My top 15 US TV actors
by miss_dmt | created - 17 Nov 2014 | updated - 16 Feb 2022 | PublicThis is a list of my top 15 US TV actors, note some of these actors also star in films but are mainly known for being on TV.
1. Philip Winchester
Actor | Strike Back
Philip Winchester was born on March 24, 1981 in Montana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Strike Back (2010), The Player (2015) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). He has been married to Megan Coughlin since 2008. They have two children.
By god I love this man so much, he does a wonderful English accent even though he is American. He should be the next James Bond.
2. Dylan O'Brien
Actor | Teen Wolf
Dylan O'Brien was born in New York City, to Lisa Rhodes, a former actress who also ran an acting school, and Patrick B. O'Brien, a camera operator. His father is of Irish descent and his mother is of English, Spanish, and Italian ancestry. Dylan grew up in Springfield Township, Union County, New ...
He is a great actor, I loved him in Ten Wolf. He can do straight, comedic, romantic scenes wonderfully and also a great villain. Just brilliant!
3. Betty White
Actress | The Proposal
Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She was of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.
Although she was best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the ...
She was in class all of her own, a truly great lady.
4. 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 ...
The man has true presence on the screen, can do both straight and comedic scenes.
5. Joe Morton
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Joe Morton was born on October 18, 1947 in New York, New York, USA. He is a television, film, and theater actor, best known for The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Eureka (2006), and Scandal (2012). He also writes and directs, and is a singer/songwriter.
Also has great presence and a great singing voice too.
6. Donnie Wahlberg
Actor | Saw II
Donald Edmond "Donnie" Wahlberg Jr. was born on August 17, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts into a family of Swedish (from his paternal grandfather), Irish, and more distant French-Canadian, English, and Scottish, descent. He is the eighth of nine children of Alma Elaine Conroy (née Donnelly), a ...
I just love him in the tv series Blue Bloods, he is so good a crying scenes.
7. Matt Bomer
Actor | In Time
Matthew Staton Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, to Elizabeth Macy (Staton) and John O'Neill Bomer IV, a Dallas Cowboys draft pick. Matt was raised in Spring, Texas, and educated at Klein High School, near Houston. After school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in...
A beautiful man, a great actor and great singing voice.
8. Tom Selleck
Actor | Blue Bloods
Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator "Thomas Magnum" on the 1980s television series, Magnum, P.I. (1980).
Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Martha (Jagger), a homemaker, and Robert Dean Selleck, a...
Another actor with great screen presence and still love that moustache.
9. Michael T. Weiss
Actor | The Pretender
Michael T. Weiss is an award nominated actor. He is a Chicago native where he studied at the famed "Second City". He has a BFA in Acting from The University of Southern California's prestigious school of Drama. He has had a diverse career in film, television, and theater both as an actor and a ...
I loved him in the TV series The Pretender, a very good versatile actor.
10. Christopher Gorham
Actor | The Lincoln Lawyer
Christopher Gorham was born in Fresno, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Lincoln Lawyer (2022), Insatiable (2018) and Covert Affairs (2010). He has been married to Anel Lopez Gorham since January 22, 2000. They have three children.
Loved him in tv series Covert Affairs and guest spot in series Hot In Cleveland
11. Tony Denison
Actor | The Closer
Award-winning actor Tony Denison joined the cast of The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick, as Det. Andy Flynn in 2005, which quickly became TNT's # 1 Drama. Transitioning his role onto the spin-off series Major Crimes, Lt. Flynn is a consistent fan-favorite known for his antics opposite GW Bailey's Lt...
Loved him in TV series The Closer and Major Crimes. The final series of MC, some great moving scenes.
12. David Boreanaz
Actor | Angel
David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Patti, a travel agent, and weatherman Dave Roberts (Boreanaz). His father is of Italian descent and his mother is of half Slovak ancestry. At the age of seven he decide to be an actor, which eventually ...
I loved him so much in the tv series Buffy and spin off Angel.
13. Tim DeKay
Actor | White Collar
Timothy Robert DeKay was born in Ithaca, New York on June 12, 1963. Athletic in high school, he played both basketball and baseball. In his senior year, he starred in his high school's production of Oliver! After high school he attended Le Moyne College, graduating with a BS in Business ...
Loved him in series White Collar.
14. Jim Parsons
Actor | The Big Bang Theory
Having grown up in Houston, and its northern suburb of Spring, he made his first stage appearance in a school play at the age of 6. Parsons then went on to study theater at the University of Houston. From there he won a place on a two-year Masters course in classical theater at the University of ...
Wonderful comedic timing in BBT.
15. Shawn Ashmore
Actor | X2
Shawn Robert Ashmore was born one minute after his twin brother Aaron Ashmore in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, on October 7, 1979. He is the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer. By the age of seven, when their mother became a part of the Multiple Births ...
Great in Smallville and Warehouse 13. Currently in series The Rookie.
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