Most incredible/impossible faces
by SatourN-3 | created - 9 months ago | updated - 8 months ago | Public
1. Ita Rina
Actress | Tonka Sibenice
Ita Rina was born on July 7, 1907 in Divaca, Austria-Hungary [now Slovenia]. She was an actress, known for Tonka Sibenice (1930), Das Lied der Schwarzen Berge (1933) and Erotikon (1929). She died on May 10, 1979 in Budva, Montenegro, Yugoslavia.
2. Nadia Sibirskaïa
Actress | Sapho
Nadia Sibirskaïa was born on September 11, 1901 in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. She was an actress, known for Sapho (1934), Les vagabonds magnifiques (1931) and The Kidnapping (1934). She was married to Dimitri Kirsanoff. She died on July 14, 1980 in Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.
3. Faye Dunaway
Actress | Bonnie and Clyde
An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...
4. Anya Taylor-Joy
Actress | The Queen's Gambit
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...
5. Isabelle Adjani
Actress | Possession
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, to Emma Augusta "Gusti" (Schweinberger) and Mohammed Adjani. Her father was a Kabyle Algerian, from Iferhounène, and her mother was a Bavarian German. She grew up speaking German fluently. After winning a school ...
6. Peter Lorre
Actor | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Peter Lorre was born László Löwenstein in Rózsahegy in the Slovak area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of Hungarian Jewish parents. He learned both Hungarian and German languages from birth, and was educated in elementary and secondary schools in the Austria-Hungary capitol Vienna, but did ...
7. Myrna Loy
Actress | The Thin Man
Myrna Williams, later to become Myrna Loy, was born on August 2, 1905 in Helena, Montana. Her father was the youngest person ever elected to the Montana State legislature. Later on her family moved to Radersburg where she spent her youth on a cattle ranch. At the age of 13, Myrna's father died of ...
8. Mireille Balin
Actress | Pépé le Moko
Mireille Balin was one the most glamorous and best loved actresses of pre-war French cinema. She appeared in two of the best remembered French films of the 1930s: Pépé le Moko (1937) and Lady Killer (1937), both opposite Jean Gabin. After the German occupation of France and her ...
9. Elissa Landi
Actress | The Sign of the Cross
Elissa Landi was born in Venice, Italy on December 6, 1904. From an early age, she wanted to be an actress and writer. Her acting career started at the Oxford Repertory Company and on London's West End performing with actors such as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. She played Desdemona in "...
10. Pierre Batcheff
Actor | Les deux timides
Pierre Batcheff was born on June 23, 1907 in Harbin, Manchuria, China. He was an actor and writer, known for Two Timid Souls (1928), Monte Cristo (1929) and Napoleon (1927). He was married to Denise Tual. He died on April 13, 1932 in Paris, France.
11. Marie Laforêt
Actress | Plein soleil
As an actress she came to prominence in the 60s nouvelle vague. As a chanteuse she was noted for her beautifully emotional, melancholy voice and went on to sell more than 35 million albums. Marie Laforet was born Maïtena Doumenach in the seaside resort of Soulac-sur-Mer in the Gironde region of ...
12. Luisa Ferida
Actress | Amore imperiale
Luisa Ferida started as a stage actress and first appeared in films with La Freccia d'oro (1935) in a supporting role but because of her photogenic looks and talent as an actress, she soon graduated to leading parts at the end of the thirties. In 1939, whilst working on An Adventure of Salvator Rosa...
13. Louise Brooks
Actress | Die Büchse der Pandora
Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906. She began dancing at an early age with the Denishawn Dancers (which was how she left Kansas and went to New York) and then with George White's Scandals ...
14. Anne Wiazemsky
Actress | Au hasard Balthazar
Anne Wiazemsky was born on May 14, 1947 in Berlin, West Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Au hasard Balthazar (1966), The Chinese (1967) and George qui? (1973). She was married to Jean-Luc Godard. She died on October 5, 2017 in Paris, France.
15. Conrad Veidt
Actor | Casablanca
Conrad Veidt attended the Sophiengymnasium (secondary school) in the Schoeneberg district of Berlin, and graduated without a diploma in 1912, last in his class of 13. Conrad liked animals, theater, cinema, fast cars, pastries, thunderstorms, gardening, swimming and golfing. He disliked heights, ...
16. Jaque Catelain
Actor | La galerie des monstres
Jaque Catelain was born on February 9, 1897 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. He was an actor and director, known for La galerie des monstres (1924), L'inhumaine (1924) and The Secret Spring (1923). He was married to Suzanne Catelain. He died on March 5, 1965 in Paris,...
17. Celia Johnson
Actress | Brief Encounter
Celia Johnson was an English actress, once nominated for an Academy Award. Johnson was born in the town of Richmond, Surrey in 1908. Richmond was incorporated into Greater London in 1965, as part of an administrative reform. Celia's parents were John Robert Johnson and Ethel Griffiths. Neither of ...
18. Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution
Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...
19. Doris Duranti
Actress | Capitan Tempesta
Doris Duranti was born on April 25, 1917 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Capitan Tempesta (1942), Calafuria (1943) and Cavalleria rusticana (1939). She died on March 10, 1995 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
20. Buster Keaton
Actor | The General
Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...
21. Silvana Mangano
Actress | Dune
Silvana Mangano was born on April 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy and was raised in poverty during World War II. She trained as a dancer for seven years and supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, she obtained role in a Maria Della Costa film...
22. Patricia Neal
Actress | The Day the Earth Stood Still
Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug...
23. Laurent Terzieff
Actor | Tu ne tueras point
Laurent Terzieff was born on June 27, 1935 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. He was an actor, known for Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961), Germinal (1993) and The Big Night (1959). He died on July 2, 2010 in Paris, France.
24. Charlotte Rampling
Actress | 45 Years
Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born 5 February 1946 in Sturmer, England, to Isabel Anne (Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Lionel Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist, army officer, and colonel, who became a NATO commander. She was educated at Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles, ...
25. Tilda Swinton
Actress | We Need to Talk About Kevin
The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded ...
26. Paul Scofield
Actor | A Man for All Seasons
Though his number of film roles amount to a bit over 30, Paul Scofield has cast a giant shadow in the world of stage and film acting. He grew up in West Sussex, the son of a schoolmaster. He attended the Varndean School for Boys in Brighton. The love of acting came early. While still high school ...
27. Hertha Thiele
Actress | Mädchen in Uniform
Hertha Thiele was born on May 8, 1908 in Leipzig, Germany. She was an actress, known for Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Little Man What Now (1933) and Elisabeth und der Narr (1934). She was married to Heinz Klingenberg and Wolfgang Wohlgemuth. She died on August 5, 1984 in East Berlin, East ...
28. Brigitte Helm
Actress | Metropolis
Born in Berlin, Germany. After her role in Metropolis (1927) she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was An Ideal Spouse (1935) which was released in 1935. She died on June 11th 1996 of heart failure in...
29. Elisa Cegani
Actress | Ma non è una cosa seria
Elisa Cegani was born on June 10, 1911 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Ma non è una cosa seria (1936), Un giorno nella vita (1946) and Eleonora Duse (1947). She died on February 23, 1996 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
30. Sybille Schmitz
Actress | Titanic
The enigmatic actress remains one of the most interesting figures in German film. Although she achieved stardom early in her career, the tragic Sybille Schmitz could never fit in with her surroundings. Too "alien looking" for Hollywood, Schmitz never migrated to America like her more glamorous ...
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