Freida Pinto
Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2008, was overrated except for one thing: it launched the career of Freida Pinto. Since then, she’s become a fashion magazine darling and is known as “arguably the biggest global star from India” back home.
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Jessica Chastain
She has quietly established herself as being one of the best and most versatile actresses working today in the last five years. She prefers to keep her personal life private, preferring to let a growing body of work speak for itself.