| Name |
Life |
Comments |
Diagnosis |
| Luana Anders |
(1938 - 1996) |
American actress; died at age 58 |
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| Christina Applegate |
(1971 - present) |
An Emmy Award-winning American actress, known for playing Kelly Bundy on the long-running FOX Broadcasting Company sitcom Married… with Children. |
diagnosed in 2008 at age 36 |
| Brenda ('Mardi') Nowak Arquette |
(19?? - 1997) |
psychiatrist and mother of American actors Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette, and wife of the late actor Lewis Arquette and daughter-in-law of the late actor Cliff Arquette; died in 1997 |
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| Dame Eileen Atkins |
(1934 - present) |
esteemed British actress |
diagnosed in 1995 at age 61 |
| Carol Martineau Baldwin |
(19?? - present) |
mother of American actors Daniel, Stephen, William, and Alec Baldwin, and foundress of the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center of the University Hospital and Medical Center at Stony Brook |
diagnosed in 1990 |
| Kaye Ballard |
(1926 - present) |
American actress |
diagnosed in 1994 at age 68 |
| Brigitte Bardot |
(1934 - present) |
former French actress and current animal rights activist |
diagnosed in 1984 at 50 |
| Allyce Beasley |
(1954 - present) |
American TV/comedic actress |
diagnosed in 1998 at 44 |
| Barbara Bel Geddes |
(1922 - 2005) |
American actress; survived breast cancer in 1972, died from lung cancer in 2005; died at age 83 |
diagnosed in 1971 at age 49 |
| Frances Belzer |
(19?? - 1962) |
mother of American actor, Richard Belzer; died when Richard was 18 years old |
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| Ingrid Bergman |
(1915 - 1982) |
Oscar-winning star Swedish actress; died at age 67 |
diagnosed in 1973 at 58 |
| Bibi Besch |
(1940 - 1996) |
Austrian-born American actress; died at age 56 |
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| Aisha Bicknell |
(1971 - present) |
daughter of British actress Rita Tushingham |
diagnosed in April, 2005 at age 33 |
| Shirley Temple Black |
(1926 - present) |
famous Oscar-winning American child star and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia |
diagnosed in 1972 at age 46 |
| Carina Bleeth |
(1942 - 1989) |
French-Algerian-born American model, businesswoman and mother of American actress Yasmine Bleeth; died of inflammatory breast cancer; died at age 47 when Yasmine was 20 years old |
diagnosed in 1988 at age 46 |
| Eileen Brennan |
(1935 - present) |
American actress |
diagnosed in 1988 at 53 |
| Vanessa Brown |
(1928 - 1999) |
Austrian-born American actress; died at age 71 |
diagnosed in 1988 at age 60 |
| Coral Browne |
(1913 - 1991) |
Australian-born American actress; died at age 77 |
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| Diahann Carroll |
(1935 - present) |
American actress, singer |
diagnosed in 1998 at age 63 |
| Elizabeth Ries Chavira |
(1943 - 1986) |
mother of American actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira; she was also diagnosed with ovarian cancer; died at age 43 when Ricardo was 15 years old |
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| Madonna Louise Fortin Ciccone |
(1934 - 1963) |
French Canadian mother of American singer/songwriter Madonna; died on December 1, 1963 at age 29 when Madonna was 5 years old |
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| Norma Crane |
(1928 - 1973) |
American actress; died at age 44 |
diagnosed in 1970 at age 42 |
| Bette Davis |
(1908 - 1989) |
American Oscar-winning star actress; died at age 81 |
diagnosed in 1983 at age 75 |
| Ruby Dee |
(1924 - present) |
African-American actress |
diagnosed in the 1970s |
| Betty DeGeneres |
(19?? - present) |
American author and mother of American actress and TV host Ellen DeGeneres |
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| Mary Jean Woolslair Denton |
(19?? - 2002) |
mother of American actor James Denton; died in 2002 |
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| Simone de Oliveira |
(1938 - present) |
Portuguese actress/singer |
diagnosed in 1987 at age 49 |
| Diana Dill |
(1935 - present) |
British-American actress; ex-wife of American actor Kirk Douglas; mother of American actor Michael Douglas |
diagnosed in mid-1990s |
| Julie Ege |
(1943 - 2008) |
Norwegian actress; also suffered from lung cancer |
diagnosed in 1986 at age 43 |
| Jill Eikenberry |
(1947 - present) |
American actress and wife of American actor Michael Tucker |
diagnosed in 1986 at age 39 |
| Belinda Emmett |
(1974 - 2006) |
Australian actress; had a recurrence in 2001; died on Nov. 11, 2006 at age 32 |
diagnosed in 1998 at age 24 |
| Dame Maggie Smith |
(1934 - present) |
British stage, and screen actress, most noted recently for playing Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series of films. |
diagnosed in 2008 at age 74 |
| Edie Falco |
(1963 - present) |
American stage and TV actress |
diagnosed in 2003 at age 40 |
| Wenche Foss |
(1917 - present) |
Norwegian actress |
diagnosed in 1971 at age 54 |
| Kay Francis |
(1905 - 1968) |
American film star of the 1930s; died at age 63 |
diagnosed in 1966 at age 61 |
| Maria Friedman |
(1960 - present) |
British actress |
diagnosed in 2005 at age 45 |
| Helen Gahagan |
(1900 - 1980) |
American actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) a politician; wife of actor Melvyn Douglas; grandmother of actress Illeana Douglas; died at age 80 |
diagnosed in 1972 at age 72; recurred in 1976 |
| Greta Garbo |
(1905 - 1990) |
Swedish-American actress; survived breast cancer following a double mastectomy; causes of death per one of her biographies were kidney and stomach failure and pneumonia; died in 1990 at age 84 |
diagnosed in 1984 at age 79 |
| Paulette Goddard |
(1910 - 1990) |
American actress; survived breast cancer, but died following a short battle with emphysema in Switzerland; died at age 79 |
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| Gloria Grahame |
(1923 - 1981) |
Oscar-winning American actress; died at age 57 |
diagnosed in 1976 at age 52 |
| Alvaleta Guess |
(1955 - 1996) |
African-American film actress and Broadway performer; died at age 41 in 1996 |
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| Florence Halop |
(1923 - 1986) |
American comedienne/comedic actress; died at age 63 |
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| Sheila Hancock |
(1933 - present) |
British actress and wife of the late British actor John Thaw |
diagnosed in 1987 at age 54 |
| Julie Harris |
(1925 - present) |
legendary American stage actress |
diagnosed in 1981 at age 56 |
| Lydia Clarke Heston |
(1944 - present) |
former actress; wife of American actor Charlton Heston |
diagnosed in 1991 at age 47 |
| Judy Holliday |
(1921 - 1965) |
American Oscar-winning star actress; died at age 43 |
diagnosed in 1960 at age 38 |
| Diana Hyland |
(1936 - 1977) |
American actress; died at age 41 |
diagnosed in 1976 at age 40 |
| Jill Ireland |
(1936 - 1990) |
British actress, wife of American actor Charles Bronson; died at age 54 |
diagnosed in 1984 at age 48 |
| Kate Jackson |
(1948 - present) |
American actress; survived a recurrence in 1989 at age 41 |
diagnosed in 1987 at age 39 |
| Ann Jillian |
(1950 - present) |
American actress, entertainer |
diagnosed in 1985 at age 35 |
| Jennifer Jones |
(1919 - present) |
American Oscar-winning star actress |
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| Susan Ryan Jordan |
(19?? - present) |
mother of American actress Meg Ryan; as of March, 2006, Jordan is a 27-year survivor |
diagnosed in 1979 |
| Janelle Kidman |
(19?? - present) |
mother of Australian actress Nicole Kidman |
diagnosed in 1984 |
| Joi Lansing |
(1928 - 1972) |
American actress; died at age 44 |
diagnosed in 1970 at age 42 |
| Sondra Locke |
(1947 - present) |
American actress |
diagnosed in 1990 at age 43 |
| Adamari López |
(1971 - present) |
Puerto Rican actress; diagnosed in April 2005 |
diagnosed in 2005 at age 34 |
| Myrna Loy |
(1905 - 1993) |
American actress, had two mastectomies in 1975 and 1979, but survived breast cancer; died during surgery for undisclosed causes; died at age 88 |
diagnosed in 1975 at age 70 |
| Rue McClanahan |
(1934 - present) |
American TV/stage actress |
diagnosed in 1997 at age 63 |
| Mary McCollough |
(19?? - 1972) |
mother of African-American actor, Bernie Mac; died during Bernie's sophomore year of high school |
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| Doris McCormack |
(1933 - present) |
mother of Canadian actor Eric McCormack |
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| Hattie McDaniel |
(1895 - 1952) |
African-American actress; died at age 57 |
diagnosed in 1951 at 56 |
| Amanda Mealing |
(1967 - present) |
British actress |
diagnosed in August, 2002 at age 35 |
| Sarah Parkinson Merton |
(19?? - 2003) |
screenwriter, wife of British actor Paul Merton and daughter of actor Robin Parkinson; died on 23 September 2003 |
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| Sylvia Millecam |
(1956 - 2001) |
Dutch actress; died at age 45 |
diagnosed in 1999 at age 43 |
| Shelley Morrison |
(1936 - present) |
American actress; had a recurrence in 1998 and is currently battling breast cancer; also battled lung cancer |
diagnosed in 1988 at age 52 |
| Sharon Murphy |
(1953 - present) |
mother of American actress Brittany Murphy; had a recurrence in 2003 |
diagnosed in 1995 at age 42 |
| Kitten Natividad |
(1948 - present) |
Mexican actress |
diagnosed in 1999 at age 51 |
| Alla Nazimova |
(1879 - 1945) |
Russian-born American stage and film actress who survived breast cancer but died due to a coronary thrombosis at age 66; aunt of director Val Lewton and Godmother of former First Lady Nancy Reagan |
diagnosed in 1936 at age 57 |
| Phyllis Newman |
(1933 - present) |
American TV and Broadway actress/singer; widow of American playwright Adolph Green and mother of actress Amanda Green and writer/actor Adam Green |
diagnosed in 1983 at age 50 |
| Cynthia Nixon |
(1966 - present) |
American stage and TV actress; Cynthia's mother, Anne, is also a breast cancer survivor |
diagnosed in 2006 at age 40 |
| Roseann Murtha O'Donnell |
(19?? - 19??) |
American mother of American actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell; died at age 38 |
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| Nancy Priddy |
(19?? - present) |
Actress, singer, songwriter and mother of American actress Christina Applegate who was 7-years-old when her mother was first diagnosed |
diagnosed in 1978; recurrence in 1986 |
| Deirdre Redgrave |
(19?? - 1997) |
née Hamilton-Hill, wife of British actor Corin Redgrave and mother of British actress Jemma Redgrave; died in 1997 |
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| Lynn Redgrave |
(1943 - present) |
Oscar nominated British-American actress |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 59 |
| Sherill Lynn Rettino |
(1956 - 1995) |
American actress; died at age 39 |
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| Wendy Richard |
(1943 - 2009) |
British actress; had a recurrence in 2002 at age 59, third recurrence in 2008 which had mestasized |
diagnosed in 1995 at age 52 |
| Kathleen Fenton Richards |
(19?? - 2003) |
mother of American actresses Kathy Hilton, and Kyle and Kim Richards, and the grandmother of American celebrities Nicky and Paris Hilton; died in March 2003 |
diagnosed in 1998 |
| Lila Roberts |
(19?? - 1995) |
former model and mother of Canadian model and actress Rachel Roberts; died in 1995 |
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| Toby Robins |
(1930 - 1986) |
Canadian actress and journalist; her husband Bill Freedman helped to found The Toby Robins Breast Cancer Breakthrough Centre; died circa age 56 |
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| Roxie Roker |
(1929 - 1995) |
American actress, mother of American singer/songwriter Lenny Kravitz; died at age 66 |
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| Richard Roundtree |
(1942 - present) |
male African-American actor |
diagnosed in 1993 at age 51 |
| Patsy Rowlands |
(1934 - 2005) |
British actress; died at age 71 |
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| Rosalind Russell |
(1907 - 1976) |
American star actress; died at age 69 |
diagnosed in 1960 at age 53; recurrence in 1965 |
| Delia Scala |
(1929 - 2004) |
Italian actress; died at age 74 |
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| Jean Simmons |
(1929 - present) |
British-born American actress |
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| Charlotte Smith |
(19?? - 1929) |
née Hennessy, mother of screen legend and co-founder of United Artists, Mary Pickford; died in 1928 |
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| Jaclyn Smith |
(1947 - present) |
American actress and businesswoman |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 55 |
| Suzanne Somers |
(1946 - present) |
American actress and businesswoman |
diagnosed in 2001 at age 55 |
| Wendie Jo Sperber |
(1958 - 2005) |
American actress; had a recurrence in 2002 at age 44; died at age 47 |
diagnosed in 1997 at age 39 |
| Koo Stark |
(1956 - present) |
American soft-porn actress who had a controversial relationship with United Kingdom's Prince Andrew; founded Keep A Breast cancer organization. |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 46 |
| Susan Strasberg |
(1938 - 1999) |
American actress; daughter of theatre director and drama coaches Paula and Lee Strasberg, and the sister of director John Strasberg; died at age 60 |
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| Gloria Stuart |
(1910 - present) |
legendary American actress |
diagnosed circa 1982 in her 70s |
| Myfanwy Talog |
(1945 - 1995) |
Welsh actress and long-term common-law-spouse of British actor Sir David Jason; died at age 49 |
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| Patti Tate |
(1958 - 2000) |
crime victims activist and sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate; died at age 42 |
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| Louise Troy |
(1933 - 1994) |
American actress and wife of British actor Douglas Seale; died at age 60 |
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| Danitra Vance |
(1954 - 1994) |
African-American actress; recurrence in 1993 at age 39; died at age 40 |
diagnosed in 1990 at age 36 |
| Vivian Vance |
(1909 - 1979) |
American actress, singer; died at age 70 |
diagnosed in 1977 at age 68 |
| Marcia Wallace |
(1942 - present) |
American comedic actress |
diagnosed in 1985 at age 43 |
| Mary Wickes |
(1910 - 1995) |
American actress; suffered from numerous ailments, including renal failure, massive gastrointestinal bleeding, severe hypotension, ischemic cardiomyopathy, anemia and breast cancer (stage of cancer unknown), which cumulatively resulted in her death; died at age 85 |
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| Suzie Shapiro Wilson |
(1950 - 1996) |
mother of American child actress Mara Wilson; died at age 46 when Mara was 9 years old |
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