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1. Enver Gjokaj

Actor | Stone

Enver Leif Gjokaj is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Victor in Joss Whedon's science fiction television series Dollhouse and as Agent Daniel Sousa on Agent Carter (2015). Gjokaj was born in Orange County, California. His father is Albanian, and his mother is ...

2. Iain De Caestecker

Actor | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Iain De Caestecker is a Scottish actor. He went to Hillhead Primary School and successfully completed an HND in Acting and Performance at Langside College.

He played the lead in two high-profile BBC series - BAFTA-winning The Fades and Young James Herriot (both 2011). The latter earned him a ...

3. Seth Gabel

Actor | Big Sky

Seth Gabel is an American actor. He is known for his roles as agent Lincoln Lee on Fox's television series Fringe (2008), Cotton Mather on WGN America's series Salem (2014), and Adrian Moore on the FX series Nip/Tuck (2003). He is a grand-nephew of actor Martin Gabel. Gabel was born to a Jewish ...

4. Tom Hiddleston

Actor | The Avengers

Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...

5. Bradley Cooper

Actor | A Star Is Born

Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...

6. Danny Ramirez

Actor | Assassination Nation

Danny Ramirez was born on September 17, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Assassination Nation (2018), Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021).

7. Chace Crawford

Actor | The Covenant

Christopher Chace Crawford was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son of Dana (Plott), a teacher, and Chris Wayne Crawford, a dermatologist. He grew up in Plano, Texas, and has a younger sister, Candice Crawford Romo, who studied broadcast journalism and won the Miss Missouri USA title in 2008. Chace ...

8. Sam Jaeger

Actor | Lucky Number Slevin

Sam Jaeger began his professional career in New York, while still attending Otterbein College in Ohio, landing a guest-starring role on Law & Order (1990). He also spent several seasons doing theater in NY before making the move to Los Angeles. Once in LA, he landed parts in two feature films, ...

9. Sam Claflin

Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman

English actor Sam Claflin was born in Ipswich, England, to Susan A. (Clarke), a classroom assistant, and Mark J. Claflin, a finance officer. As a child, he was football-mad, often going to see his favorite team, Norwich City. He was a talented footballer, playing for Norwich schools at city level ...

10. Ryan Reynolds

Actor | Deadpool 2

Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. ...

11. Tom Holland

Actor | Spider-Man: Homecoming

Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. He lives with his parents and ...

12. James McAvoy

Actor | Filth

McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...

13. Philipp Maximilian

Actor | Jungle Cruise

Born and raised (circa 1986) in Austria and Germany, Philipp has followed his passion for acting from Berlin to Los Angeles.

At 18-years-old while still in high school, he was selected among hundreds of aspiring actors to play the part of Romeo in a national tour of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and ...

14. Mark Famiglietti

Actor | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Mark Famiglietti was born on September 26, 1979 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Aquarius (2015) and Mad Men (2007).

15. Kyle Allen

Actor | West Side Story

Kyle Allen was born on October 10, 1994 in Livermore, California, USA. He is an actor, known for West Side Story (2021), The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) and All My Life (2020).

16. Ewan McGregor

Actor | Moulin Rouge!

Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...

17. Jonathan Bailey

Actor | Bridgerton

Jonathan Stuart Bailey is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he began his career as a child performer in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when he was seven years old, and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. Since then, he has ...

18. Luke Thompson

Actor | Dunkirk

Luke Thompson grew up in France from the age of 2, but was born in Southampton, UK. He speaks French and English. His father was an engineer and his mother a teacher , and he is one of three children. He attended a French school in Fontainebleau with an Anglophone Section from 1997 to 2005. ...

19. David Mazouz

Actor | Gotham

David (pronounced "Dah-Veed") Albert Mazouz is an actor, writer, and producer who graduated from Stanford University in 2023, where he studied Economics and Psychology. He is best known for his role as Bruce Wayne on FOX's Gotham and since the show's end, he has continued to act in theater and film...

20. Charlie Cox

Actor | The Theory of Everything

Charlie Thomas Cox was born in London, England, to Patricia C. A. (Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, a publisher. He has English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and descends from several prominent forebears (Baronets of Agnew and Carnegie, an Earl of Findlater, and a Colonial Governor of ...

21. Ben Barnes

Actor | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

British actor Benjamin Thomas Barnes was born in Cambridge, England, to Patricia (Becker), a relationship therapist, and Thomas Barnes, a professor of psychiatry. He has a brother, Jack. His mother is from South Africa while his father is English.

Barnes studied at Homefield Preparatory and King's ...

22. Jude Law

Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley

Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...

23. Hal Ozsan

Producer | What Would Diplo Do?

Hal Ozsan (b. Halil Ozsan) was born in Northern Cyprus and raised in the United Kingdom in the East London suburb of Havering.

He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex.

His first major recognition came for his role as Todd Carr (the on the final two seasons (2001-2003) of Dawson's Creek (1998) ...

24. Michael Grant Terry

Actor | Bones

Michael Terry was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Will Terry, an English teacher at the Germantown Friends School. He studied cinematography and drama at Emerson College in Boston. He is a Germantown Friends School graduate. In the summer of 2002, Michael was an ...

25. Fra Fee

Actor | Hawkeye

Irish actor Fra Fee was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone. He is best known for Hawkeye (Marvel), Rebel Moon (Netflix) & Animals. Other screen appearances include Cinderella, The Laureate, Pixie, Boys From County Hell, As You Like It (NT Live), Monochrome & Troubles. Fee's numerous stage roles ...

26. James Franco

Actor | Spring Breakers

Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...

27. Andrew Garfield

Actor | Hacksaw Ridge

Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...

28. Kevin Bigley

Actor | The Dilemma

Kevin Bigley was born on October 5, 1986 in Yuba City, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Dilemma (2011), Stretch (2014) and The Angry Birds Movie (2016).

29. Josh Duhamel

Actor | Transformers

Joshua David Duhamel was born in Minot, North Dakota. His mother, Bonny L., is a retired high school teacher, and the Executive Director of Minot's Downtown Business & Profession Association, and his father, Larry Duhamel, is an advertisement salesman. Josh has three younger sisters: Ashlee, ...

30. Zac Efron

Actor | High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California, to Starla Baskett, a secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. The surname "Efron", which is Hebrew and a Biblical place name, comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal ...

31. Luke Kleintank

Actor | The Man in the High Castle

Luke Kleintank mainly starred in 8 episodes of "Bones" as Finn Abernathy, starting in November 2011, alongside Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz. Over the course of a few years, has been in The Hot Dog in the Competition (10 November 2011), The Bump in the Road (9 April 2012), The Don't in the Do ...

32. Vinny Chhibber

Actor | For All Mankind

Actor/producer Vinny Chhibber has been involved in acting in, creating and developing numerous award-winning film and television projects. Alongside starring as Jag Bhullar in ABC's Big Sky, Vinny can be seen as Liam on Ava DuVernay's The Red Line, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story and TNT's Animal ...

33. Timothy Olyphant

Actor | Justified

From Timothy Olyphant's first screen appearances, such as his two-minute bit in The First Wives Club (1996), to "Nicko", whose presence at times dwarfed the island in A Perfect Getaway (2009), he has been a force to be reckoned with.

Born in Hawaii, Timothy David Olyphant was raised in Modesto, ...

34. Steven Good

Actor | Younger

Steven Good, from Gilroy, CA, is an actor and musician known for his work in Film, Television, and on Broadway.

Steven grew up as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and athlete. Focusing on his creative side, he pursued a classical arts education studying Music Composition, Operatic Performance, and ...

35. Joe Carroll

Actor | Romeo and Juliet

Joe Carroll was born on May 1, 1990 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Romeo and Juliet (2014), FBI (2018) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).

36. Guy Burnet

Actor | Oppenheimer

Guy Burnet was born on August 8, in England. He is an actor, known for Ray Donovan (2017), Counterpart (2019) and The Affair (2018). He is also known for his theater work in London and New York, including rave reviews for 'Murder in the first'. He's also a proficient amateur boxer.

37. Evan Roderick

Actor | Arrow

Evan Roderick 'Anderson' is a Canadian-born actor from Vancouver, British Columbia. He began acting professionally after several years of playing high level hockey, including three seasons in the BCHL, during which time he acquired a division 1 scholarship to play for The University of ...

38. Christopher Egan

Actor | Resident Evil: Extinction

A native of Sydney, Australia, Christopher Egan attended high school at Sydney's McDonald College School of Performing Art and honed his skills at the Sydney Festival Dance School, where he trained in singing, dancing and acting with Kick Performance Group. His performances in "Les Miserables" and ...

39. Hugh Dancy

Actor | Hannibal

Talented British actor Hugh Dancy is one of the UK's most noted young talents.

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, to Sarah Ann (Birley), who works in academic publishing, and Jonathan Peter Dancy, a philosophy professor and writer. He has a brother, Jack (b...

40. David Krumholtz