100 Greatest Actresses Quiz (Part 1)

[B] Katharine Hepburn | The regal New Englander who stormed Hollywood with Morning Glory (1933) and never lowered her voice or her standards.

[A] Audrey Hepburn | A ballerina-turned-star who floated into legend in Roman Holiday (1953) and redefined elegance ever after.

[C] Meryl Streep | The chameleonic polyglot who seized the world’s attention in Sophie’s Choice (1982) and keeps rewriting the acting textbook.

[B] Maggie Smith | Dry as gin and twice as sharp, she stole the spotlight from Laurence Olivier in Othello (1965) and has been scene-stealing ever since.

[D] Julie Andrews | With a voice like crystal and perfect posture, she opened The Sound of Music (1965) and let the hills reverberate forever.

[D] Judi Dench | Eight minutes on screen as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love (1998) earned her an Oscar and a lifetime of regal roles.

[A] Helen Mirren | From Shakespearean royalty to actual royalty, she ruled The Queen (2006) with steely compassion and a corgi or two.

[B] Kate Winslet | The Hampshire girl who never let go in Titanic (1997) and has been plumbing emotional depths ever since.

[B] Kathy Bates | A former stage manager who burst from Stephen King’s pages as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990) and won an Oscar for keeping James Caan hostage.

[C] Bette Davis | Those eyes, that voice, that cigarette—she lit up Jezebel (1938) and Hollywood’s firmament.

[D] Jodie Foster | A Yale student who took the FBI badge in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and never gave it back.

[D] Cate Blanchett | Channeling Hepburn while playing Hepburn in The Aviator (2004), she proved she could play anyone, even legends.

[A] Ingrid Bergman | The luminous Swede who stepped off the plane in Casablanca (1942) and walked straight into immortality.

[C] Helena Bonham Carter | Corsets, crazy hair, and corseted craziness: she cut a bloody swath through The King’s Speech (2010) and every period piece since.

[B] Emma Thompson | With wit as crisp as her accent, she wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and made Oscar-winning look effortless.

[D] Charlize Theron | The South African beauty who disappeared under prosthetics to become Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003) and earned an Oscar and awe.

[A] Sally Field | From flying nun to steel magnolia, she proclaimed “You like me!” after Norma Rae (1979) and we’ve liked her ever since.

[D] Grace Kelly | Philadelphia ice who melted the Riviera in Rear Window (1954), then left Hollywood for an actual throne.

[B] Michelle Pfeiffer | Cat-suited and dangerous, she slinked through Scarface (1983) and made crime look seductive.

[D] Elizabeth Taylor | Violet-eyed siren whose Cleopatra (1963) nearly bankrupted a studio and redefined star power.

[A] Judy Garland | The gingham-clad dreamer who followed a yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and sang her way into every heart.

[A] Vivien Leigh | The English rose who survived a burning Atlanta in Gone with the Wind (1939) and never truly left Tara.

[C] Viola Davis | The Juilliard-trained powerhouse who ripped open August Wilson’s fences in Fences (2016) and became the first Black woman with an Oscar-Emmy-Tony trifecta.

[C] Sandra Bullock | America’s sweetheart who learned physics on the fly in Gravity (2013) and proved she could carry an entire orbit.

[A] Julianne Moore | Red-haired chameleon who unraveled beautifully in Still Alice (2014) and made forgetfulness unforgettable.

[D] Natalie Portman | A Harvard prodigy who trained like a dancer, bled like a swan, and flew away with Black Swan (2010).

[B] Sigourney Weaver | The unlikely action hero who stepped into an alien nest in Aliens (1986) and redefined “final girl” as “final mother.”

[A] Frances McDormand | The no-nonsense Minnesotan who solved crimes with quiet fury in Fargo (1996) and keeps finding justice in every accent.

[A] Nicole Kidman | From Australia to the Moulin Rouge! (2001), she sings, sobs, and smolders while collecting statuettes like souvenirs.

[C] Olivia de Havilland | The last golden-age titan who sued a studio, won, and still found time to survive Gone with the Wind (1939) and nine decades of stardom.