Gwyneth Paltrow

Won the Academy Award for Best Actress at 26 for Shakespeare in Love (1998), following a run of acclaimed period and ensemble films — Emma, Sliding Doors, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Royal Tenenbaums — that established her as one of the defining leading ladies of 1990s American cinema. She later built a second career as Pepper Potts across a decade of Marvel films and, outside acting, founded the lifestyle company Goop, turning her own celebrity into a media and product business rather than resting on the earlier films.