Berlin: Best Actor
by KSTLeo | created - 25 Nov 2012 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. Sebastian Stan
Actor | Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Sebastian Stan was born on August 13, 1982, in Constanta, Romania. He moved with his mother to Vienna, Austria, when he was eight, and then to New York when he was twelve. Stan studied at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and spent a year at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
When he went ...
2024: Leading (A different man)
2. Elio Germano
Actor | Il giovane favoloso
Elio Germano was born on September 25, 1980 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Leopardi (2014), Nine (2009) and Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007).
2020: Volevo nascondermi (Hidden away)
3. Jingchun Wang
Actor | Di jiu tianchang
Jingchun Wang was born on February 12, 1973 in Xinjiang, China. He is an actor and producer, known for So Long, My Son (2019), Jing cha ri ji (2013) and Shadow (2018).
2019: So long, my son
4. Anthony Bajon
Actor | La prière
Anthony Bajon was born on April 7, 1994 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Prayer (2018), You Deserve a Lover (2019) and Sweetheart (2018).
2018: La prière (The prayer)
5. Georg Friedrich
Actor | Große Freiheit
Georg Friedrich was born on October 31, 1966 in Vienna, Austria. He is an actor, known for Great Freedom (2021), Wild Mouse (2017) and Bright Nights (2017).
2017: Bright nights
6. Majd Mastoura
Actor | Inhebek Hedi
Majd Mastoura was born on April 30, 1990 in Menzel Abderrahmane, Tunisia. He is an actor, known for Hedi (2016), Bidoun 2 (2014) and As I Open My Eyes (2015).
2016: Inhebek Hedi
7. Tom Courtenay
Actor | 45 Years
Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s. An undying love for the theatre, however, had Courtenay channeling a ...
2015: 45 years
8. Fan Liao
Actor | Jiang hu er nü
Fan Liao was born on February 14, 1974 in Hunan, China. He is an actor, known for Jiang hu er nü (2018), The Final Master (2015) and Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014).
2014: Black coal
9. Nazif Mujic
Actor | Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza
Nazif Mujic was born on October 10, 1970 in Tuzla, Yugoslavia [now Bosnia and Herzegovina]. He was an actor, known for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013). He died on February 18, 2018 in Svatovac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2013: An episode in the life of an iron picker
10. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Actor | En kongelig affære
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard is a young danish actor. In 2012, he won the award of Best Male Actor at the Berlinale for his appearance in the movie A Royal Affair, while still attending theatre school, Statens Teaterskole in Copenhagen. He graduated in the summer of 2012.
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard grew up in the...
2012: A royal affair
11. Shahab Hosseini
Actor | Darbareye Elly
Shahab Hosseini was born on February 3, 1974 in Tehran, Iran. He grew up in a family of six and was the oldest child. He earned his high school diploma in Biology. Once a psychology student at the University of Tehran, he dropped out with the intent of emigrating to Canada. Instead, he ended up as ...
2011: A separation
12. Babak Karimi
Actor | Forooshande
Babak Karimi was born on March 22, 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is an actor and editor, known for The Salesman (2016), The Past (2013) and A Separation (2011).
2011: A separation
13. Payman Maadi
Actor | Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Peyman Maadi was born in 1972 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. His family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer ...
2011: A separation
14. Ali-Asghar Shahbazi
Actor | Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi is known for A Separation (2011), Under the Peach Tree (2007) and Il était une fois... (2003).
2011: A separation
15. Grigoriy Dobrygin
Actor | A Most Wanted Man
Grigoriy Dobrygin was born on February 17, 1986 in Rybachiy, Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Kamchatskiy kray, Russia]. He is an actor and producer, known for A Most Wanted Man (2014), Black Sea (2014) and An Affair (2013).
2010: How I ended this summer
16. Sergey Puskepalis
Actor | Prostye veshchi
Sergey Puskepalis was born on April 15, 1966 in Kursk, Kurskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Prostye veshchi (2007), Metro (2013) and How I Ended This Summer (2010). He died on September 20, 2022 in Rostov district of the Yaroslavl region, Russia.
2010: How I ended this summer
17. Sotigui Kouyaté
Actor | Little Senegal
Sotigui Kouyaté was born on July 19, 1936 in Bamako, Mali. He was an actor and composer, known for Little Senegal (2000), Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and London River (2009). He was married to Ester Marty. He died on April 17, 2010 in Paris, France.
2009: London River
18. Mohammad Amir Naji
Actor | Avaze gonjeshk-ha
Mohammad Amir Naji is known for The Song of Sparrows (2008), Children of Heaven (1997) and Escaping Hell (1996).
2008: The song of sparrows
19. Julio Chávez
Actor | El puntero
Julio Chávez was born on July 14, 1956 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is an actor and writer, known for El puntero (2011), El custodio (2006) and The Other (2007).
2007: El otro (The other)
20. Moritz Bleibtreu
Actor | Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor born on August 13, 1971 in Munich growing up in Hamburg. He first appears in children's television series Neues aus Uhlenbusch (1977) at the age of six. His breakthrough was the role called "Abdul" in the movie Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997). He also became ...
2006: Atomised
21. Lou Taylor Pucci
Actor | You
Lou Taylor Pucci emerged as one of the most promising young actors of his generation when Mike Mills' Thumbsucker premiered at Sundance Film Festival. For his performance as 'Justin Cobb,' a compulsive 17-year-old thumbsucker, Pucci received both a Sundance Special Jury Prize for acting and the ...
2005: Thumbsucker
22. Daniel Hendler
Director | Norberto apenas tarde
Daniel Hendler was born on January 3, 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is an actor and director, known for Norberto's Deadline (2010), El candidato (2016) and Phase 7 (2010). He has been married to Ana Katz since 2008. They have two children.
2004: Lost embrace
23. 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 ...
2003: Confessions of a dangerous mind
24. Jacques Gamblin
Actor | Les enfants du marais
Jacques Gamblin was born on November 16, 1957 in Granville, Manche, France. He is an actor and writer, known for The Children of the Marshland (1999), Safe Conduct (2002) and The Names of Love (2010).
2002: Safe conduct
25. 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).
...
2001: Traffic
26. 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 ...
X2 2000: The Hurricane 1993: Malcolm X
27. Michael Gwisdek
Actor | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Michael Gwisdek was born on January 14, 1942 in Weissensee, Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and Treffen in Travers (1988). He was married to Gabriela Gwisdek and Corinna Harfouch. He died on September 22, 2020 in ...
1999: Nightshapes
28. Samuel L. Jackson
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...
1998: Jackie Brown
29. 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,...
1997: Romeo + Juliet
30. 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 ...
1996: Dead man walking
31. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
1995: Nobody's fool
32. 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 ...
1994: Philadelphia
33. Armin Mueller-Stahl
Actor | Eastern Promises
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German actor with a relatively long film career. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as an abusive father in the biographical drama "Shine" (1996).
In 1930, Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. The town developed ...
1992: Utz
34. Maynard Eziashi
Actor | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Maynard Eziashi was born in 1965 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), The Contract (2006) and Mister Johnson (1990).
1991: Mister Johnson
35. 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...
1990: Driving Miss Daisy
36. Iain Glen
Actor | Game of Thrones
Iain Glen is a Scottish actor, born June 24, 1961, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was the winner of the ...
1990: Silent scream
37. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
1989: Mississippi burning
38. Manfred Möck
Actor | Einer trage des anderen Last
Manfred Möck was born on February 14, 1959 in Sangerhausen, German Democratic Republic [now Federal Republic of Germany]. He is an actor, known for Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988), Berlin, Berlin (2002) and Meine schönsten Jahre (2004).
1988: Bear Ye one another's burden
39. Jörg Pose
Actor | Einer trage des anderen Last
Jörg Pose was born on May 18, 1959 in Rostock, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988), Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten (2015) and Flugstaffel Meinecke (1989).
1988: Bear Ye one another's burden
40. Gian Maria Volontè
Actor | Per un pugno di dollari
Born in Milan in 1933, Gian Maria Volontè studied in Rome at the National Dramatic Arts Academy, where he obtained his degree in 1957. He began working in theatre and television, where he was soon noticed as one of the most promising actors of his generation. After several supporting appearances in...
1987: Il caso Moro
41. Tuncel Kurtiz
Actor | Auf der anderen Seite
Tuncel Kurtiz was born in 1936, Izmit-Turkey. He graduated from Istanbul University, English Language and Literature and started acting in 1956 with Dormen Theatre. With the movie 'Suru', he reached the peak of his acting career. Kurtiz received many awards in Turkey and also abroad. He also known ...
1986: The smile of the lamb
42. Fernando Fernán Gómez
Actor | El abuelo
Spanish actor and director of cinema and theater. Son of the actress Carola Fernán Gómez. When he was three years old he comes back to Spain from Argentina. He has written comedies, novels and poem books. He plays a wide repertoire of roles from comedy to drama.
X2 1985: Stico 1977: The Anchorite
43. Albert Finney
Actor | Murder on the Orient Express
The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...
1984: The Dresser
44. Bruce Dern
Actor | Nebraska
Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern's tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors of his generation.
Dern currently appears opposite...
1983: That championship season
45. Michel Piccoli
Actor | Le mépris
This suave, elegant character star was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades. His distinguished career extended to both stage and screen and his versatility was such that he could take on just about any persona (in his own words: "I do not put on an act... I slip away ...
1982: Strange affair
46. Stellan Skarsgård
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Stellan Skarsgård was born in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Gudrun (Larsson) and Jan Skarsgård. He became a star in his teens through the title role in the TV-series Bombi Bitt och jag (1968). Between the years 1972-88 he was employed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where...
1982: The simple-minded murder
47. Jack Lemmon
Actor | The Apartment
Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...
1981: Tribute
48. Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Actor | Stalker
The famous Russian actor was discovered by Andrei Tarkovsky. He was looking for an actor to play the part of Andrei Rublev for his second full-length film and accidentally found the completely unknown Solonitsyn in Chelyabinsk. He worked there as an amateur actor. After Andrei Rublev, he played ...
1981: Twenty six days from the life of Dostoyevsky
49. Andrzej Seweryn
Actor | Schindler's List
Andrzej Seweryn was born on April 25, 1946 in Heilbronn, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Schindler's List (1993), The Last Family (2016) and Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiaca (2000). He has been married to Katarzyna Kubacka since August 30, 2015. He was previously married to Mireille ...
1980: Dyrygent (The conductor)
50. Michele Placido
Actor | La piovra
Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995). He has been married to Federica Vincenti since August 14, 2012. They have one child. He was previously married to ...
1979: Ernesto
51. Craig Russell
Actor | Outrageous!
Craig Russell was born on January 10, 1948 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Outrageous! (1977), Too Outrageous! (1987) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). He was married to Lori Jenkins. He died on October 30, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1978: Outrageous!
52. Gerhard Olschewski
Actor | Verlorenes Leben
Gerhard Olschewski was born on May 30, 1942 in Herzogskirchen, East Prussia, Germany [now Gaski, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for A Lost Life (1976), Eisenhans (1983) and Der Mörder (1979).
1976: A lost life
53. Vlastimil Brodský
Actor | Jakob der Lügner
Vlastimil Brodský was born on December 15, 1920 in Hrusov, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor and writer, known for Jacob the Liar (1974), Babí léto (2001) and Noc na Karlstejne (1974). He was married to Jana Brejchová and Bozena Brodská. He died on April 20, 2002 in Slunecna, ...
1975: Jacob the liar
54. Alberto Sordi
Actor | Io e Caterina
One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama. He, along with peers Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Nino Manfredi, arguably represent ...
1972: In prison awaiting trial
55. Jean Gabin
Actor | La grande illusion
Jean-Alexis Moncorgé started his career with 15 years at the theatre and debuted at the "Moulin Rouge" in Paris in 1929. Despite of his rude aspect he knew to be the gentleman of the French cinema in the time between the two World Wars. One of his most popular personalities was inspector Maigret. ...
X2 1971: Le chat 1959: Archimède, le clochard (The magnificent tramp)
56. Jean-Louis Trintignant
Actor | Amour
Born 1930 in Piolenc in south France as son of a wealthy industrialist. Studied law in Aix-en-Provence. Started theatrical acting in 1950, but was regarded untalented at first, until Roger Vadim discovered him for the movies. When the press stalked him 1956 because of rumors of an affair with ...
1968: The man who lies
57. Michel Simon
Actor | Le quai des brumes
The son of a sausage-maker, Michel Simon was conscripted into the Swiss Army at the start of World War I, but was thrown out through a combination of tuberculosis and general insubordination. He was variously a boxer, photographer, general handyman and right-wing anarchist, finally becoming a stage...
1967: The two of us
58. Jean-Pierre Léaud
Actor | Les quatre cents coups
Jean-Pierre Léaud is not everybody's cup of tea for sure, but will remain an important name in film history. As an actor he can be adored or hated for exactly the same reasons: he is one of those rare players that directors let improvise his dialogue, which gets on certain viewers' nerves while it ...
1966: Masculine-Femenine
59. Lee Marvin
Actor | The Dirty Dozen
American actor Lee Marvin was born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. in New York City. After leaving school aged 18, Marvin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in August 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and after being wounded in action ...
1965: Cat Ballou
60. Rod Steiger
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at...
1964: The pawnbroker
61. Sidney Poitier
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...
X2 1963: Lilies of the field 1958: The defiant ones
62. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
1962: Mr. Hobbs takes a vacation
63. Peter Finch
Actor | Network
Despite being one of the finest actors of his generation, Peter Finch will be remembered as much for his reputation as a hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer as for his performances on the screen. He was born in London in 1916 and went to live in Sydney, Australia, at the age of ten. There, he ...
1961: No love for Johnny
64. Fredric March
Actor | The Best Years of Our Lives
Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. He starred on the Broadway stage first in 1926 and would return there between screen appearances later on. He won plaudits (and an Academy Award nomination) for his send-up of ...
1960: Inherit the wind
65. Pedro Infante
Actor | Tizoc (Amor indio)
Undoubtedly, Pedro Infante was, and still is, the idol of Mexico. Because of his movies (59 including 55 leading roles and four cameos), records (366 songs recorded between 1943 and 1956) and public appearances in Mexico and Latin America, Infante became a star and the most beloved human being in ...
1957: Tizoc
66. Burt Lancaster
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...
1956: Trapeze
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