The 30 Best Actors In History

Published on 12/10/2019
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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo is a Swedish actress who was born in Stockholm in 1905. The peak of her acting career was in the 1920s and 30s, and in 1999 she was ranked fifth on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and she received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress twice. If that wasn’t enough, she was also once named the most beautiful woman who ever lived by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

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Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford, a Canadian-born American film actress and producer, had a career that lasted for 50 years. She was one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In the peak of her career, Pickford was commonly known as “America’s Sweetheart” and the “girl with the curls.” She was, without a doubt, one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, which helped earn her the nickname “Queen of the Movies.”

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

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