My Top 50 Favorite Actors
by buffyripleysalander | created - 08 Aug 2011 | updated - 6 days ago | Public1. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Soapdish, Chaplin, Heart and Souls, Only You, U.S. Marshals, Wonder Boys, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Shaggy Dog, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Zodiac, Charlie Bartlett, Iron Man 1-3, The Incredible Hulk, Tropic Thunder, The Soloist, Sherlock Holmes 1 and 2, Due Date, The Avengers, Chef, The Judge, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Dolittle, Oppenheimer, Guest Appearance on Family Guy ”
2. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Nightmare on Elm Street, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Chocolat, All 5 Pirates of the Caribbean Movies, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, 21 Jump Street, Dark Shadows, Into the Woods, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Murder on the Orient Express, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
3. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Hawking, Starter for 10, Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, War Horse, The Hobbit 1-2, Star Trek Into Darkness, 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County, The Imitation Game, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, 1917, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Sherlock
4. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
Movies I've Seen: Star Wars Episodes 4-7, All 5 Indiana Jones Movies, Working Girl, The Fugitive, Random Hearts, What Lies Beneath, Morning Glory, 42
5. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: The Godfather Part 2, The Untouchables, Midnight Run, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Heat, Analyze This, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Meet the Parents, The Score, Analyze That, Shark Tale, Meet the Fockers, Stardust, New Year's Eve, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, The Intern, Joy, Joker, Father of the Bride Part 3(Ish)(Short Film), Killers of the Flower Moon
6. David Boreanaz
Actor | Angel
David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Patti, a travel agent, and weatherman Dave Roberts (Boreanaz). His father is of Italian descent and his mother is of half Slovak ancestry. At the age of seven he decide to be an actor, which eventually ...
T.V. Shows I've Seen: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bones, Guest Apperance on Family Guy
7. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
Movies I've Seen: The Other Boleyn Girl, The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man 1-2, Hacksaw Ridge, Silence, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tick, Tick, Boom!
8. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor | Inception
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and ...
Movies I've Seen: Beethoven, Angels in the Outfield, 10 Things I Hate About You, Treasure Planet, (500) Days of Summer, Inception, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Lincoln, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Interview(Cameo), Snowden, Knives Out(Cameo)
9. Elliot Page
Actor | Juno
Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for...
Movies I've Seen: X-Men: The Last Stand, Juno, Whip It, Inception, X-Men: Days of Future Past
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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Schindler's List, The Prince of Egypt, Maid in Manhattan, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Duchess, Hary Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Parts 1 and 2, Skyfall, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Spectre, The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Movie 2, Dolittle
11. Christian Bale
Actor | The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
Movies I've Seen: Little Women, Pocahontas, Batman Begins, The Prestige, 3:10 to Yuma, The Dark Knight, Terminator: Salvation, The Fighter, The Dark Knight Rises, American Hustle, The Big Short, Ford V Ferrari, Thor: Love and Thunder
12. Jesse Eisenberg
Actor | The Social Network
Curly haired and with a fast-talking voice, Jesse Eisenberg is a movie actor, known for his Academy Award nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network. He has also starred in the films The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Education of Charlie Banks, 30 Minutes or ...
Movies I've Seen: The Emperor's Club, The Village, Adventureland, Zombieland, The Social Network, Now You See Me, American Ultra, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zombieland: Double Tap, Guest Appearance on The Newsroom
13. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Never Been Kissed, Spider-Man 1-3, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Date Night, 127 Hours, The Green Hornet, Your Highness, Oz: The Great and Powerful, This is the End, Veronica Mars, The Interview, Sausage Party, Why Him?, Alien: Covenant(Cameo), The Disaster Artist
14. Jim Parsons
Actor | The Big Bang Theory
Having grown up in Houston, and its northern suburb of Spring, he made his first stage appearance in a school play at the age of 6. Parsons then went on to study theater at the University of Houston. From there he won a place on a two-year Masters course in classical theater at the University of ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Garden State, The Muppets, Hidden Figures, The Big Bang Theory, Guest Apperance on Family Guy
15. Shia LaBeouf
Actor | Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf's natural talent and raw energy have secured his place as one of Hollywood's leading men.
Most recently, LaBeouf starred alongside Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn in Kornel Mundruczo's Oscar® nominated Pieces of a Woman. In the critically acclaimed film, a grieving couple (Kirby/LaBeouf...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Tru Confessions, Holes, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, I, Robot, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Bobby, Disturbia, Transformers 1 and 2, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Even Stevens
16. Jeremy Piven
Actor | Serendipity
Jeremy Piven was born on July 26, 1965 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Serendipity (2001), Entourage (2004) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Larger Than Life, The Family Man, Rush Hour 2, Serendipity, Black Hawk Down, Old School, Scary Movie 3, Chasing Liberty, Cars, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Entourage, Guest Apperance on Big Brother
17. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
Movies I've Seen: 10 Things I Hate About You, The Patriot, A Knight's Tale, The Dark Knight
18. Adam Scott
Actor | Parks and Recreation
Adam Scott was born in Santa Cruz, California, the son of Anne and Dougald Scott. He has two older siblings, Shannon and David. Scott has said that his brother David "looks like me but is far more cerebral and inherited the intellect of our parents," both of whom are retired teachers. He graduated ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Star Trek: First Contact, The Aviator, Monster-in-Law, Knocked Up, Step Brothers, Leap Year, Friends with Kids, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, The Disaster Artist, Party Down, Parks and Recreation, Burning Love, Big Little Lies, Guest Apperances on Veronica Mars, Eastbound & Down and The Good Place
19. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Spy Kids, Ocean's Eleven, Intolerable Cruelty, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Michael Clayton, Burn After Reading, Up in the Air, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Descendants, Gravity, Tomorrowland
20. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
Movies I've Seen: Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men in Black 1-3, Wild Wild West, Bad Boys 2, I, Robot, Shark Tale, Hitch, The Pursuit of Happyness, Suicide Squad, Aladdin, Bad Boys For Life
21. Gary Oldman
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Movies I've Seen: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Leon the Professional, The Fifth Element, Lost in Space, Quest for Camelot, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Dark Knight, The Book of Eli, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Darkest Hour, Mank, Oppenheimer
22. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
Movies I've Seen: Titanic, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Inception, Django Unchained, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Revenant, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Don't Look Up, Killers of the Flower Moon
23. Paul Rudd
Actor | Ant-Man
Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His parents, Michael and Gloria, both from Jewish families, were born in the London area, U.K. He has one sister, who is three years younger than he is. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at ...
Movies I've Seen: Clueless, Anchorman, Night at the Museum, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Role Models, Year One, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, This is 40, Admission, This is the End, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Sausage Party, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Burning Love
24. Christoph Waltz
Actor | Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
Movies I've Seen: Inglourious Basterds, The Green Hornet, Django Unchained, Muppets Most Wanted, Horrible Bosses 2, Big Eyes, Spectre, Alita: Battle Angel
25. Topher Grace
Actor | In Good Company
Topher Grace was born Christopher John Grace in New York City, New York, to Pat, a schoolmaster's assistant, and John Grace, an executive. He was raised in Darien, Connecticut. He attended boarding school in New Hampshire for two years, where he began his acting career in such musicals as "Joseph ...
Movies I've Seen: Mona Lisa Smile, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, In Good Company, Spider-Man 3, Valentine's Day,Take Me Home Tonight, Interstellar, American Ultra, BlacKkKlansman
26. Adam Brody
Actor | The O.C.
Adam Jared Brody was born and raised in San Diego, California, the son of Valerie Jill (Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Alan Brody, a lawyer. His parents, both originally from Michigan, are both from Jewish families (from Russia and Poland). Adam spent a lot of his teen years hanging out with ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: American Pie 2, The Ring, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, Jennifer's Body, Scream 4, Shazam! Ready or Not, Promising Young Woman, The O.C., Burning Love, Guest Apperance on Smallville
27. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: From Russia with Love, Diamonds are Forever, The Untouchables, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Medicine Man, Dragonheart, Finding Forrester, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
28. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
Movies I've Seen: Beverly Hills Cop 1-3, Coming to America, Harlem Nights, The Nutty Professor 1-2, Mulan, Dr. Doolittle 1-2, Shrek 1-4, I Spy, Daddy Day Care, The Haunted Mansion, Dreamgirls, Tower Heist
29. Jensen Ackles
Actor | Supernatural
Jensen Ross Ackles, better known as simply Jensen Ackles, was born on March 1, 1978, in Dallas, Texas, to Donna Joan (Shaffer) and actor Alan Ackles. He has English, German, and Scottish ancestry. Jensen grew up in Richardson, Texas, together with his older brother, Joshua, and a younger sister, ...
T.V. Shows I've Seen: Dark Angel, Smallville, Supernatural, The Boys
30. Ed Westwick
Actor | Gossip Girl
Edward Jack Peter Westwick is an English actor and musician best known for his role as Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl as well as Vincent Swan in the TV series White Gold. He made his feature film debut in Children of Men (2006) and has since appeared in the films Breaking and Entering (2006), ...
T.V. Show I've Seen: Gossip Girl
31. Cary Elwes
Actor | Saw
Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London, England, the third son of interior designer/shipping heiress Tessa Georgina Kennedy and the late portrait painter Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes. He is the brother of producer/agent Cassian Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. He was raised in London and attended ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: The Princess Bride, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Jungle Book, Twister, Quest for Camelot, Saw, Ella Enchanted, Georgia Rule, No Strings Attached, The Adventures of Tintin, New Year's Eve, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part 1, Rebel Moon, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guest Apperances on Pinky and the Brain, Stranger Things
32. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
Movies I've Seen: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, 3 and 5, The Bling Ring(Archive Footage), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
33. Jason Bateman
Actor | Arrested Development
Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).
He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Starsky and Hutch, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Juno, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, State of Play, Up in the Air, The Invention of Lying, Couples Retreat, The Switch, Paul, Horrible Bosses 1-2, Zootopia, Game Night, Arrested Development
34. Daniel Radcliffe
Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: All the Harry Potter Movies, The Lost City, Guest Apperance on The Simpsons
35. Rupert Grint
Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was born in Harlow, Essex, England, the elder son of Joanne (Parsons) and Nigel Grint, who dealt in memorabilia. The first of 5 children, Rupert has one brother and three sisters.
Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire, the English county directly to the north of London, ...
Movies I've Seen: All the Harry Potter Movies
36. Bradley Cooper
Actor | A Star Is Born
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...
Movies I've Seen: Wedding Crashers, Failure to Launch, The Rocker, The Hangover 1-2, All About Steve, Valentine's Day, The A-Team, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Guardians of the Galaxy 1-3, American Sniper, Joy, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Avengers: Infinity War, A Star is Born, Avengers: Endgame
37. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Actor | Den 12. mann
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was born Jonathan Michael Meyers on July 27, 1977, in Dublin, Ireland, to Mary Geraldine (Meyers) and John O'Keeffe, a musician. He and his family moved to County Cork, Ireland, when the actor was nearly a year old, and then, at the age of 3, his father left the family, leaving...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Bend it Like Beckham, Match Point, Mission Impossible 3, August Rush, The Tudors
38. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
Movies I've Seen: A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story 1-4, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, The Ladykillers, The Terminal, The Polar Express, Cars, The Da Vinci Code, The Simpsons Movie, Charlie Wilson's War, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Captain Phillips, Saving Mr. Banks, Bridge of Spies, Sully, The Post, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
39. Daniel Craig
Actor | Casino Royale
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born ...
Movies I've Seen: A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Adventures of Tintin, Skyfall, Spectre, Logan Lucky, Knives Out, Glass Onion
40. Bill Murray
Actor | Lost in Translation
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...
Movies I've Seen: Meatballs, Ghostbusters 1-2, Scrooged, What About Bob?, Groundhog Day, Ed Wood, Larger Than Life, Rushmore, Charlie's Angels, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Garfield, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Get Smart, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Zombieland, The Grand Budapest Hotel, St. Vincent, The Jungle Book, Ghostbusters(2016), Zombieland: Double Tap, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
41. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
Movies I've Seen: Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Galaxy Quest, All the Harry Potter Movies, Love Actually, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, Lee Daniels' The Butler
42. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, Speed Racer, Savages, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
43. Kyle Chandler
Actor | Argo
Kyle M. Chandler is an Emmy-winning American actor who was born in Buffalo, New York in 1965. He resides in the United States with his wife, Kathryn Chandler, and their two children, Sawyer and Sydney. Some of his most notable credits include "Friday Night Lights" (Friday Night Lights (2006)), "...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: King Kong, Super 8, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, The Wolf of Wall Street, Carol, Manchester by the Sea, Game Night, First Man, Early Edition, Friday Night Lights
44. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
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...
Movies I've Seen: Lean on Me, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, Amistad, Bruce Almighty, Million Dollar Baby, Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, Lucky Number Slevin, Evan Almighty, The Bucket List, The Dark Knight, Invictus, Red, The Dark Knight Rises, Oblivion, Now You See Me, Lucy, Ted 2
45. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
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...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Working Girl, See No Evil Hear No Evil, The Usual Suspects, Se7en, A Bug's Life, American Beauty, Pay It Forward, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Superman Returns, Fred Claus, 21, Moon, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Horrible Bosses 1-2, Baby Driver, House of Cards
46. Bryan Cranston
Actor | Breaking Bad
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Little Miss Sunshine, Drive, John Carter, Rock of Ages, Argo, Godzilla, Why Me?, Power Rangers, The Disaster Artist, Malcolm in the Middle, Breaking Bad, Guest Appearances on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Family Guy
47. Aaron Paul
Actor | Breaking Bad
Aaron Paul was born Aaron Paul Sturtevant in Emmett, Idaho, to Darla (Haynes) and Robert Sturtevant, a retired Baptist minister. While growing up, Paul took part in church programs, and performed in plays.
He attended Centennial High School in Boise, Idaho. It was there, in eighth grade, that Aaron ...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Mission Impossible 3, Breaking Bad, Bojack Horseman, Guest Apperance on Veronica Mars, Bones
48. Peter Dinklage
Actor | Game of Thrones
Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) . For this he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a...
Movies/T.V. Shows I've Seen: Elf, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Boss, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Avengers: Infinity War, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Game of Thrones
49. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
Movies I've Seen: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 13 Going on 30, Collateral, Just Like Heaven, Zodiac, The Kids Are All Right, Shutter Island, Date Night, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Now You See Me, Begin Again, Foxcatcher, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spotlight, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, The Adam Project, Poor Things
50. Robert Pattinson
Actor | Twilight
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...
Movies I've Seen: Harry Potter 4, The Twilight Saga, Remember Me, The King, The Batman
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