female professionals The Best Actresses Working Today  

Originally by carlybobarly

250.6k votes 14.4k voters 401.6k views 319 items Follow Embed

List Rules Working actresses who have starred in major films or TV series in the last ~5 years

1

3,256 1,566

Cate Blanchett age 46

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Manifesto (2015)
Carol (2015)
The Hobbit series
The Monuments Men (2014)

2

3,789 2,654

Meryl Streep age 68

The Post (2017)
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Suffragette (2015)
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Into the Woods (2014)
The Giver (2014)
August: Osage County (2013)

3

2,316 1,370

Julianne Moore age 57

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Suburbicon (2017)
Wonderstruck (2017)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (2014-15)
Still Alice (2014)
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Non-Stop (2014)
Carrie (2013)

4

2,239 1,225

Helen Mirren age 72

Collateral Beauty (2016)
Trumbo (2015)
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Woman in Gold (2015)
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
RED 2 (2013)

5

2,766 1,530

Kate Winslet age 42

The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Collateral Beauty (2016)
The Dressmaker (2015)
Steve Jobs (2015)
The Divergent Series (2014-15)
Labor Day (2013)

6

2,349 1,073

Judi Dench age 83

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Spectre (2015)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Philomena (2013)

7

2,190 1,109

Maggie Smith age 83

The Lady in the Van (2015)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Downton Abbey (2010-15)

8

2,201 1,137

Emma Thompson age 58

The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Alone in Berlin (2016)
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Beautiful Creatures (2013)

9

2,464 1,113

Amy Adams age 43

Justice League (2017)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Arrival (2016)
Big Eyes (2014)
American Hustle (2013)

10

2,003 1,344

Nicole Kidman age 50

Big Little Lies (2017)
The Beguiled (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Top of the Lake (2017)
Lion (2016)
The Family Fang (2015)
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Paddington (2014)
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Grace of Monaco (2014)
The Railway Man (2013)
Stoker (2013)

11

2,090 1,360

Jodie Foster age 55

Elysium (2013)

12

1,615 991

Rachel Weisz age 48

My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Disobedience (2017)
Denial (2017)
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Youth (2015)
The Lobster (2015)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

13

1,912 846

MarySSpiegel added Kathy Bates age 69

Disjointed (2017)
Feud: Bette and Joan (2017)
Complete Unknown (2016)
American Horror Story (2013-2016)
The Boss (2016)
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Tammy (2014)

14

1,561 1,127

Susan Sarandon age 71

Feud: Bette and Joan (2017)
Ray Donovan (2017)
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Mothers and Daughters (2016)
The Meddler (2015)
Tammy (2014)
The Big Wedding (2013)

15

2,287 2,243

Charlize Theron age 42

Atomic Blonde (2017)
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Dark Places (2015)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

16

2,060 1,123

Helena Bonham Carter age 51

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Love, Nina (2016)
Suffragette (2015)
Cinderella (2015)

17

1,403 1,099

Glenn Close age 71

Crooked House (2017)
The Girl with All the Gifts (2017)
What Happened to Monday (2017)
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2016)
Anesthesia (2016)
The Wife (2016)
5 to 7 (2015)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

18

2,065 969

rom0618 added Sandra Bullock age 53

Our Brand is Crisis (2015)
Gravity (2013)
The Heat (2013)

19

1,609 1,094

Julia Roberts age 50

Wonder (2017)
Money Master (2016)
Mother's Day (2016)
Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
The Normal Heart (2014)
August: Osage County (2013)

20

2,459 2,334

Natalie Portman age 36

Jackie (2016)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2016)
Jane Got a Gun (2016)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)

21

1,766 873

Rachel McAdams age 39

Disobedience (2017)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Spotlight (2015)
Southpaw (2015)
Aloha (2015)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
About Time (2013)
To the Wonder (2013)

22

3,110 2,818

Jennifer Lawrence age 27

mother! (2017)
Passengers (2017)
X-Men series (2011-16)
Joy (2015)
The Hunger Games series (2012-15)
Serena (2015)
American Hustle (2013)

23

1,591 699

Emily Blunt age 35

The Girl on the Train (2016)
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Sicario (2015)
Into the Woods (2014)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

24

1,494 924

Julie Andrews age 80

25

1,080 814

unintentionalwit added Frances McDormand age 60

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)

26

1,226 817

Naomi Watts age 49

The Glass Castle (2017)
The Book of Henry (2017)
While We're Young (2015)
The Divergent series (2015-16)
St. Vincent (2014)
Birdman (2014)
Diana (2013)

27

999 576

maguilar added Sigourney Weaver age 68

Ghostbusters (2016)
Chappie (2015)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

28

2,134 2,095

Anne Hathaway age 35

Colossal (2017)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
The Intern (2015)
Interstellar (2014)

29

1,520 1,024

Mweihn added Reese Witherspoon age 42

Home Again (2017)
Big Little Lies (2017)
Hot Pursuit (2015)
Inherent Vice (2015)
Wild (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
Mud (2013)

30

1,166 1,000

unintentionalwit added Hilary Swank age 43

Logan Lucky (2017)
The Homesman (2014)
You're Not You (2014)

31

879 732

unintentionalwit added Tilda Swinton age 57

Okja (2017)
Letters from Baghdad (2017)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Trainwreck (2015)
Snowpiercer (2014)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

32

1,114 763

Jessica Chastain age 41

Molly's Game (2017)
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Miss Sloane (2017)
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Crimson Peak (2015)
The Martian (2015)
A Most Violent Year (2015)
Miss Julie (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2014)
Mama (2013)
Wilde Salomé (2013)
Zero Dark Thirty (2013)

33

979 646

Marion Cotillard age 42

Assassin's Creed (2016)
Macbeth (2015)
Dior and I (2014)
Two Days, One Night (2014)
The Immigrant (2014)
 

34

911 808

Annette Bening age 59

20th Century Women (2017)
Rules Don't Apply (2016)
Danny Collins (2015)
Girl Most Likely (2013)
Ginger & Rosa (2013)

35

1,113 666

unintentionalwit added Viola Davis age 52

36

819 478

rom0618 added Sally Field age 71

37

800 535

Robin Wright age 51

38

1,560 794

ImanBehb added Jessica Biel age 36

The Sinner (2017)
A Kind of Murder (2016)
Bleeding Heart (2015)
Accidental Love (2015)

39

1,873 1,893

Scarlett Johansson age 33

40

1,223 1,173

Michelle Pfeiffer age 59

41

825 752

Michelle Williams age 37

42

1,559 1,735

jware added Keira Knightley age 33

43

914 888

Claire Danes age 38

44

566 262

Jessica Lange age 68

45

534 362

Diane Keaton age 72

46

2,030 2,014

averagej123 added Emma Watson age 27

47

1,316 1,136

Elise Hennigan added Emma Stone age 29

48

871 630

Marisa Tomei age 53

49

834 506

rom0618 added Elizabeth Banks age 44

50

666 592

MadisonJeannineWallace added Kristen Bell age 37