Actors and actresses and how I would cast them!

by my_little_phony | created - 03 Apr 2012 | updated - 03 Apr 2012 | Public

Not really in order except for the obvious grouping of men and women!

1. 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 ...

My Favourite actor EVER!!!

He would play a quirky and unlikely hero with a dark secret niggling at the back of his mind throughout the movie with a shocking reveal at the end which makes you question your love for him but he will then redeem himself and your love will be reignited.

2. Matthew Gray Gubler

Actor | Alvin and the Chipmunks

Matthew Gray Gubler is an Emmy award-winning actor, director, producer, painter, and voice over actor from Las Vegas, Nevada. While studying film directing at NYU he interned for Wes Anderson who gave him his first feature film role as Bill Murray's loyal intern "Nico" in The Life Aquatic with ...

Plays the sweet, loveable underdog whose strange and intruiging antics make you love him a little more and when he goes through a tragedy midway through the film he finally comes to his own and takes place as a hereo whom we all route for only for him to have a tear-jerking death annoyingly close to the climax of the film.

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...

Plays the worldwise guide who is often ignored which leaves him bitter and wondering if he should continue trying to help the good guys anymore and goes on a rebellion which ends up having him quite severly wounded and in a wheelchair but he then comes to his senses after a break-down in the hospital.

4. Liam Cunningham

Actor | Hunger

Irish actor Liam Cunningham was an electrician in the mid-'80s. He saw an ad for an acting school and he decided to give it a try. His first film role was as a policeman in "Into the West." Since then, he has been involved in many films and theater productions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Plays the leader of the bad guys who stays on the side lines and makes his minions do his work while watches in pleasure but when a strike breaks out among his minions he is forced to go into the firing-line himself and kills the the sidekick (Matthew Gray Gubler) but inevitably ends up being killed by the hereo in an act of revenge.

5. James Nesbitt

Actor | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

James Nesbitt was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to May, a civil servant, and James Nesbitt, a primary school headmaster. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution (also the school of Brian Campbell & Brian McAlister). He originally planned to be a French teacher. It ...

Plays a shady character whom you never really know is good or bad until he reveals that he has been trying to help the good guys for the duration of the film and is actually the parent of the underdog (MGG) and after his sons untimely death vows for revenge but dies in the most imaginative and visually heart-renching of ways.

6. Tim Curry

Actor | Congo

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

Although dead for the duration of the film he appears in flashbacks with his son punishing him for his weaknesses and his voice is played throughout the film in the mind of the films leading villian (Liam Cunningham) constantly reminding him he is not good enough to be his son and that everything he does is wrong.

7. Rufus Sewell

Actor | Dark City

Rufus Sewell was born on the 29th of October 1967 in Twickenham, England. His mother, Jo, was Welsh, and was an artist and painter. His father, Bill Sewell, was an English-Australian animator who was born in Australia to English parents and died when Rufus was 10. He has one brother, Caspar. He ...

Plays the encouraging brother of the hereo who although happy for his brother becomes increasingly jealous and has fall in with the villians but when told to kill his brother(Johnny Depp) he refuses and is thrown from the villians group of minions and goes on to replace his brothers sidekick(MGG).

8. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Actor | Game of Thrones

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor, producer and screenwriter. He graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre in Copenhagen in 1993. Coster-Waldau's breakthrough performance in Denmark was his role in the film Nightwatch (1994). Since then he has appeared in ...

Plays the most dangerous of the minions who will stop at nothing to get revenge on the hereo(JD) because he thinks his family had something to do with his mothers death but realises that his leader (LC) was responsible and goes into a mad rage and tries to kill him but is as a result exiled and tries to apologize to the hereo(JD) but is turned down and destined to live his life a loner.

9. Iain Glen

Actor | Game of Thrones

Iain Glen is a Scottish actor, born June 24, 1961, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was the winner of the ...

Plays the astanged father of one of the minions(Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) on his way to tell his son the truth of his mothers death to steer him off the path he has become a part of but when he realises he has come too late and his son has become part of an evil alliance he flees in fear that his son will try to kill him but before he leaves he makes a ditch attempt to kill the evil leader(LC) but ends up being brutally killed by the minions.

10. 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 ...

Plays the twisted, slightly dim-witted minion who, all though not the most dangerous, is feared for his unrelenting cruelty on his victims and he is so twisted because he witnessed the brutal murder of his sister but has never been able to identify her murderer and has come to believe all of his victims are her murderers.

11. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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

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

Plays the junkie lover of the villian(LC) who though corrupted by her addiction trys with all her strength to stop her love from murdering anymore people which results in him beating her mercilessly causing her to flee from his company to warn the hereo (JD) of his evil plans.

12. Elliot Page

Actor | Juno

Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for...

Plays the adoring sister of the underdog(MGG) who always believes that her brother is better than everyone assumes but when he dies she spirals out of control but is soon helped by an ex-minion(NCW) to get back on the right track with him and she begins to look up to him as a friend until she finds out his involvement with the villanous leader but is soon reasurred he had nothing to do with her brothers death and becomes closer to him.

13. Michelle Pfeiffer

Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys

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

Plays the mother of the two youngest characters (MGG & EP) who's strong character constantly intimadates her son as she reminds him of what a coward he is but when she dies in a car accident her influence on her son shines through as he finally stands up to fight for her.

14. Rachel Weisz

Actress | The Constant Gardener

Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...

Plays the young mother of the villanous leader(LC) who before her death at a very young age treated her son as a prince but when she dies her grieving husband takes control and holds years of resentment against his son over him.



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