My Favorite Actors
by yeswecancan | created - 18 Jun 2011 | updated - 19 Jun 2011 | Public
1. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
17.08.1960, California - American
Favorite performances:
Jimmy in Mystic River (2003) Won Oscar!
Sam in I Am Sam (2001) Oscar Nominated for Leading Role
Paul in 21 Grams (2003)
Harvey in Milk (2008) Won Oscar!
Other movies I've seen:
Jack in The Tree of Life (2011)
Tobin in The Interpreter (2005)
Samuel in The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Marciello in It's All About Love (2003)
Cuco in Before Night Falls (2000)
Edward in The Thin Red Line (1998)
Bobby in U Turn (1997)
Matthew in Dead Man Walking (1995) Oscar Nominated for Leading Role
Jim in We're No Angels (1989)
Jeff in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Want to see: The Gangster Squad, This Must Be the Place, Fair Game, Persepolis, All the King's Men, The Weight of Water, Up at the Villa, Sweet and Lowdown, Hurlyburly, Hugo Pool, She's So Lovely, Loved, Carlito's Way, State of Grace, Casualties of War, Colors, Shanghai Surprise, At Close Range, Racing with the Moon
2. Kevin Spacey
Actor | L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
26.07.1959, New Jersey - American
Favorite performances:
Lester in American Beauty (1999) Won Oscar
John in Se7en (1995)
Roger in The Usual Suspects (1995) Won Oscar for Supporting Role
David in The Life of David Gale (2003)
Other movies I've seen:
Larry in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
Micky in 21 (2008)
Albert in The United States of Leland (2003)
Dr. Evil in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Quoyle in The Shipping News (2001)
Eugene in Pay it Forward (2000)
Hopper in A Bug's Life (1998)
Chris in The Negotiator (1998)
Rufus in A Time to Kill (1996)
Want to see: Horrible Bosses, Margin Call, Casino Jack, Father of Invention, Shrink, Recount, Beyond the Sea, Hurlyburly, Outbreak, Henry & June, Heartburn
3. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
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19.02.1967, Puerto Rican
Favorite performances:
Jack in 21 Grams (2003) Oscar nominated for Supporting Actor
Jerry in Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Javier in Traffic (2000) Won Oscar for Supporting Actor
Other movies I've seen:
Jackie in Sin City (2005)
Toby in The Pledge (2001)
Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Juan in The Fan (1996)
Fred in The Usual Suspects (1995)
Want to see: Silence, The Wolfman, Che: Part 1 and 2, The Hunted, The Way of the Gun, Snatch., Excess Baggage, Joyride, The Funeral, Basquiat, Swimming with Sharks, Fearless, Huevos de oro, The Indian Runner
4. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
17.08.1943, New York - American
Favorite performances:
Michael in The Deer Hunter (1978) Oscar Nominated
Travis in Taxi Driver (1976) Oscar Nominated
Vito in Godfather 2 (1974) Won Oscar for Supporting Actor
Other movies I've seen:
Carl in Limitless (2011)
Capt. Shakespeare in Stardust (2007)
Bill in The Good Shepherd (2006)
David in Hide and Seek (2005)
Jack in Meet the Fockers (2004)
Paul in Analyze That (2002)
Mitch in Showtime (2002)
Eddie in 15 Minutes (2001)
Jack in Meet the Parents (2000)
Billy in Men of Honor (2000)
Paul in Analyze This (1999)
Lustig in Great Expectations (1998)
Louis in Jackie Brown (1997)
Bobby in Sleepers (1996)
Gil in The Fan (1996)
Sam in Casino (1995)
Lorenzo in A Bronx Tale (1993)
Max in Cape Fear (1991) Oscar Nominated
Leonard in Awakenings (1990) Oscar Nominated
James in Goodfellas (1990)
Ned in We're No Angels (1989)
Want to see: Red Lights, Another *beep* Night in Suck City, Killer Elite, Manuele d'am3re, Stone, Machete, Everybody's Fine, Righteous Kill, What Just Happened, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Shark Tale, City by the Sea, The Score, Flawless, Wag the Dog, Marvin's Room, Heat, This Boy's Life, Guilty by Suspicion, Jacknife, The Untouchables, Angel Heart, Brazil, Falling in Love, Once Upon of Time in America, Raging Bull, New York New York, The Last Tycoon, 1900, The Wedding Party
5. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
6. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
7. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor | Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...
8. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
9. Emile Hirsch
Actor | Into the Wild
Emile Davenport Hirsch was born in Palms, California, to Margaret Esther (Davenport), a teacher and visual artist, and David M. Hirsch, an entrepreneur and producer. He grew up in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and having been introduced to acting while still at school, he got his first ...
10. Christopher Walken
Actor | The Deer Hunter
Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...
11. Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor | Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...
12. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
13. Denzel Washington
Actor | Fences
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
14. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
15. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
16. Sam Rockwell
Actor | Moon
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...
17. Steve Buscemi
Actor | Fargo
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to...
18. George Clooney
Actor | The Ides of March
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...
19. Gael García Bernal
Actor | Mozart in the Jungle
Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal, an actress/model & José Ángel García, an actor/director. His stepfather's cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. He began his acting career as a child, working w/ his parents in a variety of plays. At 14, he starred in a soap opera called El ...
20. Jesper Christensen
Actor | Spectre
Born 1948 in central Copenhagen. Lived there ever since. Did 25 years of theatre, - like Alceste in the Misanthropist, Richard in Richard lll (solo), Faust in Faust, Astrov in Vanja, a lot of worried men,- stopped doing it in 1998. Since then only worried men on film. Worked on more than 100 films ...
21. Viggo Mortensen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...
22. John Malkovich
Actor | Being John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...
23. Ryan Gosling
Actor | Blue Valentine
Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...
24. John Leguizamo
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Fast-talking and feisty-looking John Leguizamo has continued to impress movie audiences with his versatility: he can play sensitive and naïve young men, such as Johnny in Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); cold-blooded killers like Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way (1993); a heroic Army Green Beret, ...
25. Lars Mikkelsen
Actor | Headhunter
Lars was born in Gladsaxe near Copenhagen, Denmark as the first child of Bente Christiansen, an occupational health nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a bank clerk. Lars grew up in Copenhagen, where about one and a half years after him brother Mads was born, who's also an actor now. At first the family ...
26. Aaron Eckhart
Actor | The Dark Knight
Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior ...
27. Clive Owen
Actor | Children of Men
British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting ...
28. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
29. Jude Law
Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...
30. David Dencik
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
David Dencik was born on October 31, 1974 in Sweden. He is an actor and producer, known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), No Time to Die (2021) and The Homesman (2014).
31. Pilou Asbæk
Actor | Ghost in the Shell
Pilou Asbæk graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2008. In the same year, he played the leading role in Niels Arden Oplev's drama Worlds Apart. In 2010 he had his breakthrough as the inmate Rune in Lindholm & Noer's prison drama R for which he won the prize for Best actor ...
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