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57. Taissa Farmiga

Taissa Farmiga (born August 17, 1994) is an American actress. She began her career in film in the drama Higher Ground (2011) which was directed by her sister Vera Farmiga, and subsequently made her television debut in the FX series American Horror Story: Murder House (2011), which earned her a reputation as a contemporary scream queen. She then appeared in three other seasons, Coven (2013), Roanoke (2016), and Apocalypse (2018).

Farmiga has since appeared in films such as The Bling Ring (2013), Mindscape (2013), At Middleton(2013), The Final Girls (2015), 6 Years (2015), In a Valley of Violence (2016), Rules Don't Apply (2016), What They Had (2018), The Long Dumb Road (2018), The Nun (2018), and The Mule (2018). She also voiced the superhero Raven in the animated films Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016) and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017). She made her stage debut in the Off-Broadway revival of the drama play Buried Child (2016).

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56. Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas and tragedies, and is often drawn to portraying troubled women. Winslet is the recipient of several accolades, including three British Academy Film Awards, and is among the few performers to have won Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Awards.

Born in Reading, Berkshire, Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at the age of 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and received her first BAFTA Awardfor playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997). It was the highest-grossing film of all time to that point, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001), which were not widely seen.

The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road(2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a Nazi camp guard in the last of these, she won the BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Winslet played a single mother in 1930s America in the miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), joined the Divergent film series, and portrayed Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs (2015). She won a Primetime Emmy Award for the former and a third BAFTA Award for the latter.

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55. Kiernan Shipka

Kiernan Brennan Shipka (born November 10, 1999) is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Sabrina Spellman on the Netflix supernatural horror series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina(2018–present), Sally Draper on the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015) and B. D. Hymanin the FX anthology series Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). Shipka also voiced Jinora in the Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel, The Legend of Korra (2012–14).

Shipka has also starred in numerous films, including Carriers (2009), Flowers in the Attic (2014), and The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015).

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54. Amandla Stenberg

Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She portrayed Rue in The Hunger Games; Madeline Whittier in Everything, Everything; and Starr Carter in The Hate U Give(2018).

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53. Jameela Jamil

Jameela Alia Burton-Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is a British actress, model, presenter and activist. Jamil began her career as an English teacher before becoming a presenter on T4 from 2009 until 2012 when the program ended. Jamil went on to present other shows. Jamil became the radio host of The Official Chart, and was co-host of The Official Chart Update alongside Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1. Jamil made radio history becoming the first sole female presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Chart show.

Following a breast cancer scare in 2016, Jamil moved to America to become a screen writer. Whilst there Jamil auditioned for Michael Schur and appeared as Tahani Al-Jamil in the American television series The Good Place. The show received critical acclaim, being nominated for a Golden Globe and is a commercial success.

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52. Berta Vázquez

Berta Vázquez (born Birtukan Tibebe, 28 March 1992) is a Ukrainian–Spanish actress, model and singer. Her career began in dance, moved to performances and finally moved to music.

In 2014 she made her first role in a film, Palmeras en la nieve (2015), based on the novel by Luz Gabás. She played Basila, who is fallen in love with Kilian, played by Mario Casas. In the same year she played her most important role as Estefanía Kabila "Rizos" in Vis a vis.

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51. Zoe Kazan

Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. Kazan made her acting debut in Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003) and later appeared in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008) and It's Complicated (2009). She starred in Happy. Thank You. More. Please. (2010), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Ruby Sparks (2012), and What If (2013). In 2014, she appeared in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She portrayed Emily Gardner in the film The Big Sick (2017), and in 2018 she appeared in the Coen brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Kazan has acted in several Broadway productions. She is also a screenwriter, having written Ruby Sparks and co-written Wildlife (2018) with her partner Paul Dano, who also directed the film.

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50. Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Leslie Panettiere (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress, model, singer, and activist. She is known for her roles as cheerleader Claire Bennet on the NBC sci-fi series Heroes (2006–10), Juliette Barnes in the ABC/CMT musical-drama series Nashville (2012–present) and Kairi in the video game series Kingdom Hearts.

A native of New York City, she first appeared in a commercial at the age of 11 months. She began her acting career by playing Sarah Roberts on One Life to Live (1994–97), and Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light (1996–2000), before starring at age 10 as Sheryl Yoast in the Disney feature film Remember the Titans. Other notable roles include her portrayal of the title character in the true crime drama Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy and Kirby Reed in the slasher film Scream 4. She received two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, for her work on Nashville in 2012 and 2013.

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49. Mackenzie Foy

Mackenzie Christine Foy (born November 10, 2000) is an American model and actress. She is best known for her role as Renesmee Cullen in the 2012 film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, which earned her a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film, and as the young Murphy in the 2014 space epic Interstellar, for which she received critical acclaim and several awards and nominations.

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48. Emma Roberts

Emma Rose Roberts (born February 10, 1991) is an American actress and singer. After making her film debut as Kristina Jung in Blow (2001), Roberts gained recognition for her lead role as Addie Singer on the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous (2004–07). She released her debut studio album, Unfabulous and More (2005), which also served as the series' soundtrack. Roberts then appeared in a series of film roles, including Nancy Drew (2007), Wild Child (2008), Hotel for Dogs (2009), Valentine's Day (2010), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), and The Art of Getting By (2011).

Looking for more mature roles, Roberts went on to obtain both supporting and lead roles in Lymelife (2009), 4.3.2.1. (2010), Scream 4 (2011), Adult World (2013), We're the Millers (2013), and Palo Alto (2013). She starred in the lead role of Chanel Oberlin on the Fox television series Scream Queens, as well as playing main roles in two seasons of American Horror Story.

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47. Ellen Page

Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987), known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Her career began with roles in Canadian television shows including Pit Pony, Trailer Park Boys, and ReGenesis. Page starred in the 2005 drama Hard Candy, for which she won the Austin Film Critics Association's Award for Best Actress. Her breakthrough role was the title character in Jason Reitman's comedy film Juno (2007), for which she received nominations for Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, and won awards including the Independent Spirit Award, MTV Movie Award and Teen Choice Award for Best Actress Comedy.

Page portrayed Kitty Pryde in the X-Men series of films. She also appeared in the crime-drama film An American Crime (2007); the drama The Tracey Fragments (2007), a role that won her the Vancouver Film Critics Award for Best Actress; Smart People (2008); the sports-comedy-drama film Whip It (2009); Super (2010); and Inception (2010). She also provided the voice acting, motion capture, and likeness for the character Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013).

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46. Laia Costa

Laia Costa (born February 2, 1985) is a Spanish actress. She has worked in Spain, Russia, Germany, Argentina and United States.

She is the lead in Sebastian Schipper’s film Victoria, for which she received Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the German Film Awards 2015 and Best Actress at the 2016 Gaudí Awards by the Catalan Academy of Cinema. In TV she has starred in Cites, the Spanish remake of the British TV series Dates, and Polseres Vermelles, winner of the International EMMY Award for Best Kids TV Series, which has been adapted by Steven Spielberg for North America as Red Band Society.

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45.  Marie Avgeropoulos

Marie Avgeropoulos (born June 17, 1986) is a Greek-Canadian actress and model. Her break-out role was as Valli Wooley in the 2009 film I Love You, Beth Cooper directed by Chris Columbus. Since then, she has appeared in more film and TV roles: as Kirstie in Cult, as Kim Rhodes in Hunt to Kill, and the sci-fi series The 100 as Octavia Blake.

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44. Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn; March 10, 1984) is an American actress, model, producer and activist.She became known for her recurring role on The O.C. as Alex Kelly (2004–05). She is well known for her television role as Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on House (2007–12) and her roles in Tron: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Her (2013), Drinking Buddies (2013), and Rush (2013). She has a main role in HBO's rock 'n' roll drama series Vinyl (2016).

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43. Alycia Debnam-Carey

Alycia Jasmin Debnam-Carey (born 20 July 1993) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role as Lexa in The CW series The 100, and for her current portrayal of Alicia Clark on the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead (the companion series to The Walking Dead).

Debnam-Carey has starred in the 2014 films Into the Storm and The Devil's Hand. She also appeared in the television series McLeod's Daughters, Dream Life, and Next Stop Hollywood.

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42. Zoë Kravitz Zoë Isabella Kravitz (born December 1, 1988) is an American actress, singer and model. She is the daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. She has appeared in the films No Reservations (2007), The Brave One (2007), and as Angel Salvadore in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011). Kravitz played Pearl on season four of the Showtime television series Californication, and co-starred in After Earth, with Will and Jaden Smith, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. She plays the supporting role of Christina in the sci-fi dystopian franchise, The Divergent Series, and Toast the Knowing in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.

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41. Kate Mara Kate Rooney Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She starred in the Netflix political drama House of Cards as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series 24 as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She made her film debut in 1999 with Random Hearts. She appeared in Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008), The Open Road (2009) and Transcendence (2014). She also appeared in the FX horror mini-series American Horror Story: Murder House as Hayden McClaine. In 2015, she starred as the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four reboot.