Who played the most notorious,real Serial Killers?
by Burgwaechterchen | created - 28 Feb 2011 | updated - 02 Oct 2022 | PublicNo Ranking
1. Jeremy Renner
Actor | The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Lee Renner was born in Modesto, California, the son of Valerie (Tague) and Lee Renner, who managed a bowling alley. After a tumultuous yet happy childhood with his four younger siblings, Renner graduated from Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College. He explored several areas of...
played Jeffrey Dahmer
2. William Forsythe
Actor | Raising Arizona
Dynamically entertaining heavyset US actor with piercing eyes, William Forsythe has a superb talent for playing some truly unlikable and downright nasty characters that dominate the films in which he appears! If you're cast as the hero against Forsythe's villain, then you have your work cut out for...
played John Wayne Gacy
3. Mark Holton
Actor | Leprechaun
Mark Holton was born on July 19, 1958 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Leprechaun (1992), A League of Their Own (1992) and Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985).
played John Wayne Gacy
4. Michael Reilly Burke
Actor | Ted Bundy
Michael Reilly Burke was born on June 27, 1964 in Marin County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Ted Bundy (2002), The Collector (2009) and Mars Attacks! (1996). He has been married to Kayren Butler since October 2008. They have two children.
played Ted Bundy
5. David Faustino
Actor | Married with Children
David Faustino was born on March 3, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Married... with Children (1987), The Legend of Korra (2012) and Star-ving (2009). He was previously married to Andrea Faustino.
played Albert De Salvo,the "Boston Strangler"
6. Tomas Arana
Actor | Gladiator
TOMAS ARANA
He is co-starring in the film LIMONOV, based on the Emanuele Carrere book, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, starring Ben Whishaw, to be released in 2023. Arana has multiple independent films awaiting release, including INFERNO LA DIVINA COMETA by the artist Mimmo Paladino and QUEL POSTO...
played Angelo Buono,one of the "Hillside Stranglers"
7. Clifton Collins Jr.
Actor | Star Trek
An acting chameleon who can easily lose himself in the life of his film and television characters, Clifton Collins Jr. is a native Angeleno who grew up destined to become a part of the Latino entertainment industry. His great-grandparents on his mother's side were a Mexican trumpet player and ...
played Kenneth Bianchi,the 2nd "Hillside Strangler"
8. Michael Badalucco
Actor | Léon
Michael Badalucco, a Brooklyn native, got his start in the entertainment industry at a very young age, going to work with his father Giuseppe, a Sicilian-born immigrant, who worked as a carpenter on movie sets. In 1963, during the filming of Fail Safe starring Henry Fonda, a photo of a young boy ...
played Sam Berkovitz,the "Son of Sam"
9. George Kiseleff
Actor | Green River Killer
George Kiseleff is known for Green River Killer (2005).
played the "green river killer"
10. Klaus Kinski
Actor | Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht
Klaus Kinski was born as Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Susanne (Lutze), a nurse, and Bruno Nakszynski, a pharmacist. He grew up in Berlin, was drafted into the German army in 1944 and captured by British forces in Holland. After the war he began...
played "Jack the Ripper"
11. Gregg Henry
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Gregg Henry has worked with many well-known filmmakers. For James Gunn: Slither (2006), Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). For Brian De Palma: Scarface (1983), Body Double (1984). Raising Cain (1992), Femme Fatale (2002), The Black Dahlia (2006),...
played Dennis Lynn Rader,the "BTK-Strangler"
12. John Carroll Lynch
Actor | The Founder
John Carroll Lynch was born August 1, 1963 in Boulder, Colorado, and was raised in Denver. It was there John found a passion for acting and became a Denver Broncos fan. He graduated in the mid-80s with a B.F.A. in theatre from the The Catholic University of America / Hartke Theatre Acting program. ...
played Arthur Leigh Allen,the possible "Zodiac-Killer"
13. Steve Railsback
Actor | Lifeforce
Noted for his dangerous, chameleon-like portrayals while possessing the scariest-looking pair of eyes in the business, leathery-looking Steve Railsback has mesmerized us over the years with a number of weird, often warped roles both on film and television. While never achieving the degree of ...
played Ed Gein
14. Michael Rooker
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Michael Rooker was born on April 6, 1955 in Jasper, Alabama. When he was thirteen, his parents divorced and he went with his mother to live in Chicago. He caught the acting bug while attending college, and began appearing in local stage productions. On first breaking into film, his intensity and "...
played henry lee lucas
15. Tom Towles
Actor | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Tom Towles was a character player, often cast as scumbags or obnoxious men, who worked for more than a decade in Chicago theatre, before establishing himself in films and TV beginning in the late 80s - often in lower-budget fare. Towles drifted into acting after serving in the Marine Corps. ...
played Otis Toole
16. Götz George
Actor | Der Totmacher
Götz George, born in Berlin in 1938, is the son of the famous actor Heinrich George and his wife, the actress Berta Drews. After first appearances on the stage of Berlin's Hebbel Theater during his childhood, Götz George was trained as an actor by the recognized teacher Else Bongers. At the age of ...
played Fritz Haarmann
17. Tobias Schenke
Actor | Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Tobias Schenke was born on March 27, 1981 in Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany. He is an actor, known for Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), More Ants in the Pants (2002) and Ants in the Pants (2000).
played Jürgen Bartsch
18. Antonio Sabato Jr.
Actor | The Big Hit
Antonio Sabato Jr. was born on February 29, 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for The Big Hit (1998), The Three Stooges (2012) and Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009). He was previously married to Cheryl Moana Marie Nunes and Tully Jensen.
played Henry Lee Lucas
19. Kostas Sommer
Actor | Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Kostas Sommer was born on May 17, 1975 in Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009) and The Mesmerist (2002).
played otis Toole
20. Robert Hossein
Writer | Les misérables
The son of orchestra conductor André Hossein, Paris-born Robert Hossein was trained at René Simon's acting school. Hossein labored away as actor/director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the "legitimate" stage. In films from 1955's Rififi (Rififi (...
played peter kürten
21. Jeffrey DeMunn
Actor | The Green Mile
Jeffrey DeMunn was born on April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York. He studied in England at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, then returned to America and was a member of the National Shakespeare Company. He has starred in many theatre productions, both on and off Broadway, including "K2" (for which...
play Andrej Chikatilo
22. Robert Sisko
Actor | Call Me King
Robert Sisko is known for Call Me King (2017), White Wall (2010) and The Cursed Man (2020).
played Ed Kemper
23. Corin Nemec
Actor | Place of Bones
Corin Nemec's name comes from his nickname, Corky, given to him as a child by his grandmother. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later moved to Atlanta. He now lives in California. His first acting parts were in the series Webster (1983) and Sidekicks (1986). He then got a part in Tucker: ...
played ted bundy
24. Serge Bento
Actor | Landru
Serge Bento was born on November 25, 1931 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for Bluebeard (1963), Blue Panther (1965) and Diary of a Country Priest (1951).
played Maurice Landru
25. Patrick Bauchau
Actor | Panic Room
Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium. His father, Henry Bauchau, is a noted author, psychoanalyst, and philosopher, while his mother was an educator who also helped operate a publishing company. Coming from an intellectual family, it's not surprising that ...
played Albert Fish
26. Misha Collins
Actor | Supernatural
Misha Collins is an actor, director, producer, writer, and activist dedicated to inspiring cultural and civic engagement through works that "game-ify" philanthropy, inspire creativity, and promote social good.
For 12 years, Collins co-starred in Supernatural (2005), the longest running American ...
played Paul Bernardo
27. Laura Prepon
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Laura Helene Prepon was born on March 7, 1980, in Watchung, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Marjorie (Coll) and Michael Prepon. Her father died in 1993, when she was 13 years old. Laura is the youngest of five children--she has a brother named Brad and three sisters: Danielle, Jocelyn, and ...
played Karla Homolka
28. Charlize Theron
Producer | Monster
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...
played aileen wuornos
29. Evan Peters
Actor | X-Men: Apocalypse
Evan Peters was born in 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri to Phil and Julie Peters. When his father's job was transferred, the family moved to Grand Blanc, Michigan. There, Evan began taking acting classes and at age 15, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles in hopes of pursuing a career in the ...
played Jeffrey Dahmer
30. Luke Kirby
Actor | Mambo Italiano
Luke Farrell Kirby is a Canadian actor. In 2019, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Lenny Bruce on the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Kirby was born in Hamilton, Ontario, to American parents. His mother is from Brooklyn, New York, and his father grew up "along the ...
played Ted Bundy
31. Jonas Dassler
Actor | Der goldene Handschuh
Jonas Dassler was born on March 22, 1996 in Lennep, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Golden Glove (2019), LOMO: The Language of Many Others (2017) and The Silent Revolution (2018).
played Fritz Honka
32. Christina Ricci
Actress | Casper
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...
33. Suzan Anbeh
Actress | Effigie - Das Gift und die Stadt
Suzan Anbeh was born on March 18, 1970 in Oberhausen, Germany. She is an actress, known for Effigy: Poison and the City (2019), French Kiss (1995) and Inga Lindström (2004).
played Gesche Gottfried
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