Favorite Actors

1. 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...

Great in: Good Will Hunting (Chuckie), Shakespeare in Love (Ned Alleyn), Dogma (Bartleby), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Holden McNeil/Ben Affleck), Changing Lanes (Gavin Banek), Paycheck (Jennings), The Town (Doug MacRay), Gone Girl (Nick Dunne), The Accountant (Christian Wolff), Air (Phil Knight)

Also saw him in: Field of Dreams (Baseball Fan at Fenway Park), Mallrats (Shannon), Clerks II (Gawking Guy), Suicide Squad (Batman)

2. Fairuza Balk

Actress | The Craft

"Fairuza!" ("Turquoise" in Farsi), her father exclaimed as he saw her blue eyes: Fairuza Alejandra Balk had just been born on May 21, 1974 in Point Reyes, California. Her father, Solomon Ben Feldthouse, was a traveling musician originally from Idaho, and her mother, Cathryn Balk, was a belly dancer...

Great in: Return to Oz (Dorothy), The Worst Witch (Mildred Hubble), Imaginary Crimes (Sonya), The Craft (Nancy Downs), American Perfekt (Alice), The Maker (Bella Sotto), The Waterboy (Vicki Vallencourt), Almost Famous (Sapphire), Grindstone Road (Hannah), Dose of Reality (Rose), August Falls (Anna Ellison), Trespassers (Visitor)

Also saw her in: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Beth Bradley), The Island of Dr. Moreau (Aissa), American History X (Stacey), Deuces Wild (Annie)

3. 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...

Great in: Valley Girl (Randy), Moonstruck (Ronny Cammareri), Raising Arizona (H.I. McDonnough), Vampire's Kiss (Peter Loew), Wild at Heart (Sailor Ripley), Deadfall (Eddie), It Could Happen to You (Charlie Lang), Face/Off (Castor Troy), Con Air (Cameron Poe), The Weather Man (Dan Spritz), Pig (Rob)

Also saw him in: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Brad's Bud), The Ant Bully (Zoc), G-Force (Speckles)

4. 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: ...

Great in: The Mask (Stanley Ipkiss), Dumb and Dumber (Lloyd Christmas), Batman Forever (Riddler/Dr. Edward Nygma), The Cable Guy (The Cable Guy), Liar Liar (Fletcher Reede), The Truman Show (Truman Burbank), Man on the Moon (Andy Kaufman), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Grinch), A Series of Unfortunate Events (Count Olaf), Sonic the Hedgehog (Dr. Robotnik), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Dr. Robotnik)

Also saw him in: Horton Hears a Who! (Horton), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (CBC News Anchor - Scott Riles)

5. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

Great in: From Dusk Till Dawn (Seth Gecko), Out of Sight (Jack Foley), Ocean's Eleven (Danny Ocean), Solaris (Kelvin), Ocean's Twelve (Danny Ocean), Good Night, and Good Luck. (Fred Friendly), Syriana (Bob Barnes), Michael Clayton (Michael Clayton), Up in the Air (Ryan Bingham), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Mr. Fox), Gravity (Matt Kowalski), Money Monster (Lee Gates)

Also saw him in: Batman & Robin (Batman), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Dr. Gouache)

6. Marion Cotillard

Actress | La Môme

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.

Raised in Orléans, France, she ...

Great in: Public Enemies (Billie Frechette), Inception (Mal), Midnight in Paris (Adriana), Allied (Marianne Beauséjour)

Also saw her in: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Canadian Anchor)

7. 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. ...

Great in: Risky Business (Joel Goodsen), Top Gun (Maverick), Days of Thunder (Cole Trickle), Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire), Eyes Wide Shut (William Harford), Magnolia (Frank T.J. Mackey), Minority Report (John Anderton), Top Gun: Maverick (Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell)

Also saw him in: Cocktail (Brian Flanagan), Rock of Ages (Stacee Jaxx)

8. James Badge Dale

Actor | The Departed

James Badge Dale was born on May 1, 1978 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Departed (2006), 13 Hours (2016) and World War Z (2013).

Great in: Flight (Gaunt Young Man), Parkland (Robert Oswald), Miss Meadows (Sheriff), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (Gannon)

Also saw him in: The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (Romantic Newlywed), The Conspirator (William Hamilton)

9. 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 ...

Great in: Good Will Hunting (Will Hunting), Rounders (Mike McDermott), Dogma (Loki), Ocean's Eleven (Linus Caldwell), Stuck on You (Bob Tenor), EuroTrip (Donny), Ocean's Twelve (Linus Caldwell), Syriana (Bryan Woodman), The Informant! (Mark Whitacre), Behind the Candelabra (Scott Thorson), The Martian (Mark Watney), Air (Sonny Vaccaro)

Also saw him in: Field of Dreams (Extra), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Matt Damon), Gerry (Gerry), Deadpool 2 (Redneck #2)

10. Jeff Daniels

Actor | The Squid and the Whale

Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, but was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the son of Marjorie J. (Ferguson) and Robert Lee Daniels, who owned The Chelsea Lumber Company and was also mayor of Chelsea. Jeff attended Central Michigan University, but became involved in acting and ...

Great in: Terms of Endearment (Flap Horton), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Tom Baxter/Gil Shepherd), Dumb and Dumber (Harry Dunne), Fly Away Home (Thomas Alden), Pleasantville (Bill Johnson), The Hours (Louis Waters), The Martian (Teddy Sanders)

Also saw him in: Because of Winn-Dixie (Preacher), Good Night, and Good Luck. (Sig Mickelson), RV (Travis Gornickle)

11. 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 ...

Great in: Little Miss Sunshine (Dwayne), There Will Be Blood (Paul Sunday/Eli Sunday), Where the Wild Things Are (Alexander), Love & Mercy (Brian - Past), Okja (Jay), The Fabelmans (Burt Fabelman)

12. Viola Davis

Actress | Fences

Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...

Great in: Out of Sight (Moselle), Solaris (Gordon), Doubt (Mrs. Miller), The Help (Aibileen Clark), Get on Up (Susie Brown), Lila & Eve (Lila), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Ma Rainey), Air (Deloris Jordan)

Also saw her in: Traffic (Social Worker), Syriana (CIA Chairwoman), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Abby Black), Suicide Squad (Amanda Waller)

13. 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 ...

Great in: Angel Heart (Louis Cyphre), The Untouchables (Al Capone), Goodfellas (James Conway), Awakenings (Leonard Lowe), Casino (Sam 'Ace' Rothstein), Jackie Brown (Louis Gara), Wag the Dog (Conrad Brean), Analyze This (Paul Vitti), Flawless (Walt Koontz), Silver Linings Playbook (Pat Sr.), Last Vegas (Paddy), The Intern (Ben), Joy (Rudy), The Irishman (Frank Sheeran)

Also saw him in: Godsend (Richard Wells), Shark Tale (Don Lino)

14. Laura Dern

Actress | Jurassic Park

Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact with her father for ...

Great in: Blue Velvet (Sandy Williams), Haunted Summer (Claire Clairmont), Wild at Heart (Lula), Rambling Rose (Rose), Novocaine (Jean Noble), Inland Empire (Nikki Grace/Susan Blue), Recount (Katherine Harris), Enlightened (Amy Jellicoe), The Fault in Our Stars (Frannie), F Is for Family (Sue Murphy), Big Little Lies (Renata Klein)

Also saw her in: The Master (Helen Sullivan)

15. 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,...

Great in: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Arnie Grape), Titanic (Jack Dawson), Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale Jr.), The Aviator (Howard Hughes), Inception (Dom Cobb), Django Unchained (Calvin Candie), The Great Gatsby (Jay Gatsby), The Wolf of Wall Street (Jordan Belfort), Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Rick Dalton)

Also saw him in: Poison Ivy (Guy), Romeo + Juliet (Romeo)

16. Laurence Fishburne

Actor | The Matrix

Critically hailed for his forceful, militant, authoritative figures and one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile performers, Laurence (John) Fishburne III has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a number of NAACP Image honors.

Born in Augusta, Georgia on July 30, 1961, to Hattie ...

Great in: Apocalypse Now (Tyrone "Clean" Miller), School Daze (Dap Dunlap), King of New York (Jimmy Jump), Boyz n the Hood (Furious Styles), What's Love Got to Do with It (Ike Turner), Hoodlum (Bumpy Johnson), The Matrix (Morpheus), 21 (Cole Williams), Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Paul Jellinek), All the Old Knives (Vick Wallinger)

17. Paul Giamatti

Actor | Sideways

Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...

Great in: Private Parts (Kenny), My Best Friend's Wedding (Bellman), Big Fat Liar (Marty Wolf), Cinderella Man (Joe Gould), Fred Claus (Nick 'Santa' Claus), Too Big to Fail (Ben Bernanke), Parkland (Abraham Zapruder), Saving Mr. Banks (Ralph), Love & Mercy (Dr. Eugene Landy), Straight Outta Compton (Jerry Heller)

Also saw him in: The Truman Show (Control Room Director), The Negotiator (Rudy), Man on the Moon (Bob Zmuda), Paycheck (Shorty), Robots (Tim the Gate Guard), The Ant Bully (Stan Beals), Rock of Ages (Paul Gill)

18. 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 ...

Great in: The Conversation (Harry Caul), Superman (Lex Luthor), Superman II (Lex Luthor), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (Lex Luthor/Nuclear Man), The Birdcage (Senator Keeley), Heartbreakers (William B. Tensy), The Royal Tenenbaums (Royal Tenenbaum)

19. 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 ...

Great in: Family Ties (Ned Donnelly), The Money Pit (Walter Fielding), The 'Burbs (Ray Peterson), Philadelphia (Andrew Beckett), Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump), Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell), Toy Story (Woody), That Thing You Do! (Mr. White), You've Got Mail (Joe Fox), Toy Story 2 (Woody), The Green Mile (Paul Edgecomb), Cast Away (Chuck Noland), Catch Me If You Can (Carl Hanratty), The Polar Express (Various), Toy Story 3 (Woody), Captain Phillips (Richard Phillips), Saving Mr. Banks (Walt Disney), Elvis (Colonel Tom Parker)

Also saw him in: The Simpson Movie (Tom Hanks), The Great Buck Howard (Mr. Gable), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Thomas Schell)

20. 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 ...

Great in: Hard Eight (Young Craps Player), Boogie Nights (Scotty J.), Flawless (Rusty Zimmerman), Magnolia (Phil Parma), Almost Famous (Lester Bangs), Punch-Drunk Love (Dean Trumbell), 25th Hour (Jacob Elinsky), Doubt (Father Brendan Flynn), The Master (Lancaster Dodd)

Also saw him in: Law & Order (Steven Hanauer), Nobody's Fool (Officer Raymer), Twister (Dustin Davis), The Big Lebowski (Brandt), Moneyball (Art Howe)

21. Dennis Hopper

Actor | Easy Rider

Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...

Great in: Easy Rider (Billy), Apocalypse Now (Photojournalist), River's Edge (Feck), Blue Velvet (Frank Booth)

Also saw him in: Swing Vote (Donald Greenleaf)

22. 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), ...

Great in: Coming to America (Hold-Up Man), Do the Right Thing (Mister Señor Love Daddy), Pulp Fiction (Jules Winnfield), Hard Eight (Jimmy), A Time to Kill (Carl Lee Hailey), Jackie Brown (Ordell Robbie), The Negotiator (Danny Roman), Changing Lanes (Doyle Gipson), The Incredibles (Lucius Best / Frozone), The Boondocks (Gin Rummy), Django Unchained (Stephen), Kingsman: The Secret Service (Valentine), The Legend of Tarzan (George Washington Williams)

Also saw him in: School Daze (Leeds), The Exorcist III (Dream Blind Man), Goodfellas (Stacks Edwards), Law & Order (Defense Attorney Louis Taggert), Jungle Fever (Gator Purify), Juice (Trip), Out of Sight (Hejira Henry), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Mace Windu), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (Mace Windu), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Mace Windu)

23. Brad Jones

Writer | Freak Out

Brad Jones was born on December 20, 1981 in Springfield, Illinois, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for Freak Out (2003), Game Boys (2008) and Paranoia (2011). He has been married to Laura Luke since November 11, 2017. They have one child. He was previously married to Jillian Zurawski.

Great in: Freak Out (Dean), Cheap (Jack Stone), Midnight Heat (Martin), Game Boys (Scott), The Hooker with a Heart of Gold (Zalman/Steele), Paranoia (Mark Bishop)

Also saw him in: Kickassia (Cinema Snob), Jesus, Bro! (Willy Whitehead)

24. 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 (...

Great in: Who's That Knocking at My Door (J.R.), Reservoir Dogs (Mr. White), Bad Lieutenant (LT), Pulp Fiction (The Wolf), Imaginary Crimes (Ray Weiler), From Dusk Till Dawn (Jacob Fuller)

Also saw him in: U-571 (CPO Henry Klough), Little Nicky (Dad), Moonrise Kingdom (Commander Pierce), The Irishman (Angelo Bruno)

25. Nicole Kidman

Actress | Moulin Rouge!

Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.

Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...

Great in: Days of Thunder (Dr. Claire Lewicki), To Die For (Suzanne Stone), Eyes Wide Shut (Alice Harford), The Hours (Virginia Woolf), Birth (Anna), Rabbit Hole (Becca Corbett), Hemingway & Gellhorn (Martha Gellhorn), Big Little Lies (Celeste Wright)

Also saw her in: BMX Bandits (Judy), Batman Forever (Chase Meridian), Happy Feet (Norma Jean)

26. Leslie Mann

Actress | Knocked Up

Leslie Jean Mann was born in San Francisco, California. She was raised in Newport Beach, California by her mother, Janet Ann Ayres. At the age of seventeen, she launched her career, appearing in various TV commercials.

Her screen break came when she was cast as Nurse Mary in the short-lived Birdland...

Great in: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Nicky), Knocked Up (Debbie), 17 Again (Scarlet), Funny People (Laura), Rio (Linda)

Also saw her in: The Cable Guy (Robin Harris), Welcome to Marwen (Nicol)

27. 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 ...

Great in: A Time to Kill (Jake Tyler Brigance), Contact (Palmer Joss), We Are Marshall (Jack Lengyel), Dallas Buyers Club (Ron Woodroof), The Wolf of Wall Street (Mark Hanna), Free State of Jones (Newton Knight)

Also saw him in: U-571 (Lt. Andrew Tyler), Bernie (Danny Buck)

28. Julianne Moore

Actress | Far from Heaven

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...

Great in: Safe (Carol), Boogie Nights (Amber Waves), The Big Lebowski (Maude Lebowski), Magnolia (Linda Partridge), The Hours (Laura Brown), The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (Julianne Moore), Children of Men (Julian), Game Change (Sarah Palin), Still Alice (Alice Howland)

Also saw her in: Evolution (Allison)

29. Bill Murray

Actor | Lost in Translation

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...

Great in: Ghostbusters (Peter Venkman), Scrooged (Frank Cross), Groundhog Day (Phil), Wild Things (Ken Bowden), Rushmore (Herman Blume), The Royal Tenenbaums (Raleigh St. Clair), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Steve Zissou), Moonrise Kingdom (Mr. Bishop), A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (Saul)

Also saw him in: Little Shop of Horrors (Arthur Denton), Ghostbusters II (Peter Venkman), Space Jam (Bill Murray), Garfield (Garfield), Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties (Garfield), Get Smart (Agent 13), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Badger)

30. 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 ...

Great in: Easy Rider (George Hanson), The Shining (Jack Torrance), Terms of Endearment (Garrett Breedlove), The Witches of Eastwick (Daryl Van Horne), Broadcast News (Bill Rorish), Batman (The Joker), As Good As It Gets (Melvin Udall), The Bucket List (Edward), How Do You Know (Charles)

Also saw him in: Something's Gotta Give (Harry Sanborn)

31. 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 ...

Great in: Primal Fear (Aaron/Roy), The People vs. Larry Flynt (Alan Isaacman), Rounders (Worm), American History X (Derek Vinyard), Death to Smoochy (Sheldon Mopes), 25th Hour (Monty Brogan), Moonrise Kingdom (Scout Master Ward), Sausage Party (Sammy Bagel, Jr.), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Miles Bron)

Also saw him in: Frida (Nelson Rockefeller)

32. 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)...

Great in: The Godfather (Michael), Cruising (Steve Burns), Glengarry Glen Ross (Ricky Roma), The Insider (Lowell Bergman), Phil Spector (Phil Spector), Paterno (Joe Paterno), Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (Marvin Schwarz), The Irishman (Jimmy Hoffa)

33. 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"....

Great in: Goodfellas (Tommy DeVito), Home Alone (Harry), JFK (David Ferrie), My Cousin Vinny (Vinny Gambini), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Harry), With Honors (Simon), Casino (Nicky Santoro), Love Ranch (Charlie Bontempo), The Irishman (Russell Bufalino)

34. Paul Rudd

Actor | Ant-Man

Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His parents, Michael and Gloria, both from Jewish families, were born in the London area, U.K. He has one sister, who is three years younger than he is. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at ...

Great in: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Bryan Fantana), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (David), Knocked Up (Pete), How Do You Know (George), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Mr. Anderson), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Bryan Fantana)

Also saw him in: Romeo + Juliet (Paris), Night at the Museum (Don), Monsters vs. Aliens (Derek Dietl), Admission (John Pressman), This is The End (Paul Rudd), Sausage Party (Darren)

35. Seth Rogen

Producer | This Is the End

An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.

Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...

Great in: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Cal), Knocked Up (Ben Stone), Monsters vs. Aliens (B.O.B.), Funny People (Ira Wright), 50/50 (Kyle), The Guilt Trip (Andrew Brewster), This Is the End (Seth Rogen), The Interview (Aaron Rappaport), Sausage Party (Frank/Sergeant Pepper), The Disaster Artist (Sandy Schklair), An American Pickle (Herschel Greenbaum/Ben Greenbaum), The Fabelmans (Bennie Loewy), The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Donkey Kong)

Also saw him in: Donnie Darko (Ricky Danforth), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Eager Cameraman), Shrek the Third (Ship Captain), Horton Hears a Who! (Morton), Kung Fu Panda (Mantis)

36. 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 ...

Great in: Major League (Willie Mays Hayes), King of New York (Thomas Flanigan), Jungle Fever (Flipper Purify), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Noxeema), Waiting to Exhale (James Wheeler), Down in the Delta (Will), Dolemite Is My Name (D'Urville), Coming 2 America (General Izzi)

37. Song Kang-ho

Actor | Salinui chueok

Song Kang-ho never professionally trained as an actor, beginning his career in social theater groups after graduating from Kimhae High School. Later, he joined Kee Kuk-seo's influential theater company with its emphasis on instinctive acting and improvisation, which proved to be Song's training ...

Great in: The Quiet Family (Yeong-min Kang), The Foul King (Im Dae-ho), Joint Security Area (Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Dong-jin Park), Memories of Murder (Detective Park Doo-man), The Host (Park Gang-Doo), Snowpiercer (Namgoong Minsoo), Parasite (Kim Ki-taek)

Also saw him in: The Interview (Soldier Watching the Interview)

38. Kevin Spacey

Actor | L.A. Confidential

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...

Great in: Glengarry Glen Ross (John Williamson), Outbreak (Casey Schuler), A Time to Kill (D.A. Rufus Buckley), L.A. Confidential (Jack Vincennes), The Negotiator (Chris Sabian), A Bug's Life (Hopper), Superman Returns (Lex Luthor), Fred Claus (Clyde), 21(Micky Rosa), Recount (Ron Klain), Elvis & Nixon (Nixon), Baby Driver (Doc)

Also saw him in: Fall from Grace (Jim Bakker)

39. Mary Steenburgen

Actress | Last Vegas

Mary Steenburgen is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

She was born in Newport, Arkansas, USA. Her mother, Nellie May (Wall) Steenburgen, was a school-board secretary, and her father, Maurice H. Steenburgen, was a freight-train conductor. Her surname comes from distant Dutch ancestry, and ...

Great in: Parenthood (Karen), Back to the Future Part III (Clara Clayton), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Betty Carver), Philadelphia (Belinda Conine), The Help (Elain Stein), Last Vegas (Diana), Book Club (Carol)

Also saw her in: Elf (Emily), Inland Empire (Visitor #2), A Walk in the Woods (Jeannie)

40. Meryl Streep

Actress | Out of Africa

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

Great in: Kramer vs. Kramer (Joanna Kramer), Music of the Heart (Roberta), The Hours (Clarissa Vaughan), A Series of Unfortunate Events (Aunt Josephine), Prime (Lisa Metzger), Mamma Mia! (Donna), Doubt (Sister Aloysius Beauvier), Julie & Julia (Julia Child), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Mrs. Fox), It's Complicated (Jane Adler), Hope Springs (Kay), August: Osage County (Violet Weston), Big Little Lies (Mary Louise Wright), The Laundromat (Ellen Martin), Let Them All Talk (Alice)

Also saw her in: Manhattan (Jill), A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Blue Mecha), Stuck on You (Meryl Streep), The Ant Bully (Queen), The Giver (Chief Elder)

41. Billy Bob Thornton

Actor | Sling Blade

Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased). He is the older brother of James Donald (Jimmy Don) (born in ...

Great in: Sling Blade (Karl Childers), Love Actually (The US President), Bad Santa (Willie), Faster (Cop), Bad Santa 2 (Willie)

Also saw him in: Parkland (Forrest Surrels)

42. Spencer Tracy

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard...

Great in: Fury (Joe Wilson), Boom Town (Square John Sand), Adam's Rib (Adam Bonner), Bad Day at Black Rock (John J. Macreedy), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Matt Drayton)

43. 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...

Great in: Annie Hall (Duane Hall), At Close Range (Brad Sr.), King of New York (Frank White), The Comfort of Strangers (Robert), Batman Returns (Max Shreck), Pulp Fiction (Captain Koons), Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale), Hairspray (Wilbur Turnblad), Seven Psychopaths (Hans)

Also saw him in: Wayne's World 2 (Bobby Cahn), Jersey Boys (Gyp DeCarlo), Eddie the Eagle (Warren Sharp)

44. 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 ...

Great in: A Soldier's Story (Private First Class Peterson), Mississippi Masala (Demetrius), Malcolm X (Malcolm X), Philadelphia (Joe Miller), Inside Man (Detective Keith Frazier), Flight (Whip Whitaker)

Also saw him in: Carbon Copy (Roger Porter)

45. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

Great in: Alien (Ripley), Ghostbusters (Dana Barrett), Aliens (Ripley), Ghostbusters II (Dana Barrett), Alien³ (Ripley), Dave (Ellen Mitchell), Copycat (Helen Hudson), Heartbreakers (Angela Nardino/Max Conners/Ulga Yevanova), Holes (The Warden), Avatar (Dr. Grace Augustine), The Cabin in the Woods (The Director), The Good House (Hildy Good), Avatar: The Way of Water (Kiri)

Also saw her in: Annie Hall (Alvy's Date Outside Theatre), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Queen Isabel), Alien Resurrection (Ripley), Happily N'Ever After (Frieda), Be Kind Rewind (Ms. Lawson), WALL·E (Ship's Computer)

46. 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 ...

Great in: Mork & Mindy (Mork), Good Morning, Vietnam (Adrian Cronauer), Dead Poets Society (John Keating), Awakenings (Dr. Malcolm Sayer), The Fisher King (Parry), Aladdin (The Genie), Mrs. Doubtfire (Daniel Hillard/Mrs. Doubtfire), The Birdcage (Armand Goldman), Good Will Hunting (Sean Maguire), What Dreams May Come (Chris Nielsen), Bicentennial Man (Andrew), Death to Smoochy (Rainbow Randolph), Robots (Fender), Happy Feet (Ramon/Lovelace), Night at the Museum (Teddy Roosevelt), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Merritt Rook)

Also saw him in: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt), Flubber (Philip Brainard), A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Know), RV (Bob Munro), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Teddy Roosevelt), A Merry Friggin' Christmas (Virgil Mitchler)

47. 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,...

Great in: The Last Boy Scout (Joe Hallenback), Pulp Fiction (Butch Coolidge), Nobody's Fool (Carl Roebuck), The Whole Nine Yards (Jimmy Tudeski), Ocean's Twelve (Bruce Willis), Over the Hedge (RJ), Moonrise Kingdom (Captain Sharp)

Also saw him in: Color of Night (Bill Capa), North (Narrator), Rugrats Go Wild (Spike)