer (1908-1984)

American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)

American actor and singer

American actor (1931–2019)

American actress and pin-up girl (1916–1973)

American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)

American actress (1921–2019)

American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)

Diane Ladd was an American actress. With a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in over 200 films and television shows, receiving three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a BAFTA Award. She was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice (1980–1981).

American actress (born 1939)

American actress and singer (born 1948)

American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)

American songwriter and composer (born 1980)

American actress

American actress and singer, comedian

American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)

American actor (born 1937)

American actress and comedian (1934-2010)

American actress and director

American actress, singer (1942-1999)

English actor

American film character actress (1902–1985)

American actor (1915-1977)

American actress and singer (1915–1998)

American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer (born 1950)

American actress (1913-1990)

American actress and author (born 1931)

American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals (1895–1960)

Hungarian writer and theatre director (1914–2007)

American actress and singer (born 1970)

American actress (1923–2013)

American actor and singer (1918–1987)

Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist (1924-2015)

American actress

American actress

English actor (born 1985)

American actor

American actor and singer (born 1984)

Sutton Lenore Foster is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical seven times, winning it in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, a role which she reprised in 2021 for a London production, scoring a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her other Broadway credits include Grease, Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical, Violet, The Music Man, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Once Upon a Mattress. On television, Foster played the lead role in the short-lived ABC Family comedy-drama Bunheads from 2012 to 2013. From 2015 to 2021, she starred in the TV Land comedy-drama Younger.

American actress (born 1979)

American singer actor

British actress

American musical theatre composer

American actress

American actress and singer (1934-2016)