Katharine the Great

Gorgeous. Witty. Intelligent. Best voice ever. Heckuva sportie. Connecticut's most prized citizen.

In my opinion, she's the greatest actress that's ever lived. Oscar would agree. The great Katharine Hepburn was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and took home four* for: 1933's Morning Glory, 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, 1968's The Lion in Winter, and 1981's On Golden Pond. On Golden Pond was the first film I ever saw with this amazing lady, I was five, and I cried. Oh, sure, you might say. A five-year-old will cry at anything. I actually cried because I was moved beyond words as she got down on the ground with her dying husband, telling him how much she loved him. I didn't know exactly why I was crying all of a sudden, but I knew I was feeling her sadness at the thought of him leaving her after all the years they had spent together. It was then I fell in love with movies...and her. The fact that these moving pictures contained stories and characters that became real and can make you celebrate, rejoice, and cry with them.

Meryl Streep is a close second to the Hepburn of the Katharine variety, and she's also fantastically talented. I've really come to appreciate Streep as of late. She'll never be as great as Kate, though...no one will.

*Five, you count the Supporting Actress Oscar Cate Blanchett got for playing her in 2004's The Aviator.