My favourite actors

1. Tom Hanks

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 ...

Big(1988) A League of Their Own(1992) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Philadelphia (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) Apollo 13 (I) (1995) Toy Story (1995) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) The Green Mile (1999) Cast Away (2000) Road to Perdition (2002) Catch Me If You Can (2002) The Terminal (2004) The Polar Express (2004) The Da Vinci Code (2006) Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Toy Story 3 (2010) Cloud Atlas (2012) Captain Phillips (2013) Bridge of Spies (2015) Sully (2016) The Post (2017) Toy Story 4 (2019) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

2. 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,...

Titanic (1997) Gangs of New York (2002) Catch Me If You Can (2002) The Aviator (2004) The Departed (2006) Blood Diamond (2006) Shutter Island (2010) Inception (2010) Django Unchained (2012) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) The Revenant (2015) Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) Don't Look Up (2021) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

3. 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...

Unforgiven (1992) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Se7en (1995) Bruce Almighty (2003) The Big Bounce (2004) Million Dollar Baby (2004) Batman Begins (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) Gone Baby Gone (2007) The Bucket List (2007) The Dark Knight (2008) Invictus (2009) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Oblivion(2013) Now You See Me(2013) Lucy (I) (2014) Ted 2 (2015) Now You See Me 2 (2016)

4. Adam Sandler

Actor | The Waterboy

Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took ...

Billy Madison (1995) The Wedding Singer (1998) Little Nicky (2000) Mr. Deeds (2002) 50 First Dates (2004) Spanglish (2004) Click (2006) I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) Funny People (2009) Grown Ups (2010) Just Go with It (2011) Jack and Jill (2011) That's My Boy (2012) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Grown Ups 2 (2013) Blended (2014) The Cobbler (2014) Pixels (2015) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) The Ridiculous 6 (2015) The Do-Over (2016) The Week Of (2018) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) Murder Mystery (2019) Hubie Halloween (2020) Murder Mystery 2 (2023)

5. Ryan Reynolds

Actor | Deadpool 2

Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. ...

The Proposal (2009) The Change-Up (2011) Safe House (2012) Ted (2012) The Croods (2013) Deadpool (2016) The Hitman's Bodyguard(2017) 6 Underground (2019) Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) Free Guy (2021) Red Notice (2021) The Adam Project(2022)

6. 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...

Fatal Attraction (1987) Basic Instinct (1992) The Game (1997) A Perfect Murder (1998) Traffic (2000) Ant-Man (2015) Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

7. 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, ...

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Legends of the Fall (1994) Mission: Impossible II (2000) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Thor (2011) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Noah (2014) Solace (2015) Westworld (2016-)(tvseries) Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

8. 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: ...

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) The Mask (1994) Dumb and Dumber (1994) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) The Cable Guy (1996) Liar Liar (1997) The Truman Show (1998) Me, Myself & Irene (2000) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Bruce Almighty (2003) A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Yes Man (2008) A Christmas Carol (2009) Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

9. 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 ...

Empire of the Sun (1987) American Psycho (2000) The Machinist (2004) Batman Begins (2005) The Prestige (2006) 3:10 to Yuma (2007) The Dark Knight (2008) The Fighter (2010) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) American Hustle (2013) The Big Short (2015 Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

10. 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. ...

Top Gun (1986) Mission: Impossible (1996) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Mission: Impossible II (2000) Vanilla Sky (2001) Minority Report (2002) The Last Samurai (2003) Collateral (2004) War of the Worlds (2005) Mission: Impossible III (2006) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) Oblivion (2013) Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) The Mummy (2017) Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

11. Liam Neeson

Actor | Kinsey

Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...

Schindler's List (1993) Gangs of New York (2002) Batman Begins (2005) Taken (2008) Clash of the Titans (2010) Unknown (2011) The Grey (2011) Wrath of the Titans (2012) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Taken 2 (2012) Non-Stop (2014) Taken 3 (2014) Ted 2 (2015) Silence (2016) Daddy's Home 2 (2017)

12. 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 ...

Legends of the Fall (1994) Se7en (1995) 12 Monkeys (1995) Sleepers (1996) Fight Club (1999) Snatch (2000) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Inglourious Basterds (2009) World War Z (2013) 12 Years a Slave (2013) The Big Short (2015) Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)

13. Chris Hemsworth

Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman

Christopher "Chris" Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth (née van Os), an English teacher & Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His brothers are actors, Liam Hemsworth & Luke Hemsworth; he is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...

Thor (2011) The Avengers (2012) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Doctor Strange (2016) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Extraction (2020) Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

14. Dwayne Johnson

Actor | Black Adam

Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known as The Rock, was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. He is the son of Ata Johnson (born Feagaimaleata Fitisemanu) and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles). His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black Nova ...

San Andreas (2015) Central Intelligence (2016) Moana (2016) Baywatch (2017) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Rampage (2018) Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) Red Notice (2021)

15. 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 ...

The Godfather: Part II (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) Goodfellas (1990) Cape Fear (1991) Casino (1995) Sleepers (1996) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) American Hustle (2013) Dirty Grandpa (2016) Joker (2019) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

16. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

Philadelphia (1993) The Bone Collector (1999) Deja Vu (2006) American Gangster (2007) The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) Safe House (2012) The Equalizer (2014) Fences (2016) The Equalizer 2 (2018)

17. 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 ...

Men in Black (1997) Men in Black II (2002) The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) I Am Legend (2007) Hancock (2008) Men in Black 3 (2012) After Earth (2013) Focus (2015)

18. 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...

Inception (2010) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) The Revenant (2015) Venom (2018) Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

19. Sam Worthington

Actor | Avatar

Samuel Henry John Worthington was born August 2, 1976 in Surrey, England. His parents, Jeanne (Martyn) and Ronald Worthington, a power plant employee, moved the family to Australia when he was six months old, and raised him and his sister Lucinda in Warnbro, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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Avatar (2009) Clash of the Titans (2010) Man on a Ledge (2012) Wrath of the Titans (2012) Everest (2015) Hacksaw Ridge (2016) The Shack (I) (2017) Fractured (I) (2019) Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

20. 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. ...

Apollo 13 (I) (1995) The Truman Show (1998) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Gone Baby Gone (2007) Man on a Ledge (2012) Gravity (2013)

21. Tim Robbins

Actor | Mystic River

Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...

Top Gun (1986) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Arlington Road (1999) Mystic River (2003) War of the Worlds (2005)

22. 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, ...

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

23. 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...

Inglourious Basterds (2009) Django Unchained (2012) The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

24. 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 ...

Prisoners (2013) Everest (2015) Nocturnal Animals (2016) Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) The Guilty (2021)

25. Julia Roberts

Actress | Pretty Woman

Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...

Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Eat Pray Love (2010) Money Monster (2016) Wonder (I) (2017)

26. Jennifer Aniston

Actress | Friends

Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father was Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City...

Bruce Almighty (2003) Marley & Me (2008) Just Go with It (2011) Horrible Bosses (2011) Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) Office Christmas Party (2016) Murder Mystery (2019) Murder Mystery 2 (2023)

27. Margot Robbie

Actress | Suicide Squad

Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Focus (2015) The Big Short (2015) The Legend of Tarzan (2016) Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019)

28. Amy Adams

Actress | Arrival

Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...

Catch Me If You Can (2002) Charlie Wilson's War (2007) The Muppets (2011) Man of Steel (2013) American Hustle (2013) Arrival (II) (2016) Nocturnal Animals (2016)

29. 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 ...

30. Timothée Chalamet

Actor | Call Me by Your Name

Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. ...

31. 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), ...

32. John Travolta

Actor | Pulp Fiction

John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...

33. 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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34. Owen Wilson

Actor | The Royal Tenenbaums

Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and ...

35. 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 ...

36. 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...

37. 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 ...

38. 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...

39. Robert Pattinson

Actor | Twilight

Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...

40. Michael Keaton

Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...

41. Ethan Hawke

Actor | Training Day

Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old. His mother raised him alone for the ...

42. Zac Efron

Actor | High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California, to Starla Baskett, a secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. The surname "Efron", which is Hebrew and a Biblical place name, comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal ...

43. Henry Cavill

Actor | Man of Steel

Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill was born on the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands. His mother, Marianne (Dalgliesh), a housewife, was also born on Jersey, and is of Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Henry's father, Colin Richard Cavill, a stockbroker, is of ...

44. Viggo Mortensen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.

Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...

45. Daniel Craig

Actor | Casino Royale

One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

He was born ...

46. Sacha Baron Cohen

Actor | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London. He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. His father, born in England and raised in Wales, was of Eastern European Jewish descent, while his mother was born...