Through discussions on listservs, women responding to the Newsweek list shared their own champions: women like Esther Dyson, Mona Eltahawy, Latoya Peterson, Anna Holmes, Jillian York, Cheryl Contee, Gina Trapani, Samhita Mukhopadyay, Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page, Melissa Pierce, Elizabeth Stark, Tara Hunt and Cindy Gallop.

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He generally participates in ensemble casts -- Anna Karenina, the Sherlock Holmes franchise, Soderbergh's Contagion, The Holiday -- making his singular box office appeal somewhat more elusive.

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The Sherlock Holmes star will appear in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie from August to October.

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