My Favorite Male Actors
by maandr | created - 19 Feb 2014 | updated - 16 Aug 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 ...
Seen: Taxi Driver 10/10 Awakenings 10/10 Mean Streets 10/10 Raging Bull 10/10 The Deer Hunter 9/10 Once Upon a Time in America 9/10 Casino 9/10 Goodfellas 9/10 Cape Fear 9/10 Silver Linings 9/10 This Boy's Life 9/10 Heat 8/10 A Bronx Tale 8/10 The King of Comedy 8/10 Sleepers 8/10 The Score 7/10
2. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
Seen: The Departed 10/10 The Wolf of Wallstreet 10/10 Revolutionary Road 10/10 Aviator 10/10 The Revenant 9/10 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 9/10 Shutter Island 9/10 Inception 9/10 Django Unchained 9/10 Blood Diamond 9/10 Catch Me If You Can 9/10 The Great Gatsby 8/10 Gangs of New York 8/10 The Basketball Diaries 8/10 This Boy's Life 8/10 Titanic 8/10
3. 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 ...
Seen: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 10/10 As Good as It Gets 10/10 The Shining 10/10 A few good Man 10/10 The Departed 9/10 The Bucket List 9/10 About Schmidt 8/10
4. 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 ...
Seen: American History X 10/10 Fight Club 10/10 Primal Fear 9/10 25 Hours 9/10 The Painted Veil 9/10 Birdman 9/10 The Grand Budapest Hotel 8/10 The People vs. Larry Flynt 8/10 Red Dragon 8/10 The Illusionist 8/10 The Score 8/10 Rounders 8/10 Moonrise Kingdom 7/10 Leaves of Grass 7/10 The Incredible Hulk 7/10 Death to Smoochy 7/10
5. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
Seen: The Graduate 9/10 Rain Main 9/10 Kramer vs. Kramer 9/10 Finding Neverland 8/10 Sleepers 8/10 The Perfume 8/10
6. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
Seen: The Master 10/10 Walk The Line 9/10 Inherent Vice 9/10 Her 9/10 The Village 7/10
7. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
Seen: Hunger 10/10 Steve Jobs 9/10 12 Years a Slave 9/10 Prometheus 9/10 Inglorious Basterds 9/10 Frank 8/10 Fish Tank 8/10 300 7/10
8. 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...
Seen: The Usual Suspects 10/10 American Beauty 10/10 Se7en 9/10 Das Leben des David Gale 9/10 K-PAX 9/10 Margin Call 8/10 21 8/10
9. 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 ...
Seen: Fight Club 10/10 Se7en 9/10 The Tree of Life 8/10 Babel 8/10 Sleepers 8/10 Interview with the Vampire 8/10 Snatch. 8/10 Inglourious Basterds 8/10 Moneyball 8/10 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 8/10 Ocean's Eleven 8/10 Ocean's Twelve 8/10 Ocean's Thirteen 8/10 Seven Years in Tibet 8/10 12 Years a Slave 7/10 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 5/10
10. Ralph Fiennes
Actor | The Constant Gardener
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...
Seen: The Grand Budapest Hotel 9/10 Red Dragon 9/10 Harry Potter 9/10 The Reader 8/10 In Bruges 8/10 Sepctre 7/10 Wrath of the Titans 7/10
11. 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 ...
Seen: American Psycho 10/10 The Prestige 9/10 The Fighter 9/10 American Hustle 9/10 The Machinist 9/10 The Dark Knight 8/10 The Dark Knight Rises 8/10 The Big Short 8/10 Batman Begins 7/10 Mio min Mio 7/10
12. Mads Mikkelsen
Actor | Hannibal
Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...
Seen: The Hunt 9/10 Flame & Citron 9/10 Adam's Apples 9/10 The Green Butchers 9/10 After the Wedding 9/10 Casino Royale 9/10 Clash of the Titans 6/10
13. 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. ...
Seen: Eyes Wide Shut 9/10 The Color of Money 9/10 Interview with the Vampire 9/10 A few good Men 9/10 Collateral 8/10 Rain Man 8/10 Risky Business 7/10 Valkyrie 7/10 Tropic Thunder 7/10
14. 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"....
Seen: Casino 10/10 Goodfellas 10/10 Raging Bull 9/10 Once Upon a Time in America 8/10 Home Alone 8/10 A Bronx Tale 7/10 Home Alone 2 7/10
15. Sean Penn
Actor | Mystic River
Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.
Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...
Seen: Milk 9/10 Sweet and Lowdown 9/10 21 Gramm 8/10 Mystic River 8/10 The Tree of Life 8/10 The Game 8/10
16. 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...
Seen: The Shawshank Redemption 9/10 Se7en 9/10 Invictus 9/10 Million Dollar Baby 8/10 The Dark Knight 8/10 The Bucket List 8/10 Lucky Number Slevin 8/10 Deep Impact 7/10 Bruce Almighty 7/10 The Dark Knight Rises 7/10 Batman Begins 7/10
17. 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 ...
Seen: Awakenings 9/10 Good Will Hunting 9/10 Dead Poets Society 9/10 Death to Smoochy 8/10 Mrs. Doubtfire 8/10 World's Greatest Dad 7/10 Flubber 6/10
18. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
Seen: The Dark Knight 10/10 Brokeback Mountain 9/10 Lords of Dogtown 9/10 10 Things I Hate About You 8/10 A Knight's Tale 8/10
19. Sam Rockwell
Actor | Moon
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...
Seen: Seven Psychopaths 9/10 Moon 9/10 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 8/10 The Green Mile 8/10 The Sitter 7/10 Iron Man 2 7/10
20. Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor | Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...
Seen: Nightcrawler 9/10 Zodiac 9/10 Brokeback Mountain 9/10 Donnie Darko 9/10 Jarhead 8/10 End of Watch 8/10 Source Code 8/10
21. Christoph Waltz
Actor | Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
Seen: Inglourious Basterds 10/10 Django Unchained 9/10 Carnage 9/10 Der Fall Gehring 8/10 Herr Lehmann 8/10 Big Eyes 6/10
22. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
Seen: No Country For Old Men 9/10 Vicky Christina Barcelona 9/10 Collateral 8/10
23. 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...
Seen: Bronson 9/10 The Revenant 9/10 Inception 8/10 Mad Max: Fury Road 8/10 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 8/10 The Dark Knight Rises 8/10
24. 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 ...
Seen: O Brother, Where Art Thou? 9/10 Michael Clayton 9/10 The Good German 8/10 Up in the Air 8/10 The Descendants 8/10 From Dusk Till Dawn 7/10 Ocean's Eleven 7/10 Ocean's Twelve 7/10 Ocean's Thirteen 7/10 Gravity 7/10
25. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor | Inception
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and ...
Seen: Mysterious Skin 9/10 Inception 8/10 The Walk 8/10 50/50 8/10 Don John 8/10 500 Days of Summer 8/10 10 Things I Hate About You 8/10 Looper 7/10 The Dark Knight Rises 7/10
26. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
Seen: Zodiac 9/10 Spotlight 9/10 Shutter Island 9/10 Begin Again 8/10 The Avengers 7/10 Now You See Me 7/10
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 ...
Seen: True Detectives 10/10 Dallas Buyers Club 9/10 Contact 8/10 Interstellar 8/10 Wolf of Wallstreet 8/10 Mug 8/10 U-571 7/10
28. 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 ...
Seen: The Talented Mr. Ripley 9/10 Good Will Hunting 9/10 The Departed 8/10 The Marsian 8/10 Interstellar 7/10 Rounders 7/10 Behind the Candelabra 7/10 Saving Private Ryan 7/10 Ocean's Eleven 7/10 Ocean's Twelve 7/10 Ocean's Thirteen 7/10 We Bought a Zoo 7/10 Invictus 7/10 The Adjustment Bureau 7/10 The Bourne Identity 7/10
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