Top 10 Greatest Living English Actresses

10. Lena Headey

Lena Headey is an English actress, voice actress and film producer. After being scouted at age 17, Headey worked steadily as an actress in small and supporting roles in films throughout the 1990s
9. Emilia Clarke

Emilia Isabelle Euphemia Rose Clarke is an English actress. Born in London and brought up in Berkshire, Clarke first gained an interest in acting as a child after seeing the musical Show Boat, on which her father was working as a sound engineer.
8. Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting
7. Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter, CBE is an English actress. She is known for her roles in low-budget arthouse and independent films to large-scale Hollywood productions.
6. Kate Beckinsale

Kathrin Romary Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at the University of Oxford.
5. Keira Knightley

Keira Christina Knightley is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her film debut in 1995.
4. Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a British actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
3. Emily Blunt

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British-American film and stage actress. Blunt made her professional debut in a 2001 London production of the play The Royal Family.
2. Rachel Weisz

Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress. Weisz began her acting career in the early 1990s, appearing in Inspector Morse, Scarlet and Black and Advocates II. She made her film debut in Death Machine.
1. Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE, is an English actress. She is the recipient of an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a BIFA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, an AACTA Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.