The book covers all the best actress Oscar winners up to 2016.  There are 3-4 pages on each actress.  Discussion includes information about the movies they won the Oscar for, some short information about where they are from (birth, some family background), maybe a slight discussion about other films if there was a long career or famous movies, what happened after they won, late in life information for older actresses.  If you are fan of movies this is a good book to give just enough information about each actress to get a feel about them.