My Favorite Modern Actresses

Since I recently did my favorite list of modern actors, I had to do one for actresses. But whereas I could narrow the men down to ten, I had problems with the ladies. So here is my official Top 30 favorite modern actresses and I know I could have kept going. What can I say, I love movies and I love good actors/actresses. Enjoy and I would love feedback from everyone. And compare this list to my favorite classic actresses.

30.) Sanaa Lathan

Favorite Acting Performance: Love and Basketball

Favorite Films: Love and Basketball, Out Of Time, Brown Sugar, The Best Man

29.) Winona Ryder

Favorite Acting Perfomance: Heathers

Favorite Films: Heathers, Beetlejuice, Lucas, Reality Bites

28.) Radha Mitchell

Favorite Acting Performance: Pitch Black

Favorite Films: Pitch Black, Love and Other Catastrophes, Visitors, Silent Hill

27.) Ashley Judd

Favorite Acting Performance: Ruby In Paradise

Favorite Films: Kiss the Girls, Heat, A Time To Kill

26.) Nicole Kidman

Favorite Acting Performance: Cold Mountain

Favorite Films: To Die For, The Others, Days Of Thunder, Dead Calm

25.) Halle Berry

Favorite Acting Performance: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Favorite Films: X2, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Jungle Fever, Dorothy Dandridge

24.) Charlize Theron

Favorite Acting Performance: The Cider House Rules

Favorite Films: The Cider House Rules, The Devil's Advocate, Men Of Honor, In The Valley Of Elah

23.) Karen Allen

Favorite Acting Performance: Until September

Favorite Films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Animal House, Starman, The Sandlot

22.) Kate Hudson

Favorite Acting Perfomance: Almost Famous

Favorite Films: How To Lose A Guy In 10 days, Raising Helen, Me You and Dupree

21.) Queen  Latifah

Favorite Acting Performance: Chicago

Favorite Films: Chicago, The Ice Age, Brown Sugar, Jungle Fever

20.) Julia Stiles

Favorite Acting Performance: Save The Last Dance

Favorite Films: Save The Last Dance, The Bourne Series, 10 Things I Hate About You

19.) Emma Thompson

Favorite Acting Perfomance: Dead Again

Favorite Films: Dead Again, Sense & Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing

18.) Sally Field

Favorite Acting Performance: Places In The Heart

Favorite Films: Smokey and the Bandit, Steel Magnolias, Forrest Gump, Soap Dish

17.) Natalie Portman

Favorite Acting Performance: Garden State

Favorite Films: The Professional, V For Vendetta, Garden State, Cold Mountain

16.) Naomi Watts

Favorite Acting Performance: Mulholland Drive

Favorite Films: The Ring, Mulholland Drive, Eastern Promises

15.) Reese Witherspoon

Favorite Acting Performance: Walk The Line

Favorite Films: Walk The Line, Cruel Intentions, Election, Sweet Home Alabama

14.) Diane Lane

Favorite Acting Performance: Lonesome Dove

Favorite Films: Unfaithful, Under The Tuscan Sun, Must Love Dogs, Six Pack

13.) Sigourney Weaver

Favorite Acting Performance: Aliens

Favorite Films: Aliens, Working Girl, Gorillas In The Mist, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters

12.) Zoe Saldana

Favorite Acting Performance: Star Trek

Favorite Films: Star Trek, Avatar, Drumline

11.) Miranda Richardson

Favorite Acting Performance: Blackadder

Favorite Films: Blackadder, The Crying Game, Sleepy Hollow

10.) Lea Thompson

Favorite Acting Performance: Back To The Future

Favorite Films: Back To The Future, Some Kind Of Wonderful, All The Right Moves

9.) Goldie Hawn

Favorite Acting Performance: Seems Like Old Times

Favorite Films: Seems Like Old Times, Private Benjamin, Death Becomes Her, Overboard

8.) Meryl Streep

Favorite Acting Performance: Postcards From The Edge

Favorite Films: Postcards From The Edge, Silkwood, A Cry In The Dark, The Deer Hunter, Death Becomes Her

7.) Helen Mirren

Favorite Acting Performance: Prime Suspect
Favorite Films: Prime Suspect, The Long Good Friday, Excalibur

6.) Lucy Lawless

Favorite Acting Performance: Xena

Favorite Films: Bedtime Stories, Battlestar Galactica

5.) Gwyneth Paltrow

Favorite Acting Performance: Emma

Favorite Films: Iron Man, Seven, Emma, Sliding Doors

4.) Kate Winslet

Favorite Acting Performance: Sense & Sensibility

Favorite Films: Titanic, Sense & Sensibility, Holiday, Heavenly Creatures

3.) Sarah Michelle Gellar

Favorite Acting Performance: Buffy

Favorite Films: Buffy, Scream 2, Cruel Intentions, The Grudge

2.) Jodie Foster

Favorite Acting Performance: The Silence of the Lambs

Favorite Films:  The Silence Of The Lambs, Maverick, Sommersby, Panic Room, Taxi Driver

1.) Sandra Bullock

Favorite Acting Performance: The Blind Side

Favorite Films: Speed, The Proposal, The Blind Side, While You Were Sleeping