15. Linda Hunt
In The Year of Living Dangerously, Linda Hunt expertly played a male dwarf named Billy Kwan alongside Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver. The story is about a love affair in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. She won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actress, an Australian Film Institute Award, and also got a Golden Globe nomination. The Academy Award win made Linda the first person ever to win an Oscar for playing a person of the opposite sex.
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