Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was an
English actress and singer.[1][2] One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken
young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with
those made in Great Britain during and after the Second World War,
followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.[3]
Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Other notable film appearances
included
Young Bess

Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), Elmer Gantry (1960),
Spartacus (1960), and the 1969 film The Happy Ending, for which she
was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won an
Emmy Award

Emmy Award for the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds.
Contents
1 Early life and career
2 Personal life
3 Death
4 Release
5 Filmography
6 Box office ranking
7 Awards and nominations
8 References
9 Bibliography
10 External links
Early life and career[edit]
Simmons was born in Islington, London,[4] to Charles Simmons, a bronze
medallist in gymnastics at the
1912 Summer Olympics

1912 Summer Olympics and his wife,
Winifred (née Loveland) Simmons. Jean was the youngest of four
children, with siblings Lorna, Harold and Edna. She began acting at
the age of 14.[5] During the Second World War, the Simmons family was
evacuated to Winscombe, Somerset.[6] Her father, a physical education
teacher,[7] taught briefly at Sidcot School, and some time during this
period, Simmons followed her eldest sister onto the village stage and
sang songs such as "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow". At this point
her ambition was to be an acrobatic dancer. [8]On her return to London
Jean enrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance. Simmons was spotted
by the director Val Guest, who cast her in the Margaret Lockwood
vehicle Give Us the Moon.[9]
Small roles in several other films followed, including the
high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra, produced by Gabriel Pascal. Pascal
saw potential in Simmons, and in 1945, he signed her to a seven-year
contract. Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella
in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946) and
Ophelia

Ophelia in
Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948), for which she received her first
Oscar nomination. She played an Indian girl in the Powell-Pressburger
film
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus (1947).[10]
The experience of working on Great Expectations caused her to pursue
an acting career more seriously:
I thought acting was just a lark, meeting all those exciting movie
stars, and getting £5 a day which was lovely because we needed the
money. But I figured I'd just go off and get married and have children
like my mother. It was working with
David Lean

David Lean that convinced me to go
on.[11]
Simmons with
Victor Mature

Victor Mature in Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Playing
Ophelia

Ophelia to Olivier's Hamlet made her a star while still in her
teens, although she was already well known for her work in other
British films, including her first starring role in the film
adaptation of Uncle Silas, and
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus (both 1947). Olivier
offered her the chance to work and study at the Bristol Old Vic,
advising her to play anything they threw at her to get experience; she
was under contract to the Rank Organisation, who vetoed the idea.[12]
In 1949, Simmons starred with
Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger in Adam and Evelyne. In
1950, she was voted the fourth-most popular star in Britain.[13] In
1951, Rank sold her contract to Howard Hughes,[14] who then owned the
RKO Pictures.[15]
In 1950, she married Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in
several films, and the transition to an American career began. Hughes
was eager to start a sexual relationship with Simmons, but Granger put
a stop to his advances by angrily telling Hughes over the phone: "Mr
Howard bloody Hughes, you'll be sorry if you don't leave my wife
alone."[16] She made four films for Hughes, including Angel Face,
directed by Otto Preminger. According to David Thomson, "if she had
made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of with
the awe given to Louise Brooks."[17] Smarting over his rebuff, Hughes
instructed Preminger to treat Simmons as roughly as possible, leading
the director to demand that co-star
Robert Mitchum
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Robert Mitchum repeatedly slap the
actress harder and harder, until Mitchum turned and punched Preminger,
asking if that was how he wanted it.[18] To further punish Simmons and
Granger, Hughes refused to lend her to director
William Wyler

William Wyler who
wanted her for his film Roman Holiday, thereby depriving her of the
career-making role that made a star of Audrey Hepburn.[16] A court
case freed her from the contract with Hughes in 1952.[17]
In 1953, she starred alongside
Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy in The Actress, a film
that was one of her personal favourites. Among the many films in which
she appeared during this period were The Robe (1953), Young Bess
(1953), Désirée (1954), The Egyptian (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955),
The Big Country

The Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), (directed by her second
husband, Richard Brooks), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963),
and
The Happy Ending

The Happy Ending (1969), for which she received her second Oscar
nomination. In the opinion of film critic Philip French, Home Before
Dark (1958) was "perhaps her finest performance as a housewife driven
into a breakdown in Mervyn LeRoy's psychodrama".[19]
By the 1970s, Simmons turned her focus to stage and television acting.
She toured the United States in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night
Music, then took the show to London, and thus originated the role of
Desirée Armfeldt in the West End. Performing in the show for three
years, she said she never tired of Sondheim's music; "No matter how
tired or 'off' you felt, the music would just pick you up."[20]
She portrayed Fiona "Fee" Cleary, the Cleary family matriarch, in the
1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds; she won an
Emmy Award

Emmy Award for her role.
In 1985-86, she appeared in North and South, again playing the role of
the family matriarch as Clarissa Main. In 1988, she starred in The
Dawning with
Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins and Hugh Grant, and in 1989, she appeared
in a remake of Great Expectations, in which she played the role of
Miss Havisham, Estella's adoptive mother.[10]
She made a late career appearance in the Star Trek: The Next
Generation episode "The Drumhead" (1991) as a retired Starfleet
admiral and hardened legal investigator who conducts a witch hunt. In
1991, she appeared as matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and her
ancestor Naomi Collins in the short-lived revival of the 1960s daytime
series Dark Shadows, in roles originally played by Joan Bennett. From
1994 until 1998, Simmons narrated the A&E documentary television
series, Mysteries of the Bible. In 2004, Simmons voiced the lead role
of Sophie in the English dub of Howl's Moving Castle.[10]
Personal life[edit]
Simmons was married and divorced twice. She married
Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger in
Tucson, Arizona, on 20 December 1950.[21] In 1956, Granger and she
became U.S. citizens;[22] in the same year, their daughter, Tracy
Granger, was born. The couple divorced in 1960.[23]
On 1 November 1960, Simmons married director Richard Brooks;[24] their
daughter, Kate Brooks, was born a year later in 1961. Simmons and
Brooks divorced in 1980.[25] Although both men were significantly
older than Simmons, she denied she was looking for a father figure.
Her father had died when she was just 16, but she said: "They were
really nothing like my father at all. My father was a gentle, softly
spoken man. My husbands were much noisier and much more
opinionated ... it's really nothing to do with age ... it's
to do with what's there – the twinkle and sense of humour."[11]
And in a 1984 interview, given in
Copenhagen

Copenhagen at the time she was
shooting the film Yellow Pages, she elaborated slightly on her
marriages, stating,
It may be simplistic, but you could sum up my two marriages by saying
that, when I wanted to be a wife, Jimmy (Stewart Granger) would say:
"I just want you to be pretty." And when I wanted to cook, Richard
would say: "Forget the cooking. You've been trained to act – so
act!" Most people thought I was helpless – a clinger and a
butterfly – during my first marriage. It was
Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks who
saw what was wrong and tried to make me stand on my own two feet. I'd
whine: 'I'm afraid.' And he'd say: 'Never be afraid to fail. Every
time you get up in the morning, you are ahead.'
She had two daughters, Tracy Granger (who has worked as a film editor
since 1990),[26] and Kate Brooks (a TV production assistant and
producer),[27] one by each marriage – their names bearing
witness to Simmons' friendship with Spencer Tracy[28] and Katharine
Hepburn. Simmons moved to the East Coast of the US in the late 1970s,
briefly owning a home in New Milford, Connecticut. Later, she returned
to California, settling in Santa Monica, where she lived until her
death.
Death[edit]
She died from lung cancer at her home on 22 January 2010, nine days
before her 81st birthday, surrounded by her family.[29][30][31]
Release[edit]
Throughout her life, Simmons spoke out publicly about her struggle
with addiction, and in 2003 became the patron of the British drugs and
human rights charity Release. In 2005, she signed a petition to the
British Prime Minister
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British Prime Minister
Tony Blair

Tony Blair asking him not to upgrade cannabis
from a class C drug to a class B.[32]
Filmography[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1944
Give Us the Moon
Heidi[33]
Mr. Emmanuel
Sally Cooper[34]
Billed as Jean Simmonds
Sports Day
Peggy[35]
1945
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Molly Dodd[36]
Meet Sexton Blake
Eva Watkins[37]
The Way to the Stars
A singer
Caesar and Cleopatra
Harpist
Uncredited
1946
Great Expectations
Estella as a girl
1947
Hungry Hill
Jane Brodrick
Black Narcissus
Kanchi
Uncle Silas
Caroline Ruthyn[38]
The Woman in the Hall
Jay Blake
1948
Hamlet
Ophelia
Volpi Cup
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1949
The Blue Lagoon
Emmeline Foster
Adam and Evelyne
Evelyne Kirby
1950
So Long at the Fair
Vicky Barton
Bambi Award

Bambi Award for Best Actress – International (2nd place)
Trio
Evie Bishop
(in segment Sanatorium),
Bambi Award

Bambi Award for Best Actress –
International (2nd place)
Cage of Gold
Judith Moray[39]
The Clouded Yellow
Sophie Malraux
1952
Androcles and the Lion
Lavinia
1953
Angel Face
Diane Tremayne Jessup
Young Bess
Princess Elizabeth
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (also for The Robe
(film) and The Actress)
Affair with a Stranger
Carolyn Parker[40]
The Robe
Diana
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (also for Young Bess
and The Actress)
The Actress
Ruth Gordon Jones
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (also for Young Bess
and The Robe (film))
1954
She Couldn't Say No
(AKA Beautiful but Dangerous )
Corby Lane
The Egyptian
Meryt
A Bullet Is Waiting
Cally Canham[41]
Désirée
Désirée Clary
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Diana
Appeared in a clip from The Robe
1955
Footsteps in the Fog
Lily Watkins
Guys and Dolls
Sergeant Sarah Brown
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy
Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
1956
Hilda Crane
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Hilda Crane Burns
1957
This Could Be the Night
Anne Leeds
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy
Until They Sail
Barbara Leslie Forbes
1958
The Big Country
Julie Maragon
Home Before Dark
Charlotte Bronn[42]
Laurel Award for Top Female Dramatic Performance (4th place)
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1959
This Earth Is Mine
Elizabeth Rambeau[43]
1960
Elmer Gantry
Sharon Falconer
Laurel Award for Top Female Dramatic Performance (3rd place)
Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Spartacus
Varinia
The Grass Is Greener
Hattie Durant
Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy Performance (5th place)
1963
All the Way Home
Mary Follett
1965
Life at the Top
Susan Lampton[44]
1966
Mister Buddwing
The Blonde
1967
Divorce American Style
Nancy Downes
Rough Night in Jericho
Molly Lang
1968
Heidi
Fräulein Rottenmeier
TV
1969
The Happy Ending
Mary Wilson
Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1971
Say Hello to Yesterday
Woman
1975
Mr. Sycamore
Estelle Benbow
The Easter Promise
Constance Payne [45]
TV
1977
Hawaii Five-O
Terri O'Brien
TV
1978
The Dain Curse
Aaronia Haldorn
TV
Dominique
Dominique Ballard
1979
Beggarman, Thief
Gretchen Jordache Burke[46]
TV
1981
A Small Killing
Margaret Lawrence[47]
TV
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson
TV
1983
The Thorn Birds
Fee Cleary
TV, Primetime
Emmy Award

Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Miniseries

Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series,
Miniseries

Miniseries or Television Film
1984
December Flower
Etta Marsh[48]
TV
1985
Midas Valley
Molly Hammond[49]
TV
North and South
Clarissa Gault Main
TV
Yellow Pages
Maxine de la Hunt[50]
1986
North and South Book II
Clarissa Gault Main
TV
1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Laura Robertson [51]
TV
1988
Inherit the Wind
Lucy Brady
TV
The Dawning
Aunt Mary
1989
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
TV
Murder, She Wrote
Episode: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall"
Nominated-Primetime
Emmy Award

Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a
Drama Series
1991
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Episode: "The Drumhead"
Rear Admiral Norah Satie
Dark Shadows
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard/Naomi Collins
They Do It with Mirrors
Carrie-Louise Serrocold
TV
1994
In the Heat of the Night
Episode: "Chez and the Grand Lady"
Miss Cordelia
TV
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
Em Reed
Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a
Cast in a Motion Picture
Daisies in December
Katherine Palmer[52]
2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Council Member 2
Voice
2003
Winter Solstice
Countess Lucinda Rhives[53]
Released in Germany as Wintersonne
2004
Jean Simmons: Rose of England
Herself
Howl's Moving Castle
Grandma Sophie
Voice
2005
Thru the Moebius Strip
Shepway[54]
Voice
2009
Shadows in the Sun
Hannah [55]
(final film role)
Box office ranking[edit]
For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted her among the top
ten British stars at the box office via an annual poll in the Motion
Picture Herald.
1949 – 4th[56] (9th most popular overall)[57]
1950 – 2nd (4th most popular overall)[58]
1951 – 3rd[59]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year
Association
Category
Nominated work
Result
1949
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress
Hamlet
Nominated
1953
National Board of Review
Best Actress
The Actress

The Actress / The Robe / Young Bess
Won
1956
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Guys and Dolls
Won
1957
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress
Guys and Dolls
Nominated
1958
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
This Could Be the Night
Nominated
1959
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Home Before Dark
Nominated
1961
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress
Elmer Gantry
Nominated
1961
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Elmer Gantry
Nominated
1970
Academy Awards
Best Actress
The Happy Ending
Nominated
1970
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
The Happy Ending
Nominated
1983
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Miniseries

Miniseries or a Movie
The Thorn Birds
Won
1984
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress – Series,
Miniseries

Miniseries or Television
The Thorn Birds
Nominated
1989
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Murder, She Wrote
Nominated
1996
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
How to Make an American Quilt
Nominated
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Miranda Richardson (1992)
Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett (1993)
Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis (1994)
Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman (1995)
Madonna (1996)
Helen Hunt
.jpg/440px-Helen_Hunt_2_(square).jpg)
Helen Hunt (1997)
Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow (1998)
Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer (1999)
Renée Zellweger
.jpg/440px-Renée_Zellweger_Berlinale_2010_(cropped).jpg)
Renée Zellweger (2000)
Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman (2001)
Renée Zellweger
.jpg/440px-Renée_Zellweger_Berlinale_2010_(cropped).jpg)
Renée Zellweger (2002)
Diane Keaton
.jpg/440px-Diane_Keaton_2012-1_(cropped).jpg)
Diane Keaton (2003)
Annette Bening

Annette Bening (2004)
Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon (2005)
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (2006)
Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard (2007)
Sally Hawkins
.jpg/440px-MJK35133_Sally_Hawkins_(Maudie,_Berlinale_2017).jpg)
Sally Hawkins (2008)
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (2009)
Annette Bening

Annette Bening (2010)
Michelle Williams (2011)
Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence (2012)
Amy Adams
_(cropped).jpg/440px-Amy_Adams_(29708985502)_(cropped).jpg)
Amy Adams (2013)
Amy Adams
_(cropped).jpg/440px-Amy_Adams_(29708985502)_(cropped).jpg)
Amy Adams (2014)
Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence (2015)
Emma Stone
.jpg/440px-Emma_Stone_at_the_39th_Mill_Valley_Film_Festival_(cropped).jpg)
Emma Stone (2016)
Saoirse Ronan
.jpg/440px-Saoirse_Ronan_2015_(cropped).jpg)
Saoirse Ronan (2017)
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Primetime
Emmy Award

Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited
Series or Movie
Olivia Cole (1977)
Blanche Baker (1978)
Esther Rolle

Esther Rolle (1979)
Mare Winningham

Mare Winningham (1980)
Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (1981)
Penny Fuller

Penny Fuller (1982)
Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons (1983)
Roxana Zal (1984)
Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley (1985)
Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Dewhurst (1986)
Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (1987)
Jane Seymour (1988)
Colleen Dewhurst

Colleen Dewhurst (1989)
Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint (1990)
Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (1991)
Amanda Plummer

Amanda Plummer (1992)
Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (1993)
Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson (1994)
Judy Davis

Judy Davis /
Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight (1995)
Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi (1996)
Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg (1997)
Mare Winningham

Mare Winningham (1998)
Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft (1999)
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (2000)
Tammy Blanchard (2001)
Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing (2002)
Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands (2003)
Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker (2004)
Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (2005)
Kelly Macdonald

Kelly Macdonald (2006)
Judy Davis

Judy Davis (2007)
Eileen Atkins (2008)
Shohreh Aghdashloo
_(38111500402)_(cropped).jpg/440px-Shohreh_Aghdashloo_(3)_(38111500402)_(cropped).jpg)
Shohreh Aghdashloo (2009)
Julia Ormond

Julia Ormond (2010)
Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith (2011)
Jessica Lange
.JPG/440px-Jessica_Lange_(Cropped).JPG)
Jessica Lange (2012)
Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn (2013)
Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates (2014)
Regina King

Regina King (2015)
Regina King

Regina King (2016)
Laura Dern

Laura Dern (2017)
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National Board of Review

National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford (1945)
Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani (1946)
Celia Johnson

Celia Johnson (1947)
Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland (1948)
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson (1950)
Jan Sterling

Jan Sterling (1951)
Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (1952)
Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons (1953)
Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly (1954)
Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani (1955)
Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy McGuire (1956)
Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward (1957)
Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (1958)
Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret (1959)
Greer Garson

Greer Garson (1960)
Geraldine Page

Geraldine Page (1961)
Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft (1962)
Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal (1963)
Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley (1964)
Julie Christie
_(2).jpg/440px-Julie_Christie_(1997)_(2).jpg)
Julie Christie (1965)
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (1966)
Edith Evans

Edith Evans (1967)
Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann (1968)
Geraldine Page

Geraldine Page (1969)
Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson (1970)
Irene Papas

Irene Papas (1971)
Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson (1972)
Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann (1973)
Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands (1974)
Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani (1975)
Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann (1976)
Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft (1977)
Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (1978)
Sally Field

Sally Field (1979)
Sissy Spacek
.jpg/440px-Sissy_Spacek_by_David_Shankbone_(cropped).jpg)
Sissy Spacek (1980)
Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson (1981)
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (1982)
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (1983)
Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft (1984)
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg (1985)
Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner (1986)
Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish /
Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter (1987)
Jodie Foster
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Jodie Foster (1988)
Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer (1989)
Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow (1990)
Geena Davis
.jpg/440px-Geena_Davis_2013_(cropped).jpg)
Geena Davis /
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon (1991)
Emma Thompson
.jpg/440px-Emma_Thompson_at_2013_TIFF_1_(cropped).jpg)
Emma Thompson (1992)
Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter (1993)
Miranda Richardson
.jpg/440px-Stronger_PC_02_(37216444535).jpg)
Miranda Richardson (1994)
Emma Thompson
.jpg/440px-Emma_Thompson_at_2013_TIFF_1_(cropped).jpg)
Emma Thompson (1995)
Frances McDormand
.jpg/440px-Frances_McDormand_2015_(cropped).jpg)
Frances McDormand (1996)
Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter (1997)
Fernanda Montenegro

Fernanda Montenegro (1998)
Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer (1999)
Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts (2000)
Halle Berry

Halle Berry (2001)
Julianne Moore
.jpg/440px-Julianne_Moore_(15011443428).jpg)
Julianne Moore (2002)
Diane Keaton
.jpg/440px-Diane_Keaton_2012-1_(cropped).jpg)
Diane Keaton (2003)
Annette Bening

Annette Bening (2004)
Felicity Huffman

Felicity Huffman (2005)
Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren (2006)
Julie Christie
_(2).jpg/440px-Julie_Christie_(1997)_(2).jpg)
Julie Christie (2007)
Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway (2008)
Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan (2009)
Lesley Manville
.jpg/440px-Leslie_Manville_(cropped).jpg)
Lesley Manville (2010)
Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton (2011)
Jessica Chastain
_(cropped).jpg/440px-SDCC_2015_-_Tom_Hiddleston_&_Jessica_Chastain_(19724874572)_(cropped).jpg)
Jessica Chastain (2012)
Emma Thompson
.jpg/440px-Emma_Thompson_at_2013_TIFF_1_(cropped).jpg)
Emma Thompson (2013)
Julianne Moore
.jpg/440px-Julianne_Moore_(15011443428).jpg)
Julianne Moore (2014)
Brie Larson

Brie Larson (2015)
Amy Adams
_(cropped).jpg/440px-Amy_Adams_(29708985502)_(cropped).jpg)
Amy Adams (2016)
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (2017)
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Volpi Cup

Volpi Cup for Best Actress
1934–1968
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn (1934)
Paula Wessely

Paula Wessely (1935)
Annabella (1936)
Bette Davis

Bette Davis (1937)
Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer (1938)
Luise Ullrich

Luise Ullrich (1941)
Kristina Söderbaum

Kristina Söderbaum (1942)
Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani (1947)
Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons (1948)
Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland (1949)
Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Parker (1950)
Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh (1951)
Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (1952)
Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer (1953)
Maria Schell

Maria Schell (1956)
Dzidra Ritenberga (1957)
Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren (1958)
Madeleine Robinson (1959)
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (1960)
Suzanne Flon

Suzanne Flon (1961)
Emmanuelle Riva
.jpg/440px-Emmanuelle_Riva_(1962).jpg)
Emmanuelle Riva (1962)
Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Seyrig (1963)
Harriet Andersson

Harriet Andersson (1964)
Annie Girardot

Annie Girardot (1965)
Natalya Arinbasarova

Natalya Arinbasarova (1966)
Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight (1967)
Laura Betti

Laura Betti (1968)
1983–present
Darling Légitimus

Darling Légitimus (1983)
Pascale Ogier

Pascale Ogier (1984)
Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino (1986)
Kang Soo-yeon (1987)
Isabelle Huppert/
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (1988)
Peggy Ashcroft/
Geraldine James (1989)
Gloria Münchmeyer
_(cropped).jpg)
Gloria Münchmeyer (1990)
Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton (1991)
Gong Li

Gong Li (1992)
Juliette Binoche/
Anna Bonaiuto
_e_Giovanni_(Andrej_)
Anna Bonaiuto (1993)
Maria de Medeiros/
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (1994)
Sandrine Bonnaire/Isabelle Huppert/
Isabella Ferrari

Isabella Ferrari (1995)
Victoire Thivisol (1996)
Robin Tunney

Robin Tunney (1997)
Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve (1998)
Nathalie Baye

Nathalie Baye (1999)
Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne (2000)
Sandra Ceccarelli (2001)
Julianne Moore
.jpg/440px-Julianne_Moore_(15011443428).jpg)
Julianne Moore (2002)
Katja Riemann

Katja Riemann (2003)
Imelda Staunton
.jpg/440px-Imelda_Staunton_(2011).jpg)
Imelda Staunton (2004)
Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Giovanna Mezzogiorno (2005)
Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren (2006)
Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett (2007)
Dominique Blanc

Dominique Blanc (2008)
Kseniya Rappoport

Kseniya Rappoport (2009)
Ariane Labed

Ariane Labed (2010)
Deanie Ip (2011)
Hadas Yaron

Hadas Yaron (2012)
Elena Cotta

Elena Cotta (2013)
Alba Rohrwacher

Alba Rohrwacher (2014)
Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino (2015)
Emma Stone
.jpg/440px-Emma_Stone_at_the_39th_Mill_Valley_Film_Festival_(cropped).jpg)
Emma Stone (2016)
Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling (2017)
Authority control
WorldCat Identities
VIAF: 81254245
LCCN: n87860131
ISNI: 0000 0001 2321 1538
GND: 137002661
SUDOC: 058635726
BNF: cb13899786g (data)
MusicBrainz: 29b427f5-0a4f-45a6-8e70-ccbee7879e6b
NKC: pna2004259302
BNE: XX1085263
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