so this is the big time gonna take this
and this and give you a princess welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies that made an actress a household
name
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at various movies that are
responsible for catapulting now notable
actresses into the mainstream
the actress may have appeared in other
films before but it’s these flicks that
are really their breakthrough we’ll be
basing our choices on a variety of
factors including the present-day Fame
upset actress the popularity of the
movie in question and the impact it had
on the actresses career number 10 Basic
Instinct Sharon Stone what are you a pro
now I’m an amateur it’s not easy to go
from relative unknown to international
sex symbol but Sharon Stone managed to
pull it off stone initially established
herself alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger
in Total Recall as the movie made 260
million dollars and was considered
another Schwarzenegger classic however
her career skyrocketed in 1992 with a
release of Basic Instinct in which he
played the ever seductive Catherine
Tramell the movie was a massive
financial success stones performance was
lauded and she received her first Golden
Globe nomination she also became a
world-renowned sex symbol mostly due to
the famous or perhaps infamous
interrogation scene it’s nice
number nine Girl Interrupted Angelina
Jolie I’m sick Daisy we know that in the
late 1990s Jolie and made quite a name
for herself on television she had won
two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for
her roles in the TV movies George
Wallace and Gia
but it was Girl Interrupted that served
as her breakthrough into film and the
mainstream while Winona Ryder had hoped
that the movie would revitalize her
career Jolie’s stole the show winning an
Academy Award a Golden Globe and a
Screen Actors Guild Award never leave
except when Valerie makes you go to the
cafeteria where you never eat well it
wasn’t a huge box-office smash it
introduced film lovers to the bombshell
that is Angelina Jolie number eight ET
the extra-terrestrial Drew Barrymore
drew Barrymore shot to stardom and
became one of the 80s most notable child
stars after she appeared in Spielberg’s
classic et when she was seven years old
she plays Gertie the youngest and snarky
is child of the family who takes a
liking to the alien
the movie was a runaway success and
Barrymore became one of Hollywood’s most
cherished actresses despite her young
age like many child actors her career
and personal life later suffered due to
substance abuse and behavioral problems
but she luckily recovered and is still
going strong to this day I doing all my
life to meet you and number 7 Star Wars
Episode 7 the force awakens Daisy Ridley
you’re afraid that you will never be
strong as Darth Vader
not too many actresses can say they went
from complete unknown to starring in a
two billion dollar movie but Daisy
Ridley sure can Ridley began her career
small appearing in supermarket
commercials and TV shows like youngers
and Silent Witness
however she won the life lottery five
times over when she was cast as Rey in
the force awakens a movie that went on
to gross 2 billion dollars worldwide
making it the third highest-grossing
movie of all time as of 2018 hey Daisy
we think it’s safe to say that you don’t
need to do commercials anymore I hope so
too
number 6 Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone Emma Watson o Nev
you saw well the first Harry Potter
undoubtedly made stars of all three of
its child actors Emma Watson is arguably
the biggest breakthrough Watson to start
in other blockbusters since Harry Potter
has ended
including the 1.2 billion dollar making
Beauty and the Beast meanwhile Daniel
Radcliffe has focused on smaller more
independent movies in the mid 2010 s and
Rupert Grint has focused on the small
screen and other side projects
Watson was immediately praised for her
role as the wickedly intelligent
Hermione and her popularity only
continued to grow luckily the curse of
the child actor never affected Watson
and she quickly became one of
Hollywood’s most cherished leading
ladies you’ve got dirt on your nose by
the way did you know
number five The Hunger Games Jennifer
Lawrence I volunteer as tribute there’s
nothing like starring in an extremely
popular young adult series to get your
career going
Lawrence initially came steamrolling
into Hollywood through her role in
Winter’s Bone a performance that earned
her her first Academy Award nomination
she then appeared as mystique in x-men
for his class but it was her role as
Katniss Everdeen that shot her into
international stardom she was suddenly
the lead in a major Hollywood
blockbuster and she became the most
successful action heroine at the time
with the movie grossing nearly seven
hundred million dollars in that point on
Lawrence was one of Hollywood’s most
sought-after and successful leading
actresses winning an Academy Award a
BAFTA and three Golden Globes thank you
very consideration number four the wolf
of Wall Street
Margot Robbie your father now I know and
you’re still active Robbie’s acting
career began rather modestly as she
appeared on the Australian soap opera
neighbours and the ABC production Pan Am
which was canceled after one season she
also appeared alongside Rachel McAdams
in about time but she finally broke
through in the wolf of wallstreet a
movie which took in nearly four hundred
million dollars at the box office and
immediately
Robbie was praised for her acting screen
presence and Brooklyn accent and she was
quickly regarded as one of Hollywood’s
sexiest and most talented bombshells
you’re gonna be seen and willful out of
this around the house number three
Titanic
Kate Winslet stay back
don’t come any closer there’s nothing
like starring in the highest-grossing
movie of all time at the time when
you’re only 22 to get your career
started
Winslet had a few notable roles before
her breakthrough she’s starting the
acclaimed Peter Jackson film Heavenly
Creatures Kenneth Branagh ambitious
Hamlet and the 1995 adaptation of Sense
and Sensibility
however it was her role as Rose DeWitt
Bukater in Titanic that finally
catapulted her into superstardom –
making it count the movie took in nearly
two billion dollars during its initial
run and Winslet earned herself an
Academy Award nomination
Titanic helped launch the careers of
both Winslet and DiCaprio with both
remaining two of the most acclaimed
performers in Hollywood today number two
pretty woman Julia Roberts smart huh
while Julia Roberts his career has waned
in the early 21st century
she was once one of the hottest and
highest-paid actresses around her career
blossomed throughout the 1990s and early
2000s as she appeared in a ton of
popular movies including Notting Hill
Erin Brokovich and Ocean’s eleven her
acting career began in the late 80s and
she earned her first Golden Globe for
her role in Steel Magnolias
however she became a bonafide movie star
after starring in Pretty Woman a movie
that has grossed four hundred and sixty
million dollars worldwide and earned
Roberts her second Golden Globe win and
an Oscar nomination it was all uphill
from there they really let you borrow
this from the jewelry store I’m a very
good customer before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
hey do you know what we’re gonna do
today what we are going to bake a
birthday cake you don’t have to have the
evidence under your sweater I’m a planet
you want me to go back to my parents
I mean they hate me number one alien
Sigourney Weaver we know it’s using the
air shafts we listen to me Parker
shut up Sigourney Weaver went from
obscurity to starring in one of the
all-time great movies and she is now
regarded as a horror and science fiction
icon Weaver originally began her career
on stage before being cast as Ellen
Ripley in Alien a role that went on to
change both movie history and Weaver’s
career the character of Ellen Ripley was
praised for challenging the role of
women in horror and sci-fi movies and
she is now regarded as one of cinema’s
greatest heroines not bad for your first
major movie role
this is ripley last survivor of the
Nostromo signing off do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
and this and give you a princess welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies that made an actress a household
name
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at various movies that are
responsible for catapulting now notable
actresses into the mainstream
the actress may have appeared in other
films before but it’s these flicks that
are really their breakthrough we’ll be
basing our choices on a variety of
factors including the present-day Fame
upset actress the popularity of the
movie in question and the impact it had
on the actresses career number 10 Basic
Instinct Sharon Stone what are you a pro
now I’m an amateur it’s not easy to go
from relative unknown to international
sex symbol but Sharon Stone managed to
pull it off stone initially established
herself alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger
in Total Recall as the movie made 260
million dollars and was considered
another Schwarzenegger classic however
her career skyrocketed in 1992 with a
release of Basic Instinct in which he
played the ever seductive Catherine
Tramell the movie was a massive
financial success stones performance was
lauded and she received her first Golden
Globe nomination she also became a
world-renowned sex symbol mostly due to
the famous or perhaps infamous
interrogation scene it’s nice
number nine Girl Interrupted Angelina
Jolie I’m sick Daisy we know that in the
late 1990s Jolie and made quite a name
for herself on television she had won
two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for
her roles in the TV movies George
Wallace and Gia
but it was Girl Interrupted that served
as her breakthrough into film and the
mainstream while Winona Ryder had hoped
that the movie would revitalize her
career Jolie’s stole the show winning an
Academy Award a Golden Globe and a
Screen Actors Guild Award never leave
except when Valerie makes you go to the
cafeteria where you never eat well it
wasn’t a huge box-office smash it
introduced film lovers to the bombshell
that is Angelina Jolie number eight ET
the extra-terrestrial Drew Barrymore
drew Barrymore shot to stardom and
became one of the 80s most notable child
stars after she appeared in Spielberg’s
classic et when she was seven years old
she plays Gertie the youngest and snarky
is child of the family who takes a
liking to the alien
the movie was a runaway success and
Barrymore became one of Hollywood’s most
cherished actresses despite her young
age like many child actors her career
and personal life later suffered due to
substance abuse and behavioral problems
but she luckily recovered and is still
going strong to this day I doing all my
life to meet you and number 7 Star Wars
Episode 7 the force awakens Daisy Ridley
you’re afraid that you will never be
strong as Darth Vader
not too many actresses can say they went
from complete unknown to starring in a
two billion dollar movie but Daisy
Ridley sure can Ridley began her career
small appearing in supermarket
commercials and TV shows like youngers
and Silent Witness
however she won the life lottery five
times over when she was cast as Rey in
the force awakens a movie that went on
to gross 2 billion dollars worldwide
making it the third highest-grossing
movie of all time as of 2018 hey Daisy
we think it’s safe to say that you don’t
need to do commercials anymore I hope so
too
number 6 Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone Emma Watson o Nev
you saw well the first Harry Potter
undoubtedly made stars of all three of
its child actors Emma Watson is arguably
the biggest breakthrough Watson to start
in other blockbusters since Harry Potter
has ended
including the 1.2 billion dollar making
Beauty and the Beast meanwhile Daniel
Radcliffe has focused on smaller more
independent movies in the mid 2010 s and
Rupert Grint has focused on the small
screen and other side projects
Watson was immediately praised for her
role as the wickedly intelligent
Hermione and her popularity only
continued to grow luckily the curse of
the child actor never affected Watson
and she quickly became one of
Hollywood’s most cherished leading
ladies you’ve got dirt on your nose by
the way did you know
number five The Hunger Games Jennifer
Lawrence I volunteer as tribute there’s
nothing like starring in an extremely
popular young adult series to get your
career going
Lawrence initially came steamrolling
into Hollywood through her role in
Winter’s Bone a performance that earned
her her first Academy Award nomination
she then appeared as mystique in x-men
for his class but it was her role as
Katniss Everdeen that shot her into
international stardom she was suddenly
the lead in a major Hollywood
blockbuster and she became the most
successful action heroine at the time
with the movie grossing nearly seven
hundred million dollars in that point on
Lawrence was one of Hollywood’s most
sought-after and successful leading
actresses winning an Academy Award a
BAFTA and three Golden Globes thank you
very consideration number four the wolf
of Wall Street
Margot Robbie your father now I know and
you’re still active Robbie’s acting
career began rather modestly as she
appeared on the Australian soap opera
neighbours and the ABC production Pan Am
which was canceled after one season she
also appeared alongside Rachel McAdams
in about time but she finally broke
through in the wolf of wallstreet a
movie which took in nearly four hundred
million dollars at the box office and
immediately
Robbie was praised for her acting screen
presence and Brooklyn accent and she was
quickly regarded as one of Hollywood’s
sexiest and most talented bombshells
you’re gonna be seen and willful out of
this around the house number three
Titanic
Kate Winslet stay back
don’t come any closer there’s nothing
like starring in the highest-grossing
movie of all time at the time when
you’re only 22 to get your career
started
Winslet had a few notable roles before
her breakthrough she’s starting the
acclaimed Peter Jackson film Heavenly
Creatures Kenneth Branagh ambitious
Hamlet and the 1995 adaptation of Sense
and Sensibility
however it was her role as Rose DeWitt
Bukater in Titanic that finally
catapulted her into superstardom –
making it count the movie took in nearly
two billion dollars during its initial
run and Winslet earned herself an
Academy Award nomination
Titanic helped launch the careers of
both Winslet and DiCaprio with both
remaining two of the most acclaimed
performers in Hollywood today number two
pretty woman Julia Roberts smart huh
while Julia Roberts his career has waned
in the early 21st century
she was once one of the hottest and
highest-paid actresses around her career
blossomed throughout the 1990s and early
2000s as she appeared in a ton of
popular movies including Notting Hill
Erin Brokovich and Ocean’s eleven her
acting career began in the late 80s and
she earned her first Golden Globe for
her role in Steel Magnolias
however she became a bonafide movie star
after starring in Pretty Woman a movie
that has grossed four hundred and sixty
million dollars worldwide and earned
Roberts her second Golden Globe win and
an Oscar nomination it was all uphill
from there they really let you borrow
this from the jewelry store I’m a very
good customer before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
hey do you know what we’re gonna do
today what we are going to bake a
birthday cake you don’t have to have the
evidence under your sweater I’m a planet
you want me to go back to my parents
I mean they hate me number one alien
Sigourney Weaver we know it’s using the
air shafts we listen to me Parker
shut up Sigourney Weaver went from
obscurity to starring in one of the
all-time great movies and she is now
regarded as a horror and science fiction
icon Weaver originally began her career
on stage before being cast as Ellen
Ripley in Alien a role that went on to
change both movie history and Weaver’s
career the character of Ellen Ripley was
praised for challenging the role of
women in horror and sci-fi movies and
she is now regarded as one of cinema’s
greatest heroines not bad for your first
major movie role
this is ripley last survivor of the
Nostromo signing off do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
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