50 Most Beautiful Redhead Actresses You’ll Fall For (2023 Updated)

According to many sources, the percentage that a person is born with a natural redhead is less than 2%. Besides that, red-haired people usually have light-colored eyes and porcelain-white skin, which are extremely sensitive to ultraviolet rays. In the past, red hair has been ridiculed, feared, and even honored.
In literature, art, and cinema, artists and the public have expressed their admiration for this particular hair color. Let’s go through the list of beautiful redhead actresses who had several indelible performances through the screen and left a mark on the audience’s hearts.

1. Emma Stone

Name	Emily Jean Stone
Date of birth	November 6, 1988
Place of birth	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Emily Jean Stone was born with red copper hair on November 6, 1988 to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeffrey Charles Stone, the CEO and founder of a general-contracting company. She used to live on the grounds of the Camelback Inn resort from ages 12 to 15. She has a younger brother, Spencer.

Emma’s paternal grandfather, Conrad Ostberg Sten, was from a Swedish family that changed their surname to “Stone” when they immigrated to the U.S. through Ellis Island. She also has English, Scottish, German, and Irish ancestry. 

2. Amy Adams

Name	Amy Lou Adams
Date of birth	August 20, 1974
Place of birth	Vicenza, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Amy Lou Adams was born with a ginger redhead in Vicenza, Italy, to Kathryn and Richard Adams, American parents, when her father was located with the U.S. Army at the Caserma Ederle military complex. She has two sisters and four brothers. After relocating from one army base to another, Amy settled with her family when she was 8 years old in Castle Rock, Colorado. After leaving the army, her father sang professionally in restaurants and nightclubs.

3. Christina Hendricks

Name	Christina Rene Hendricks
Date of birth	May 3, 1975
Place of birth	Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model

Christina Rene Hendricks was born with bright copper hair on May 3, 1975, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the second child of English father Robert Hendricks, a Forest Service employee initially from Birmingham, and American mother Jackie Sue Hendricks (née Raymond), a psychologist. Through her father, she has dual American and British citizenship. She also has an older brother.

4. Jessica Chastain

Name	Jessica Michelle Chastain
Date of birth	March 24, 1977
Place of birth	Sacramento, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, producer

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born with medium auburn head, on March 24, 1977, to Michael Monasterio, a rock musician and Jerri Renee Hastey (née Chastain). When she was born, her parents were both teenagers. Chastain is unwilling to publicly discuss her family background; she was estranged from Monasterio, who died in 2013, and has noted that no father is listed on her birth certificate. Chastain has two brothers and two sisters. Her younger sister, Juliet, committed suicide in 2003 following years of drug addiction.

5. Isla Fisher

Name	Isla Lang Fisher
Date of birth	February 3, 1976
Place of birth	Muscat, Oman
Occupation	Actress, author

Isla Lang Fisher was born with medium auburn hair, on February 3, 1976, in Muscat, Oman to Brian Fisher and Elspeth Reid, both of whom from Scotland. Her father used to work as a banker in Oman for the United Nations. Fisher and her family came back to their hometown of Bathgate, Scotland, then relocated to Perth, Western Australia, when she was six.

She has 4 brothers, and said that she had a “great” childhood in Perth with a “very outdoorsy life”. Fisher has said that her “sensibility is Australian ”, she has a “laid-back attitude to life”, and that she feels “very Australian”.

6. Bella Thorne

Name	Annabella Avery Thorne
Date of birth	October 8, 1997
Place of birth	Pembroke Pines, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, writer

Annabella Avery Thorne was born with red copper hair on October 8, 1997, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Her first film participation was an uncredited role as a sidelines fan in the film Stuck on You in 2003. She has since participated in film and TV projects including Entourage and The O.C. as a younger version of Taylor Townsend. In 2007, Throne joined the recurring cast of Dirty Sexy Money’s second season as Margaux Darling. This is also her first major television role.

7. Kate Mara

Name	Kate Rooney Mara
Date of birth	February 27, 1983
Place of birth	Bedford, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Kate Rooney Mara was born with medium auburn hair on February 27, 1983, in Bedford, New York to Kathleen McNulty Mara (née Rooney), and Timothy Christopher Mara, a vice president of the New York Giants for player evaluation and NFL scout. She is the second of 4 siblings, with one younger sister, actress Patricia “Rooney”; one older brother, Daniel; and one younger brother, Conor. Her ancestry is Irish, a quarter Italian, and smaller amounts of English, German, and French-Canadian.

8. Alyson Hannigan

Name	Alyson Lee Hannigan
Date of birth	March 24, 1974
Place of birth	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Alyson Lee Hannigan was born with golden copper hair on March 24, 1974, in Washington, D.C. Her first major movie position was in My Stepmother Is an Alien, a sci-fi comedy in 1988; one of her co-stars in the movie was actor Seth Green, who later participated with her in the cast of Buffy as her on-screen boyfriend. Her first regular participation in a television series came in 1898 when she was cast in the short-lived ABC sitcom Free Spirit. As a teenager, she babysat for the children of Bob Saget, her future How I Met Your Mother costar.

9. Drew Barrymore

Name	Drew Blythe Barrymore
Date of birth	February 22, 1975
Place of birth	Culver City, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, producer, talk show host and author

Drew Blythe Barrymore was born with red hair in Culver City, California, on February 22, 1975. She was raised on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood, until she relocated to Sherman Oaks at age 7. In her 2015 biography, Wildflower, she says she talks “like a valley girl” because she was raised in Sherman Oaks. She came back to West Hollywood upon becoming emancipated at age 14.

10. Karen Gillan

Name	Karen Sheila Gillan
Date of birth	November 28, 1987
Place of birth	Inverness, Scotland
Occupation	Actress

Karen Sheila Gillan was born with medium auburn hair on November 28, 1987, in Inverness, Scotland. In February 2014, she was cast as the main role in Selfie, an ABC American single-camera sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television which was greenlit for the 2014–15 US TV season. Gillan starred as a socialite named Eliza Dooley, a modern-day take on Eliza Doolittle, who is addicted to social media. This was Gillan’s first time in the main role of an American TV series. 

11. Sophie Turner

Name	Sophie Belinda Jonas[
Date of birth	February 21, 1996
Place of birth	Northampton, England, UK
Occupation	Actress

Sophie Belinda Jonas was born with golden copper hair on February 21, 1996, in Northampton, England, UK. In August 2009, she was cast as Sansa Stark, a young noblewoman, in the fantasy drama series Game of Thrones on HBO. Filming started in July 2010, when Turner was fourteen years old. Sansa was also her first TV role. Her drama teacher advised her to audition for the part, and she then dyed her blonde hair copper for the role, although in Season 7 she started wearing wigs.

12. Holland Roden

Name	Holland Marie Roden
Date of birth	October 7, 1986
Place of birth	Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Holland Marie Roden was born with medium auburn hair on February 21, 1996, in Dallas, Texas. On September 12, 2018, she was cast in horror movie No Escape, which was produced, directed, and written by Will Wernick; the movie was released on September 18, 2020. In March 2019, Roden was cast as Sienna in Jane the Novela, a spin-off of Jane the Virgin. The spin-off was not picked up by the network.

13. Elena Satine

Name	Elena Satine
Date of birth	November 24, 1987
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Actress

Elena Satine was born with golden copper hair on November 24, 1987. Her father worked in the textile industry and her mother was an opera singer. At the age of 5, she and her family relocated to Sochi, and she became a member of the Georgian pop group Nergebi, a Mickey Mouse Club-like ensemble of young performers. She toured with Nergebi all over Eastern Europe, including an participation in children’s variety show Utrennyaya Zvezda (Morning Star) and later branched off into a solo career.

14. Heather Graham

Name	Heather Graham
Date of birth	January 29, 1970
Place of birth	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, writer, director

Heather Graham was born with medium auburn hair on January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1989, she was featured in Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy as Nadine, a young, drug-obsessed accomplice of the 2 lead characters (played by Kelly Lynch and Matt Dillon).

Her performance got her career a nice boost and earned her a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress. She rejected a long-term role in a soap opera and a three-picture deal with a big studio because she felt it would be too restrictive.

15. Nicole Kidman

Name	Nicole Mary Kidman
Date of birth	June 20, 1967
Place of birth	Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, producer

Nicole Mary Kidman was born with medium auburn hair on June 20, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father, Antony Kidman, was a clinical psychologist, biochemist, and author; her mother is a nursing instructor who edited her husband’s books and was a part of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Having been born in the American state of Hawaii to Australian parents, she holds dual citizenship of the United States and Australia.

16. Bryce Dallas Howard

Name	Bryce Dallas Howard
Date of birth	March 2, 1981
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director

Bryce Dallas Howard was born with dark auburn hair on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California, to Cheryl Howard, a writer, and Ron Howard, an actor and director. She has 2 younger sisters; twins Paige and Jocelyn, and a younger brother named Reed. Through her father, Bryce is a granddaughter of actors Jean Speegle Howard and Rance Howard, as well as a niece of actor Clint Howard.

17. Alexandra Breckenridge

Name	Alexandra Hetherington Breckenridge
Date of birth	May 15, 1982
Place of birth	Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Alexandra Hetherington Breckenridge was born with golden copper hair on May 15, 1982, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She has had numerous voice roles in the animated TV series Family Guy. During an interview with FHM, she said: “When I first went for Family Guy, I auditioned for a guest voice. I don’t know why, but Seth MacFarlane really likes the sound of my voice. I’ll never understand that. He just likes me and they call me back all the time to do different things.”

18. Alicia Witt 

Name	Alicia Roanne Witt
Date of birth	August 21, 1975
Place of birth	Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, pianist

Alicia Roanne Witt was born with medium auburn hair on August 21, 1975, to Robert Witt, a photographer  and science teacher, and Diane (née Pietro), a high school reading teacher. Her mother was a Guinness World Record holder for the longest hair, from 1989 to 1996. She has a brother, Ian.

Talking by age 2 and reading by the age of 4, Witt has been described as a child prodigy. Her acting talent was discovered by director David Lynch in 1980, when he saw her recite Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on the TV show That’s Incredible! when she was 5 years old. 

19. Julianne Moore 

Name	Julie Anne Smith
Date of birth	December 3, 1960
Place of birth	Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Julie Anne Smith was born with medium auburn hair on December 3, 1960, to Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, attained the rank of colonel and became a military judge, and Anne (née Love 1940–2009), was a Scottish social worker and psychologist from Greenock, Renfrewshire, who had immigrated with her family to America in 1951. Moore has a younger brother, Peter Moore Smith, a novelist and a younger sister, Valerie Smith.

20. Bridget Regan 

Name	Bridget Catherine Regan
Date of birth	February 3, 1982
Place of birth	Carlsbad, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Bridget Catherine Regan was born with dark auburn hair in Carlsbad, California, on February 3, 1982. She was raised in an American Irish family and grew up Catholic. Regan was attracted to acting from a young age, and started acting as a child in North County productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and The Wizard of Oz at the La Paloma Theatre.

She studied in University of North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated with a BFA in drama in 2004. After college, she relocated to New York City to follow a professional acting career.

21. Madelaine Petsch 

Name	Madelaine Grobbelaar Petsch
Date of birth	August 18, 1994
Place of birth	Port Orchard, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, Youtuber

Madelaine Grobbelaar Petsch was born with golden copper hair on August 18, 1994. In 2014, she participated in a national advertising campaign for Coca-Cola. In February 2016, she was chosen to star as Cheryl Blossom in The CW’s Riverdale, having been pinned for the role since late 2015 after talking to the casting director, who was currently working on Legends of Tomorrow. The series started filming in September 2016 and premiered on January 26, 2017. In March 2017, she participated in the movie Polaroid, which was released in 2019.

22. Judy Greer 

Name	Judith Therese Evans
Date of birth	July 20, 1975
Place of birth	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Judith Therese Evans was born with ginger red hair  in Detroit, Michigan, on July 20, 1975, to Rich Evans, a mechanical engineer, and Mollie Ann (née Greer), a hospital administrator. Her mother was once a nun, who had left the convent after 8 years, being “kicked out” for reckless behavior, including owning a red bathing suit. Greer grew up Roman Catholic and was raised in Redford Township and Livonia.

23. Lindsay Lohan 

Name	Lindsay Dee Lohan
Date of birth	July 2, 1986
Place of birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer

Lindsay Dee Lohan was born with red copper hair in the Bronx borough of New York City, on July 2, 1986. She started her modeling career as a child model with Ford Models at age three. Lohan modeled for Abercrombie and Calvin Klein Kids, and appeared in over 60 TV commercials for brands like Wendy’s and Pizza Hut, as well as a Jell-O shot with Bill Cosby. By age 10, when she played Alexandra “Alli” Fowler in the V soap opera Another World, Soap Opera Magazine shared that she was already regarded as a show-business veteran.

24. Ellie Bamber 

Name	Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber
Date of birth	February 2, 1997
Place of birth	Surrey, England
Occupation	Actress

Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber was born with light auburn hair in Surrey, England, on February 2, 1997. At age twelve, she became the youngest member of the Players’ Theatre Club. At age thirteen, she was chosen by Sir Trevor Nunn to star as ‘Young Jenny’ in his production of Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory. After roles in television and movie, Bamber returned to musical theater when she was chosen for a lead role as ‘Dinah Lord’, a disruptive teenager in High Society at The Old Vic, London.

25. Amy Yasbeck 

Name	Amy Marie Yasbeck
Date of birth	September 12, 1962
Place of birth	Blue Ash, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Amy Marie Yasbeck was born with ginger red hair in Blue Ash, Ohio. Early into her acting career, she participated in Rockhopper, an unsold CBS TV pilot from 1985. She has had guest-starring roles in many TV shows, including Dallas, Magnum, Spies, P.I., China Beach, Murphy Brown, and Werewolf, J.J. Starbuck. Yasbeck auditioned for the role of Elaine Benes on Seinfeld. She played Olivia Reed for 4 months from 1986 to 1987 on the long-running daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives.

26. Julia Roberts

Name	Julia Fiona Roberts
Date of birth	October 28, 1967
Place of birth	Smyrna, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Julia Fiona Roberts was born with medium auburn hair on October 28, 1967, to Walter Grady Roberts and Betty Lou Bredemus. She is of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Irish, and Swedish descent. Her mother was a Catholic, her father a Baptist, and she was raised Catholic. Her older brother Eric Roberts, older sister Lisa Roberts Gillan, and niece Emma Roberts, are also actors.

27. Lauren Ambrose

Name	Lauren Ambrose
Date of birth	February 20, 1978
Place of birth	New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer

Lauren Ambrose was born with light auburn hair on February 20, 1978. Rising from her 1989 Academy Award nomination, she gained further attention from worldwide audiences when she acted with Richard Gere in the Cinderella–Pygmalionesque story, Pretty Woman, in 1990, starring as an assertive freelance hooker with a heart of gold. Roberts won the role after Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Daryl Hannah, and Karen Allen (her co-star in Steel Magnolias) turned it down.

28. Renee Olstead

Name	Rebecca Renee Olstead
Date of birth	June 18, 1989
Place of birth	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer

Rebecca Renee Olstead was born with red copper hair on June 18, 1989. As a child actress, she made commercials and movies, starting from age 8. Between 2002 and 2006, she participated in the TV sitcom Still Standing as middle child Lauren Miller. In 2002, Olstead was presented with the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a television Series (Comedy) – Supporting Young Actress for Still Standing. She also had a small role in the film 13 Going on 30 in 2004.

29. Madeline Brewer

Name	Madeline Kathryn Brewer
Date of birth	May 1, 1992
Place of birth	Pitman, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Madeline Kathryn Brewer was born and grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, to musician and actor Laurie and Mark Brewer. In 2009, she participated in her high school musical The Wiz, starring as Dorothy. She was crowned Miss Pitman the year after. Brewer graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. In 2018, she played the lead role in the Netflix psychological horror film Cam, starring as Alice/Lola in. Currently, she is starring as Sally Bowles in the London West End production of Cabaret.

30. Isabelle Huppert

Name	Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
Date of birth	March 16, 1953
Place of birth	Paris, France
Occupation	Actress

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert was born with dark copper hair in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, to Raymond Huppert (1914–2003), a safe manufacturer, and Annick (née Beau; 1914–1990), an English language teacher. The youngest child, she has three sisters, including filmmaker Caroline Huppert and a brother. She grew up in Ville-d’Avray. Her father was Jewish; his family was from Eperjes, Austria-Hungary and Alsace-Lorraine.

31. Cynthia Nixon

Name	Cynthia Ellen Nixon
Date of birth	April 9, 1966
Place of birth	Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, activist

Cynthia Ellen Nixon was born with red copper hair in Manhattan, to Anne Elizabeth (née Knoll), an actress originally from Chicago, and Walter Elmer Nixon Jr., a radio journalist from Texas. She credits her mother with “indoctrinating” her into theater. She is of German and English descent. Her grandparents were  Adolph Knoll, Etta Elizabeth Williams, Walter E. Nixon, and Grace Truman McCormack. Her parents divorced when she was 6 years old.

32. Debra Messing

Name	Debra Lynn Messing
Date of birth	August 15, 1968
Place of birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Debra Lynn Messing was born with red copper hair in Brooklyn, New York, to Brian Messing, a sales executive for a costume jewelry packaging manufacturer, and Sandra (née Simons), who worked as a banker, professional singer, and real estate and travel agent. Messing is Jewish and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony; her Jewish ancestors emigrated from Russia and Poland.

33. Catherine Tate

Name	Catherine Jane Ford
Date of birth	December 5, 1969
Place of birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress, Comedian, Writer

Catherine Jane Ford was born with medium auburn hair on August 15, 1968, to Josephine, a florist. She has said that Margaret’s characteristic in The Catherine Tate Show, who shrieks at the smallest of disturbances, is based mostly on her mother. Tate never met her father as he left very early on in her life and, therefore, she was raised in a female-dominated environment, growing up with her mother, grandmother, and godparents.

34. Rose Leslie

Name	Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie
Date of birth	February 9, 1987
Place of birth	Aberdeen, Scotland
Occupation	Actress

Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie was born with red hair in Aberdeen, Scotland,and grew up at Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family’s fifteenth-century ancestral seat, where she stayed until the age of ten. Her father, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, is the Chieftain of the Aberdeenshire branch of the Scottish Clan Leslie, while her mother is Candida Mary Sibyl “Candy” Leslie (née Weld) of Clan Fraser of Lovat. Her mother’s maternal great-grandfather was Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and a descendant of King Charles II.

35. Erin Chambers

Name	Erin Chambers
Date of birth	September 24, 1979
Place of birth	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Erin Chambers was born with medium auburn hair in Portland, Oregon. In film, she played the lead female role in The Singles 2nd Ward. She participated in the Disney Channel original movie Don’t Look Under the Bed. She also starred in the 2007 movie Heber Holiday along with Torrey DeVitto. Chambers starred as Priscilla Presley in the film Tears of a King alongside Matt Lewis as Elvis Presley in 2007, which depicts Elvis’s last years.

36. Molly Ringwald

Name	Molly Kathleen Ringwald
Date of birth	February 18, 1968
Place of birth	Roseville, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, dancer, singer, writer

Molly Kathleen Ringwald was born with medium auburn hair on February 18, 1968, to Robert Scott “Bob” Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist of German descent, and Adele Edith (née Frembd), a chef. She has two siblings, Kelly and Beth, and an older brother, who passed away before she was born. Ringwald is partly of Swedish descent. She began her acting career at the age of 5, participating in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the Dormouse.

37. Rachelle Lefevre

Name	Rachelle Marie Lefèvre
Date of birth	February 1, 1979
Place of birth	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Actress

Rachelle Marie Lefèvre was born with light auburn hair in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. While working as a waitress at a sushi bar in Westmount, a frequent customer, a Canadian TV producer, overheard Lefevre asking the hostess if she wanted to be an actress. The producer got Lefevre her first participation, for a role in the sitcom Student Bodies. She didn’t yet have a head shot, so she submitted a Polaroid picture.

38. Katie Leclerc

Name	Katie Lynn Leclerc
Date of birth	November 6, 1986
Place of birth	San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Katie Lynn Leclerc was born with medium auburn hair on November 6, 1986. She is the youngest of 3 siblings. She began learning American Sign Language at the age 17, before she figured out she had Ménière’s disease, which causes hearing loss. Her older sister also teaches ASL. Both her father and older sister have Ménière’s disease as well. On September 6, 2014, Leclerc married longtime boyfriend Brian Habecost, a real estate salesman.

39. Tilda Swinton

Name	Katherine Matilda Swinton
Date of birth	November 5, 1960
Place of birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress

Katherine Matilda Swinton was born with dark copper hair on November 5, 1960, in London, England, to Sir John Swinton (1925–2018) and Judith Balfour (née Killen; 1929–2012). She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, appearing in Measure for Measure. She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, participating in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987. On TV, she starred as Julia in the mini-series Zastrozzi: A Romance, which was based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1986.

40.  Jayma Mays

Name	Jamia Suzette Mays
Date of birth	July 16, 1979
Place of birth	Bristol, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Jamia Suzette Mays was born with light auburn hair on July 16, 1979, to James Edwin Mays, a high school teacher who used to work in the coal mining industry, and Susan Paulette (née Norris). At the age of 15, she was offered to work on the local radio station reading the obituaries. She earned an associate degree from Southwest Virginia Community College after graduating from Grundy High School.

41. Gillian Anderson

Name	Gillian Leigh Anderson
Date of birth	August 9, 1968
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, writer, activist

Gillian Leigh Anderson was born with dark auburn hair on August 9, 1968, to Homer Edward “Ed” Anderson III, owner of a film post-production company, and Rosemary “Posie” Alyce (née Lane), a computer analyst, and vice president of Neurofibromatosis Inc., which is a neurofibromatosis support group of West Michigan. She is of English, Irish, and German ancestry. Soon after her birth, her parents relocated to Puerto Rico for 15 months before moving to London.

42. Bonnie Wright

Name	Bonnie Francesca Wright
Date of birth	February 17, 1991
Place of birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress, director, screenwriter, model, activist, author

Bonnie Francesca Wright was born with medium auburn hair on 17 February 1991 in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, to Sheila Teague and Gary Wright, owners of the jewelry company Wright & Teague. Wright studied in Prior Weston Primary School and later the King Alfred School in North London for her secondary schooling. While on set, she kept up with her studies with the help of a tutor, and attained three A-levels in photography, design technology, and art.

43. Molly C. Quinn

Name	Molly Caitlyn Quinn
Date of birth	October 8, 1993
Place of birth	Texarkana, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Molly Caitlyn Quinn was born with light auburn hair in Texarkana, Texas. She started taking weekly acting lessons from producer and director Martin Beck after participating in a community production of The Nutcracker at the age of 6. In the 6th grade, she auditioned at the Young Actors Studio, and after 6 months of “intensive training”, signed with the Osbrink agency and Management 360.

44. Marcia Cross

Name	Marcia Anne Cross
Date of birth	March 25, 1962
Place of birth	Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Marcia Anne Cross was born with medium auburn hair on March 25, 1962, and is of Irish and English descent. She is one of three daughters of Mark J Cross (1923–2021), a personnel manager, and Janet, a teacher. Cross grew up Catholic. In 1980, she graduated from Marlborough High School and received a half-scholarship to Juilliard. In 1984, she completed college and earned a B.F.A. in Acting.

45. Deborah Ann Woll

Name	Deborah Ann Woll
Date of birth	February 7, 1985
Place of birth	New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Actress, model

Deborah Ann Woll was born with light auburn hair in New York City. Her mother, Cathy Woll, is a teacher at the Berkeley Carroll School, and her father is an architect. She is of German and Irish descent She studied in the Packer Collegiate Institute, and received a BFA from USC School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Woll also trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London.

46. Ellie Kemper

Name	Elizabeth Claire Kemper
Date of birth	May 2, 1980
Place of birth	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedian

Elizabeth Claire Kemper was born with light auburn hair in Kansas City, Missouri. Her family relocated to St. Louis when she was 5. She studied in Conway Elementary School in the affluent suburb of Ladue and attended John Burroughs School for high school education. In high school, Kemper developed an interest in improvisational comedy and theater. One of her teachers was actor Jon Hamm, along whom she performed in a school play.

47. Kate Walsh

Name	Kathleen Erin Walsh
Date of birth	October 13, 1967
Place of birth	San Jose, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, businesswoman

Kathleen Erin Walsh was born with dark auburn hair on October 13, 1967, to Joseph Patrick Walsh Sr and Angela. She was raised in a Catholic household in Tucson, Arizona. Her mother is of Italian descent, and her father was Irish, from Navan in County Meath.

She graduated from Catalina Magnet High School and attended the University of Arizona, studying acting before dropping out.

48. Laura Prepon

Name	Laura Helene Prepon
Date of birth	March 7, 1980
Place of birth	Watchung, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Laura Helene Prepon was born with medium auburn hair in Watchung, New Jersey, to Michael Prepon, an orthopedic surgeon, and Marjorie (née Coll), a gourmet home chef and high school teacher. Her father passed away during heart surgery in 1993 at age 49; she was 13 at the time. Prepon studied in Watchung Hills Regional High School until the age 15, then attended the Total Theatre Lab in New York City.

49. Zoey Deutch

Name	Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch
Date of birth	November 10, 1994
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch was born with medium hair on November 10, 1994. In 2010, she started her career, at age 15, with a role on the Disney Channel original series The Suite Life on Deck, starring as Maya, Zack Martin’s love interest. Between 2011 and 2012, she played the recurring role of Juliet Martin in Ringer, The CW thriller drama. Deutch first appeared on the big screen in Mayor Cupcake alongside her mother and sister in 2011.

50. Lily Cole

Name	Lily Luahana Cole
Date of birth	December 27, 1987
Place of birth	Torquay, Devon, England
Occupation	Actress, model, entrepreneur

Lily Luahana Cole was born with ginger red hair on December 27, 1987, in Torquay, Devon, England, to Chris Cole, a boat builder and fisherman , and Patience Owen, a writer and artist. She is not in contact with her father, who left home when she was a baby; she and her sister grew up with their Welsh mother in London. Cole studied in Hallfield Primary School, the Sylvia Young Theatre School, and St Marylebone School.