200 Favorite Living Actors !!!! (Ultimate List)
by Levanio | created - 10 Dec 2010 | updated - 03 May 2014 | Public1. 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 ...
For : 1) Barton Fink 2) Fallen 3) The Big Lebowski 4) In The Electric Mist 5) Treme
2. 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 ...
For : 1) Crimson Tide 2) He Got Game 3) Man on Fire 4) The Book of Eli 5) Déja Vu 6) Philadelphia 7) The Devil in Blue Dress 8) Unstoppable 8) Inside Man
3. Shea Whigham
Actor | Take Shelter
Born in Florida, educated at the State University of New York-Purchase, and coming from the NYC based theatre scene, Shea Whigham's big break came when director Joel Schumacher cast him opposite Colin Farrell in Tigerland (2000). He has worked opposite Robert DeNiro, Anthony Hopkins, Christian Bale...
For : 1) Machete 2) Bad Lieutenant : Port of New Orleans 3) Boardwalk Empire 4) The Killing Room 5) Savages
4. J.K. Simmons
Actor | Whiplash
J.K. Simmons is an American actor.
He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).
He had ...
For : 1) Oz 2) The Ladykillers 3) Spider-Man 4) Spider-Man 2 5) Spider-Man 3 6) Burn After Reading 7) First Snow 8) Thank You For Smoking
5. Armin Mueller-Stahl
Actor | Eastern Promises
Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German actor with a relatively long film career. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as an abusive father in the biographical drama "Shine" (1996).
In 1930, Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. The town developed ...
For : 1) Eastern Promises 2) The International
6. Tom Towles
Actor | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Tom Towles was a character player, often cast as scumbags or obnoxious men, who worked for more than a decade in Chicago theatre, before establishing himself in films and TV beginning in the late 80s - often in lower-budget fare. Towles drifted into acting after serving in the Marine Corps. ...
For : 1) Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer 2) Miami Vice 3) Night of The Living Dead 4) Mad Dog and Glory 5) The Devil's Reject
7. William Petersen
Producer | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
William Petersen was born on February 21, 1953 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Manhunter (1986) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He has been married to Gina Cirone since June 14, 2003. They have two children. He was ...
For : 1) Manhunter 2) To Live and Die in L.A. 3) C.S.I. 4) Thief
8. Tom Noonan
Actor | Synecdoche, New York
Offbeat character actor Tom Noonan, born in Connecticut on April 12, 1951, started off his career in various theater troupes that utilized his skills as a guitarist and composer. A graduate from Yale's acting school, he founded the Paradise Theatre in 1983, which was instrumental later in his ...
For : 1) Manhunter 2) X-Files 3) C.S.I.
9. Brian Cox
Actor | Succession
Brian Cox is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor. He was born on June 1, 1946 in Dundee, Scotland, to Mary Ann Guillerline Cox, maiden surname McCann, a spinner, and Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, a shopkeeper and butcher. His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother was of Irish and Scottish ...
For : 1) Manhunter 2) The 25h Hour 3) Braveheart 4) X- Men 2 5) Adaptation
10. Bruce McGill
Actor | Law Abiding Citizen
Bruce McGill grew up in San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Adriel Rose (Jacobs) is an artist, and his father, Woodrow Wilson McGill, is a real estate and insurance agent. He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School San Antonio, where he acted in the department of theatre, and from The University ...
For : 1) The Insider 2) Matchstick Men 3) Collateral 4) Miami Vice 5) C.S.I. 6) Tales From The Crypt
11. Tim Roth
Actor | Rob Roy
Often mistaken for an American because of his skill at imitating accents, actor Tim Roth was born Timothy Simon Roth on May 14, 1961 in Lambeth, London, England. His mother, Ann, was a teacher and landscape painter. His father, Ernie, was a journalist who had changed the family name from "Smith" to ...
For : 1) Reservoir Dogs 2) Pulp Fiction 3) The Hit 4) The Incredible Hulk 5) Made in Britain 6) Hoodlum
12. 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 ...
For : 1) The Apostle 2) The Road 3) Joe Kidd 4) The Godfather 5) Colors 6) Lucky You 7) Apocalypse Now 8) A Civil Action 9) Wild Bill 10) Jack Reacher
13. Powers Boothe
Actor | Sin City
Incisive, gravelly-voiced screen tough guy Powers Boothe was born on June 1, 1948 in Snyder, Texas, a sharecropper's son. Used to hard physical work "chopping cotton" as a youngster, he went on to become the first member of his family to attend university. He then proceeded to study acting via a ...
For : 1) Deadwood 2) Extreme Prejudice 3) Sin City 4) Southern Comfort
14. Stephen Chow
Actor | Kung fu
Stephen Chow was the only boy of his family, and has grown up as a Bruce Lee fan and a martial arts addict. His career started on TV, where he presented a children show ( "430 Space Shuttle" (1983)) and started becoming popular. He got some supporting roles, after that, and won the Taiwanese Golden...
For : 1) Kung Fu Hustle 2) Just Heroes 3) A Chinese Odyssey
15. Tony Ka Fai Leung
Actor | Hak se wooi
Tony Leung Ka-fai is a four-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning film actor. As he is often confused with actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tony Leung Ka-fai is known as "Big Tony", while Tony Leung Chiu-wai is known as "Little Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective physical statures.
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For : 1) Prison on Fire 2) Election 3) Throw Down 4) Eye in The Sky 5) She Shoots Straight
16. Ching Wan Lau
Actor | Hak hap
Ching Wan Lau was born on February 16, 1964 in Hong Kong. He is an actor, known for Black Mask (1996), Mad Detective (2007) and Life Without Principle (2011). He has been married to Amy Kwok since 1998.
For : 1) Mad Detective 2) Too Many Ways To Be Number One 3) Running Out of Time 4) Running Out of Time 2 5) My Lest Eye Sees Ghosts 6) Expect The Unexpected 7) Black Mask
17. 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),...
For : 1) Body of Lies 2) Master and Commander 3) State of Play 4) The Insider 5) The Next Three Days
18. Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Stunts | Ip Man
Born in Hong Kong, Sammo Hung's acting career began while he was training in acrobatics, martial arts and dance as a child at the China Drama Academy, and he received acclaim for his performance with a troupe called "The Seven Little Fortunes." He made his feature film debut as an actor at the age ...
For : 1) Blade of Fury 2) Warriors Two 3) S.P.L. 4) She Shoots Straight
19. John Ortiz
Actor | Silver Linings Playbook
John Ortiz was born on November 21, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Gangster (2007) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). He is married to Jennifer Ortiz. They have one child.
For : 1) Miami Vice 2) Carlito's Way 3) Luck
20. Anthony Mackie
Actor | The Hurt Locker
Anthony Mackie is an American actor. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Martha (Gordon) and Willie Mackie, Sr., who owned a business, Mackie Roofing. Anthony has been featured in feature films, television series and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ...
For : 1) The Hurt Locker 2) She Hate Me 3) 8 Mile
21. Lance Henriksen
Actor | Aliens
An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch...
For : 1) Millenium 2) Dead Man 3) Near Dark 4) Dog Day Afternoon 5) The Quick and The Dead 6) Appaloosa
22. William Forsythe
Actor | Raising Arizona
Dynamically entertaining heavyset US actor with piercing eyes, William Forsythe has a superb talent for playing some truly unlikable and downright nasty characters that dominate the films in which he appears! If you're cast as the hero against Forsythe's villain, then you have your work cut out for...
For : 1) The Devil's Reject 2) Once Upon a Time in America 3) Halloween 4) Boardwalk Empire 5) Hard Luck 6) CSI : Miami
23. Lee Tergesen
Actor | Oz
He was born on July 8, 1965 in Ivoryton, Connecticut and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. His brother, Chris Tergesen, is a music supervisor and music editor. Lee has been married three times and has been married to Yuko Otomo, an art therapist, since 2011. They have a ...
For : 1) Oz 2) Generation Kill
24. 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...
For : 1) Reservoir Dogs 2) The Sopranos 3) King of New York 4) Desperado 5) Interview 6) Art School Confidential 7) Miller's Crossing 8) Escape From L.A. 9) Fargo 10) Delirious 11) Tales From The Crypt 12) Boardwalk Empire 13) Homicide
25. John Turturro
Actor | Fading Gigolo
Highly talented, lightly built American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles.
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian-American parents, Katherine (...
For : 1) Barton Fink 2) Miami Vice 3) Jungle Fever 4) The Big Lebowski 5) Do The Right Thing 6) You Don't Mess With The Zohan 7) Miller's Crosssing
26. Luis Guzmán
Actor | Traffic
Actor of Puerto Rican descent who gained fame making many memorable films in the 1980s and 1990s due to his villainous physical appearance. Guzmán was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico on August 28, 1956 and raised in New York City's Greenwich Village and the surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood. His ...
For : 1) Punck-Drunk Love 2) The Taking of Pelham 123 3) Traffic 4) Snake Eyes 5) Magnolia 6) Carlito's Way 7) Oz 8) Carlito's Way : Rise To Power 9) Hard Luck
27. Vincent D'Onofrio
Actor | Men in Black
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio was born on June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, to Phyllis, a restaurant manager and server, and Gene D'Onofrio, a theatre production assistant and interior designer. He is of Italian descent and has two older sisters. He studied at the Actors Studio and the American ...
For : 1) Full Metal Jacket 2) Brooklyn's Finest 3) The Cell 4) Law and Order : Criminal Intent 5) Staten Island 6) The Player 7) Men in Black 8) Homicide
28. Elias Koteas
Actor | The Thin Red Line
Elias Koteas was born on March 11, 1961, in Montreal, Canada. Both his parents are of Greek descent. Elias attended Vanier College in Montreal before leaving to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1981, of which he is a graduate. He also attended the Actors Studio in ...
For : 1) Zodiac 2) Crash 3) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4) Let Me In 5) The Sopranos 6) Shutter Island 7) The Thind Red Line 8) Two Lovers
29. Mark Wahlberg
Producer | The Fighter
American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...
For : 1) We Own The Night 2) Four Brothers 3) The Departed 4) The Other Guys 5) The Lovely Bones 6) The Fighter
30. Stephen Tobolowsky
Actor | Groundhog Day
Character actor Stephen Tobolowsky was born on May 30, 1951 in Dallas, Texas. Over the past three decades, Tobolowsky has racked up a lengthy list of roles in movies and television across many different genres.
While Tobolowsky initially attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with ...
For : 1) Groundhog Day 2) Entourage 3) Buried 4) Deadwood 5) Memento
31. Brad Dourif
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, ...
For : 1) Deadwood 2) X-Files 3) Color of Night 4) Halloween 5) Halloween 2 6) One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest 7) Tales From The Crypt
32. 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 ...
For : 1) Empire of The Sun 2) Rescue Dawn 3) The Machinist 4) The Prestige 5) Harsh Times
33. Garret Dillahunt
Actor | 12 Years a Slave
Garret studied journalism at the University of Washington and received an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program. He performed on and off Broadway and in theaters around the country before he also began pursuing film and television roles. A self described workaholic, he enjoys a ...
For : 1) Deadwood 2) The Last House on The Left 3) Millenium 4) The Believer 5) The Road 6) The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford 7) Winter's Bone 8) Oliver Sherman
34. Michael Parks
Actor | Red State
Michael Parks is known as an actor's actor by his peers with a breadth of astonishing range that has allowed him to portray stunning contrasts--sometimes in the same film, like in Tusk (2014), starring in dual roles as an erudite serial killer opposite Justin Long, and as a feeble rube opposite ...
For : 1) Kill Bill Vol. 1 2) Kill Bill Vol. 2 3) The Last Hard Men 4) From Dusk Till Dawn 5) Death Proof 6) Red State
35. Harvey Keitel
Actor | Reservoir Dogs
American actor and producer Harvey Keitel was born on May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Miriam (Klein) and Harry Keitel. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists (...
For : 1) Reservoir Dogs 2) Bad Lieutenant 3) Taxi Driver 4) Pulp Fiction 5) The Duellists
36. Michael Imperioli
Actor | The Sopranos
Imperioli was born Michael Imperioli in Mt. Vernon, New York on March 26, 1966. His film work began in the late 1980s. An early part that brought him recognition was in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), as Spider, a local kid who works for the gangsters and has a run-in with a psychopathic mob ...
For : 1) The Sopranos 2) Summer of Sam 3) Goodfellas
37. Colin Farrell
Actor | The Lobster
Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.
Farrell was born on ...
For : 1) Minority Report 2) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 3) In Bruges 5) Cassandra's Dream 6) The Way Back
38. Val Kilmer
Actor | The Doors
Val Kilmer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Swanette (Ekstadt) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer, who was a real estate developer and aerospace equipment distributor. His mother, born in Indiana, was from a Swedish family, and his father was from Texas. Val studied at Hollywood's ...
For : 1) Heat 2) True Romance 3) Streets of Blood 4) Top Secret ! 5) Déja Vu
39. Ted Levine
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Born in May 1957 in Bellaire, Ohio, he was among the last graduating class of the Windsor Mountain School in Lenox, Massachusetts. Attended Marlboro College in Vermont. Performed in summer stock and regional theaters in Vermont, Michigan and West Virginia before settling in Chicago and joining The ...
For : 1) The Silence of The Lambs 2) Heat 3) Shutter Island 4) The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford 5) The Hills Have Eyes 6) Luck
40. Jon Polito
Actor | The Crow
A veteran of nearly 100 films, Jon Polito is most recognized for his work with The Coen brothers, as well as his many television appearances as a series regular and guest star. Notable motion picture roles include: Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Crow, Blankman, and The...
For : 1) The Barber 2) Millenium 3) Homicide 4) Miller's Crossing
41. 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,...
For : 1) The Wrestler 2) Man on Fire 3) Body Heat 4) The Expendables 5) Johnny Handsome 6) Iron Man 2
42. Wood Harris
Actor | Remember the Titans
Harris was born Sherwin David Harris in Chicago, Illinois, to John and Mattie Harris. However, he works under his nickname, "Wood". Attended New York University Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School. Has performed in many films and various stage productions including plays by August Wilson, ...
For : 1) The Wire 2) Paid in Full 3) Southand Tales
43. Alexander Skarsgård
Actor | The Legend of Tarzan
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Valter Skarsgård. For most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in Europe but had not yet ...
For : 1) Generation Kill 2) Zoolander 3) True Blood
44. J.D. Williams
Actor | Pootie Tang
J.D. Williams was born on May 22, 1978 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Pootie Tang (2001), The Kill Point (2007) and Oz (1997).
For : 1) The Wire 2) Oz
45. Dean Stockwell
Actor | Quantum Leap
Dean Robert Stockwell grew up in North Hollywood, the son of Broadway performers Harry Stockwell and Elizabeth "Betty" Stockwell (née Veronica). His vaudevillian father was a replacement Curly in the original production of "Oklahoma!". He was also a decent tenor whose voice was used for the part of...
For : 1) Blue Velvet 2) Battlestar Galactica 3) Miami Vice 4) Tales From The Crypt 5) Tracks
46. Hal Holbrook
Actor | Into the Wild
Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on...
For : 1) Into The Wild 2) The Sopranos 3) The Fog
47. Jesse Eisenberg
Actor | The Social Network
Curly haired and with a fast-talking voice, Jesse Eisenberg is a movie actor, known for his Academy Award nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network. He has also starred in the films The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Education of Charlie Banks, 30 Minutes or ...
For : 1) The Social Network 2) The Squird and The Whale
48. Tom Sizemore
Actor | Saving Private Ryan
Tom Sizemore rose in prominence throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy actor, sought by the most respected directors in the business.
Thomas Edward Sizemore, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Judith (Schannault), an ombudsman staff member, and Thomas Edward Sizemore, ...
For : 1) True Romance 2) Devil in Blue Dress 3) Heat 4) Strange Days 5) Enemy of The State 6) Blue Steel 7) Point Break 8) Saving Private Ryan
49. Danny Trejo
Actor | Machete
Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for ...
For : 1) Machete 2) Heat 3) From Dusk Till Dawn 4) Con Air 5) Desperado
50. Vince Vaughn
Producer | The Break-Up
Vincent Anthony Vaughn was born on March 28, 1970, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, and was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. His parents, Vernon Vaughn (a salesman and character actor), and Sharon Vaughn, née Sharon Eileen DePalmo (a real-estate agent and stockbroker) divorced in 1991. He has two ...
For : 1) The Prime Gig 2) Into The Wild 3) Wedding Crashers
51. 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, ...
For : 1) The Thing 2) Big Trouble in Little China 3) Death Proof 4) Escape From New York 5) Escape From L.A.
52. Donald Sutherland
Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.
Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint ...
For : 1) Klute 2) The Kentucky Fried Movie 3) JFK 4) Day of The Locust 5) Land of The Blind 6) The Assignment 7) Eye of The Needle
53. Wesley Snipes
Actor | Blade
Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York City, where he very early decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career. He attended ...
For : 1) Blade II 2) Jungle Fever 3) Brooklyn's Finest 4) The Fan 5) Boiling Point 6) King of New York 7) White Men Can't Jump 8) Sugar Hill 9) The Art of War 10) Mo'Better Blues
54. James Woods
Actor | Vampires
James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...
For : 1) Casino 2) From Hercules to Kingdom Hearts (Everything With Hades) 3) Salvador 4) Best Seller 5) Nixon
55. Wendell Pierce
Actor | The Wire
Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor and businessman. He is known for roles in HBO dramas such as Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire and trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme; as well as portraying James Greer in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, high-powered attorney Robert Zane in Suits, and Michael ...
For : 1) The Wire 2) Get on The Bus 3) Treme
56. Joe Chrest
Actor | Stranger Things
After serving in the United States Air Force where he was recognized for Cold War service and for expert marksmanship, Chrest earned a BFA Degree in Directing from Marshall University (West Virginia) and a MFA Degree from Louisiana State University.
A veteran of over 100 screen roles, and over 60 ...
For : 1) Underneath 2) Millenium 3) Deadwood
57. Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Actor | The Waterboy
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. was born on September 22, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Waterboy (1998), Walk of Shame (2014) and One Night in Miami... (2020). He is married to Michelle Paress.
For : 1) The Wire
58. David Duchovny
Actor | The X Files
David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...
For : 1) X-Files 2) Twin Peaks 3) The Joneses
59. Jason Bateman
Actor | Arrested Development
Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).
He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director...
For : 1) Arrested Development 2) State of Play 3) Smokin' Ace$
60. Nick Chinlund
Actor | The Chronicles of Riddick
Nick Chinlund was born and raised in New York City. He left the city to play basketball at Brown University, but his hoops career was cut short when he suffered an injury during his freshman year. He stayed at Brown and took up acting classes, and realized it was his true calling. He graduated from...
For : 1) X-Files 2) The Chronicles of Riddick 3) The Sopranos 4) Con Air 5) Training Day
61. Joe Pantoliano
Actor | Memento
With more than 100 film, television and stage credits to his name, Joseph Peter Pantoliano is a prolific American character actor who has played many diverse and memorable roles, from Guido in Risky Business (1983) to Eddie Moscone in Midnight Run (1988), Cosmo Renfro in The Fugitive (1993), Cypher...
For : 1) The Sopranos 2) Bound 3) Midnight Run 4) The Matrix 5) Tales From The Crypt 6) Empire of The Sun
62. Gene Hackman
Actor | The French Connection
Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...
For : 1) Unforgiven 2) The Scarecrow 3) Crimson Tide 4) French Connection 5) Another Woman 6) The Quick and The Dead
63. 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 ...
For : 1) The Office 2) The 40 Year Old Virgin
64. David Proval
Actor | Mean Streets
David Proval launched his acting career with a starring role in Mean Streets (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese, and has been working nonstop ever since. Notable features in which he has appeared include The Phantom (1996), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) Four Rooms (1995) and The Shawshank Redemption...
For : 1) The Sopranos 2) Mean Streets 3) Smokin' Ace$
65. W. Earl Brown
Actor | Deadwood
As a rule, W. Earl Brown does not usually speak of himself in the third-person, however the Internet Movie Database will not accept biographical information written in the first person, therefore:
W Earl Brown was born and raised in western Kentucky. Realizing early in life that he had an aversion ...
For : 1) Deadwood 2) There's Something About Mary 3) X-Files
66. 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 ...
For : 1) Step Brothers 2) Talladega Nights : The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 3) A Night at The Roxbury 4) Semi-Pro
67. Don Johnson
Actor | Miami Vice
Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...
For : 1) Miami Vice 2) Machete 3) Guilty as Sin 4) Django Unchained
68. Pruitt Taylor Vince
Actor | Identity
Pruitt can next be seen starring as a series regular in the Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake, opposite Natalie Portman. Other television work includes recurring in Netflix's Stranger Things, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NBC's Heroes Reborn, True Blood, The Walking Dead, The Mentalist, and ...
For : 1) X-Files 2) In The Electric Mist 3) Wild at Heart 4) Identity 5) Deadwood 6) Captivity 7) Justified
69. 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, ...
For : 1) War of The Worlds 2) Mystic River 3) Short Cuts 4) 5) The Player
70. 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)...
For : 1) Dogday Afternoon 2) Donnie Brasco 3) Carlito's Way 4) The Godfather 5) Heat 6) The Insider 7) The Godfather : Part II 8) The Godfather : Part III 9) Scarface
71. Alfred Molina
Actor | Spider-Man 2
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna (Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal ...
For : 1) Coffee and Cigarettes 2) Spider-Man 2 3) Dead Man 4) Indiana Jones and The Raiders of The Lost Ark
72. Jamie Hector
Actor | Bosch
The Brooklyn-born actor Jamie Hector may be best known for his role as Marlo Stanfield on the critically acclaimed HBO series "The Wire". He now plays Detective Jerry Edgar on the Amazon hit series "BOSCH". Jamie studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. He is also the founder of ...
For : 1) The Wire
73. Brendan Gleeson
Actor | The Guard
Brendan Gleeson was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Pat and Frank Gleeson. From a very young age, he loved to learn, especially reading classical text in and outside the classroom. He took great attention to Irish play writers such as Samuel Beckett, which eventually led to him performing in his high ...
For : 1) The Tailor of Panama 2) Gangs of New York 3) In Bruges 4) The General
74. 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 ...
For : 1) Blade Runner 2) Sin City
75. Chris Bauer
Actor | The Wire
Chris Bauer was born on October 28, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Mark Christopher Bauer. He is an actor, known for The Wire (2002), True Blood (2008), Third Watch (1999) and The Deuce (2017). He has been married to Laura Bauer since May 12, 1997. They have two children.
For : 1) The Wire 2) 8 MM 3) Face/Off 4) True Blood
76. John Leguizamo
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Fast-talking and feisty-looking John Leguizamo has continued to impress movie audiences with his versatility: he can play sensitive and naïve young men, such as Johnny in Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); cold-blooded killers like Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way (1993); a heroic Army Green Beret, ...
For : 1) Carlito's Way 2) The Happening 3) Summer of Sam 4) The Fan 6) Revenge
77. M. Emmet Walsh
Actor | Blood Simple
Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.
Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and...
For : 1) Blood Simple 2) Tales From The Crypt
78. Miguel Ferrer
Actor | Traffic
Miguel Ferrer was an American actor known for playing Morton from RoboCop, Shan Yu from Mulan, Martian Manhunter from Justice League: The New Frontier, Slade Wilson from Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Death from Adventure Time, Sesa Refumee from Halo 2 and Vice President Rodriguez from Iron Man 3...
For : 1) The Night Flier 2) Traffic 3) Revenge 4) Robocop 5) Tales From The Crypt
79. John Billingsley
Actor | The Man from Earth
John Billingsley was born on May 20, 1960 in Media, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for The Man from Earth (2007), Out of Time (2003) and 2012 (2009). He has been married to Bonita Friedericy since June 2000.
For : 1) Out of Time 2) X-Files 3) Six Feet Under
80. Ron Perlman
Actor | Hand of God
Ron Perlman is a classically-trained actor who has appeared in countless stage plays, feature films and television productions.
Ronald N. Perlman was born April 13, 1950 in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. His mother, Dorothy (Rosen), is retired from the City Clerk's Office. His father, ...
For : 1) Le Nom de La Rose 2) Blade II 3) Stalingrad 4) Alien 4 5) Hellboy 6) Hellboy 2 7) La Cité des Enfants Perdus 8) Drive
81. Clancy Brown
Actor | The Shawshank Redemption
A tall, wavy-haired US actor with a deep, resonant voice, Clancy Brown has proven himself a versatile performer with first-class contributions to theatre, feature films, television series and even animation.
Clarence J. Brown III was born in 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, to Joyce Helen (Eldridge), a concert...
For : 1) Extreme Prejudice 2) Carnivale 3) Blue Steel 4) Crash Bandicoot Series 5) Tales From The Crypt
82. Martin Landau
Actor | Ed Wood
Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...
For : 1) Ed Wood 2) North By Northwest 3) Entourage
83. Michael Caine
Actor | Youth
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 ...
For : 1) Play Dirty 2) Sleuth (2007) 3) Austin Powers in Goldmember 4) Dressed To Kill 5) The Man Who Would Be King 6) Too Late The Hero 7) Harry Brown
84. Kevin Conway
Actor | Gettysburg
Kevin Conway was born on May 29, 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Gettysburg (1993), Thirteen Days (2000) and Invincible (2006). He was married to Mila Burnette. He died on February 5, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
For : 1) Oz 2) The Quick and The Dead 3) The Outer Limits 4) Jennifer 8 5) Gods and Generals 6) Homicide
85. 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...
For : 1) Bronson 2) Inception 3) Band of Brothers 4) The Dark Knight Rises
86. Jon Seda
Actor | La Brea
Jon Seda's first passion was to be a championship boxer. After taking runner-up in the NJ Golden Gloves, the 1992 Olympics was the next goal. That's when fate stepped in; at his first audition, for Gladiator (1992), he was given a co-starring role! Since then he has branched off into numerous ...
For : 1) Oz 2) Homicide
87. 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 ...
For : 1) You Don't Mess With The Zohan 2) Funny People 3) Punch-Drunk Love
88. Kevin Michael Richardson
Actor | Mortal Kombat
Well-known, king-sized actor and voice artist Kevin Michael Richardson was born in Bronx, New York. He is, perhaps, mostly recognizable for his deep voice, which he uses in many of his works.
Richardson is a classically trained actor. He first gained recognition as one of only eight U.S. high school...
For : 1) Viewtiful Joe
89. Ving Rhames
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Strikingly featured and muscular American actor Ving Rhames was born Irving Rameses Rhames in Harlem, New York, to Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. A good student, Ving entered the New York High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. He studied ...
For : 1) Pulp Fiction 2) Bringing Out of The Dead 3) Undisputed 3) Dawn of The Dead 4) Homicide 5) I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
90. 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...
For : 1) Raising Arizona 2) Leaving Las Vegas 3) Wild at Heart 4) Bad Lieutenant : Port of New Orleans 5) Kiss of Death 6) Honeymoon in Vegas 7) Face/Off 8) Bringing Out of The Dead 9) Drive Angry 10) Adaptation
91. Kevin Corrigan
Actor | True Romance
A native of the Bronx, New York, Kevin Corrigan has been acting and writing since the age of 15. He made his film debut in Lost Angels (1989) and around that time, when he was just 17, his original play "The Boiler Room" was produced by the Young Playwrights Festival of New York. He has gone on to ...
For : 1) Unstoppable 2) SuperBad 3) True Romance 4) American Gangster 5) Pineapple Express 6) The Next Three Days 7) Community
92. Bill Moseley
Actor | The Devil's Rejects
William Lambert Moseley (born November 11, 1951) is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including House of 1000 Corpses (2003), Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) and The Devil's Rejects (2005). His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw ...
For : 1) The Devil's Reject 2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part. 2
93. Harold Perrineau
Actor | Romeo + Juliet
Harold Perrineau is an American actor best known for his roles as Michael Dawson on the television series Lost (2004-2008; 2010), Augustus Hill in the television series Oz (1997-2003), Link in The Matrix franchise (2003), and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). He has also starred in ...
For : 1) Oz 2) Romeo + Juliet 3) King of New York
94. William Sanderson
Actor | Blade Runner
Prolific and versatile character actor William Sanderson was born on January 10, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a landscape designer. William served two years in the US Army. Following his military service he attended Southern Methodist ...
For : 1) X-Files 2) Deadwood 3) Blade Runner
95. Titus Welliver
Actor | The Town
Titus Welliver was born on March 12, 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was a famous landscape painter, Neil Welliver. His mother was a fashion illustrator, Norma Cripps. He has three brothers, one was killed overseas. He was raised in Philadelphia and New York City, surrounded by poets and...
For : 1) X-Files 2) Deadwood 3) The Town
96. Keith Carradine
Actor | Nashville
It seems the second generation of acting Carradines -- David, Keith and Robert -- are proudly continuing the family tradition and begetting a third generation of talent. The dynasty began with veteran Hollywood patriarch John Carradine, the son of a surgeon and a correspondent for the Associated ...
For : 1) Deadwood 2) The Duellists 3) Emperor of The North Pole 4) Southern Comfort
97. Michael Kenneth Williams
Actor | The Wire
Emmy-nominated actor and producer Michael Kenneth Williams was one of his generation's most respected and acclaimed talents. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life--often with surprising tenderness--Williams established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ...
For : 1) The Wire 2) Brooklyn's Finest 3) The Road 4) Boardwalk Empire
98. Chris Sarandon
Actor | The Nightmare Before Christmas
The handsome, weird and worldly-looking Chris Sarandon has shown his versatility in everything from vampires to Jesus Christ in hypnotic performances that have been controversial but irresistible. He was born Christopher Sarandon, Jr. and raised in Beckley, West Virginia of Greek heritage on both ...
For : 1) The Nightmare Before Christmas 2) Dogday Afternoon 3) The Princess Bride
99. David Cross
Actor | Arrested Development
David Cross is an American actor, writer and comedian who is known for playing Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development, Minion from Megamind, Crane from Kung Fu Panda, Ian Hawke from Alvin and the Chipmunks, Yivo from Futurama and Happy Time Harry from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He also acted in Grand ...
For : 1) Arrested Development 2) Scary Movie 2 3) Year One 4) Futurama
100. 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 ...
For : 1) Casino 2) Jackie Brown 3) Mean Streets 4) The Godfather Part II 5) The King of Comedy 6) Heat 7) Cape Fear 8) The Silver Linings Playbook 9) Goodfellas
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