23 Actors
by Skylab23 | created - 01 Feb 2012 | updated - 29 Sep 2013 | Public1. Jeremy Irons
Actor | Dead Ringers
British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Young Jeremy didn't prove very fond of figures. He visited mainland England only once a year. He wound up ...
Top 5 Films
1. Dead Ringers
2. Inland Empire
3. The Mission
4. Reversal of Fortune
5. Lolita
2. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
Top 5 Films
1. Casablanca
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. The Big Sleep
5. The African Queen
3. Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Actor | Fa yeung nin wah
Tony Leung Chiu Wai was born in Hong Kong on 27 June 1962. He and his younger sister were raised by their mother after his father left them. In 1982, after passing the training courses of TVB, Tony became a TV actor and became famous for his comedy style in such TV shows as Tales of a Eunuch (1983)...
Top 5 Films
1. In the Mood for Love
2. Chungking Express
3. Happy Together
4. 2046
5. Hero
4. Steve McQueen
Actor | The Great Escape
He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...
Top 3 Films
1. The Great Escape
2. Bullitt
3. The Towering Inferno
5. 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 ...
Top 5 Films
1. Dangerous Laisons
2. Being John Malkovich
3. Mary Reilly
4. Changeling
5. In the Line of Fire
6. Sean Connery
Actor | The Rock
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...
Top 5 Films
1. The Untouchables
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Goldfinger
4. Murder on the Orient Express
5. The Name of the Rose
7. 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 ...
Top 5 Films
1. Taxi Driver
2. The Godfather: Part II
3. The Untouchables
4. The Deer Hunter
5. Raging Bull
8. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
Top 5 Films
1. The Godfather
2. Apocalypse Now
3. On the Waterfront
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
5. Last Tango in Paris
9. Liam Neeson
Actor | Kinsey
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...
Top 5 Films
1. Schindler's List
2. Batman Begins
3. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
4. Gangs of New York
5. Husbands and Wives
10. Ralph Fiennes
Actor | The Constant Gardener
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...
Top 5 Films
1. The English Patient
2. Schindler's List
3. Skyfall
4. In Bruges
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11. Nick Nolte
Actor | Warrior
Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska and began his career on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse and in regional theatre productions. His breakthrough role was in the TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), playing the role of "Tom/Tommy Jordache". Nick Nolte said that when he played a young man in ...
Top 5 Films
1. Hotel Rwanda
2. Warrior
3. Cape Fear
4. Affliction
5. Tropic Thunder
12. Gérard Depardieu
Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac
Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, to Anne Jeanne Josèphe (Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, who was a metal worker and fireman. Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Café de la Gare", along ...
Top 5 Films
1. Cyrano de Bergerac
2. Life of Pi
3. Jean de Florette
4. The Last Metro
5. Mon Oncle d'Amerique
13. Mark Wahlberg
Producer | The Fighter
American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...
Top 5 Films
1. The Departed
2. The Fighter
3. Boogie Nights
4. Three Kings
5. I Heart Huckabees
14. 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 ...
Top 5 Films
1. Children of Men
2. Sin City
3. Gosford Park
4. The Bourne Identity
5. Closer
15. 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 ...
Top 5 Films
1. The Descendants
2. Out of Sight
3. Up in the Air
4. Michael Clayton
5. Ocean's Thirteen
16. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
Top 5 Films 1. [link=tt00806]The Elephant Man[/link] 2. [link=tt0104454]Howards End[/link] 3. [link=tt0102926]The Silence of the Lambs[/link] 4. [link=tt0107943]The Remains of the Day[/link] 5. [link=tt0063227]The Lion in Winter[/link]
17. Toshirô Mifune
Actor | Yôjinbô
Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in ...
Top 3 Films
1. Yojimbo
2. Seven Samurai
3. Rashomon
18. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
Top 5 Films
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Jane Eyre
3. 300
4. X-Men: First Class
5. Prometheus
19. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
Top 5 Films
1. Alien
2. Midnight Express
3. Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy
4. Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Part 1, 2 & The Sorcerer's Stone
20. Max von Sydow
Actor | Flash Gordon
Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.
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Top 5 Films
1. Hannah and Her Sisters
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Wild Strawberries
5. The Virgin Spring
21. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Se7en
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
Top 5 Films
1. Unforgiven
2. The Dark Knight trilogy
3. Seven
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Million Dollar Baby
22. 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 ...
Top 5 Films
1. Chinatown
2. The Shining
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. The Departed
5. As Good as It Gets
23. 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 ...
Top 5 Films
1. Babel
2. Amores Perros
3. The Motorcycle Diaries
4. Y tu Mamá También
5. Bad Education
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