Actors and Actresses
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1. Michael C. Hall
Actor | Dexter
Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Janice (Styons), a guidance counselor, and William Carlyle Hall, who worked for IBM. Michael is a graduate of NYU's Master of Fine Arts program in acting. He is known for the titular character "Dexter" in Dexter (2006) and as mortician "David ...
Dexter (2006-2013) Dexter Morgan (main character)
2. Jennifer Carpenter
Actress | The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Jennifer was born in Kentucky. Her mother is Catherine Mitchell and her father is Robert Carpenter.
She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. During her last two years of high school, she studied drama at the Walden Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. She then trained at the ...
Dexter (2006-2013) Debra Morgan
3. Aimee Garcia
Actress | Dexter
A Chicago native of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, she made her professional stage debut at the age of seven in Paul Mejia's "Cinderella" at The Auditorium Theatre. By the age of twelve, she was dancing 20 shows a month as "Clara" in "The Nutcracker". She joined the Young People's Company, whose...
Dexter (2006-2013) Jamie Batista (Batista's sister)
4. Yvonne Strahovski
Actress | Stateless
Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski was born and raised in Australia. Her parents were Polish immigrants. She attended the Santa Sabina College for her high school education. She then went on to study Performance at the University of Western Sydney's School of Contemporary Arts, graduating in 2003. ...
Dexter (2006-2013) Hannah McKay (Dexter biggest love)
5. Julie Benz
Actress | Dexter
Julie Benz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on May 1, 1972. Julie's father is a Pittsburgh surgeon and her mother is a figure skater. The family settled in nearby Murrysville, when Julie was two, and she started ice skating at age three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in ...
Dexter (2006-2013) Rita Bennett (Dexter 1st wife)
6. 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 ...
Breaking Bad (2008-2013) Walter White (main character)
7. 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 ...
Need for Speed (2014)
Tobey Marshall
Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
Jesse Pinkman
8. Anna Gunn
Actress | Breaking Bad
An actress on both stage and screen, Anna Gunn has portrayed a vast array of complex and powerful characters throughout her career.
Anna grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico after her parents, Sharon (Peters) and Clemens Gunn, Jr., transplanted the family from Cleveland, Ohio to the Southwest in the late...
Breaking Bad (2008-2013) Skyler White
9. Bob Odenkirk
Actor | Nobody
Robert John Odenkirk was born in Berwyn, Illinois, to Barbara (Baier) and Walter Odenkirk, who worked in printing. His ancestry includes German and Irish. He grew up in Naperville, IL, the second of seven children. He worked as a DJ for WIDB, his college radio station at Southern Illinois ...
Breaking Bad (2008-2013) Saul Goodman (lawyer)
10. Taylor Schilling
Actress | The Lucky One
Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her role as "Piper Chapman" on the Netflix original comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013) (2013-present), for which she won the 2013 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or ...
Orange Is the New Black (2013-) Piper Chapman (main character)
11. Laura Prepon
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Laura Helene Prepon was born on March 7, 1980, in Watchung, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Marjorie (Coll) and Michael Prepon. Her father died in 1993, when she was 13 years old. Laura is the youngest of five children--she has a brother named Brad and three sisters: Danielle, Jocelyn, and ...
Orange Is the New Black (2013-) Alex Vause (Pipers ex)
12. Diane Guerrero
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Diane Guerrero (born July 21, 1986) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Maritza Ramos on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and Lina on Jane the Virgin. Among her other roles was a recurring role on Are We There Yet? Guerrero grew up in Boston and remained there after...
Orange Is the New Black (2013-) Maritza Ramos (latinas)
13. Jason Biggs
Actor | American Pie
Jason Matthew Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela (Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company manager. Jason has two sisters, Heather, a tax specialist born in 1971, and Chiara, born in 1980. He was raised Catholic, and is of English and mostly Italian ...
American Pie (1999, 2001, 2003 and 2012)
Jim Levenstein
Orange Is the New Black (2013-)
Lary Bloom
14. Jennifer Lawrence
Actress | The Hunger Games
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
The Hunger Games (2012 and 2013) Katniss Everdeen (main character)
15. Shailene Woodley
Actress | Divergent
Actress and activist Shailene Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California, to Lori (Victor), a middle school counselor, and Lonnie Woodley, a school principal. She has one brother, Tanner. She was educated at Simi Valley High School in California. When Woodley was four years old she began ...
Divergent (2014) Tris (main character)
16. Ed Helms
Actor | The Hangover
Edward Parker Helms is an American actor, comedian, writer and singer from Atlanta, Georgia who is known for playing the preppy Cornell alumni Andy "Nard Dog" Bernard from The Office and Stuart Price from The Hangover trilogy. He also acted in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, The Lorax, ...
Se Beber Não Case (2009, 2011 and 2013) Stu
17. Scarlett Johansson
Actress | Her
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
She (2013)
Samantha (voice)
The Prestige (2006)
Olivia Wenscombe
The Island (2005)
Jordan Two Delta / Sarah Jordan
Match Point (2005)
Nola Rice
18. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
Night at the Museum (2006, 2009 and 2014)
Teddy Roosevelt
Bicentennial Man (1999)
Andrew Martin (main character)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Sean Maguire (teacher)
Aladdin (1992)
Genie / Merchant (voice)
19. 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 ...
The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Jason Bourne
Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Linus Caldwell
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Private Ryan
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Will Hunting (main character)
20. Mary-Louise Parker
Actress | Weeds
Southern-bred Mary-Louise Parker was born on August 2, 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the youngest of four children of Judge John Morgan Parker, and the former Caroline Louise Morell. She is of mostly Swedish, English, and Scottish descent. Her father's occupation took the family both around...
Weeds (2005-2012) Nancy Botwin (main character)
21. Justin Kirk
Actor | Angels in America
Born in Salem, Oregon, Justin Kirk spent his childhood in Union, Washington, where he attended grade school on a Native American reservation. Kirk knew from the age of 3 that he wanted to perform, and he made his acting debut at seven in a local college play. At 12, he moved with his mother to ...
Weeds (2005-2012) Andy Botwin
22. Hunter Parrish
Actor | 17 Again
Hunter Parrish Tharp is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing the role of Silas Botwin in the Showtime series Weeds and for his performances in the Broadway productions of Godspell in the role of Jesus and Spring Awakening as Melchior. Parrish was born in Richmond.
Weeds (2005-2012) Silas Botwin (older brother)
23. Alexander Gould
Actor | Finding Nemo
Gould was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began acting at the age of two and is perhaps best known for providing the voice of the title character of Disney/Pixar's film Finding Nemo (2003) and starring as Shane Botwin on the Showtime dark comedy-drama series Weeds (2005). His ...
Weeds (2005-2012) Shane Botwin (young brother)
24. Kevin Nealon
Actor | Saturday Night Live
Kevin Nealon is an American comedian and actor known for Saturday Night Live, Stanley the Gatekeeper from Little Nicky, Mr. Cheezle from Grandma's Boy, Doug Wilson from Weeds and the voice of Glenn Martin DDS. He acted in many other films starring Adam Sandler including Happy Gilmore, The Wedding ...
Weeds (2005-2012) Doug Wilson
25. Michael Harney
Actor | Soy Nero
An actor on television since the early 1990s, Michael Harney frequently essayed tough men with deeply complicated interior lives in such acclaimed series as NYPD Blue (1993) for ABC, Deadwood (2004) for HBO, and Weeds (2005) for Showtime. His ability to tap into the emotional and spiritual elements...
Orange Is the New Black (2013-)
Sam Healy
Weeds (2005-2012)
Det. Mitch Ouellette
26. Pablo Schreiber
Actor | 13 Hours
Pablo Tell Schreiber was born in Ymir, British Columbia, Canada, to Lorraine Reaveley, a Canadian psychotherapist, and Tell Schreiber, an American actor. His paternal half-brother is actor Liev Schreiber. Pablo, who is named after Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, was raised in Ymir, and moved to Seattle,...
Orange Is the New Black (2013-)
George 'Pornstache' Mendez
Weeds (2005-2012)
Demetri Ravitch (Nancy NY lover)
27. Natasha Lyonne
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Natasha Lyonne is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated producer, actor, writer, and director.
Lyonne co-created Netflix series Russian Doll (2019), which received three Emmy awards, a total of 13 Emmy nominations including Comedy Series and Lead Actress for Lyonne, a Gotham Award nomination, and a ...
Orange Is the New Black (2013-)
Nicky Nichols
American Pie (1999, 2012 and 2012)
Jessica
28. 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 ...
The Monuments Men (2014)
Frank Stokes
Gravity (2013)
Matt Kowalski
The Descendants (2011)
Matt King (main character)
Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Danny Ocean
29. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
Sin City (2005), Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Hartigan
RED (2010), RED 2 (2013)
Frank Moses
Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
John McClane (main character)
16 Blocks (2006)
Det. Jack Mosley
Alpha Dog (2006)
Sonny Truelove
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Bruce Willis
Unbreakable (2000)
David Dunn
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Dr. Malcolm Crowe
Armageddon (1998)
Harry Stamper
The Fifth Element (1997)
Korben Dallas
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
James Cole
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Butch Coolidge
30. 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), Bad Boys II (2003), Bad Boys 3 (announced)
Detective Mike Lowrey (main character)
Hancock (2008), Hancock 2 (announced)
John Hancock (main character)
Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Men in Black 3 (2012)
Jay/Agent J (main character)
Seven Pounds (2008)
Ben (main character)
I Am Legend (2007)
Robert Neville (main character)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Chris Gardner (main character)
Hitch (2005)
Hitch (main character)
I, Robot (2004)
Del Spooner (main character)
Ali (2001)
Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali (main character)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Robert Clayton Dean (main character)
Independence Day (1996)
Captain Steven Hiller (main character)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996)
William 'Will' Smith (main character)
31. 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, ...
Harry Potter (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 e 2011) Harry Potter (main character)
32. Emma Watson
Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...
Harry Potter (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 e 2011) Hermione Granger
33. Imogen Poots
Actress | Vivarium
British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer ...
Need for Speed (2014)
Julia Maddon
That Awkward Moment (2014)
Ellie
Solitary Man (2009)
Allyson Karsch
34. Jason Statham
Actor | Crank
Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman ...
The Transporter (2002), Transporter 2 (2005), Transporter 3 (2008)
Frank Martin (main character)
Crank (2006)
Chev Chelios (main character)
Cellular (2004)
Ethan
The Italian Job (2003)
Handsome Rob
35. Anna Kendrick
Actress | Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine, to Janice (Cooke), an accountant, and William Kendrick, a teacher. She has an older brother, Michael Cooke Kendrick, who has also acted. She is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent.
For her role as "Dinah" in "High Society" on Broadway, Anna Kendrick was...
Into the Woods (2014)
Cinderella (main character)
50/50 (2011)
Katherine
Up in the Air (2009)
Natalie Keener
36. Wagner Moura
Actor | Tropa de Elite
Moura was born in Salvador, a city located in Northeast Region of Brazil, but grew up in the small town of Rodelas, Bahia. His mother, Alderiva, was a housewife, and his father, José Moura, was a Sergeant in the Brazilian Air Force. At the age of 13, he moved with his family to Salvador, Bahia.
...
Elysium (2013)
Spider
O Homem do Futuro (2011)
Zero
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro (2010)
Lt. Colonel Nascimento
VIPs (2010)
Marcelo
Tropa de Elite (2007)
Capitão Nascimento
JK (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
Young Juscelino
Carandiru (2003)
Zico
37. Alinne Moraes
Actress | O Homem do Futuro
She landed the role in Student's Hearts (2002) one week before the soap opera's premiere. She only met her father personally a few years ago. Her parents divorced when she was very little, and her father, who is a journalist, moved to Londrina, in the Brazilian south state of Paraná, where he ...
O Homem do Futuro (2011) Helena
38. Emma Roberts
Actress | We're the Millers
Emma Roberts was born in Rhinebeck, New York. She was a baby when her parents separated, and she grew up living with her mother, Kelly Cunningham. She was educated at Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.
Emma is the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts, and the niece of ...
The Art of Getting By (2011) Sally Howe
39. Paula Rhodes
Actress | Resident Evil Village
Paula followed her burning desire to join the ranks of storytellers on a path out of the Midwest via the pageant circuit and parlayed the crowns she won into multiple hyphens on sets. She spent stints in London and NYC before settling in LA, where she began crackling along as a working actor and ...
Shuffle (2011) Grace
40. Russell Crowe
Actor | Les Misérables
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...
Noah (2014)
Noah (main character)
The Next Three Days (2010)
John Brennan (main character)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
John Nash (main character)
Gladiator (2000)
Maximus (main character)
41. Seann William Scott
Actor | American Pie
Seann William Scott was born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to Patricia Anne (Simons) and William Frank Scott, a factory worker. He was discovered at a talent competition in Los Angeles, and almost immediately was flown to New York by ABC to test for All My Children (1970). His face has also been ...
American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), American Wedding (2003), American Reunion (2012)
Steve Stifler
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
Chester Greenburg
42. Elizabeth Cappuccino
Actress | Super Dark Times
Elizabeth Cappuccino was born on October 30, 1994 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Super Dark Times (2017), Tom Swift (2022) and The First Lady (2022).
43. Charlie Cox
Actor | Daredevil
Charlie Thomas Cox was born in London, England, to Patricia C. A. (Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, a publisher. He has English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and descends from several prominent forebears (Baronets of Agnew and Carnegie, an Earl of Findlater, and a Colonial Governor of ...
44. Marine Vacth
Actress | Jeune et Jolie
Marine Vacth was born on April 9, 1991 in Paris. She grew up in the Paris suburb of Maisons-Alfort with a younger brother. She had difficult childhood growing up with a violent father, a lorry driver - his company is named after his daughter Marine, and a mother, an accountant at Malaysia Airlines,...
45. Esmeralda Pimentel
Actress | Verano de amor
Esmeralda Pimentel was born on September 8, 1989 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Verano de amor (2009), El Candidato (2020) and Casi el Paraíso.
46. Anya Taylor-Joy
Actress | The Queen's Gambit
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...
47. Omar Sy
Actor | Intouchables
Omar Sy was born on January 20, 1978 in Trappes, Yvelines, France. He is an actor and producer, known for The Intouchables (2011), Jurassic World (2015) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). He has been married to Hélène Sy since July 6, 2007. They have four children.
48. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
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