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| Check out the Results pages to find out who you voted as the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. Click on any star's name to be taken to in-depth information about their work. |
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| 10- Cary Grant |
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Archibald Leach was born in poverty in Bristol, 1904. His story is one of the most extraordinary in all cinema, and he was one of its greatest stars. Leach ran away from home aged 13 (his mother had departed four years before to a mental institution) to join a travelling acrobatic troupe, ending up in New York. He sang in England and on Broadway before making it to Hollywood. He starred suavely in countless classics, but his real personality always remained shrouded in mystery. His greatest role was that of Cary Grant, who was a fiction, as revealed in the self-produced, veiled autobiography of None But The Lonely Heart, where Grant played a poor, struggling man in an English slum.
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| 9- Ewan McGregor |
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Ewan Gordon McGregor was born in 1971 in Perthshire, Scotland. Inspired to act by his afghan-sporting Uncle Denis (Lawson, who played Wedge in the Star Wars films), Ewan joined the Perth Repertory Theatre. A degree course at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama followed, and he was the star of Dennis Potter's TV musical Lipstick On Your Collar. He hit the big time in Trainspotting before taking the role of a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, and revealing a rather affecting, if untutored, singing voice in Moulin Rouge. He runs Natural Nylon, a production company, with his friends Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller and Sean Pertwee.
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| 8- Sean Connery |
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Born in Edinburgh in 1930 to a truck driver and a cleaner. He left school at 15 and after a stint in the navy worked as a lifeguard, coffin polisher and milkman while also representing Scotland in 1950's Mr. Universe. After winning a part in the chorus of South Pacific, acting replaced his footballing ambitions. TV work and bit parts followed, though he had the male lead in Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Fame hit after he pulled on the toupee and beat off Cary Grant and David Niven to play James Bond. Still a leading man and box office hit, he won an Oscar for The Untouchables in 1987. He was knighted in 1999.
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| 7- Anthony Hopkins |
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Born in Port Talbot, South Wales, in 1937, Hopkins joined a local drama club at 17 before attending the Welsh College of Music and Drama. A RADA scholarship led to an audition in front of Olivier for a position at the National Theatre, which he won. His first major film role was that of Richard the Lionheart in 1968's The Lion In Winter, but the 70s and 80s provided mostly TV work. He hit the big time when Gene Hackman turned down the role of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, and his Oscar-winning performance led to three more nominations in six years.
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| 6- Jack Nicholson |
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Born in New Jersey, 1937, Nicholson was abandoned by his father and was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother and his mother his older sister. At 17 he worked as an office boy at MGM and after a few TV roles made his film debut in 1958 with Cry Baby Killer. He worked for Roger Corman through the 60s before his big break came when Rip Torn pulled out of Easy Rider. An Oscar nomination and a series of offbeat, intense roles followed, culminating in his Oscar-winning performance as Randale McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975. More recently he notched up another Oscar for his role in As Good As It Gets (1997).
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