Top 60 Actors
by Martin010 | created - 31 Aug 2016 | updated - 4 weeks ago | PublicMy favorite movie actors.
1. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Arthur Fleck - Joker (2019) 2) Commodus - Gladiator (2000) 3) Larry 'Doc' Sportello - Inherent Vice (2014) 4) Theodore - Her (2013) 5) Freddie Quell - The Master (2012) 6) Johnny Cash - Walk the Line (2005) 7) Jack Daglish - Hotel Rwanda (2004) 8) Lucius Hunt - The Village (2004) 9) Napoleon Bonaparte - Napoleon (2023)
2. Michael Douglas
Actor | Wall Street
A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...
Favorite Roles: 1) Gordon Gecko - Wall Street (1987) 2) D-Fens - Falling Down (1993) 3) Nicholas van Orton - The Game (1997) 4) Nick Curran - Basic Instinct (1992) 5) Dr. Hank Pym - Ant-Man (2015)
3. Paul Dano
Actor | There Will Be Blood
An actor for all seasons and all kinds of roles (from dark, difficult characters to more loving ones) Paul Dano has an extensive body work that includes working with directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve McQueen, Dayton & Ferris, Ang Lee, Denis Villenueve and Paolo Sorrentino; acting with ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Alex Jones - Prisoners (2013) 2) Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday There Will Be Blood (2007) 3) Seth - Looper (2012) 4) Dwayne - Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 5) Jay - Okja (2017) 6) Tibeats - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
4. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Louis Bloom - Nightcrawler (2014) 2) Detective Loki - Prisoners (2013) 3) Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko (2001) 4) Robert Graysmith - Zodiac (2007) 5) Adam Bell / Anthony Claire Enemy (2013) 6) Jack Twist - Brokeback Mountain (2005) 7) Tony Hastings - Nocturnal Animals (2016) 8) Johnny Wilcox - Okja (2017) 9) Colter Stevens - Source Code (2011) 10) Joe Baylor - The Guilty (2021)
5. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
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...
Favorite Roles: 1) John Doe - Se7en (1995) 2) Lester Burnham - American Beauty (1999) 3) Keyser Söze - The Usual Suspects (1995) 4) Jack Vincennes - L.A. Confidential (1997) 5) Frank Underwood - House of Cards (2013) 6) D.A. Rufus Buckley - A Time to Kill (1996) 7) Prot - K-PAX (2001) 8) Micky Rosa - 21 (2008)
6. 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)...
Favorite Roles: 1) Tony Montana - Scarface (1983) 2) Michael Corleone - The Godfather (1972) 3) Sonny - Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 4) Lt. Col. Frank Slade - Scent of a Woman (1992) 5) Carlito - Carlito's Way (1993) 6) Serpico - Serpico (1973) 7) Will Dormer - Insomnia (2002) 8) Lowell Bergman - The Insider (1999) 9) Lt. Vincent Hanna - Heat (1995) 10) Lefty - Donnie Brasco (1997) 11) Jimmy Hoffa - The Irishman (2019)
7. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Travis Bickle - Taxi Driver (1976) 2) Jake La Motta - Raging Bull (1980) 3) Rupert Pupkin - The King of Comedy (1982) 4) Noodles - Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 5) Michael Vronsky - The Deer Hunter (1978) 6) Vito Corleone - The Godfather Part II (1974) 7) James Conway - Goodfellas (1990) 8) Sam Rothstein - Casino (1995) 9) Neil McCauley - Heat (1995) 10) Johnny Boy - Mean Streets (1973) 11) Leonard Lowe - Awakenings (1990) 12) Al Capone - The Untouchables (1987) 13) Frank Sheeran - The Irishman (2019) 14) Louis Gara - Jackie Brown (1997)
8. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Mitch Leary - In the Line of Fire (1993) 2) John Malkovich - Being John Malkovich (1999) 3) Osborne Cox - Burn After Reading (2008) 4) Basie - Empire of the Sun (1987) 5) Marvin Boggs - RED (2010) 6) Al Rockoff - The Killing Fields (1984) 7) Ronald - Shattered (2022) 8) Douglas - Bird Box (2018)
9. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Lord Voldemort - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) 2) Francis Dolarhyde - Red Dragon (2002) 3) Amon Goeth - Schindler's List (1993) 4) M. Gustave - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 5) Almásy - The English Patient (1996) 6) Charles van Doren - Quiz Show (1994)
10. 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, ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 2) Dr. Robert Ford - Westworld (2016) 3) Pope Benedict XVI - The Two Popes (2019) 4) Ted Crawford - Fracture (2007) 5) Don Diego de la Vela - The Mask of Zorro (1998) 6) Frederick Treves - The Elephant Man (1980) 7) Odin - Thor (2011)
11. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Mikey O'Neill - Snatch (2000) 2) Jeffrey Goines - 12 Monkeys (1995) 3) Chad Feldheimer - Burn After Reading (2008) 4) Lt. Aldo Raine - Inglourious Basterds (2009) 5) Tyler Durden - Fight Club (1999) 6) Billy Beane - Moneyball (2011) 7) Gerry Lane - World War Z (2013) 8) Benjamin Button - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 9) Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet (1997) 10) Richard - Babel (2006) 11) Cliff Booth - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) 12) Rusty Ryan - Ocean's Eleven (2001) 13) Bass - 12 Years a Slave (2013) 14) Ben Rickert - The Big Short (2015)
12. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Jack Torrance - The Shining (1980) 2) R.P. McMurphy - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 3) Melvin Udall - As Good as It Gets (1997) 4) Joker - Batman (1989) 5) Col. Nathan R. Jessup - A Few Good Men (1992) 6) J.J. Gittes - Chinatown (1974) 7) Frank Costello - The Departed (2006)
13. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Caden Cotard - Synecdoche, New York (2008) 2) Lancaster Dodd - The Master (2012) 3) Scotty - Boogie Nights (1997) 4) Freddy Lounds - Red Dragon (2002) 5) Phil Parma - Magnolia (1999) 6) Brandt - The Big Lebowski (1998) 7) Art Howe - Moneyball (2011)
14. 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,...
Favorite Roles: 1) Arnie Grape - What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) 2) Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 3) Jack Dawson - Titanic (1997) 4) Calvin Candle - Django Unchained (2012) 5) Rick Dalton - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) 6) Frank Abagnale Jr. - Catch Me If You Can (2002) 7) John Cobb - Inception (2010) 8) Danny Archer - Blood Diamond (2006) 9) Hugh Glass - The Revenant (2015) 10) Teddy Daniels - Shutter Island (2010) 11) Jay Gatsby - The Great Gatsby (2013) 12) Howard Hughes - The Aviator (2004) 13) Billy - The Departed (2006) 14) Amsterdam Vallon - Gangs of New York (2002) 15) Roger Ferris - Body of Lies (2008) 16) Romeo - Romeo + Juliet (1996) 17) Randall Mindy - Don't Look Up (2021)
15. 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), ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Ordell Robbie - Jackie Brown (1997) 2) Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction (1994) 3) Major Marquis Warren - The Hateful Eight (2015) 4) Stephen - Django Unchained (2012) 5) Valentine - Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) 6) Elijah Price - Unbreakable (2000) 7) Preston Packard - Kong: Skull Island (2017) 8) Ken Carter - Coach Carter (2005) 9) Albert - Jurassic Park (1993) 10) Carl Lee Hailey - A Time to Kill (1996) 11) Mace Windu - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
16. 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...
Favorite Roles: 1) Donny - The Big Lebowski (1998) 2) Carl Showalter - Fargo (1996) 3) Mr. Pink - Reservoir Dogs (1992) 4) Tony Blundetto - The Sopranos (1999) 5) Norther Winslow - Big Fish (2003)
17. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 2) Whitey Bulger - Black Mass (2015) 3) Edward Scissorhands - Edward Scissorhands (1990) 4) Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) 5) Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 6) Gilbert Grape - What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) 7) Gellert Grindelwald - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) 8) Mort Rainey - Secret Window (2004) 9) Donnie Brasco - Donnie Brasco (1997)
18. Hugo Weaving
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria, to English parents Anne (Lennard), a tour guide and teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. Hugo has an older brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna, who both also live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Agent Smith - The Matrix (1999) 2) Elrond - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 3) V - V for Vendetta (2005) 4) Johann Schmidt - Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 5) Tom Doss - Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
19. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Christy Brown - My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) 2) Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood (2007) 3) Gerry Conlon - In the Name of the Father (1993) 4) Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln (2012) 5) Bill Cutting - Gangs of New York (2002) 6) Hawkeye - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
20. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump (1994) 2) Jim Lovell - Apollo 13 (1995) 3) Paul Edgecomb - The Green Mile (1999) 4) Captain Miller - Saving Private Ryan (1998) 5) Chuck Noland - Cast Away (2000) 6) Robert Langdon - The Da Vinci Code (2006) 7) Andrew Beckett - Philadelphia (1993) 8) Chesley Sullenberger - Sully (2016) 9) Carl Hanratty - Catch Me If You Can (2002) 10) Colonel Tom Parker - Elvis (2022)
21. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Frank T.J. Mackey - Magnolia (1999) 2) John Anderton - Minority Report (2002) 3) Charlie Babbitt - Rain Man (1988) 4) Dr. William Harford - Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 5) Lt. Daniel Kaffee - A Few Good Men (1992) 6) Jerry Maguire - Jerry Maguire (1996) 7) Maverick - Top Gun (1986) 8) Cage - Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 9) Ethan Hunt - Mission: Impossible (1996) 10) Ron Kovic - Born on the Fourth of July (1989) 11) Ray Ferrier - War of the Worlds (2005)
22. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Trevor Reznik - The Machinist (2004) 2) Patrick Bateman - American Psycho (2000) 3) Bruce Wayne - Batman Begins (2005) 4) Michael Burry - The Big Short (2015) 5) Alfred Borden - The Prestige (2006) 6) Jim - Empire of the Sun (1987) 7) Dick Cheney - Vice (2018) 8) Ken Miles - Ford v Ferrari (2019) 9) Capt. Joseph J. Blocker - Hostiles (2017)
23. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Paul Smecker - The Boondock Saints (1999) 2) Green Goblin - Spider-Man (2002) 3) Alan Ward - Mississippi Burning (1988) 4) Sgt. Elias - Platoon (1986) 5) Ward - Mississippi Burning (1988) 6) Marcus - John Wick (2014) 7) Donald Kimball - American Psycho (2000) 8) Jopling - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 9) Roland Sweet - The Aviator (2004)
24. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Aaron / Roy - Primal Fear (1996) 2) Derek Vinyard - American History X (1998) 3) Eisenheim - The Illusionist (2006) 4) The Narrator - Fight Club (1999) 5) Will Graham - Red Dragon (2002) 6) Bruce Banner - The Incredible Hulk (2008) 7) Mike - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) 8) Alan Isaacman - The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
25. 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),...
Favorite Roles: 1) Capt. Jack Aubrey - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 2) Maximus - Gladiator (2000) 3) Jeffrey Wigand - The Insider (1999) 4) John Nash - A Beautiful Mind (2001) 5) Richie Roberts - American Gangster (2007) 6) Bud White - L.A. Confidential (1997) 7) Jackson Healy - The Nice Guys (2016) 8) Ed Hoffman - Body of Lies (2008)
26. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Vito Corleone - The Godfather (1972) 2) Colonel Kurtz - Apocalypse Now (1979) 3) Terry Malloy - On the Waterfront (1954) 4) Jor-El - Superman (1978)
27. 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,...
Favorite Roles: 1) John McClane - Die Hard (1988) 2) Frank Moses - RED (2010) 3) Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense (1999) 4) James Cole - 12 Monkeys (1995) 5) Old Joe - Looper (2012) 6) Paul Kersey - Death Wish (2018) 7) Butch Coolidge - Pulp Fiction (1994) 8) The Jackall - The Jackal (1997) 9) David Dunn - Unbreakable (2000) 10) Hartigan - Sin City (2005)
28. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Alfred - Batman Begins (2005) 2) Jasper - Children of Men (2006) 3) Cutter - The Prestige (2006) 4) Miles - Inception (2010) 5) Arthur - Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) 6) Professor Brand - Interstellar (2014) 7) Arthur Tressler - Now You See Me (2013)
29. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Ed Tom Bell - No Country for Old Men (2007) 2) Kay - Men in Black (1997) 3) Roy Foltrigg - The Client (1994) 4) Samuel Gerard - The Fugitive (1993) 5) William Strannix - Under Siege (1992) 6) Colonel Chester Phillips - Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
30. 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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Favorite Roles: 1) Dr. Gonzo - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 2) Javier Rodriquez - Traffic (2000) 3) Ernesto Che Guevara - Che: Part One (2008) 4) Jack Jordan - 21 Grams (2003) 5) Fenster - The Usual Suspects (1995) 6) Franky Four Fingers - Snatch (2000) 7) Jacky Boy - Sin City (2005) 8) Alejandro - Sicario (2015) 9) The Collector - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
31. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Ron Woodroof - Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 2) Mark Hanna - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 3) Kenny Wells - Gold (2016) 4) Jake Brigance - A Time to Kill (1996) 5) Cooper - Interstellar (2014) 6) Newton Knight - Free State of Jones (2016)
32. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Jason Bourne - The Bourne Identity (2002) 2) Will - Good Will Hunting (1997) 3) Private Ryan - Saving Private Ryan (1998) 4) Colin Sullivan - The Departed (2006) 5) Max - Elysium (2013) 6) Carroll Shelby - Ford v Ferrari (2019) 7) Linus Caldwell - Ocean's Eleven (2001) 8) Leslie Groves - Oppenheimer (2023)
33. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) The Dude - The Big Lebowski (1998) 2) Obadiah Stane - Iron Man (2008) 3) Dr. Mark Powell - K-PAX (2001) 4) Kevin Flynn - Tron (1982)
34. 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...
Favorite Roles: 1) Tommy Conlon - Warrior (2011) 2) Bane - The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 3) Max Rockatansky - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 4) Eddie Brock - Venom (2018) 5) John Fitzgerald - The Revenant (2015) 6) Eames - Inception (2010)
35. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Sean - Good Will Hunting (1997) 2) John Keating - Dead Poets Society (1989) 3) Dr. Malcolm Sayer - Awakenings (1990) 4) Walter Finch - Insomnia (2002) 5) Alan Parrish - Jumanji (1995) 6) Adrian Cronauer - Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) 7) Andrew Martin - Bicentennial Man (1999) 8) Professor Philip Brainard - Flubber (1997) 9) Teddy Roosevelt - Night at the Museum (2006)
36. Christopher Walken
Actor | The Deer Hunter
Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...
Favorite Roles: 1) Nick Chevotarevich - The Deer Hunter (1978) 2) Frank Abagnale - Catch Me If You Can (2002) 3) Max Schrek - Batman Returns (1992) 4) Captain Koons - Pulp Fiction (1994)
37. Tobin Bell
Actor | Saw
Tobin Bell is an American actor with a career in film, television and theater spanning three decades. He was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Mass. His mother is the British actress Eileen Bell. He is perhaps best known for his role as the iconic villain "Jigsaw" in the Saw film ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Jigsaw - Saw (2004)
38. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Rick Deckard - Blade Runner (1982) 2) Richard Kimble - The Fugitive (1993) 3) Han Solo - Star Wars (1977) 4) Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 5) Norman Spencer - What Lies Beneath (2000)
39. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Severus Snape - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) 2) Hans Gruber - Die Hard (1988) 3) Sherrif of Nottingham - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) 4) Judge Turpin - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
40. Ed Harris
Actor | Appaloosa
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Parcher - A Beautiful Mind (2001) 2) Man in Black - Westworld (2016) 3) Jackson Pollock - Pollock (2000) 4) Bud Brigman - The Abyss (1989) 5) Christof - The Truman Show (1998) 6) Gene Kranz - Apollo 13 (1995) 7) Remy Bressant - Gone Baby Gone (2007)
41. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...
Favorite Roles: 1) Terminator - The Terminator (1984) 2) Dutch - Predator (1987) 3) Douglas Quaid - Total Recall (1990)
42. Joe Pesci
Actor | Goodfellas
Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....
Favorite Roles: 1) Tommy DeVito - Goodfellas (1990) 2) Nicky Santoro - Casino (1995) 3) Joey - Raging Bull (1980) 4) Russell Bufalino - The Irishman (2019) 5) Harry - Home Alone (1990) 6) Frankie - Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 7) Vinnie Gambini - My Cousin Vinny (1992)
43. 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...
Favorite Roles: 1) Larry Flynt - The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) 2) Mickey Knox - Natural Born Killers (1994) 3) Willoughby - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 4) Haymitch Abernathy - The Hunger Games (2012) 5) Merritt McKinney - Now You See Me (2013) 6) Carson Wells - No Country for Old Men (2007)
44. 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...
Favorite Roles: 1) Red - The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2) Eddie Dupris - Million Dollar Baby (2004) 3) God - Bruce Almighty (2003) 4) Somerset - Se7en (1995) 5) Joe Matheson - RED (2010) 6) Jack Doyle - Gone Baby Gone (2007) 7) Ned Logan - Unforgiven (1992)
45. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Watson Bryant - tt3513548 2) Aidan Wilde - Argylle (2024) 3) Dixon - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 4) George W. Bush - Vice (2018) 5) Wild Bill Wharton - The Green Mile (1999)
46. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Sonny - The Apostle (1997) 2) Tom Hagen - The Godfather (1972) 3) Lt. Kilgore - Apocalypse Now (1979) 4) Boo Radley - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 5) Prendergast - Falling Down (1993) 6) Frank Hackett - Network (1976)
47. Kurt Russell
Actor | Escape from New York
Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Snake Plissken - Escape from New York (1981) 2) MacReady - The Thing (1982) 3) Stuntman Mike - Death Proof (2007) 4) John Ruth - The Hateful Eight (2015) 5) Randy Miller - Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
48. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Efraim Diveroli - War Dogs (2016) 2) Donnie Azoff - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 3) Seth - Superbad (2007) 4) Peter Brand - Moneyball (2011)
49. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Michael Scott - The Office (2005) 2) Mark Baum - The Big Short (2015) 3) Evan Baxter - Bruce Almighty (2003) 4) Brick Tamland - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) 5) Frank Ginsberg - Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
50. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Joker - The Dark Knight (2008) 2) William Thatcher - A Knight's Tale (2001) 3) Ennis Del Mar - Brokeback Mountain (2005) 4) Gabriel Martin - The Patriot (2000)
51. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
Favorite Roles: 1) Doug McRay - The Town (2010) 2) Nick Dunne - Gone Girl (2014) 3) Tony Mendez - Argo (2012) 4) Chuckie - Good Will Hunting (1997) 5) Christian Wolff - The Accountant (2016) 6) A.J. Frost - Armageddon (1998)
52. Keanu Reeves
Actor | The Matrix
Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patric Reeves, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese...
Favorite Roles: 1) John Wick - John Wick (2014) 2) Neo - The Matrix (1999)
53. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Jim Garrison - JFK (1991) 2) Lieutenant Dunbar - Dances with Wolves (1990) 3) Eliot Ness - The Untouchables (1987) 4) Robin of Locksley - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) 5) Kenny O'Donnell - Thirteen Days (2000)
54. Nicolas Cage
Actor | Face/Off
Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...
Favorite Roles: 1) Charlie Kaufman - Adaptation. (2002) 2) Ben Sanderson - Leaving Las Vegas (1995) 3) Castor Troy / Sean Archer - Face/Off (1997)
55. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Luke - Cool Hand Luke (1967) 2) Henry Gondorff - The Sting (1973) 3) Butch Cassidy - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
56. 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 ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Wayne Gale - Natural Born Killers (1994) 2) Paul Avery - Zodiac (2007) 3) Tony Stark - Iron Man (2008)
57. Colin Firth
Actor | A Single Man
Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...
Favorite Roles: 1) King George VI - The King's Speech (2010) 2) Harry Hart / Galahad - Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) 3) Mark Darcy - Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) 4) Bill Haydon - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 5) Geoffrey Clifton - The English Patient (1996)
58. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
Favorite Roles: 1) Wolverine - X-Men (2000) 2) Keller Dover - Prisoners (2013) 3) Robert Angier - The Prestige (2006)
59. 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...
Favorite Roles: 1) Anton Chigurh - No Country for Old Men (2007) 2) Uxbal - Biutiful (2010) 3) Stilgar - Dune (2021)
60. Robert Redford
Actor | The Natural
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...
Favorite Roles: 1) The Sundance Kid - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 2) Bob Woodward - All the President's Men (1976) 3) Johnny Hooker - The Sting (1973) 4) Denys - Out of Africa (1985) 5) Alexander Pierce - Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
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