Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li, two of China's best-known actresses, are also the pride of the nation.
Ida Ehre, one of West Germany's best-known actresses, died of a heart attack today.
THE first six films by the Chinese director Zhang Yimou had a strong structuring device in the stunning form of Gong Li, China's best-known actress.
One of the best-known actresses of the early silent era, she made 40 films, but only three and a half are now known to exist.
Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen she was one of the most popular and best-known actresses in German silent films of the 1910s.
By the mid-1980s she had become one of the best-known actresses of her era.
Bullock is Leigh Anne to such a degree you forget you're watching one of the best-known actresses around.
She was the best-known actress who played tragedies of the 18th century.
In My Week with Marilyn, though, it is clear he was entranced by the world's best-known actress.
She went on to become one of Hollywood's best-known Asian-American actresses.
