#8295, aired 2020-12-04 | ACTRESSES $600: In 2005, she won an Emmy playing desperate housewife Lynette Scavo Felicity Huffman |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $1600: Character actress Margaret Rutherford was known in later life for playing this sleuth in several films of the 1960s Miss Marple |
#8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $800: This South African-born beauty won an Oscar for playing a "Monster", serial killer Aileen Wuornos Charlize Theron |
#7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This tomboy who became an actress won an Oscar for playing a tomboy who becomes an actress in 1933's "Morning Glory" Katharine Hepburn |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | ACTRESSES' EMMYS $800: Uzo Aduba won for playing Crazy Eyes, an inmate on this series Orange Is the New Black |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | ACTRESSES' EMMYS $1600: Margo Martindale snagged an Emmy for playing criminal matriarch Mags Bennett on this modern-day Western Justified |
#7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $1000: She received 2 1982 acting Oscar nominations, both for playing actresses--a soap star & a '40s film star Jessica Lange |
#6629, aired 2013-06-13 | TONY-WINNING ACTRESSES $1600: 2008: Patti LuPone was honored for playing Mama Rose in this revival Gypsy |
#6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ACTRESSES PLAYING ACTRESSES $400: In 2012 Tracie Bennett starred on Broadway as this entertainer in "End of the Rainbow" Judy Garland |
#6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ACTRESSES PLAYING ACTRESSES $1200: She went near the edge herself playing fragile actress Frances Farmer in a 1982 film Jessica Lange |
#6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ACTRESSES PLAYING ACTRESSES $1600: In 2011 she starred as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn" Michelle Williams |
#6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ACTRESSES PLAYING ACTRESSES $2000: In her own memoir, she politely called "Mommie Dearest" "a turning point" in her career Faye Dunaway |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $400: "A Streetcar Named Desire" netted Kim Hunter a supporting actress Oscar for playing this character Stella |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $1600: She won an Oscar for playing Hanna, the older woman who loves "The Reader" Kate Winslet |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $2000: She won an Oscar for playing Hana, the nurse to "The English Patient" Juliette Binoche |
#5443, aired 2008-04-16 | ACTRESSES ON TV $400: On "Fat Actress", she poked fun at herself, playing a version of herself struggling with her weight Kirstie Alley |
#3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: Ian McKellen was crowned with a Golden Globe Award in 1997 for playing this czar in the HBO film "Rasputin" Nicholas II |
#3588, aired 2000-03-22 | ACTRESSES $800: (Hi, I'm Melody Thomas Scott from "The Young and the Restless") In my film debut at age 8, I stole the show playing this Alfred Hitchcock thief as a young girl Marnie |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ACTRESSES ON TELEVISION $600 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jane Seymour.) I was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing this famous woman in the TV movie "The Woman He Loved" Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Warfield) |
#3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: She won her first Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress of 1979, for playing Joanna Kramer Meryl Streep |
#3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: He played a box of lemon chiffon pie mix in a TV commercial long before playing Sam on "Cheers" Ted Danson |
#3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jerry Orbach.) I had the time of my life playing Jennifer Grey's father in this 1987 film Dirty Dancing |
#2963, aired 1997-06-18 | INTERNATIONAL ACTRESSES $400: This daughter of a Dutch baroness won an Oscar for playing a princess in "Roman Holiday" Audrey Hepburn |
#2344, aired 1994-11-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: He first came to fame playing Charles Ryder on the TV series "Brideshead Revisited" Jeremy Irons |
#2271, aired 1994-06-20 | ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES $400: Before playing Daphne Moon on "Frasier", Jane Leeves was Miles Silverberg's girlfriend on this sitcom Murphy Brown |
#2249, aired 1994-05-19 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Warner Oland & Sidney Toler made their last film appearances playing this character Charlie Chan |
#2178, aired 1994-02-09 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: After playing Dian Fossey, she became honorary chairman of the Digit Fund, dedicated to saving gorillas Sigourney Weaver |
#1881, aired 1992-11-09 | ACTRESSES $100: Annette Bening's pregnancy kept her from playing this "feline" role in "Batman Returns" the Catwoman |
#1724, aired 1992-02-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: For playing the title role in 1941's "Sergeant York", this actor won his first Oscar Gary Cooper |
#1710, aired 1992-01-24 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Alex Rocco won a whole Emmy, not just 10% of one, for playing one of these on "The Famous Teddy Z" agent |
#1691, aired 1991-12-30 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He won an Oscar for playing Jamie Lee Curtis' boyfriend in "A Fish Called Wanda" Kevin Kline |
#1679, aired 1991-12-12 | ACTRESSES $600: You could say that playing Norma Jennings on "Twin Peaks" was this ex-"Mod Squad"der's cup of tea Peggy Lipton |
#1650, aired 1991-11-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: This actor received Oscar nominations for playing Henry II in both "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter" Peter O'Toole |
#1215, aired 1989-12-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: Dianne Wiest won an Oscar for playing one of the siblings in this Woody Allen film "Hannah And Her Sisters" |
#1106, aired 1989-05-29 | ACTRESSES & ROLES $800: This comedienne got an Oscar nomination for playing a choir singer in her 1st film, "Nashville" Lily Tomlin |
#1081, aired 1989-04-24 | ACTRESSES $600: 25 years after playing twins in "The Parent Trap", she did it again in "The Parent Trap II" Hayley Mills |
#1081, aired 1989-04-24 | ACTRESSES $800: In 1983 she was nominated for an Oscar for playing Barbra Streisand's bride in "Yentl" Amy Irving |
#951, aired 1988-10-24 | THEATER BOOKS $200: Lynn Redgrave, Sarah Miles & 24 other actresses discuss their interpretations of this role in "Playing Joan" Joan of Arc |
#938, aired 1988-10-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: He was a Chicago policeman for 18 years before playing one on "crime story" Dennis Farina |
#755, aired 1987-12-11 | ACTOR & ACTRESSES $600: Sean Connery was playing James Bond while James Coburn struck sparks as this "comic strip imitation" Our Man Flint |
#434, aired 1986-05-08 | ACTRESSES $200: In 1985, she played a French resistance courier, after playing a French lieutenant's woman in 1981 Meryl Streep |
#434, aired 1986-05-08 | ACTRESSES $400: Says as she descends into madness, "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup" Gloria Swanson |