Famous Actresses
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50 free Famous Actresses trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Guess the actress is one of the oldest games in movie trivia. Someone describes a role, an award or a headline, and the table races to put a name to the leading lady. The best clues make a familiar face surprising again: the star who never planned to act, the winner who nearly turned the part down, the screen legend with a second career nobody saw coming. This quiz covers leading ladies from the silent era to the age of the superhero franchise. You will meet golden-age Hollywood legends, the faces of the biggest blockbusters, British dames and international icons, with questions on signature roles, Oscar firsts, famous acting families and the lives these women led away from the camera. It is written for film fans, pub quiz hosts and anyone planning a movie-night round. Every question gives you a clue to reason from and four choices, and every answer comes with a short explanation, so you finish knowing a little more about the women who carried the movies.
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Q 01Which Nanny McPhee star is the only person to have won Oscars for both acting and screenwriting?
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson won Best Actress for Howards End, then the screenplay Oscar for adapting Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, in which she also starred.
Q 02Which actress played Tom Hanks's mother in Forrest Gump despite being only ten years older than him?
Sally Field
Sally Field had shared top billing with Hanks as a fellow stand-up comedian in Punchline just six years before she was cast as Mrs. Gump.
Q 03Which Oscar-winning star of Les Misérables shares her name with the wife of William Shakespeare?
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway won her supporting Oscar as the doomed Fantine, a part her own mother had played on stage in the musical's first US tour.
Q 04Which actress, rejected for the film of My Fair Lady, won that year's Best Actress Oscar as Mary Poppins?
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews had created Eliza Doolittle on Broadway, but studio boss Jack Warner wanted a bigger screen name. Mary Poppins was her first film.
Q 05Which Disney villain, a London heiress, have Glenn Close and Emma Stone both played in live action?
Cruella de Vil
Cruella de Vil was Glenn Close's role in 101 Dalmatians and its sequel. Emma Stone later played the character in an origin story set in 1970s punk-era London.
Q 06Which Star Wars actress, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds, also worked as a Hollywood script doctor?
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher, the saga's Princess Leia, quietly polished other writers' screenplays for Hook, Sister Act and The Wedding Singer.
Q 07Which star of Some Like It Hot was born Norma Jeane Mortenson and first married at the age of sixteen?
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe took her surname from her mother's maiden name, while a studio executive chose her first name because she reminded him of Broadway star Marilyn Miller.
Q 08Which Breakfast at Tiffany's star won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work with UNICEF?
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn knew hunger first-hand: as a teenager in the occupied Netherlands, her family ground tulip bulbs into flour during the famine of 1944–45.
Q 09Which former MGM child star was the mother of Liza Minnelli, the Oscar-winning lead of Cabaret?
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was sixteen when she filmed The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy, and her only Academy Award was the miniature juvenile statuette that followed.
Q 10Which actress, the most Oscar-nominated performer ever, won her third award as Margaret Thatcher?
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep prepared for The Iron Lady by sitting in on a session of the House of Commons, and gave her fee to the National Women's History Museum.
Q 11Which Pretty Woman star won her Best Actress Oscar for playing legal crusader Erin Brockovich?
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts became the first actress to be paid $20 million for a film when she took the part of the real-life campaigner against a California utility.
Q 12Which actress took the wheel of the bus in Speed and later played a stranded astronaut in Gravity?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock also pulled off a rare double: she won a worst-actress Razzie for All About Steve the night before her Oscar for The Blind Side.
Q 13Which English actress played Rose in Titanic and later won her Best Actress Oscar for The Reader?
Kate Winslet
Q 21Which member of a famous acting dynasty played little sister Gertie in E.T. as a child?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore, a grandniece of stage and screen legends Lionel and Ethel, later teamed up with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu as the investigators of Charlie's Angels.
Q 22Which Cleopatra star married her co-star Richard Burton, divorced him, then married him again?
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor made 11 films with Burton, and had been famous since she played a would-be Grand National jockey in National Velvet at twelve.
Q 23Which star of Hitchcock's Rear Window and To Catch a Thief retired at 26 to become Princess of Monaco?
Grace Kelly
Kate Winslet first turned The Reader down because its shoot clashed with Revolutionary Road, the drama that reunited her with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Q 14Which actress played both Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and Mystique in the X-Men films?
Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence sat through eight hours of latex and body paint for Mystique's blue form, and won a Best Actress Oscar at 22 for Silver Linings Playbook.
Q 15Which Harry Potter star became a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the HeForShe campaign?
Emma Watson
Emma Watson had acted only in school plays when she landed Hermione Granger, her first professional role.
Q 16Which Tomb Raider star, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted?
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie made her screen debut at seven in a bit part beside her father, and later became a special envoy for the UN refugee agency.
Q 17Which Australian actress went from the soap opera Neighbours to producing and starring in Barbie?
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie played Donna Freedman on the soap from 2008 to 2011, and earned a Best Picture nomination as a producer of the doll's blockbuster.
Q 18Which Black Widow actress voiced the computer love interest in Her without ever appearing on screen?
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson was a late replacement: Samantha Morton had performed the whole part on set before the voice was recast in post-production.
Q 19Which Sister Act star won an Oscar as the eccentric psychic Oda Mae Brown in Ghost?
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg, born Caryn Johnson, was only the second Black woman to win an acting Oscar, more than fifty years after the first.
Q 20In which road movie do Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis go on the run in a Ford Thunderbird?
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise earned Best Actress nominations for both its leads, and gave Brad Pitt an early supporting part as the hustler J.D.
Grace Kelly made three thrillers for the director, who became one of her mentors, before she married Prince Rainier III in 1956.
Q 24Which actress, a former Miss Ohio USA, became the first Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar?
Halle Berry
Halle Berry won for the drama Monster's Ball, and also played Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day and the weather-controlling Storm in the X-Men films.
Q 25Which British actress won both her Oscars as Southern belles, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois?
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling in British India, and had already played Blanche on the London stage before filming A Streetcar Named Desire.
Q 26Which Swedish actress, who acted in five languages, played Ilsa Lund in Casablanca?
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman later began an affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini that caused such a scandal in America she stayed in Europe for several years.
Q 27Which singer won Best Actress for Funny Girl in the only tie that Oscar category has ever seen?
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand stumbled on her bell-bottomed pantsuit on the way to the stage. With Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in a major studio film.
Q 28Which Godfather actress, born with the surname Hall, won an Oscar for a comedy named after her?
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton, nicknamed Annie, gave Annie Hall its title. Her stage surname was her mother's maiden name, taken because the actors' union already had a Diane Hall.
Q 29Which former child star of Taxi Driver studied at Yale and won two Best Actress Oscars by 29?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster started even younger, in a Coppertone sunscreen commercial at three, and won her Oscars for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs.
Q 30Playing which English queen earned Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett Oscar nominations at the same ceremony?
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I won Dench the supporting award for about eight minutes on screen in Shakespeare in Love, while Blanchett was up for the lead in a biopic of the young monarch.