Best Actors in IMDB Top 250
by abedi-1989 | created - 13 Apr 2014 | updated - 11 Mar 2016 | Public
1. 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 II [1974] Goodfellas [1990] Taxi Driver [1976] Once Upon a Time in America [1984] Raging Bull [1980] Heat [1995] The Deer Hunter [1978] Casino [1995]
2. James Stewart
Actor | Vertigo
James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...
Rear Window [1954] It's a Wonderful Life [1946] Vertigo [1958] Anatomy of a Murder [1959] Rope [1948] The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962] Harvey [1950]
3. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [1966] Unforgiven [1992] For a Few Dollars More [1965] Gran Torino [2008] Million Dollar Baby [2004] A Fistful of Dollars [1964]
4. 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 V - The Empire Strikes Back [1980] Star Wars [1977] Raiders of the Lost Ark [1981] Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi [1983] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1989] Blade Runner [1982]
5. 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 ...
Fight Club [1999] Seven [1995] Inglourious Basterds [2009] Snatch. [2000] Twelve Monkeys [1995] 12 Years a Slave [2013]
6. 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...
The Shawshank Redemption [1994] The Dark Knight [2008] Seven [1995] Unforgiven [1992] Batman Begins [2005] Million Dollar Baby [2004]
7. 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)...
The Godfather [1972] The Godfather: Part II [1974] Heat [1995] Scatface [1983] Dog Day Afternoon [1975]
8. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
City Lights [1931] Modern Time [1936] The Great Dictator [1940] The Kid [1921] The Gold Rush [1925]
9. 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,...
Inception [2010] The Departed [2006] Django Unchained [2012] The Wolf of Wall Street [2013] Shutter Island [2010]
10. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
The Godfather [1972] The Godfather: Part II [1974] Apocalypse Now [1979] On the Waterfront [1954] A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]
11. 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,...
Pulp Fiction [1994] Die Hard [1988] Sin City [2007] The Sixth Sense [1999] Twelve Monkeys [1995]
12. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [2003] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [2002] Priates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl [2003] The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [2013]
13. 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 ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [1975] The Departed [2006] The Shining [1980] Chinatown [1974]
14. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
Seven [1995] The Usual Suspects [1995] American Beauty [1999] L.A. Confidential [1997]
15. 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 ...
The Dark Knight [2008] The Dark Knight Rises [2012] Batman Begins [2005] The Presrige [2006]
16. 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 ...
Saving Private Ryan [1998] The Departed [2006] Good Will Hunting [1997] The Bourne Ultimatum [2007]
17. Ian McKellen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [2003] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [2002] The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [2013]
18. 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 ...
Forrest Gump [1994] Saving Private Ryan [1998] The Green Mile [1999]
19. 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),...
Gladiator [2000] L.A. Confidential [1997] A Beautiful Mind [2001]
20. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
Léon: The Professional [1994] V for Vendetta [2005] Black Swan [2010]
21. 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 ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [2003] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [2002]
22. 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] Warrior [2011]
23. Aamir Khan
Actor | Taare Zameen Par
Aamir Khan was born on March 14, 1965 in Mumbai. He is one of the most successful Indian Bollywood actors who is also known as "Mr. Perfectionist of Bollywood". With his recent successes in both the Indian and Chinese film markets, he has shouldered his way into becoming one of the world's biggest ...
Like Stars on Earth [2007] 3 Idiots [2009] Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
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