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Voting starts March 3rd.
Julie Christie
Birth Name: Julie Frances Christie
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #2
Birth Date: April 14, 1941
Birthplace: Chabua, Assam, India
Height: 5' 2"
Academy Awards: 4 nominations, 1 win (actress, Darling)
Signature Role: Lara (Doctor Zhivago)
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Diana Rigg
Birth Name: Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #7
Birth Date: July 30, 1938
Birthplace: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
Height: 5' 8½"
Academy Awards: none
Signature Role: Emma Peel ("The Avengers")
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Jean Simmons
Birth Name: Jean Merilyn Simmons
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #3
Birth Date: January 31, 1929
Birthplace: Crouch Hill, London, England
Height: 5' 6"
Academy Awards: 2 nominations
Signature Role: Sister Sharon (Elmer Gantry)
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Angela Lansbury
Birth Name: Angela Brigid Lansbury
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #6
Birth Date: October 16, 1925
Birthplace: Poplar, London, England
Height: 5' 8"
Academy Awards: 3 nominations
Signature Role: Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)
Notes: Christie versus Rigg—an actress born in India versus one who grew up there. And Simmons and Lansbury first hit it big in the 1940s.
Voting starts March 3rd.
Julie Andrews
Birth Name: Julia Elizabeth Wells
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #1
Birth Date: October 1, 1935
Birthplace: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Height: 5' 8"
Academy Awards: 3 nominations, 1 win (best actress, Mary Poppins)
Signature Role: Maria (The Sound of Music)
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Margaret Rutherford
Birth Name: Margaret Taylor Rutherford
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #8
Birth Date: May 11, 1892
Birthplace: Balham, London, England
Academy Awards: 1 win (supporting actress, The V.I.P.'s)
Signature Role: Miss Jane Marple (Murder She Said)
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Maggie Smith
Birth Name: Margaret Natalie Smith
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #4
Birth Date: December 28, 1934
Birthplace: Ilford, Essex, England
Height: 5' 5"
Academy Awards: 6 nominations, 2 wins (actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, supporting actress, California Suite)
Signature Role: Jean Brodie (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
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Vanessa Redgrave
Birth Name: Vanessa Redgrave
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #5
Birth Date: January 30, 1937
Birthplace: Greenwich, London, England
Height: 5' 11"
Academy Awards: 6 nominations, 1 win (supporting actress, Julia)
Signature Role: Julia (Julia)
Smith versus Redgrave—dueling redheads!
One of my favorite of the early silent directors, Louis Feuillade, made a big splash in France with Fantômas, five interlinked feature films (each running between fifty and ninety minutes) based on a series of novels about the eponymous master criminal, one of film history's first anti-heroes. Feuillade alone of the great early directors anticipated the chief maladies of the coming century—violence, anxiety, paranoia, alienation—and even this century's scourge, terrorism.
His film serials Les Vampires, Judex and Tih Minh directly influenced filmmakers as diverse as Luis Buñuel, Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock. Throw in the fact that Feuillade's films are extraordinarily entertaining—not just as film history but in a 21st century sense—and he winds up, along with Charlie Chaplin, as my favorite director of the first three decades of film history (1888-1918).
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