Actors who have played "Shape Shifters"

1. Jennifer Lawrence

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...

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Raven/Mystique

2. Rebecca Romijn

Actress | X-Men

Rebecca Alie Romijn was born on November 6, 1972 in Berkeley, California. Her father was Dutch-born and worked as a custom-furniture maker. Her mother was American-born, with Dutch and English ancestry, and was a teacher of English. Rebecca attended Berkeley High School where her nickname was the "...

X-Men: First Class 2011 as Mystique - older

X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 as Raven Darkholme / Mystique

X-Men 2 2003 as Raven Darkholme / Mystique

X-Men 2000 as Mystique

3. Robert Patrick

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Robert Hammond Patrick was born on November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, raised there and Boston, Mass., Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. The eldest of five children. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but dropped out after he took a drama course and ...

as T-1000 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

4. Tracy Scoggins

Actress | Babylon 5: The Lost Tales

Tracy Dawn Scoggins was born and raised in Dickinson, Texas. At age 16, she enrolled in Southwest Texas State, where she studied speech communications and physical education. After leaving college, she was hired by the Elite Modeling Agency and sent to New York City. After one year, she continued ...

as Gilora in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Destiny (1995) ... Gilora

and as Kathy Bonann in Manimal (TV Series)

High Stakes (1983) ... Kathy Bonann

5. Tim Curry

Actor | Congo

Timothy James Curry was born on April 19, 1946 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England. His mother, Maura Patricia (Langmead), was a school secretary, and his father, James Curry, was a Methodist Royal Navy chaplain. Curry studied Drama and English at Birmingham University, from which he graduated with ...

in It (TV Mini-Series) as Pennywise

Part 1 (1990) ... Pennywise
Part 2 (1990) ... Pennywise

6. Zachary Quinto

Actor | Star Trek

Zachary Quinto was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Margaret J. (McArdle), an Irish-American office worker, and Joseph John Quinto, an Italian-American barber. Zachary graduated from Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, with the class of 1995, where he won Pittsburgh's Gene Kelly Award ...

as Sylar Heroes (2006)

7. Silas Weir Mitchell

Actor | Rat Race

Silas Weir Mitchell was born on September 30, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Rat Race (2001), The Whole Ten Yards (2004) and Flags of Our Fathers (2006).

as Monroe in Grimm (2011)

8. Rene Auberjonois

Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss ...

as Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

9. Rebecca Mader

Actress | The Devil Wears Prada

Rebecca Mader was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England as Rebecca Leigh Mader. She is an actress and writer, known for The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Iron Man Three (2013), Once Upon A Time (2014-2018) and Lost (2008-2010). She has been married to Marcus Kayne since November 23, 2016. She was ...

as Victoria Morrow in No Ordinary Family (TV Series)

10. James Rekart

Actor | Eleventh Hour

James Rekart attended high school with Val Kilmer, graduating with classmate Mare Winningham.

He got an agent straight out of high school starting in the business by doing commercials.

He began studying the craft of acting extensively with famous top film acting coach Charles Conrad, in the Meisner ...

as Crane Operator in No Ordinary Family (TV Series)

11. Todd Stashwick

Actor | The Air I Breathe

Stashwick was born in Chicago and raised in the suburbs right outside of the city. As a child, he always loved making people laugh, and he aspired to one day perform at Chicago's famous The Second City. Soon after graduating from Illinois State University with a degree in theatre, he began ...

Heroes (TV Series) as Eli

12. Joel Ezra Hebner

Actor | Judges

Best known for the intensity and commitment to the character he brings to the screen, Joel Ezra Hebner is an actor and producer with over fifteen years of experience both in front of and behind the camera as well as experience in stunts as a stunt coordinator and precision driver. He is also very ...

in Shapeshifter (2005) as The Shapeshifter

13. Thomas Downey

Actor | Evil Takes Root

Thomas Downey was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and production designer, known for Evil Takes Root (2020), Kidnap (2017) and Sorority Party Massacre (2012).

in Shapeshifter (2005) as The Shapeshifter

14. BJ Harrison

Actress | Rise of the Planet of the Apes

BJ was born and raised in Los Angeles California where her early involvement in the arts included music and painting. Her film career began when she was approached by a casting director after moving to Vancouver, Canada with her husband and their children. She enrolled in a two year intensive ...

as Shapeshifter Woman In Supermarket

in Supernatural (TV Series) - Two and a Half Men (2010)

15. Jackson Berlin

Actor | Elysium

Jackson Berlin is known for Elysium (2013), Man of Steel (2013) and Supernatural (2005).

in Supernatural (TV Series) as Shapeshifter Cop

Two and a Half Men (2010) ... Shapeshifter Cop

16. Sebastian Roché

Actor | 1923

Sebastian Roché is a Scottish-French actor, known for his roles as Kurt Mendel on Odyssey 5 (2002), Thomas Jerome Newton on Fringe (2008), Martin Heusmann on The Man in the High Castle (2015), Michel Marivaux on The Young Pope (2016), Balthazar on Supernatural (2005), and Mikael on both The Vampire...

in Supernatural (TV Series) as Balthazar

17. Jaime Hubbard

Actress | Star Trek: The Next Generation

Jaime Hubbard is known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Platypus Man (1995) and Ohara (1987).

in Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) as Salia

The Dauphin (1989) ... Salia

18. Evelyn Hoskins

Actress | Holby City

Evelyn Hoskins is known for Holby City (1999), Casualty (1986) and The Sound of Music Live (2015).

in Misfits (TV Series) as Lucy

Episode #2.1 (2010) ... Lucy

19. Tony Donaldson

Actor | Braindead

Tony Donaldson is known for Braindead (1992), Tickets for the Zoo (1991) and Im (2004).

in Shoebox Zoo (TV Series) as Toledo

20. Mako

Actor | Conan the Barbarian

Born in Japan, Makoto Iwamatsu was living there with his grandparents while his parents studied art in the United States, when Japan and the U.S. went to war in 1941. His parents remained in the U.S., working for the Office of War Information, and, at the cessation of the conflict, were granted U.S...

in Highlander: The Final Dimension as Nakano

21. J. Pat O'Malley

Actor | One Hundred and One Dalmatians

J. Pat had a warm smile, twinkling eyes, and an Irish name. He was born in Burnley, England, and began his acting career in British musical halls. J. Pat came to the USA at the outbreak of World War II. He also worked on the Broadway stage during the 1940s and 1950s. J. Pat was a very familiar face...

as Old Ben

in Twilight Zone: Season 3, Episode 25 The Fugitive (9 Mar. 1962) "The Twilight Zone" The Fugitive (original title)

22. Brian Thompson

Actor | The Terminator

Brian Earl Thompson was born on August 28, 1959 in Ellensburg, Washington. Raised on the Columbia River in Longview, he learned the value of academics and athletics, as the son of two teachers and the second of six siblings. His interest in acting was first sparked during his senior year of high ...

in The X-Files (TV Series) as Alien Bounty Hunter

23. Steve Ihnat

Actor | Countdown

Steve Ihnat was born on August 7, 1934 in Jastrabie, Czechoslovakia [now Jastrabie pri Michalovciach, Slovak Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Countdown (1967), The Honkers (1972) and Do Not Throw Cushions Into the Ring (1970). He was married to Sally Carter-Ihnat. He died on May 12,...

Star Trek (TV Series) as Garth

Whom Gods Destroy (1969) ... Garth

24. Catherine Schell

Actress | On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Born in Budapest, Hungary, her true name is Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott, the scion of a once wealthy German patrician family. Her father, the Baron Paul Schell von Bauschlott, was a well-respected diplomat until the Nazis confiscated their estates during WWII, while her mother was ...

as Maya in Space: 1999 (TV Series)

25. Mikael Persbrandt

Actor | Hævnen

Mikael was born in Jakobsberg, Stockholm, Sweden on September 25th 1963. His interest in acting started at an early age when working as an extra in Ingmar Bergman's staging of William Shakespeare's "King Lear."

In the 1990s, Mikael starred in the immensely popular Swedish TV series, "Rederiet" ("The...

"Beorn" in The Hobbit series

26. Bela Lugosi

Actor | Dracula

Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), to Paula de Vojnich and István Blaskó, a banker. He was the youngest of four children. During WWI, he volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant, and was wounded ...

as Count Dracula

27. Tom Hardy

Actor | Inception

With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...

as "Eames" in Inception (but only in dreams).

28. Fredric March

Actor | Inherit the Wind

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 ...

as "Dr. Henry Jekyll"

in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

29. Shane Symons

Actor | The 100

Shane Symons was born on June 6, 1991. Shane is an actor, known for The 100 (2014), The X-Files (1993) and DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016).

in Supernatural (TV Series) as Shapeshifter Pizza Delivery Guy

Two and a Half Men (2010) ... Shapeshifter Pizza Delivery Guy

30. Jack DeLeon

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Jack DeLeon was born on December 19, 1924 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Temptress (1995) and Allyson Is Watching (1997). He died on October 16, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

as The Human Torch / Johnny Storm in Fantastic 4 (TV Series) 1967-1968

31. 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 ...

as The Incredible Hulk The Avengers (2012)

32. Michelle Pfeiffer

Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...

as Isabeau d'Anjou in Ladyhawke (1985)

Transforms in a hawk during the day.

33. Rutger Hauer

Actor | Hobo with a Shotgun

Blond, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer enjoyed an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. Hauer was born in Breukelen, a Dutch town and former municipality in the province of Utrecht.

He was the son of Teunke ...

as Navarre Ladyhawke (1985)

Transforms into a wolf at night.

34. Lon Chaney Jr.

Actor | The Wolf Man

American character actor whose career was influenced (and often overshadowed) by that of his father, silent film star Lon Chaney. The younger Chaney was born while his parents were on a theatrical tour, and he joined them onstage for the first time at the age of six months. However, as a young man,...

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as Lawrence Talbot

House of Dracula as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man

House of Frankenstein as Larry Talbot

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man as The Wolf Man/Lawrence Stewart Talbot

35. Jamie Bell

Actor | Billy Elliot

Described by top film critic Mark Kermode as an "unbelievably versatile" actor, Jamie Bell was born in 1986 in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK, to Eileen (Matfin) and John Bell, a toolmaker. He comes from a family of dancers including his grandmother, mother, aunt, and ...

as Ben Grimm / The Thing

in The Fantastic Four

36. 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), ...

as Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

37. Sam Trammell

Actor | True Blood

Tony Award-nominee Sam Trammell may be most widely recognized as "Sam Merlotte" in HBO's AFI award-winning series True Blood (2008), filmed in Trammell's native Louisiana. The Alan Ball-created fantasy drama set ratings records for the network over its seven year run. He co-starred in the feature ...

as Sam Merlotte in True Blood (2008)

38. David Thewlis

Actor | Naked

David Thewlis was born David Wheeler in 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Maureen (Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler, and lived with his parents above their combination wallpaper and toy shop during his childhood. Originally, he came to London with his band Door 66, however he changed his plans and...

as Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

39. Timothy Spall

Actor | Mr. Turner

Timothy Leonard Spall is an award-winning classical character actor who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. The son of blue-collar parents, Joseph L. Spall, a postal worker, and Sylvia R. (Leonard), a hairdresser, his interest in acting happened early and Spall auditioned and ...

as Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

40. Maggie Smith

Actress | Gosford Park

One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...

as Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

41. Jeanne Bal

Actress | Star Trek

Jeanne Bal was born on May 3, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Perry Mason (1957) and Thriller (1960). She was married to Edward Richard Lee and Ross Bowman. She died on April 30, 1996 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

in Star Trek (TV Series) as Nancy Crater

The Man Trap (1966) ... Nancy Crater

the salt eating shape shifter