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Sophie Marceau

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Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu , 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress (known as the French Oscar ). She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993) and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). She became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), Anna Karenina (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Some of her later films tackle critical social issues such as Arrêtez-moi (2013), Jailbirds (2015) and Everything Went Fine (2021). Marceau has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers worldwide including Vogue , Elle , Madame Figaro , Paris Match , L'Officiel , Lui , Tatler , Glamour , Premiere and Marie ...

Jennifer Aniston

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Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress and film producer. She is the recipient of various accolades , including a Primetime Emmy Award , a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards . Since her career progressed in the 1990s, she has become one of the world's highest-paid actresses. The daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow , she began working as an actress at an early age with an uncredited role in the 1988 film Mac and Me ; her first major film role came in the 1993 horror comedy Leprechaun . She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which she earned Primetime Emmy , Golden Globe , and Screen Actors Guild ...

Margot Robbie

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Margot Elise Robbie ( born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress and producer. Known for her work in both blockbuster and independent films , she has received several accolades , including nominations for two Academy Awards , four Golden Globe Awards , and five British Academy Film Awards . Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017 and she was ranked as one of the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes in 2019. Born and raised in Queensland , Robbie began her career in 2008 on the television series Neighbours , on which she was a regular until 2011. After moving to America, she led the television series Pan Am (2011–2012), and had her breakthrough in 2013 with the black comedy film The Wolf of Wall Street . She achieved wi...

Scarlett Johansson

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  Scarlett Ingrid Johansson ( born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Her films have grossed over $14.3  billion worldwide, making Johansson the highest-grossing box office star of all time . She has received various accolades , including a Tony Award and a British Academy Film Award , in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards . Born to a Danish father and an American mother, Johansson aspired to be an actress from an early age and first appeared on stage in an ...

Emma Watson

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  Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and activist. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent films , as well as for her women's rights work, she has received a selection of accolades , including a Young Artist Award and three MTV Movie Awards . Watson has been ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair , and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015. [1] [2] [3] Watson attended the Dragon School and trained in acting at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts . As a child, she rose to stardom after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series , having previously acted only in school plays. Watson also starred in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and lent her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008). After the final Harry Potter film, she took on a supporting rol...

Monica Bellucci

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  Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior , before making a transition to Italian films and later American and French films. She made her film debut in Francesco Laudadio 's Italian comedy La Riffa (1991). The following year she played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola 's gothic horror romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). For her leading role in L'Appartement (1997), she received a César Award for Most Promising Actress . She played Malèna Scordia in the Giuseppe Tornatore 's acclaimed Italian romantic drama Malèna (2000). She starred in Gaspar Noé 's controversial arthouse psycho...

Joey King

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Joey Lynn King (born July 30, 1999) is an American actress. She first gained recognition for portraying Ramona Quimby in the comedy film Ramona and Beezus (2010) and has since gained wider recognition for her lead role in The Kissing Booth (2018) and its two sequels . King received critical acclaim for her starring role in the crime drama series The Act (2019), for which she was nominated for both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award . King has also appeared in the films Battle: Los Angeles (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Conjuring (2013), White House Down (2013), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Bullet Train (2022) and The Princess (2022), as well as the first season of the FX black comedy crime drama series Fargo . 

Paz Vega

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María de la Paz Campos Trigos (born 2 January 1976), known professionally as Paz Vega ( Spanish:  [paθˈβeɣa] ), is a Spanish actress. She became popular for her performance in comedy television series 7 vidas . [1] Her film credits include Sex and Lucia (2001), Spanglish (2004), 10 Items or Less (2006), All Roads Lead to Rome (2015), Acts of Vengeance (2017), and Rambo: Last Blood (2019). She played the role of Catalina Creel in the 2019 television series Cuna de lobos . 

Eva Mendes

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Eva de la Caridad Méndez (  born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes , is an American actress, model and fashion designer. Her acting career began in the late 1990s, with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005). She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Her other films include Out of Time ...

Rosario Dawson

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Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids . Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), Rent (2005), Sin City (2005), Clerks II (2006), Death Proof (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Unstoppable (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Trance (2013), Top Five (2014), and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019). Dawson has also provided voice-over work for Disney / Marvel , Warner Bros. / DC Comics , and ViacomCBS 's Nickelodeon unit. Dawson is also known for having several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Claire Temple in five of the Marvel/Netflix series (2015–2018), and providing the voices of Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in the DC Animated Movie Universe and Space Jam: A New...