Famous Actresses born in 1956
1956 gave us some excellent actresses and this year added a new spark to the film industry. We have listed the top 5 actresses that were born in 1956 below.
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Phyllis Logan
Date of Birth: 11th January, 1956
Age: 65
Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986-1993) and Mrs Hughes (later Carson) in Downton Abbey (2010-2015). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film Another Time, Another Place. She appeared in various other movies such as Secrets & Lies (1996), Shooting Fish (1997), Downton Abbey (2019) and Misbehaviour (2020).
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Geena Davis
Date of Birth: 21st January, 1956
Age: 65
Virginia Elizabeth Davis is an American actor, activist, producer, and former model. She is the recipient of an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her famous roles include her parts in Thelma & Louise (1991), Grey's Anatomy (2014-2015, 2018), The Exorcist (2017) amongst many others.
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Mimi Rogers
Date of Birth: 27th January, 1956
Age: 65
Miriam Rogers is an American actress and producer. Her major film roles include Gung Ho (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), and Desperate Hours (1990). She gained the biggest recognition for her role in the religious drama The Rapture (1991), with one of the critic declaring that she "gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema."
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Dana Delany
Date of Birth: 13th March, 1956
Age: 65
Dana Welles Delany is an American actress. She started her career by taking up some small, supporting roles. Delany received her breakthrough role as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television drama China Beach (1988-1991), she twice received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1989 and 1992 for the same role.
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Kim Cattrall
Date of Birth: 21st December, 1956
Age: 65
Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English-born Canadian-American actress majorly known for her role as Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998-2004), she received five Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations for the same role, winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised her role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).
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