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Let me ask you a question: are you done trying to find out if the blondes have a lot more fun than the redheaded girl you might see on screen? Have a good look at Hollywood and I can assure you a change is about to take place. If you ever thought about changing your hair color, choose to be a redhead instead. We will be pointing out a few stars in this article who wear the attractive red color without any problems. Actually, we don’t need an excuse to celebrate the beauty of the red hair but in case you do, mark 5th November on your calendar. It is National Love Your Red Hair Day. The holiday was made to empower redheads so that they can feel confident, and are encouraged to post about their red hair on social media. This is a very noble cause that should be supported by many people who appreciate redheads. People’s love for a good thing is just irresistible or may be considered funny. Still, on the same topic, real-life redheads like Julianne Moore will just make you dash to the salon. These talented redheaded ladies of Hollywood show that they are just as talented and successful as any other celebs. When the National Love Your Red Hair Day comes around again, take note of these 20 redhead celebrities that are just as talented as their blonde co-stars in the industry.

Kate Winslet

Kate was born in Reading, England on 5th October of 1975. She began acting at the age of 7 and made her first appearance on a commercial about cereals on a British Television Channel. In 1988, she later made an appearance on the Television series called Shrinks. Kate left school three years later to follow her dream career in acting. Love or hate her, you have to admit that she is wonderful, but the decision lies with you. She received four nominations for an Oscar in her early twenties. There is no doubt about her acting ability! Despite being a major A-list celebrity, Kate hides her personal life from the public. This makes her one of the most outstanding, down to earth actresses in the world. She is not one of those actors who is presumed to be of high class. Her down to earth attitude makes many people relate to her.

Nicole Kidman

Ballet was Nicole's original sweetheart. Eventually, she took mime and participated in her very first stage character which as a sheep in elementary school. Her acting was shaped out in her teenage years and it became a kind refuge. Nicole Kidman retreated to dark rehearsal halls to exercise her skills. She even received a private message of encouragement and praise from Jane Campion (a film scholar) while at the Philip Street Theatre where she regularly worked. Later, she dropped out of high school to become a full-time actor. For three decades, she has been serving up entertainment on the screen. At the age of 21, she was featured in the 1989’s Dead Calm where she fought off crazed Billy Zane and later again in 1995 with the movie To Die For. Her most recent roles were in HBO’s Big Little Lies as Celeste. She received nominations for eleven Golden Globe Awards, nine SAG Awards, also four Academy Awards.

Sophie Turner

Sophie Turner is an English actor born on February 21st of 1996. She made her first professional debut appearance as Sansa Stark on the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. She has played this part from 2011 up to now which brought her to the limelight, international recognition and praise. From 2011, she has portrayed Sansa Stark as a young noblewoman in the HBO series. This was her first television role. She was encouraged by her drama teacher to audition for the part she played in the TV show and dyed her hair blonde to play the role. She was selected for the Young Artist Award in the category of Best Performance in TV for her role as Sansa in Game of Thrones in 2012. She performed in another independent thriller film called Another Me which was her first big screen role in the industry as the main character in 2013.

Emma Stone

In the entertainment industry, Emma Stone has built a life that most actors only fantasize about. Her excellent body of work is diverse and critically acclaimed, such as The Help, Birdman to The Amazing Spider-Man and various comedies like Crazy Stupid Love. Adding to her clear talent that is notable to everyone, she also defined her individuality which is accredited to her achievement and popularity in Hollywood. She is an adaptable actor and can take up any character she may be assigned to. She gives off a very impressive spark and has outstanding performances in a variety genre of films. According to Stone, the trust she was given to her by her parents made it extremely difficult for her to act and this fact has contributed most to her triumphs in the industry. She says that trust has made her very honest and patient in life. Emma is one of the most successful actresses in the movie industry today.

Amy Adams

All artists need recognition from their audience during their performance. When the acknowledgment comes especially from a superstar, it brings the best feeling ever because it brings much motivation. It helps to build their self-esteem and confidence. Justice League’s Army Adams found herself getting such compliments from a renowned celebrity on her work. Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep voiced what she believed in and branded Amy Adams as a great actress in the movie industry who is determined to succeed. According to Meryl Streep, upholding and appreciating who you really are as a person regardless of occupying a character in a movie is the most difficult thing currently in showbiz. Amy Adams managed to achieve that so well. Streep said, “Amy has naturally succeeded in this winner take all, dog eat dog business, and it is partly due to her honesty, diligence, work ethic, obedience, her capability of not tolerating nonsense while playing the characters.”

Julia Roberts

A gorgeous 22-year old Julia Roberts was made a star in the year 1990. Since then she never ceased shining. She wasn’t the famous studio choice to play Vivian, the innocent and clever gal from Georgia with an elegant smile who ended up on the streets of Hollywood. Of course, she is then rescued by Richard Gere. She made the movie work and still manages to make it work 27 years later, despite the fact that most actors struggle with longevity in the industry. Julia Roberts did not only become an overnight star, winning the Best Actress Oscar nomination and the highest paid star of the 1990s, but she was also the start of her era.

Julianne Moore

How good is Julianne Moore in acting? There is something that can’t be clarified about Julianne Moore appearance: she appears bounded by her attractiveness. If she grins the one thing that changes is her mouth; the gorgeously organized bones of her head remain intact stating the whole beauty of her face. This gives her an atmosphere of confined intellect which assisted her in the start of her professional career. She played a confused artist in Boogie Nights and a housewife in Safe and Far From Heaven. Lately, she cut loose to channel something in Diane Keaton’s vague comedy, The Kids Are All Right, in which her acting was superb. Moore has never been so funny. In Still Alice, she plays a victim of onset Alzheimer’s and you can see why she won an Oscar for it.

Molly Ringwald

She was born on 18th February 1968, in California’s Roseville. She was an actor in Sixteen Candles in 1984 by John Hughes. The movie was a great achievement. It had been preceded by two more teenage movies in which she was featured in. She also acted in Cabaret and Enchanted April on Broadway and also in other numerous television shows. She acquired a great love for acting. Molly started acting at a tender age. She was given a role in Alice in Wonderland when she was 5 years old. The subsequent year she produced a jazz album I Wanna Be Loved by You that was done by her dad and his crew. She constantly performed throughout the 70s, taking the role of an orphan in Annie, and also as a Mouseketeer on the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club. Molly's career began to take shape during her teen years. It started with a short stint on The Fact of Life in 1979 where she took the role of Molly Parker, a girl who was trying to handle the effects of her parent's separation. She made a big-screen entrance in a film called The Tempest.

Claire Danes

Claire Danes is doing an amazing job on Homeland, where she plays the part of Carrie Mathison. Claire won a Golden Globe for her performance. While speaking from her home in New York City, Claire says that she has never seen a character like Carrie before. "She is strengthened in a different way. The role she plays as bipolar person isolates her”, said Danes. “It’s very tough to make new relations, it’s extremely unhelpful if it’s left untreated and even when it is, it’s malignant. CIA work is also very separating and isolated. I think Carrie just accepts that she will endlessly be a bit of a pessimist. I reflect her as Edward Scissorhands, too – she does not want to get too close to anybody”, adds Dane. Dane still remains best known for her big breakthrough performance alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in their movie Romeo & Juliet. The roles she is normally given are quite opposite to her physique but she still performs extremely well.

Lauren Ambrose

Lauren is very funny. She brings a wide-eyed contemplation, humor in her performances. She first got the mainstream attention with the supporting role as a brainy friend to Ethan Embry in the teen party flick Can Hardly Wait in 1998. Ambrose went to Rosemary Choate Hall And Art Magnet School. She became involved in acting through her training as a singer. She spent most of her summers studying voice at the prestigious Tanglewood school in Massachusetts, after which she starred in the NBC’s Law and Order. She worked on several episodes which portrayed her as a teen who was being abused by her classmates. Her biggest breakthrough was when she was featured as one of Kevin Kline’s students in the movie In & Out. A year later, she won the role in Can Hardly Wait. In 2001, she took up the role of Claire on HBO’s drama series Six Feet Under. She received various awards including an Actors Guild Award, besides nominations for Emmy's as well. She also featured in the drama Diggers alongside Paul Rudd.

Sophia Loren

In the movie industry, Sophia Loren is one of the greatest movie icons of all time. Despite this, she has always had a kind humility while talking about herself. “I have had a good career but I have never considered myself as one of the great actresses of all time,” she said. “I have never received any historic opportunities or lots of awards. I did my best to get each award I received during my time,” she continued. As she turns 83, she is very contented and satisfied with whatever she achieved which includes an Oscar Award in 1962 for the role she played as Cesira in the film Two Women. Sophia said that her husband Carlo became a very big influence in her life. Sophia was paired with the charismatic and charming Omar Sharif for the very first time, in the film More Than a Miracle. Knowing well that Sharif’s impressive looks took everyone’s breath away, Loren used a zigzag eye language previously unidentified to world cinema.

Lindsay Lohan

Lohan was brought into the spotlight as a model and a commercial actress at the age of 3. Her remarkable resume includes more than 60 television shows, 100 prints by Toys R Us and Duncan Hines who helped her to get the double character of twin sisters in Disney's 1998 recreation of The Parent Trap. The film is about the sisters who were raised separately, one in the US and the other in England, attempt to join up with their long-separated parents. The film performed fantastically at the box office making $92 million worldwide. Her accomplishment led to additional Disney movie roles including the remake of Freaky Friday in 2003. She also experienced success in the preteen comedy Confessions of Teenage Drama Queen in 2004. However, she was turned into a bonafide star by her playing a mean girl in Mean Girls.

Jessica Chastain

Jessica Chastain is a good example of a no-name’s life that was transformed at a very high, unbelievable speed. She was a super poor actor back in 2011 from Northern California who saved coins from the laundry mat with her roommates in her apartment in Los Angeles. Jessica has always had intense red hair, a unique pinched chin, and a captivating grin. She always appreciated and gave the best whenever she was given a part in a movie whether it was her eighth, tenth or even eleventh time playing a role. Her acting career blossomed when she appeared in the blockbuster hit The Help and earned her a supporting actress Oscar nomination for the role she played and the praised Tree of Life. She has earned a Golden Globe and received Academy Award nominations precisely for the lead actress in the Zero Dark Thirty. Her additional works include A Most Violent Year, Interstellar, and Crimson Peak.

Bonnie Wright

Bonnie was born on 17th February 1991 to Sheila Teague and Gary Wright. She acted in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001 as Ron Wesley’s younger sister Ginny Wesley. This was her debut performance. After the Harry Potter films in 2002, Bonnie did a trademark television film where she played the young Sarah Robinson. She was a cast in Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures in 2004 on a BBC TV film as the young Agatha after filming Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004. She guest-voiced Disney’s TV series The Replacement (2006) as Venessa. She was cast as Mia for Geography of the Heat while shooting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and while shooting Part 2 in 2011. She was also attending the London college of communication to study film at that time. Bonnie also featured in After the Dark in 2011.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda, was a childhood friend and a classmate to Lady Diana. In 1983, she graduated from Cambridge University. She made her movie entrance on Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio after her performance with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She thereafter received an Academy Award for the best-supporting actress for the part she played in Michael Clayton. Tilda Swinton was also ranked as the World's Best Actress according to TV Overmind. She performs so magnificently in her roles that it’s a wonder how she becomes herself again after acting. In the movie, Doctor Strange, many of the viewers were angry with her role. But she nailed her performance, and she even took it a notch higher to make the character fit her style. Seemingly, she doesn’t seem to grow old, she looks like a woman in her early thirties despite being 56 years old.

Lana Del Rey

Lana is a vocalist that makes pop music that showcases her sensitive, husky style of singing. She was born in New York City as Elizabeth Woolridge Grant to Robert England Grant, Jr., an entrepreneur, and Patricia Ann, an account executive. She was raised in Lake Placid, New York. She has Scottish and also English ancestry. In 2009, Lana produced a solo called Kill Kill with her given name Lizzy Grant. Then she rebranded herself and changed her name to Lana Del Rey. She released an audiovisual for her solo song Video Games that appeared on August 2011. It attracted a significant buzz just like the secret show that she performed at the Brooklyn Grassland Gallery in September of that same year. Amidst her rising fame, she released her debut album Born to Die on the eve of 2011. Lana confirmed the buzz surrounding the release by making an entrance on Saturday Night Live in 1975. She became the first artist after Natalie Imbruglia in 1998 to perform on the event before releasing a debut album.

Kate Mara

It’s the A Ghost Story scene that critics can’t stop talking about. Silent and heartbroken over the hurt and pain of losing her spouse, the widow M comes back home and devours a whole vegan chocolate pie in just a single sitting by herself. David Lowery very vividly recalls the moment in an approximately four-minute long take, but the immobility and silence of the camera make the impression look and seem like an infinity scene that never seems to end. It was Rooney Mara's decision to fill the frame with the knowledge of impossibility that someone who has been through the devastating, painful and horrible process can connect or relate to. She does so with a delicate gusto which is why she is one extremely talented actress worth looking out for in the next few years.

Susan Sarandon

A graduate of the Catholic University of America with a B.A in drama, Susan Sarandon made her first film debut in Joe in 1970. In 1995, she became part of The Rocky Horror Pictures Show (a musical team that became trendy over the succeeding years) after some roles in a few other films. Susan won her first award from the Atlantic City Academy Award in 1980 featuring the legend of the big screen, Burt Lancaster. Her career really blossomed later when she made an appearance in The Witches of Eastwick in 1987, also in Bull Durham in 1988. Since then, she has been making an appearance in various great movies. She played the screen legend, Bette Davies, co-starring Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford in the series Feud. The TV show developed by Ryan Murphy focused on the bitter rivalry between the two Hollywood icons. Susan earned an Emmy, also a Golden Globe consideration for the roles she played.

Bernadette Peters

Peters is one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers. She won two of the seven nominations for Tony Awards and later three out of the eight Drama Desk Awards. She has starred in four albums from Broadway which all won a Grammy Awards. She returned to the theatre in the 1980s. She became one of the best-known stars on Broadway for over the past three decades. She has recorded several solos and has done albums which she regularly performs in her own solo concerts. Peters continues to act on television, also in films and has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. She won one of the three nominations for Golden Globe Awards. Just to mention a few of her musical works, she is well known for Sunday In the Park with George and Song and Dance.

Rita Hayworth

Rita is a Hollywood legend whose beauty projected to worldwide fame in the 1940s and 50s. She was born as Margarita Carmen Casino on 17th October 1918 in New York City. Rita altered her last name to Hayworth during her initial acting career as was advised by her first husband who was also her manager. His name was Edward Judson. As a little girl, Rita went to stay with her parents in LA and soon started helping her dad on stage at a popular nightclub in Mexico. When she was acting on stage in Agua Caliente, Mexico, Fox Film producer spotted her and signed her at 16 years-old. She got married to Judson who was 22 years older than her. He helped to set the stage for her rise to fame. On his guidance, Rita did not only change her last name but also changed her hair to a red. Judson worked tirelessly and showed his wife off in press, magazines and newspapers. Later he helped her sign a 7-year contract with Columbia Pictures.

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