MY TOP 25 ACTORS
by Gonzothefacey | created - 08 Jan 2012 | updated - 04 Feb 2014 | PublicThis is a list of my personal fave top 25 movie actors. Also listed are my personal top 10 movies that each actor has starred in. This list is personal opinion and purely subjective.
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1. 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, ...
The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Legends of the Fall 1994 Amistad 1997 Meet Joe Black 1998 The Devil and Daniel Webster 2004 The World's Fastest Indian 2005 Bobby 2006 Beowulf 2007 Thor 2011 The Rite 2011
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor | The Master
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...
Boogie Nights 1997 Magnolia 1999 Almost Famous 2000 Capote 2005 Charlie Wilson's War 2007 Doubt 2008 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007 The Boat That Rocked aka Pirat Radio 2009 Moneyball 2011 The Ides of March 2011
3. Johnny Depp
Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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 ...
Edward Scissorhands 1990 Ed Wood 1994 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Blow 2001 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico 2003 Finding Neverland 2004 Public Enemies 2009 Alice in Wonderland 2010 The Tourist 2010
4. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
Se7en 1995 Meet Joe Black 1998 Fight Club 1999 Snatch. 2000 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 Babel 2006 Burn After Reading 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Moneyball 2011
5. 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)...
The Godfather 1972 Serpico 1973 Scarface 1983 Frankie and Johnny 1991 Scent of a Woman 1992 Donnie Brasco 1997 The Devil's Advocate 1997 Any Given Sunday 1999 88 Minutes 2007 Righteous Kill 2008
6. 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...
Driving Miss Daisy 1989 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Se7en 1995 Outbreak 1995 Amistad 1997 The Sum of All Fears 2002 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Unleashed 2005 Batman Begins 2005 Invictus 2009
7. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
The Big Lebowski 1998 Seabiscuit 2003 The Door in the Floor 2004 Surf's Up 2007 Iron Man 2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 2008 The Men Who Stare at Goats 2009 Crazy Heart 2009 A Dog Year 2009 True Grit 2010
8. 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 ...
Easy Rider 1969 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 The Shining 1980 Terms of Endearment 1983 The Witches of Eastwick 1987 A Few Good Men 1992 As Good as It Gets 1997 About Schmidt 2002 Something's Gotta Give 2003 The Departed 2007
9. 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 ...
Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Philadelphia 1993 Forrest Gump 1994 Apollo 13 1995 That Thing You Do! 1996 Saving Private Ryan 1998 The Green Mile 1999 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Road to Perdition 2002 Charlie Wilson's War 2007
10. 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 ...
Taxi Driver 1976 The Untouchables 1987 Goodfellas 1990 Casino 1995 Sleepers 1996 Men of Honor 2000 Hide and Seek 2005 Stardust 2007 Righteous Kill 2008 Limitless 2011
11. 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,...
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 The Basketball Diaries 1995 The Beach 2000 Gangs of New York 2002 Catch Me If You Can 2002 The Aviator 2003 The Departed 2006 Blood Diamond 2006 Revolutionary Road 2008 Inception 2010
12. 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 ...
Malcolm X 1992 Philadelphia 1993 The Hurricane 1999 Remember the Titans 2000 Training Day 2001 John Q 2002 Antwone Fisher 2002 American Gangster 2007 The Great Debaters 2007 The Book of Eli 2010
13. 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 ...
From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Syriana 2005 Leatherheads 2008 Burn After Reading 2008 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Up in the Air 2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats 2009 The Ides of March 2011
14. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
Contagion 2011 True Grit 2010 Invictus 2009 The Informant! 2009 The Departed 2006 The Bourne Identity 2002 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Dogma 1999 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Good Will Hunting 1997
15. 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...
A Time to Kill 1996 L.A. Confidential 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997 American Beauty 1999 Pay It Forward 2000 The Life of David Gale 2003 Beyond the Sea 2004 21 2008 The Men Who Stare at Goats 2009 Horrible Bosses 2011
16. 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 ...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Dead Man Walking 1995 The Thin Red Line 1998 I Am Sam 2001 Mystic River 2003 21 Grams 2003 The Assassination of Richard Nixon 2004 The Interpreter 2005 All the King's Men 2006 Milk 2008
17. William H. Macy
Actor | Fargo
William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the ...
Fargo 1996 Boogie Nights 1997 Pleasantville 1998 A Civil Action 1998 Magnolia 1999 The Cooler 2003 Seabiscuit 2003 Thank You for Smoking 2005 Bobby 2006 The Lincoln Lawyer 2011
18. 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 ...
Chaplin 1992 Natural Born Killers 1994 Black and White 1999 Gothika 2003 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Charlie Bartlett 2007 Zodiac 2007 Tropic Thunder 2008 Iron Man 2008 Sherlock Holmes 2009
19. 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:...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 Road to Perdition 2002 Cold Mountain 2003 Alfie 2004 The Holiday 2006 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2009 Sherlock Holmes 2009 Contagion 2011
20. 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 ...
10 Things I Hate About You 1999 The Patriot 2000 Monster's Ball 2001 Ned Kelly 2003 The Order 2003 The Brothers Grimm 2005 Brokeback Mountain 2005 I'm Not There. 2007 The Dark Knight 2008 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2009
21. 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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The Usual Suspects 1995 Joyride 1997 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Snatch. 2000 Traffic 2000 The Hunted 2003 21 Grams 2003 Sin City 2005 Things We Lost in the Fire 2007 Che: Part One 2008
22. 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...
Pulp Fiction 1994 Airheads 1994 Desperado 1995 Fargo 1996 The Wedding Singer 1998 The Big Lebowski 1998 Armageddon 1998 Big Fish 2003 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry 2007 Youth in Revolt 2009
23. Matthew McConaughey
Actor | Interstellar
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
Dazed and Confused 1993 A Time to Kill 1996 Amistad 1997 Frailty 2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2003 We Are Marshall 2006 Failure to Launch 2006 Tropic Thunder 2008 The Lincoln Lawyer 2011
24. 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 ...
Bad Boys 1995 Independence Day 1996 Men in Black 1997 Enemy of the State 1998 Ali 2001 Hitch 2005 The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 I Am Legend 2007 Hancock 2008 Seven Pounds 2008
25. Edgar Ramírez
Actor | Gold
Edgar Ramirez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor, born in the city of San Cristobal (Tachira State, southwest Venezuela). He is the son of Soday Arellano, an attorney, and Filiberto Ramírez, a military officer.
Being the son of a soldier and living abroad with his family, he learned several languages, ...
Punto y raya 2004 Domino 2005 Elipsis 2006 El Don 2006 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Cyrano Fernández 2007 Vantage Point 2008 Che: Part One 2008 Carlos 2010
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