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8.3

Monica Bellucci

Perugia, Italy

Best known in America for:
Persephone
The Matrix 2,3

Other roles:
The Passion of the Christ
Irreversible
Tears of the Sun
Almost every film in French or Italian!

7.9

Penélope Cruz

Madrid, Spain

Best known in America for:
Sofia Serrano
Vanilla Sky

Other roles:
Vicki Cristina Barcelona
All the Pretty Horses
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Just about anything directed by Pedro Almodovar

7.5

Emilie de Ravin

Victoria, Australia

Best known in America for:
Claire Littleton
Lost

Other roles
Remember Me
Brick
Public Enemies

Takako Fuji

Tokyo, Japan

Best known in America for:
Kayako Saeki
The Grudge 1 and 2

Other Roles
Ju-on 1 and 2

Jordana Brewster

Panama City, Panama

Best known in Amrica for:
Mia Toretto
The Fast and the Furious, Fast and Furious

Other roles:
Annapolis
Chuck
The Faculty

6.8

Lúcia Moniz

Lisbon, Portugal

Best known in America for:
Aurelia
Love Actually

Other roles:
Aquí Nao Há Quem Viva
Various other Portuguese series

7.9

Clémence Poésy

Hauts-de-Saine, France

Best known in America for:
Fleur Delacour
Harry Potter 4 and 7

Other roles
In Bruges
Heartless
Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

7.6

Freida Pinto

Bombay, India

Best known in America for:
Latika
Slumdog Millionaire

Other roles:
(future role) Miral
(future role) Immortals
(future role) American Empire

7.8

Li Gong

Shenyang, China

Best known in America for:
Hatsumomo
Memoirs of a Geisha

Other roles:
Hannibal Rising
The Emperor and the Assassin
Miami Vice

7.9

Nastassja Kinski

Berlin, Germany

Best known in America for:
Tess
Tess

Other roles:
Terminal Velocity
Cat People
posing for pictures with snakes in them...

8.3

Morena Baccarin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Best known in America for:
Anna
V

Other roles:
Stolen Lives
Stargate SG-1
Firefly

7.6

Elliot Page

Nova Scotia, Canada

Best known in America for:
Juno MacGuff
Juno

Other roles
Hard Candy
Whip It
The Tracey Fragments

sleepless101's rating:

7.4

Jayne Wisener

Ballymoney, Northern Ireland

Best known in America for:
Joanna
Sweeney Todd

Other roles:
Boogeyman 3
(future role) Jane Eyre

7.9

Milla Jovovich

Kiev, Ukraine (former USSR)

Best known in America for:
Alice
Resident Evil 1,2,3,4

Other roles:
The Fifth Element
Ultraviolet
The Messenger

7.4

Yunjin Kim

Seoul, South Korea

Best known in America for:
Sun Kwon
Lost

Other roles:
Two Sisters
Yesterday
A variety of Korean films

7.6

Catherine Zeta-Jones

West Glamorgan, Wales

Best known in America for:
Virginia Baker
Entrapment

Other roles:
Chicago
The Mask or Zorro / The Legend of Zorro
Traffic

Alona Tal

Herzlia, Israel

Best known in America for:
Jo
Supernatural

Other Roles:
Veronica Mars
College
Ghost Whisperer

7.3

Alyssa-Jane Cook

Papua New Guinea

Best known in America for:
Gilina Renaez
Farscape

Other roles:
Home and Away
Above the Law

7.9

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Bogota, Colombia

Best known in America for:
(for the moment)
Maria Alvarez
Maria Full of Grace

Other roles:
Love in the Time of Cholera
Che
(future role) Eclipse

7.4

Malin Akerman

Stockholm, Sweden

Best known in america for:
Silk Spector
Watchmen

Other Roles
The Heartbreak Kid
The Proposal
27 Dresses

7.1

Izabella Miko

Lodz, Poland

Best known in America for:
Cammie
Coyote Ugly

Other roles:
The Forsaken
Waiting
The House of Usher

7.8

Kelly Macdonald

Glasgow, Scotland

Best known in America for:
Carla Jean Moss
No Country For Old Men

Other roles:
Choke
Trainspotting
Gosford Park

8.1

Ming-Na Wen

Coloane Island, Macau

Best known in America for:
Dr. Jing-Mei Chen
ER

Other Roles:
Mulan
Push
Stargate Universe

6.9

Iman

Somalia

Best known in America for:
A modeling career

Other Roles
Star Trek 6
Exit to Eden
Out of Africa

7.5

Zineb Oukach

Casablanca, Morocco

Best known in America for:
Fatima Fawal
Rendition

Other roles
La Grande Villa
Parfum de Mer

7.4

Connie Nielsen

Denmark

Best known in America for:
Lucilla
Gladiator

Other roles
The Devil's Advocate
Law and Order:SVU
Mission to Mars

7.3

Natasha Alam

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Best known in America for:
Yvetta
True Blood

Other roles;
The Game
The Women
The Bold and the Beautiful

7.8

Cécile De France

Namur, Belgium

Best known in America for:
Marie
High Tension

Other roles:
Around the World in 80 days
The Spanish Apartment
Sister Smile

6.3

Bahar Soomekh

Tehran, Iran

Best known in America for:
Dorri
Crash

Other roles:
Day Break
Saw 3
Mission Impossible 3

7.5

Alice Braga

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Best known in America for:
Anna
I Am Legend

Other roles:
Blindness
Repo Men
City of God

7.9

Isla Fisher

(believe it or not)
Muscat, Oman

Best known in America for:
Gloria Cleary
Wedding Crashers

Other roles:
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Definitely Maybe
I Heart Huckabees

7.9

Ziyi Zhang

Beijing, China

Best known in America for:
Sayuri
Memoirs of a Geisha

Other roles:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Hero

6.8

Melanie Lynskey

New Plymouth, New Zealand

Best known in America for:
Rose
Two and a Half Men

Other roles:
Up in the Air
Flags of Our Fathers
Sweet Home Alabama

7.8

Anita Briem

Iceland

Best known in America for:
Jane Seymour
The Tudors

Other roles:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Dr. Who

8.2

Elsa Pataky

Madrid, Spain

Best known in America for:
Maria
Snakes on a Plane

Other roles:
Skate or Die
Sin Noticias de Dios
Beyond Reanimator

6.8

Scarlett Chorvat

Bratislava, Slovakia

Best known in America for:
Joyce
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Other roles:
24
Entourage
Nip/Tuck

7.8

Roselyn Sanchez

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Best known in America for:
Elena Delgado
Without a Trace

Other roles:
The Game Plan
Rush Hour 2
Boat Trip

Tasha de Vasconcelos

Beira, Mozambique

Best known in America for;
Count Alexandra
Johnny English

Other roles:
El punto sobre la i (Dot the I)
Relic hunter
Perfect World

7.8

Audrey Tatou

Puy-de-Dome, France

Best known in America for:
Sophie Neveu
The Da Vinci Code

Other Roles
Amelie
A Very Long Engagement
Coco Before Chanel
Pretty much every French romance ever...

sleepless101's rating:

7.6

Famke Janssen

Netherlands

Best known in America for:
Jean Grey/Phoenix
X-men 1,2,3

Other roles
Hide and Seek
House on Haunted Hill
The Faculty

7.1

Bojana Novakovic

Serbia

Best known in America for:
Emma Craven
Edge of Darkness

Other roles:
Drag Me To Hell
The Eye Inside

7.9

Keira Knightley

Middlesex, England

Best known in America for:
Elizabeth Swann
Pirates of the Caribbean 1,2,3

Other roles:
Pride and Prejudice
Atonement
King Arthur

sleepless101's rating:

7.6

Padma Lakshmi

Madras, India

Best known in America for:
Being the host of
Top Chef

Other roles:
Glitter
The Ten Commandments

Natassia Malthe

Oslo, Norway

Best known in America for:
Typhoid Mary
Elektra

Other roles
Bloodrayne 2
Skinwalkers
Sex and Death 101

7.8

Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Rome, Italy

Best known in America for:
Fermina Urbino
Love in the Time of Cholera

Other roles:
La finiestra di fronte
Vincere

7.7

Salma Hayek

Veracruz, Mexico

Best known in America for:
Carolina
Desperado

Other roles
From Dusk Till Dawn
Fools Rush In
Frida

8.2

Olga Kurylenko

Oblast, Ukraine (formerly USSR)

Best known in America for:
Camille
Quantum of Solace

Other roles
Maxx Payne
Hitman

7.2

Franka Potente

Dulmen bei Munster, Germany

Best known in America for:
Marie
The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremecy

Other Roles:
Run Lola Run
Blow
Creep

8.1

Marion Cotillard

Paris, France

Best known in America for:
Edith Pilaf
La Vie en Rose

Other roles:
Public Enemies
Nine
A Good Year

7.8

Masiela Lusha

Tirana, Albania

Best known in America for:
Carmen Lopez
The George Lopez Show

Other roles:
Blood: The Last Vampire
Time of the Comet

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The many acting women from around the world that have come to our attention in the socio-cultural bubble that we like to call America! In no particular order...

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