Best Actors

1. Daniel Day-Lewis

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...

Good movies:

There Will Be Blood Lincoln My Left Foot Gangs of New York The Last of the Mohicans In the Name of The Father

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 5

2. 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 ...

Good movies:

The Departed The Shining One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Batman Easy Rider Chinatown A Few Good Men As Good as It Gets About Schmidt

Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 12

3. 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 ...

Good movies:

Goodfellas The Deer Hunter The Mission Casino The Godfather: Part 2 Silver Linings Playbook Meet The Parents Heat Taxi Driver Cape Fear Once Upon a Time in America The Untouchables Raging Bull Ronin Mean streets

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 7

4. Joaquin Phoenix

Actor | Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 3

Good movies:

The Master Walk in the Line Quills Gladiator Her Inherent Vice Ladder 49 Buffalo Soldiers Signs

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 ...

Good movies:

In the Line of Fire Being John Malkovich Empire of the Sun Johnny English Burn After Reading Dangerous Liaisons Red 1&2

Oscar Nominations: 2

6. Jonah Hill

Actor | 21 Jump Street

Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 2 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1

Good movies:

21 jumpstreet The wolf of wall street Superbad The Sitter The Watch This is the End Get Him to the Creek Moneyball

7. Jake Gyllenhaal

Actor | Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain Prisoners Southpaw Enemy Zodiac Donnie Darko Source Code Jarhead

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

Good movies:

Twelve Monkeys Fightclub Mr & Mss Smith Legends of the fall World War Z Moneyball Inglourious Bastards The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Fury Babel Burn After Reading Snatch Ocean's Eleven Se7en Seven Years in Tibet Thelma & Louise

Oscars: (1) Oscar Nominations: 3+1

10. 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,...

Good movies:

Catch Me If You Can Gangs of New York The Departed Shutter Island Blood Diamond Inception Django Unchained The Wolf of Wall Street The Beach The Aviator Titanic Basketball Diary's What's Eating Gilbert Grape The Revenant

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 5+1 for producing

11. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

Good movies:

Doubt Synecdoche, New York Capote The Master Charlie Wilson's War The Ides of March Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Mission Impossible 3

12. Geoffrey Rush

Actor | The King's Speech

Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...

Good movies:

Pirates of the caribbean The king's speech Shakespear in Love La migliore offerta Quills Les Misérables

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4

13. 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...

Good movies:

Inglorious Bastards (made him famous) Django Unchained Spectre

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 2

14. 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)...

Good movies:

Serpico The Godfather Part 1&2 And Justice for All Scarface Sea of Love Scent of a Women Heat Insomnia Dog Day Afternoon Carlito's Way

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 8

15. James McAvoy

Actor | Filth

McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...

Awards & Nominations:

GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3 Good movies:

The Last King of Scotland Trance Wanted Filth X: First Class X-Men: Days of Future Past Split

16. Steve Carell

Actor | The Office

Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 7 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 6

Good movies:

Foxcather Anchorman 1&2 The 40 Year Old Virgin The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Dinner For Schmucks Get Smart Evan Almighty Little Miss Sunshine Dan in Real Life The Office (serie)

17. Ryan Gosling

Actor | Blue Valentine

Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 4

Good movies:

Drive The Ides of March The Place Beyond the Pines Crazy, Stupid, Love Fracture Blue Valentine

18. John C. Reilly

Actor | Chicago

Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years, from seedy ne'er-do-wells, to lovable, good-natured schlepps.

The fifth of six ...

Good movies:

Carnage Cyrus Step Brothers The Promotion Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Boogie Nights Gangs of New-York The Aviator The Perfect Storm Magnolia We Need to Talk About Kevin

19. 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 ...

Good movies:

Interstellar The Wolf of Wall Street Dallas Buyers Club The Lincoln Lawyer Mud Surfer, Dude True Detective (serie)

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 1

20. 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, ...

Good movies:

The silence of the lambs Hannibal Red Dragon The elephant man Nixon Fracture Bad company The mask of Zoro

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 4

21. 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 ...

Good movies:

Harry Potter The Grand Budapest Hotel Shindler's List Skyfall Red Dragon The English Patient Spectre The Constant Gardner Strange Days

Oscar Nominations: 2

22. 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...

Good movies:

Transformers Fury Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & II Lawless Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps Disturbia Eagle Eye American honey

23. Michael Shannon

Actor | Take Shelter

Michael Corbett Shannon was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Geraldine Hine, a lawyer, and Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University. His grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon.

Shannon began his professional stage career in Chicago. His ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1

Good movies:

Take shelter The iceman Revolutionary Road 8 Mile 99 Homes Boardwalk Empire (serie)

24. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2

Good movies:

The dark Knight A Knight's Tale Brokeback Mountain The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The Patriot Casanova

25. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

The Dark Knight The Machinist Empire of the Sun The Prestige American Psycho The fighter

26. 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).

...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

Sin City Traffic 21 Grams Snatch The Usual Suspects Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas Sicario The Hunted

27. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 2 GG Nominations: 7 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 5 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3

Good movies:

The king's Speech The Wings of the Dove Fightclub Alice in Wonderland Sweeney Todd Les Misérables Harry Potter

28. Woody Harrelson

Actor | True Detective

Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. After receiving degrees in theater arts and English from Hanover College, he...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 2 GG Nominations: 4 Primetime Emmy Award: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 8

Good movies:

No Country for Old Men Natural Born Killers Surfer, Dude Zombieland Now You See Me The Messenger Semi-pro The Hunger Games True Detective (serie)

29. Jim Carrey

Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...

Awards & Nominations:

Golden Globes: 2 GG Nominations: 6 BAFTA Nominations: 1

Good movies:

Me,Myself and Irene The Mask Bruce Almighty Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Truman Show Dumb & Dumber Ace ventura Liar Liar

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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 5 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 5 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

Mystic River Milk 21 Grams I Am Sam Sweet and Lowdown Dead Man Walking Dogtown & Z-Boys The Thin Red Line

31. Edward Norton

Actor | Fight Club

American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.

His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

Good movies:

American History X Fightclub Birdman The Illusionist Primal Fear Red Dragon The Italian Job

32. Javier Bardem

Actor | Skyfall

Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 3 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 4 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 3

Good movies:

No Country for Old Men Biutiful Skyfall Before Night Falls Mar Adentro

33. Mads Mikkelsen

Actor | Hannibal

Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.

Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...

Awards & Nominations:

Cannes Film Festival: 1

Good movies:

Jagten Casino royal Hannibal (serie) The salvation Pusher

34. Jessica Lange

Actress | Tootsie

Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 Golden Globes: 5 GG Nominations: 15 Primetime Emmy Award: 3 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 7 BAFTA Nominations: 1

Good movies:

Tootsie Frances Blue Sky King Kong Cape Fear Rob Roy American Horror Story (serie)

35. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 7

Good movies:

Elizabeth: The Golden Age Elizabeth The Aviator Blue Jasmine Notes on Scandal The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Lord of the Rings 1,2&3 The Hobbit 1,2&3 Robin Hood Babel

36. John Goodman

Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane

John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...

Awards & Nominations:

Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 5 Primetime Emmy Award: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 11

Good movies:

Barton Fink The Big Lebowski Argo Inside Llewyn Davis

37. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 2

Good movies:

127 Hours Pineapple Express This is the End The Interview Spiderman Oz the Great and Powerful

38. 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 ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 3 GG Nominations: 5 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

Good movies:

Due date Sherlock Holmes Natural Born Killers Chaplin Tropic Thunder Iron Man 1, 2 & 3 The Avengers Zodiac Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

39. Zach Galifianakis

Actor | The Hangover

Zach Galifianakis was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to Mary Frances (Cashion), who owned a community arts center, and Harry Galifianakis, a heating oil vendor. His father is of Greek descent and his mother is of mostly English and Scottish ancestry. Zach moved to New York City after failing ...

Awards & Nominations: Primetime Emmy Award: 2 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 4

Good movies:

The Hangover Due Date Birdman The Campaign Visioneers

40. 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:...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 2 GG Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

Sherlock Holmes 1&2 Enemy at the Gates Cold Mountains Black sea Aritficial Intelligence Repo Men Dom Hemingway

41. Forest Whitaker

Actor | The Last King of Scotland

Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 1

Good movies:

The Experiment The Last King of Scotland Platoon Southpaw The Butler Bird

42. Will Ferrell

Producer | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student ...

Awards & Nominations:

GG Nominations: 2 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3

Good movies

Anchorman 1&2 Stepbrothers Talladega nights Blades of glory The other guys Get hard Stranger Than Fiction Elf

43. Marion Cotillard

Actress | La Môme

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.

Raised in Orléans, France, she ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 3 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

The Dark Knight Rises Midnight in Paris Inception La Môme De Rouille et d'os Macbeth

44. 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...

Awards & Nominations:

Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 4 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 6

Good movies:

Fargo Reservoir Dogs The Big Lebowksi

45. Jamie Foxx

Actor | Collateral

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 2 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 2 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 2

Good movies:

Ray Collateral Django Unchained Law Abiding Citizen The Kingdom Miami Vice

46. Adrien Brody

Actor | The Pianist

Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1 Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1

Good movies:

The Experiment The Pianist Predators High School King Kong The Thin Red Line

47. Mickey Rourke

Actor | Sin City

Mickey Rourke was born Phillip Andre Rourke, Jr. on September 16, 1952, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Annette Elizabeth (Cameron) and Philip Andre Rourke. His father was of Irish and German descent, and his mother was of mostly English and French-Canadian ancestry. When he was six years old,...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 Golden Globes: 1 GG Nominations: 1 BAFTA Awards: 1 BAFTA Nominations: 1

Good movies:

The Wrestler Sin City 1&2 The Expendables Man on Fire Double Team Rumble Fish

48. Rooney Mara

Actress | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...

Awards & Nominations:

Oscar Nominations: 1 GG Nominations: 1 Cannes FF: 1

Good movies:

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo The Social Network Her Carol

49. Ben Foster

Actor | Hell or High Water

Ben Foster was born October 29, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Gillian Kirwan and Steven Foster, restaurant owners. His younger brother is actor Jon Foster. His paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families that immigrated to Massachusetts (his grandfather became a prominent judge in ...

Good movies:

The Mechanic Lone Survivor 3:10 to Yuma Contraband The Messengers

50. Danny McBride

Actor | Pineapple Express

Daniel Richard McBride is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He starred in the HBO television series Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, also co-creating the former two with frequent collaborator Jody Hill while creating the latter himself. He has ...

Good movies:

The Foot Fist Way Your Highness Pineapple Express Tropic Thunder