My Top 25 Favorite Actors
by Luna_Crow711 | created - 17 Feb 2011 | updated - 18 Dec 2014 | Public
1. Gary Oldman
Actor | The Dark Knight
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Favorite movies he played in: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Leon the Professional, Dracula, The Dark Knight, State of Grace, JFK, The Book of Eli.
2. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
Favorite TV Show he plays in: Peaky Blinders. Favorite movies he played in: Disco Pigs, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, (small roles in Tron: Legacy and Transcedence).
3. 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 ...
Favorite movies he played in: Enemy, End of Watch, Prisoners, Jarhead, Prince of Persia, Source Code, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, Zodiac, Highway, Rendition.
4. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor | Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...
Favorite movies he played in: Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man 1&2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Zodiac, The Soloist.
5. 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 ...
Favorite movies he played in: The Dark Knight, Candy, Brokeback Mountain, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Ned Kelly, Casanova, A Knight's Tale, 10 Things I Hate About You.
6. 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 ...
Favorite movies he played in: Inglourious Basterds, X-Men: First Class, Fish Tank. Favorite TV Show he played in: Hex.
7. Geoffrey Rush
Actor | The King's Speech
Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...
Favorite movies he played in: Munich, Quills, Candy, Ned Kelly, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Shakespeare in Love, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Warriors Way.
8. Eric Bana
Actor | Dirty John
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family ...
Favorite movies he played in: Munich, Hanna, The Other Boleyn Girl, Troy, Black Hawk Down, Star Trek.
9. Marton Csokas
Actor | Æon Flux
Marton was born in Invercargill, Aotearoa (New Zealand), to Margaret Christine (Rayner), a nurse, and Márton Csókás, a mechanical engineer. His father is Hungarian and his mother is Australian (of English, Irish, and Danish origin). He inherited some of his talents from his father, who was also a ...
Favorite movies he played in: Kingdom of Heaven, Triple X, The Lord of the Rings, Æon Flux, Alice in Wonderland.
10. Liev Schreiber
Actor | Spotlight
Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). His mother is from a working-class Jewish family from Poland and ...
Favorite movies he played in: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Repo Men, Defiance, Salt.
11. Tony Curran
Actor | Calibre
Tony Curran was born on December 13, 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Calibre (2018), Deadwood: The Movie (2019) and Outlaw King (2018). He has been married to Mai Curran since August 13, 2011.
Favorite movies he played in: Underworld Evolution; Favorite TV Shows: Defiance, Doctor Who, Labyrinth, The Pillars of the Earth.
12. Craig Parker
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Craig Parker was born on November 12th 1970 in Suva, Fiji and now lives in New Zealand. He is best know for his part as Haldir the Elf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, although he had a part in the 1993 film of Stephen King's "Tommyknockers".
Haldir <3 in LotR Also played in Spartacus, Reign, and Legend of the Seeker.
13. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Actor | Watchmen
Jeffrey Dean Morgan endeared himself to audiences with his recurring role on ABC's smash hit series Grey's Anatomy (2005). His dramatic arc as heart patient Denny Duquette, who wins the heart of intern Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) in a star-crossed romance, made him a universal fan favorite. He ...
Favorite TV shows he played in: Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural. Favorite movie he played in: Watchmen.
14. Ryan Gosling
Actor | Blue Valentine
Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...
Favorite movies he played in: The Place Beyond the Pines, Drive, Blue Valentine, The Ides of March.
15. Joseph Fiennes
Actor | Shakespeare in Love
Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is one of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Ralph Fiennes, an actor; Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus Fiennes, a...
Favorite movies he played in: Elizabeth, Enemy at the Gates, Luther, Shakespeare in Love. And I loved him in the TV show Camelot where he plays Merlin.
16. Gerard Butler
Actor | 300
Gerard James Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. His family is of Irish origin. Gerard spent some of his very early childhood in Montreal, Quebec, but was mostly raised, along with his older brother and sister, in his hometown of Paisley. His parents ...
Favorite movies he played in: 300, Gamer, The Phantom of the Opera, Law Abiding Citizen, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, The Bounty Hunter, The Ugly Truth, RocknRolla.
17. 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 ...
Favorite movies he played in: Gladiator, Her, Quills, Signs, The Village, Walk The Line, Two Lovers.
18. 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 ...
Favorite movies he played in: 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Mysterious Skin, 10 Things I Hate About You.
19. 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 ...
Favorite movies he played in: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Black Hawk Down, Ned Kelly, Pirates of the Caribbean.
20. Jared Leto
Actor | Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
Favorite movies he played in: Mr Nobody, Requiem for a Dream, Lord of War, Lonely Hearts, Highway, Girl Interrupted, Alexander. Also lead singer of the band 30 Seconds to Mars.
21. Michael Sheen
Actor | Masters of Sex
Even though he had burned up the London stage for nearly a decade--and appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" by American audiences until his critically-acclaimed turn as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1999 Broadway revival of "Amadeus".
Sheen was born in Newport, Wales...
Favorite movies he played in: Underworld, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Tron: Legacy, New Moon, Frost/Nixon, Kingdom of Heaven, Music Within.
22. Jensen Ackles
Actor | Supernatural
Jensen Ross Ackles, better known as simply Jensen Ackles, was born on March 1, 1978, in Dallas, Texas, to Donna Joan (Shaffer) and actor Alan Ackles. He has English, German, and Scottish ancestry. Jensen grew up in Richardson, Texas, together with his older brother, Joshua, and a younger sister, ...
Favorite TV show he plays in: Supernatural.
23. 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...
Favorite TV show he plays in: White Collar.
24. Milo Ventimiglia
Actor | Heroes
Milo Ventimiglia is an American actor, director and producer.
Milo currently stars on the critically acclaimed drama series "This is Us." He has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2017 & 2018) and a Critic's Choice Award for Best Actor in a Drama ...
Favorite TV show he played in: Heroes and Gilmore Girls.
25. Oded Fehr
Actor | The Mummy Returns
Oded Fehr was born on November 23, 1970 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is an actor, known for The Mummy Returns (2001), The Mummy (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999). He has been married to Rhonda Tollefson since December 22, 2000. They have three children.
Favorite movies he plays in: The Mummy movies, Resident Evil movies. Favorite tv shows he played in: V, Covert Affairs, Charmed.
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