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The 15 Nicest Female Actresses Of All Time

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

Galleries - August 21st 2026, 19:00 GMT+2

Natalie Portman thor — 15. Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman’s reserved public image can read as aloof, but her record is considerably warmer than the red-carpet version suggests. She began volunteering at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2008, spending time in its Teen Lounge and later helping its fundraising campaigns. Portman also co-founded Angel City FC with community investment built into the club’s business model. She may not be the celebrity most likely to hug a microphone stand, but her kindness tends to arrive with a plan and follow-through. | © Marvel Studios

14. Margot Robbie

Ryan Gosling received a Ken-themed present from Margot Robbie every day he worked on *Barbie*, because she had promised him one and apparently considered contractual silliness legally binding. Her generosity has larger examples, too: after her mother borrowed against the family home to support her early career, Robbie used her success to pay off the mortgage. Through LuckyChap, she has also helped female filmmakers and difficult women-led projects reach the screen. A producer who remembers both the financing and the gift bag is useful company. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

13. Cameron Diaz

Dan Levy once arrived at an intimidating *Saturday Night Live* after-party as an unknown Canadian actor. Cameron Diaz noticed him and his sister, welcomed them, and made both feel “like a million bucks”—a small gesture he still remembered more than two decades later. Drew Barrymore offers the longer case: Diaz has supported her through addiction, divorce and the less photogenic stretches of adulthood. Apparently, the relentlessly sunny energy from *The Holiday* was not left in Nancy Meyers’ lighting department. | © New Line Cinema

12. Mandy Moore

The maternal warmth Mandy Moore brought to *This Is Us* apparently survived the trip back to her trailer. Her cast remained unusually close after six seasons, with Moore still championing colleagues and referring to the ensemble as her forever family. The quieter proof stretches well beyond television: she has worked with global health organization PSI since 2008 and traveled through Africa to support child-survival and malaria-prevention programs. Rebecca Pearson could deliver a comforting speech on cue; Moore has spent years doing the untelevised follow-up. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

11. Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez built a beauty company around the radical idea that customers should not leave feeling worse about themselves. Rare Beauty directs one percent of sales to the Rare Impact Fund, which expands youth access to mental-health support, while its employees receive mental-health training and wellness resources. Gomez has also served as a UNICEF ambassador since her teens. Add the affectionate, sibling-like bond she formed with Steve Martin and Martin Short, and her kindness looks less like branding than a habit that followed her into business. | © Selena Gomez / YouTube

Emma Stone as Natalie in House Bunny — 10. Emma Stone

Before one Academy Awards ceremony, Emma Stone sent fellow nominee Marina de Tavira a handwritten note congratulating her and saying it was an honor to share the category. That is an elegant way to handle competition—and considerably cheaper than an awards-season smear campaign. Stone has served on the Child Mind Institute’s board since 2019, speaking candidly about the anxiety and panic attacks she experienced as a child. She has even redirected paparazzi cameras toward charitable organizations, finding a better use for attention she never requested. | © Sony Pictures Releasing

9. Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt’s dry wit could cut glass, yet younger colleagues describe someone far gentler once the cameras stop. Deaf actress Millicent Simmonds said Blunt and John Krasinski welcomed her ideas on *A Quiet Place*, treated her generously and helped her become more fearless on set. Blunt has applied the same candor to her lifelong stutter, serving on the board of the American Institute for Stuttering and speaking directly with children who share it. Sarcasm, it turns out, is fully compatible with a soft landing. | © Universal Studios

Cropped Amy Adams — 8. Amy Adams

Amy Adams has been so reliably gracious for so long that the industry occasionally treats kindness as part of her job description. Co-stars describe a prepared, generous scene partner, while Adams herself has a habit of celebrating other actresses instead of turning awards season into polite warfare. When schools closed during the pandemic, she and Jennifer Garner launched Save With Stories, recruiting celebrities to read children’s books while raising money for young people facing hunger. Six Oscar losses could sour anyone; Adams somehow keeps arriving without the vinegar. | © Focus Features

Cropped Drew Barrymore Scream — 7. Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore conducts interviews from approximately six inches inside a guest’s personal space, but the affection rarely feels fake. Friends and strangers alike describe the same open, hug-first personality, and her long relationships with Cameron Diaz and Adam Sandler suggest she does not discard people when the premiere ends. Barrymore also donated $1 million to the World Food Programme after becoming an Ambassador Against Hunger and traveled to Kenya to see its work. Her warmth can be messy; calculated is the one thing it never seems to be. | © Miramax Films

Jennifer garner 13 going on 30 — 6. Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner’s wholesome image would be unbearable if there were not so much evidence behind it. She has spent more than 15 years with Save the Children, visiting rural communities, advocating on Capitol Hill and helping bring early-education programs to her native West Virginia. After the Los Angeles wildfires, Garner volunteered at child-friendly relief spaces rather than merely recording a sympathetic video. Add the consistently warm encounters reported by colleagues, fans and even paparazzi, and that relentlessly pleasant Instagram presence starts looking less like a performance. | © Revolution Studios

5. Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock’s bank account appears to have an emergency-response button. She has repeatedly given seven-figure sums after major disasters, including the earthquake in Haiti, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and Hurricane Harvey. Her support for New Orleans’ Warren Easton Charter High School also continued long after the cameras left following Hurricane Katrina. Bullock generally keeps the performance out of the philanthropy, which is perhaps the point: when she said people had to take care of one another, there was already a substantial paper trail. | © Paramount Pictures

Cropped Audrey Hepburn The Nuns Story — 4. Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn’s elegance came in Givenchy, but her compassion required sturdier shoes. After surviving wartime hunger as a child, she devoted her final years to UNICEF, visiting famine relief in Ethiopia, vaccination efforts in Turkey and vulnerable communities across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Hepburn sometimes gave 15 media interviews in a single day to keep attention on the children she had met. Even while ill with cancer, she continued traveling and advocating—a legacy far more substantial than pearls, ballet flats and *Breakfast at Tiffany’s* posters. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

Melanie lynskey two and a half men — 3. Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey has spent three decades playing women who might poison dinner, conceal a body or quietly ruin your week; off-screen, she seems constitutionally incapable of being unpleasant. Jessica Biel called her possibly the nicest human being on the planet after they made *Candy*, while profiles and castmates repeat the same verdict with suspicious regularity. Lynskey also has a habit of turning interviews into praise for her scene partners. When separate productions keep reaching identical conclusions, the sweetness probably is not a very patient publicity campaign. | © Chuck Lorre Productions

2. Emilia Clarke

Daenerys Targaryen solved problems with dragons; Emilia Clarke responded to her own near-death experience by improving brain-injury recovery for strangers. After surviving two brain hemorrhages, she and her mother founded SameYou to address the severe shortage of rehabilitation and long-term support available to survivors. Their work earned both women MBEs, but Clarke’s appeal has never depended on royal hardware. Co-stars, interviewers and fans repeatedly encounter the same quick laugh and attentive warmth—a combination powerful enough to make even a disastrous series finale feel briefly survivable. | © HBO

Meryl Streep doubt 1 — 1. Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep arrives on a set carrying 21 Oscar nominations and, according to Martin Short, none of them in her attitude. Shailene Woodley similarly remembered being disarmed by Streep’s generosity and empathy during *Big Little Lies*. Away from the camera, Streep donated her *The Iron Lady* fee to the National Women’s History Museum and has funded a screenwriting lab for women over 40—people the industry too often treats as expired yogurt. Supreme talent can create distance; Streep has spent decades using hers to open doors. | © Miramax Films

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Talent may get an actress onto the call sheet, but kindness is what makes the crew hope she returns for the sequel. The nicest actresses of all time have collected the sort of off-camera stories a publicist cannot easily manufacture: quiet generosity, thoughtful encounters with fans and glowing accounts from the people who worked beside them. Their reputations suggest that enormous fame and basic human decency do not have to be mortal enemies after all.

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Talent may get an actress onto the call sheet, but kindness is what makes the crew hope she returns for the sequel. The nicest actresses of all time have collected the sort of off-camera stories a publicist cannot easily manufacture: quiet generosity, thoughtful encounters with fans and glowing accounts from the people who worked beside them. Their reputations suggest that enormous fame and basic human decency do not have to be mortal enemies after all.