The Left-Handed Celebrities List of Famous Left-Handed Actresses

For many left-handed people the world is a backwards place. Despite the fact that nearly one out of ten people are left-handed, nearly everything people come into contact with on a daily basis is designed with right-handed people in mind --from school desks to scissors to the mouse on a computer.

With that in mind, it's time to celebrate some left-handed people who have become some of the biggest celebrities on the planet. While studies show that being left-handed is more common in men than in women, try telling that to these left-handed actresses.

The Left-Handed Celebrities List - Famous Left-Handed Actresses
Check out these left-handed stars of the silver screen.

June Allyson

This left-handed celebrity was a popular star during the '40s and '50s with such hits as Little Women and My Man Godfrey. She passed away in 2006 at the age of 88.

Carol Burnett

Remember when Carol Burnett used to tug on her ear as a "secret" sign to her mom? Which hand did she use?

Ruth Buzzi

This left-handed celebrity shot to fame from her continuing role on Laugh-In.

Olivia de Havilland

Perhaps best remembered as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind, this left-handed actress was a versatile performer. Her successful lawsuit against Warner Bros. (over her contract) almost single-handedly broke the studio system's grip on Hollywood.

Fran Drescher

If you don't know the name, you know the voice. Star of The Nanny. She is also a cancer survivor.

Goldie Hawn

This left-handed celebrity is another left-hander who shot to fame in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. She's mother to Kate Hudson.

Tippi Hedron

Perhaps most famous for her roles in The Birds and Marnie (both for Alfred Hitchcock), this actress is mother to Melanie Griffith.

Angelina Jolie

I don't really need to go into details about Angelina Jolie, now do I?

Diane Keaton

This left-handed celebrity acted in some of the most important films of the 1970s.

Nicole Kidman

This versatile performer is one of the few left-handed celebrities to marry a fellow left-hander - Tom Cruise.

Lisa Kudrow

This left-handed celebrity had a relationship with Conan O'Brien before going on to star in a little TV show called Friends.

Cloris Leachman

Perhaps best-known for playing the character, Phyllis, on The Mary Tyler Moore show, this left-handed celebrity was a long-time friend of Marlon Brando after the two of them met while studying acting under Elia Kazan.

Hope Lange

This versatile actress made her film debut in Bus Stop with another left-handed actress you may have heard of, Marylin Monroe.

Marsha Mason

This left-handed actress was once married to Neil Simon. The couple divorced in 1984. Today she runs her own herbal medicine shop.

Kristy McNichol

Best known for acting in Family, which was on the air from 1976 - 1980, McNichol went on to star in a series of popular movies.

Marylin Monroe

This larger than life celebrity needs no introduction anywhere in the civilized world.

Kim Novak

Another one of Hitchcock's blonde sexy stars, this time as Jimmy Stewart's obsession in Vertigo, this lifet-handed celebrity had a long and storied career.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Best known for Sex in the City, this left-handed actress has won four Golden Globes and two Emmy's.

Julia Roberts

One of the biggest stars in Hollywood, this pretty woman's middle name is Fiona.

Eva Marie Saint

Yet another left-handed "Hitchcock blande". I'm beginning to sense a pattern here.

Emma Thompson

This highly-acclaimed, multi-talented actress won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her adaptation of Jane Austin's Sense and Sensibility.

Oprah Winfrey

This left-handed celebrity is one of the richest, most-powerful women in the world.

Joanne Woodward

This left-handed actress has been married to Paul Newman for many years. She was named after Joan Crawford (Woodward's mother pronounced it Jo-An.)

If you're curious about more left-handed celebrities, be sure to check out the other articles in this series.