My Top 30 Male Celebrity Crushes; Old and New + When
by DJOfRadioGallifrey | created - 15 Jun 2011 | updated - 06 Dec 2022 | PublicThey're not actually in any particular order. My tastes change every few years, along with the fandoms they come from.
I also mention the moment...what they were in to make me crush on them. Some are old crushes- like before I reached puberty.
1. Colin Morgan
Actor | Belfast
Colin Morgan is a Northern Irish film, television, theater and radio actor who attended Integrated College Dungannon, winning the 'Denis Rooney Associates Cup' for best overall student in the third year, before gaining a National Diploma in Performing Arts from the Belfast Institute of Further and ...
I've watched Merlin from when it first aired, and adored the show. But strangely enough I didn't start to crush on it's star until series 2. Then looking back on series 1, I thought...'I must be crazy not to have noticed how adorkable this guy is!'
2. 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 ...
I have the other guys of Supnat on my list, but he tops because soon as he made his entrance...BOOM = Pregnant.
3. Bradley James
Actor | The Liberator
British-American actor, Bradley James, won his first role on the BBC pilot Dis/Connected. Show creators were so impressed with his work that they would go on to cast him as the young King Arthur in the hit show Merlin (2008) which aired on BBC & NBC. Of the eventual cast, James was the only cast ...
He is alright, funny...handsome. But I don't dream of him. That's why Colin Morgan is my number 1.
The moment I thought he was hot...series 2; sweet dreams.
4. Michael Dorman
Actor | Daybreakers
Michael Dorman is a New Zealand actor, best known for his starring roles as NASA astronaut Gordo Stevens in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind and as John Tavner in the comedy-drama series Patriot. Other roles include Tom Wilcox in the Australian television ...
I crushed on him when I first watch Daybreakers and he smiled...OMG.
5. Ryan Kelley
Actor | Teen Wolf
Ryan Kelley is an American actor probably best known for his starring role on the popular MTV television series "Teen Wolf". For 4 seasons as "Deputy Sheriff Jordan Parrish" Ryan used his badge and his supernatural abilities as a Hellhound to protect the town of Beacon Hills from evil on this ...
He's one of those actors that's been a child actor for a decade but I didn't notice him until 'Teen Wolf' as Officer Parrish in 2013/14. But the first time I saw him was in Mean creek- but I paid no atttention to him.
6. Charlie Vickers
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Charlie Vickers is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022), Medici (2016) and Mother Help.
7. 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 ...
OMG- this man- I shall never recover- I discovered this man as Loki on tumblr- then I chose to watch Thor...and the rest is as they say history, Avengers was next.
8. Jared Padalecki
Actor | Supernatural
Jared Padalecki was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Sherri (Kammer), a teacher of English, and Gerald Padalecki, a tax accountant. He is of Polish (father) and German, English, Scottish, and French (mother) descent. Jared started to take acting lessons when he was 12. Then, he won the "Claim to Fame...
I fell for this man on the first episode of 'Supernatural' which I started watching this year (2011).
9. 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, ...
This man took a lot longer for me to crush on. It was when Dean got turned into a vamp...it was like...BOOM! He is hot!.
10. 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 ...
The Bad guy in Red Eye. Beat Me with a stick.
11. Desmond Harrington
Actor | Dexter
Desmond Harrington was raised in the Bronx New York. Prior to acting he worked as a laborer, landscaper, a cold caller at a brokerage firm, and a bartender in Manhattan, where a co-worker invited him to attend an acting class. Harrington landed his first role in Luc Besson's The Messenger: The ...
You probably think...Dexter, right? WRONG!!!!!! I crushed on him when I watched the movie GhostShip this spurned a fanfiction I wrote.
12. 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 ...
Um Iron Man...then Sherlock Holmes...good choices, I knew then I had to watch all his movies, which is what I do with all my crushes.
13. Jake Abel
Actor | Malignant
Jake Abel was born in Canton, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Malignant (2021), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) and Supernatural (2005). He has been married to Allie Wood since November 9, 2013.
Supernatural. Though it wasn't till series 5, when he returned...It was then that I realized the guy had something funky going on, I think it's the dark circles under his eyes.
14. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
Didn't realize I fancied this dude till I started reading Sherlock fanfiction.
15. Vincent Ventresca
Actor | The Invisible Man
Vincent Ventresca was born on April 29, 1966 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Invisible Man (2000), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) and Prey (1998). He has been married to Dianne Shiner since 1994. They have two children.
An old crush, when I watched him in the invisible man, a short series which should have run longer.
16. Kiefer Sutherland
Actor | 24
Kiefer Sutherland was born in London, England, UK, to Canadian actors Shirley Douglas and Donald Sutherland, who moved to California shortly after his birth. His maternal grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who was a Premier of Saskatchewan for over 17 years and led ...
Can't remember when I started to like this guy...I think it was the phonebooth...his voice..mmmm, then...flatliners?...then I watched 24. Then Young Guns. I had to watch everything.
If you want to see cuteness watch crazy moon.
My crush has faded slightly.
17. Jason Flemyng
Actor | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Jason Flemyng was born on September 25, 1966 in Putney, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Deep Rising (1998). He has been married to Elly Fairman since June 6, 2008.
He is an old crush, I fancied him in The league of extraordinary gentleman as Jekyll, but I have moved on.
18. Martin Freeman
Actor | Black Panther
Martin Freeman is an English actor, known for portraying Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office (2001), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock (2010) and Lester Nygaard in the dark ...
He's a funny looking man, not my type...but ever since I watched Sherlock, he and his co star have grown on me.
I think I find him more adorkable than hot.
19. Arthur Darvill
Actor | Doctor Who
Thomas Arthur Darvill, known professionally as Arthur Darvill, is an English actor and musician. He is perhaps most recognized as Rory Williams, one of the Eleventh Doctor's companions in Doctor Who (2005), and as Rev. Paul Coates in Broadchurch (2013). In 2013-2014 he appeared in the lead role in ...
Yes I'm a doctor who fan, that's how I noticed this little cutie. Don't think because I chose him over Matt smith makes me a smith hater...I am not, he is an exceptional doctor, but Rory is oh so charmingly awkward. I could marry this man.
20. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
He's not really a crush, I fancied him last, while girls at school discussed him, I'd rather talk about Keira Knightley. He' a great Jack Sparrow but I didn't fancy him in the pirate get-up, how strange?
I then went back to older movies with him in and crushed big time, chocolat...sleepy hollow.
21. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
I think my mum assumed I fancied him, because other girls my age were, so she got me a poster (1998)...and after a few weeks of staring at that...I developed the crush. The poster has since been replaced with a doctor who poster, and I have a smaller photo on my wall of him...but I should confirm I no longer fancy him.
22. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
I would like to kiss him on the cheek. I fancied this man when I watched him in Independence day. Though I was 6 at the time and hardly knew what a crush was.
23. Robert Patrick
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Robert Hammond Patrick was born on November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, raised there and Boston, Mass., Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. The eldest of five children. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but dropped out after he took a drama course and ...
Terminator 2; Judgement Day- need I say more.
I watched it growing up, never really was drawn to him until approximately 2003 when I was rewatching the first couple before the release of Terminator 3.
He's aged quite rapidly over the past 15 years- so thank heavens he is immortalized in T2 and Fire in the sky.
24. Gabriel Byrne
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said...
Hmm odd enough, though he appeared in ghost ship with Desmond Harrington, I didn't fancy him until I rented End of Days...where he played the devil.
25. David Tennant
Actor | Doctor Who
Widely considered as one of the greatest stage and screen actors of his generation both in his native Scotland and internationally, David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald, who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish ...
The Doctor...I was a late starter of doctor who, I began mid series 2, and he grew on me.
26. John Barrowman
Actor | Torchwood
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, and raised in Joliet, Illinois. He returned to the UK, for a 6 month Shakespeare semester with the United States International University of San Diego, but left to star in the musical production of "Anything Goes," with Elaine Paige. He went on to star in "Miss Saigon," "...
It's such a pity he's gay, I'm outta his league, but it doesn't stop me from crushing on this gorgeous man.
I have his CD!!!
27. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
An early crush, I used to keep doodling pics of x-men.
28. David Bowie
Soundtrack | Labyrinth
David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest ...
Hmmm what a lovely Androgynous man.
29. 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 ...
He kinda reminds me of Robert Downey jr, but tougher, and supernatural introduced me to this guy. But it was the end of series 1 when he got possessed I thought he was sexy as hell!
30. James Spader
Actor | The Blacklist
James Todd Spader was born on February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Jean (Fraser) and Stoddard Greenwood "Todd" Spader. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover with director Peter Sellars; he dropped out in eleventh grade. He bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga ...
Stargate movie.
31. Kevin Bacon
Actor | Footloose
Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.
Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...
Mmmm Footlose and Flatliners.
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