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35 Most Famous And Talented Women Actors From Around The World

Lights, Camera, Action! The entertainment world has grown in leaps and bounds in the past few years primarily attributed to the digital era we鈥檙e currently in. And with the rise of the entertainment industry, we have seen scores of talented actors that have graced our screens and have had our eyes glued to the screens with their splendid acting skills and performances. 

Women have cemented their place in the entertainment industry, constantly showing that they are a match, if not better than their male counterparts in delivering their respective acting roles. In terms of recognition, women have been awarded significantly in, for example, the Oscars which are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry in the United States.

This article will explore the 35 Most Famous And Talented Women Actors From Around The World.

1. Betty White

Betty White was an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of early television with a career spanning almost seven decades, she was noted for her vast body of work in entertainment and for being one of the first women to work both in front of and behind the camera. She produced and starred in the sitcom Life with Elizabeth, making her the first woman to produce a sitcom.

For her lengthy work in radio, television, and film, White twice earned the Guinness World Record for the longest TV career by a female entertainer in both 2014 and 2018.

2. Jenna Marie Ortega

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Jenna Marie Ortega is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, receiving recognition for her role as young Jane in The CW comedy-drama series Jane the Virgin. Her breakthrough role came in portraying Harley Diaz in the Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle, for which she won an Imagen Award. She played Ellie Alves in the second season of the thriller series You in 2019 and starred in the family film Yes Day (2021), both for Netflix.

Ortega received critical praise for her performance in the teen drama film The Fallout (2021) and went on to star in the 2022 horror films Scream and X. She starred as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix horror comedy series Wednesday (2022), for which she received nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Read more on the best Jenna Ortega Movies to Watch Right Now. 

3. Sofia Vergara

Sofia Vergara is a Colombian and American actress and model. Vergara was the highest-earning woman in U.S. television, earning $19 million for the previous 12 months on a list released by Forbes.com on July 18, 2012. Vergara was named one of People magazine鈥檚 鈥�50 most beautiful people鈥�, and named by The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as one of the most influential Latin women in Hollywood.

Vergara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 7, 2015. In 2013, she signed endorsement contracts with Diet Pepsi, Rooms To Go, and the medicine Synthroid. In 2015, Forbes estimated Vergara鈥檚 annual income at $28.5 million. She starred on the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series from 2010 to 2013.

4. Julia Roberts

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Julia Roberts is an American actress. Known for her leading roles in films encompassing a variety of genres, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. The films in which she has starred have collectively grossed over $3.9 billion globally, making her one of Hollywood鈥檚 most bankable stars.

Roberts was the world鈥檚 highest-paid actress throughout the majority of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. She was paid $300,000 for Pretty Woman (1990) and received then-unprecedented fees of $20 million and $25 million for her roles in Erin Brockovich (2000) and Mona Lisa Smile (2003), respectively. As of 2020, Roberts鈥� net worth was estimated to be $250 million.

5. Naomi Ackie

Naomi Ackie is an English actress. She made her television debut as Jen in the Doctor Who episode Face the Rave in 2015. For her role as Bonnie on the television dark comedy-drama series The End of the F***ing World, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2020. 

Ackie is well known for her role as Jannah in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In 2021, she had a main role in the third season of Master of None. In 2022, she garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of American singer Whitney Houston in the biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, earning a Rising Star nomination at the British Academy Film Awards.

6. Angelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood鈥檚 highest-paid actress multiple times.

As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry. Jolie is known for her humanitarian efforts, for which she has received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, among other honours. She promotes various causes, including conservation, education, and women鈥檚 rights, and is most noted for her advocacy on behalf of refugees as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a position she held until 2022.

7. Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon is an American actress and producer. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Witherspoon has consistently ranked among the world鈥檚 highest-paid actresses. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and Forbes listed her among the World鈥檚 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the world鈥檚 richest actress with an estimated net worth of $400 million.

8. Viola Davis

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Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. The recipient of numerous accolades, Davis is one of few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony; additionally, she is the sole African-American to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting as well as only the third person to achieve both statuses.

Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

9. Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston is an American actress and film producer. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, for which she earned Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. Since her career progressed in the 1990s, she has become one of the world鈥檚 highest-paid actresses. 

Aniston has been included in numerous magazines鈥� lists of the world鈥檚 most beautiful women. Her net worth is estimated at $300 million. With a box office gross of over $1.6 billion worldwide. She is the recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is the co-founder of the production company Echo Films, established in 2008.

10. Lupita Nyong鈥檕

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Lupita Nyong鈥檕 is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She had her first feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen鈥檚 biopic 12 Years a Slave in 2013, for which she received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Aside from acting, Nyong鈥檕 supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for women鈥檚 and animal rights. In 2019, Nyong鈥檕 wrote a children鈥檚 book named Sulwe, which became a number-one New York Times Best Seller. She also received nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for narrating two episodes of the docu-series Serengeti. In 2020, Nyong鈥檕 was named one of Africa鈥檚 50 Most Powerful Women by Forbes.

Read more about the most popular Kenyan actors. 

11. Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000鈥�2008) and Black-ish (2014鈥�2022).

Her work on it has earned her six NAACP Image Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Television Series Musical or Comedy. She has also received nominations for two Critics鈥� Choice Television Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2019, she co-created a prequel spin-off of Black-ish titled Mixed-ish. In 2020, she starred in and recorded the soundtrack album for the musical film The High Note.

12. Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe is one of the most celebrated people of the 20th century. She was a talented actress and singer. She was born in 1926 and had a difficult childhood. Most of the roles Marilyn played were funny and she captured the hearts of many on and off the screen. Marilyn went on to be one of the most influential women in history.

The span of her career in Hollywood lasted a decade. Her untimely passing at the age of 36 shocked many and was surrounded by mystery. Her success in Hollywood was not earned overnight. In fact, most directors did not find her to be talented. Even with expired film contracts, Monroe believed she would triumph in Hollywood. 

13. Scarlett Johnson

Scarlett is an American actress. She鈥檚 taking over the hearts of millions by showcasing her famine-inspired appearance. From her flawless physique to her stunning facial features There is nothing that can keep your attention from her.

Scarlett is also known as one of the highest-paid actors on the planet. In addition, she shows her acting skills in a variety of Hollywood films, including Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story. She was awarded both the BAFTA along with the Tony awards. In addition, she holds five Golden Globe Awards.

14. Margarita Rosa de Francisco

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Margarita Rosa de Francisco is a Colombian telenovela movie actress, singer, and TV presenter. She has played various roles in telenovelas and composed and released various pieces of music that have also featured in the telenovelas. She even hosted the Colombian version of the famous reality tv series 鈥楽urvivor.鈥� 

Margarita has written for various Colombian newspapers, including a column in the Colombian magazine Cronos. She published her first book, 鈥淓l Hombre del Telefono鈥� (The Man on the Telephone), in 2016. She was named the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in the year 2000.

15. Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an American actor, comedian, singer, author and television personality. A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of 18 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to Broadway under the title Whoopi Goldberg, running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of the show. Her film breakthrough came in 1985 with her role as Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg’s period drama film The Color Purple, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.

16. Priyanka Chopra

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Priyanka is an Indian actress and producer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, Chopra is one of India’s highest-paid actresses and has received numerous accolades, including two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. 

Chopra accepted offers to join the Indian film industry following her pageant wins. Her acting debut came in the Tamil film Thamizhan (2002), followed by her first Bollywood feature in The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003). In 2016, the Government of India honored her with the Padma Shri, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Read more Facts about Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas. 

17. Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock is an American actress and producer. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Bullock was the world鈥檚 highest-paid actress in 2010 and 2014. In 2010, she was named one of Time鈥檚 100 most influential people in the world.

Bullock owns the production company Fortis Films, through which she has served as a producer for several of her star vehicles. Bullock has been a public supporter of the American Red Cross and has donated $1 million to the organization at least five times.

18. Halle Berry

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Halle Berry is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998) as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Berry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster’s Ball (2001), becoming both the only Black woman and the only woman of colour to have won the award. She took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four instalments of the X-Men film series (2000鈥�2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004), the latter for which she received US$12.5 million.

19. Katy Jurado

Her first starring role was in No matar谩s in 1943. This was during what we now know as 鈥淭he Golden Age of Mexican films鈥�. Blessed with striking beauty and a self-assured personality, Jurado focused on taking on the characters of strong-minded women in a lot of films in Mexico and America.

Jurado has taken the Ariel awards home thrice, the Mexican equal of the Oscar. She is remembered as the Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for her role in 鈥淓l Evangelio de las Maravillas鈥�. Other awards include Best Actress in 1974 for Fe, esperanza y Caridad, and best Supporting Actress in 1954 for Bunuel鈥檚 El Bruto.

20. Kerry Washington

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Kerry Washington is an American actress. She gained wide public recognition for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC drama series Scandal (2012鈥�2018). For her role, she was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and once for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Series Drama.

Time magazine included Washington in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014. In 2018, Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress. Washington has won a Primetime Emmy Award and five NAACP Image Awards, including The President鈥檚 Award. Read more on the Most Famous Black Female Actresses. 

21. Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. She is noted for her work on stage and screen in a career spanning over seven decades. mong her numerous accolades, she is one of the few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and the Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy and Tony awards.

Moreno’s work includes supporting roles in the classic musical films Singin’ in the Rain (1952), and The King and I (1956), before her breakout role as Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She made history by becoming the first Hispanic woman to win an Academy Award.

22. Salma Hayek

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Salma is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela Teresa (1989鈥�1991) as well as the romantic drama El Callej贸n de los Milagros (1995), for which she received an Ariel Award nomination. She soon established herself in Hollywood with appearances in films such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West (1999), and Dogma (1999).

As a public figure, Hayek has been cited as one of Hollywood’s most powerful and influential Latina actresses as well as one of the world’s most beautiful women by various media outlets. Hayek’s directing, producing and acting work on television has earned her four Emmy Awards nominations. 

23. Lupe V茅lez

V茅lez, was a Mexican actress, singer and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. V茅lez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States, she made her first film appearance in a short in 1927. By the end of the decade, she was acting in full-length silent films and had progressed to leading roles.

V茅lez made the transition to sound films without difficulty. She was one of the first successful Latin-American actresses in Hollywood. During the 1930s, her explosive screen persona was exploited in successful comedic films and she was nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire by the media.

24. Angela Bassett

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Angela is an actress, director, producer, and activist.  Her roles in movie scenes have always been a portrayal of strong African American leads. Bassett had her breakthrough portraying singer Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993), which won her a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Known for her work in film and television since the late 1980s, she has received various accolades, including sixteen NAACP Image Awards (the most for an actress),[2] a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Daytime Emmy Awards.

25. Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Carter is an English actress. Known for her roles in blockbusters and independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received various awards and nominations, including a British Academy Film Award and an International Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. 

For her role as children’s author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her other television films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret in seasons three and four of Netflix’s The Crown.

26. Judi Dench

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Judi Dench is an English actress. Regarded as one of Britain’s best actresses, she is noted for her versatile work in various films and television programmes encompassing several genres, as well as for her numerous roles on the stage.

Dench has garnered various accolades throughout a career spanning over six decades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, six British Academy Film Awards and seven Olivier Awards. Read more outstanding facts about Judi Dench. 

27. Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship for her “daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and filmmaker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy.

28. Mila Kunis

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Mila Kunis is an American actress. Born in Chernivtsi, and raised in Los Angeles, she began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series That ’70s Show (1998鈥�2006) at the age of 14. Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the Fox animated series Family Guy.

Kunis’s breakout film role came in 2008, playing Rachel in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She gained further critical acclaim and accolades for her performance in the psychological thriller Black Swan (2010), for which she received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress, and nominations for the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

29. Keira Knightley

Keira is an English actress. Known for her work in both independent films and blockbusters, particularly period dramas, she has received several accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2018, she was appointed an OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to drama and charity.

On stage, Knightley has appeared in two West End productions: The Misanthrope in 2009, which earned her an Olivier Award nomination, and The Children’s Hour in 2011. She also starred as the eponymous heroine in the 2015 Broadway production of Th茅r猫se Raquin. Knightley is known for her outspoken stance on social issues and has worked extensively with Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Comic Relief.

30. Kate Winslet

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Kate Winslet is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, and for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. 

Time magazine named Winslet one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012.

31. Maggie Smith

Smith is an English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. She is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having received the highest achievement for film, television and theatre, winning two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. 

Hailed as one of Britain’s most recognizable and prolific actresses, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the Arts, and a Companion of Honor in 2014 for services to Drama.

32. Cicely Tyson

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Cicely Tyson was an American actress. In a career which spanned more than seven decades in film, television and theatre, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award.

Having appeared in minor film and television roles early in her career, Tyson garnered widespread attention and critical acclaim for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder (1972); she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her work in the film.

33. Cate Blanchett 

Cate is an Australian actor. Regarded as one of the best performers of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and stage. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

She came to international prominence for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 drama film Elizabeth, for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and received her first Academy Award nomination. Blanchett is the recipient of several honorary awards. The Australian government awarded her the Centenary Medal in 2001, and she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2017. Read more Facts about Cate Blanchett. 

34. Charlize Theron

Charlize is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world’s highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar.

35. Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Catherine is a Welsh actress. Known for her versatility, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian work.

Zeta-Jones received critical acclaim for her performances as a vengeful pregnant woman in Traffic (2000) and a murderous singer in the musical Chicago (2002), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She took on supporting roles in television, portraying Olivia de Havilland in Feud: Bette & Joan (2017) and Morticia Addams in Wednesday (2022).

Read more on the 10 of the most Popular American Actresses.