The favourite actors
by prlmglvngmzg | created - 01 Jan 2023 | updated - 3 weeks ago | Public
1. William H. Macy
Actor | Fargo
William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the ...
2. 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 ...
3. John C. Reilly
Actor | Chicago
Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years, from seedy ne'er-do-wells, to lovable, good-natured schlepps.
The fifth of six ...
4. Philip Baker Hall
Actor | Magnolia
Philip Baker Hall was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Berdene (McDonald) and William Alexander Hall, a factory worker who was originally from Montgomery, Alabama. He did not start acting until he was 30 years old. Known to film fans for his turn as Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's one-man show film Secret...
5. Andrei Boltnev
Actor | Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein
Andrei Boltnev was born on January 5, 1946 in Ufa, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Bashkortostan Republic, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Hard to Be a God (1989), Den lyubvi (1990) and Pod severnym siyaniyem (1990). He died on May 12, 1995 in Moscow, Russia.
6. Andrey Mironov
Actor | Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov
Andrei Mironov was a Soviet comedian known for The Diamond Arm (1969)
He was born Andrei Aleksandrovich Menaker on March 8, 1941, in Moscow. His father, Aleksandr Semenovich Menaker, and his mother, Mariya Mironova, were famous actors in the Soviet Union. From 1958-1962 he studied acting at the ...
7. Aleksandr Filippenko
Actor | Karera Arturo Ui
Aleksandr Filippenko was born on September 2, 1944 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Karera Arturo Ui (1996), Hard to Be a God (1989) and Patient No. 1 (2023). He has been married to Marina Ishimbaeva since April 1978. They have one child. He was previously married to ...
8. Yuriy Kuznetsov
Actor | Brat
Yuriy Kuznetsov was born on September 3, 1946 in Abakan, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Khakassia, Russia]. He is an actor, known for Brother (1997), The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018) and Dnevnik kamikadze (2003).
9. Adam Sandler
Actor | The Waterboy
Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took ...
10. Emily Watson
Actress | Gosford Park
Emily Watson was born and raised in London, the daughter of Katharine (Venables), an English teacher, and Richard Watson, an architect. After a self-described sheltered upbringing, Watson attended university for three years in Bristol, studying English literature. She applied to drama school and ...
11. Anna Karina
Actress | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
Born in Denmark, she came to Paris at 18. She met Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and started as a top model. She met Jean-Luc Godard about a cameo in Breathless (1960), but she had to be naked and she refused to play in the movie. One year later, they wed and she became famous with the "Nouvelle ...
12. 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 (...
13. Polina Voynevich
Actress | Taki krasyvi lyudy
Polina Voynevich is known for Such Beautiful People (2013), Letniy dozhd (2002) and Muzhchina dlya zhizni, ili Na brak ne pretenduyu (2008).
14. Alla Bineeva
Actress | The Death of Stalin
Alla Bineeva is known for The Death of Stalin (2017), Chas khryzantem (2017) and Such Beautiful People (2013).
15. Irma Vitovska
Actress | Brama
Irma Vitovska was born on December 30, 1974 in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivska oblast, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Brama (2017), My Thoughts Are Silent (2019) and Between Us (2021). She is married to Vitaliy Vantsa. ...
16. Andriy Lidagovskiy
Actor | Moyi dumky tykhi
Andriy Lidagovskiy is known for My Thoughts Are Silent (2019), Tiger Is Strolling Around (2021) and Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022).
17. Iryna Ostrovska
Actress | The Glass House
Iryna Ostrovska is known for The Glass House (2023), Silence (2021) and My Thoughts Are Silent (2019).
18. Bryan Cranston
Actor | Breaking Bad
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...
19. 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 ...
20. Zina Bethune
Actress | Planet of the Apes
Lovely, lithe and light-haired Zina Bethune, noted ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, also had a promising acting career during the late 1950s and 1960s.
The native New Yorker was born on February 17, 1945, the daughter of William Charles Bethune (who died in 1950 when Zina was 5) and ...
21. Stellan Skarsgård
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Stellan Skarsgård was born in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Gudrun (Larsson) and Jan Skarsgård. He became a star in his teens through the title role in the TV-series Bombi Bitt och jag (1968). Between the years 1972-88 he was employed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where...
22. Daniel Radcliffe
Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, ...
23. Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Actor | Stalker
The famous Russian actor was discovered by Andrei Tarkovsky. He was looking for an actor to play the part of Andrei Rublev for his second full-length film and accidentally found the completely unknown Solonitsyn in Chelyabinsk. He worked there as an amateur actor. After Andrei Rublev, he played ...
24. Ivan Lapikov
Actor | Andrey Rublyov
Ivan Lapikov was born on July 7, 1922 in Gorny Balyklei, Tsaritsyn Uyezd, Saratov Governorate, RSFSR [now Volgograd Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), The Brothers Karamazov (1969) and Utro obrechyonnogo priiska (1985). He died on May 2, 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
25. Nikolay Grinko
Actor | Solyaris
Nikolay Grinko was born on May 22, 1920 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979) and Andrei Rublev (1966). He died on April 10, 1989 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
26. Nikolay Sergeev
Actor | Andrey Rublyov
Nikolay Sergeev was born on December 4, 1894 in village Ozerki, Shchigry uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Shchigrovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), A Big Family (1954) and Ottsy i deti (1959). He died on January 8, 1988 in Moscow, ...
27. Nikolay Burlyaev
Actor | Ivanovo detstvo
Nikolay Burlyaev is a Soviet and Russian actor. He was born into a family of actors, Burlyayev started his career in film and theatre when he was still a child. He is best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962). He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as ...
28. Yuriy Nikulin
Actor | Brilliantovaya ruka
Yuri Nikulin was a Russian film actor, comedian, mime, and circus clown who was also Artistic Director of Moscow Circus and popular TV show host.
He was born Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin on December 18, 1921, in the town of Demidov, Smolensk province, Central Russia. His father, Vladimir Andreevich ...
29. Rolan Bykov
Actor | Chuchelo
Rolan Bykov was born on November 12, 1929 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Chuchelo (1984), Aybolit-66 (1967) and Andrei Rublev (1966). He was married to Elena Sanaeva. He died on October 6, 1998 in Moscow, Russia.
30. Mikhail Kononov
Actor | Andrey Rublyov
Mikhail Kononov was born on April 25, 1940 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), The Inner Circle (1991) and Captain Nemo (1975). He died on July 16, 2007 in Moscow, Russia.
31. Stepan Krylov
Actor | Andrey Rublyov
Stepan Krylov was born on February 14, 1910 in village Gorodok, Vyazma uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), Ivan's Childhood (1962) and Anafema (1961). He died on February 28, 1998 in St. ...
32. Irina Miroshnichenko
Actress | Andrey Rublyov
Irina Miroshnichenko is a Russian actress of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT).
She was born Irina Petrovna Miroshnichenko on July 24, 1942, in Barnaul, Altai province, Soviet Union (now Russia). Her parents were evacuated from Moscow during the Second World War, and they returned back to their home in ...
33. Vyacheslav Tsaryov
Actor | Andrey Rublyov
Vyacheslav Tsaryov was born in 1951 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Andrei Rublev (1966), Tashkent, the City of Bread (1968) and Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964). He died on June 28, 2006 in Moscow, Russia.
34. Marcello Mastroianni
Actor | La dolce vita
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...
35. Jeanne Moreau
Actress | Jules et Jim
When people gave Louis Malle credit for making a star of Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) immediately followed by The Lovers (1958), he would point out that Moreau by that time had already been "recognized as the prime stage actress of her generation." She had made it to the Comédie ...
36. Frances McDormand
Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...
37. Steve Buscemi
Actor | Fargo
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to...
38. Koji Yakusho
Actor | Perfect Days
Koji Yakusho is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actor who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export. He was born in the southern city ...
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