20 Greatest Performances by an Actress

The following is a list of the twenty greatest performances by an actress in a motion picture. Their name and the film which they appeared in is listed.

1. Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)

2. Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady)

3. Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon)

4. Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)

5. Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)

6. Bette Davis (All About Eve)

7. Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)

8. Katherine Hepburn (The African Queen)

9. Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

10. Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause)

11. Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)

12. Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)

13. Katherine Hepburn (The Philidelphia Story)

14. Jessica Lange (Tootsie)

15. Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)

16. Bette Davis (The Petrified Forest)

17. Bette Davis (Dark Victory)

18. Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina)

19. Katherine Hepburn (Woman of the Year)

20. Diane Keaton (The Godfather)

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