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Kylie
25-02-2005, 11:20
Sean Named Screen Legend
Sir Sean Connery and Dame Judi Dench are Britain's most popular screen legends, according to a new poll.The 74-year-old Scottish Bond star was voted the best British actor of all time, while Dame Judi, 70, stole best actress.Silence Of tThe Lambs actor Sir Anthony Hopkins and the late Sir Alec Guinness came second and third in the Sky survey with Julie Walters and Elizabeth Taylor coming in as the female equivalent.

Kate Winslet, the only actress in the top 10 who is up for an Oscar this year, came ninth, and Emma Thompson 10th.

More than 2,000 people were quizzed by YouGov for Sky to mark the 77th Academy Awards on February 27th 2005.

Dame Judi said: "I am very thrilled to hear this - and now I have something enormous to live up to."

The top ten British actors were:

1 Sean Connery
2 Anthony Hopkins
3 Alec Guinness
4 Michael Caine
5 Laurence Olivier
6 Richard Burton
7 Cary Grant
8 John Mills
9 Richard Attenborough
10 Peter Sellers

Where's Sean Bean in all of this?? :confused:

The top ten British actresses were:

1 Judi Dench
2 Julie Walters
3 Elizabeth Taylor
4 Helen Mirren
5 Julie Andrews
6 Maggie Smith
7 Thora Hird
8 Vanessa Redgrave
9 Kate Winslet
10 Emma Thompson

(from yahoo news)

Do you agree with these lists? How would the lists look if we changed it to Foriegn Actor/Actresses? Here are my favourites
Male
1. Christian Slater
2. Vin Diesel
3. Viggo Mortensen
4. David Boreanaz
5. Tom Cruise
6. Mel Gibson
7. Justin Bartha
8. David Duchovny
9. Jean Claude Van Damme
10. Steven Seagal

Female
1. Julia Roberts
2. Sandra Bullock
3. Halle Berry
4. Keira Knightley
5. Liv Tyler
6. Jodie Foster
7. Jennifer Lopez
8. Thandie Newton
9. Sarah Michelle Gellar
10. Jennifer Aniston

emma
25-02-2005, 13:12
I totally agree with your favourite females! Love them all!

Meh
25-02-2005, 13:48
For international, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino are pretty hard to beat.

shell2005
02-03-2005, 18:58
Stick in Will Smith & then the list will be perfect! I love him.

zoey_lou
05-03-2005, 10:44
how can Johnny Depp not be there on your list?

Also id put Angelina Jolie on the females