Favorite Actors
by MissAli22 | created - 02 Nov 2012 | updated - 4 months ago | Public
1. 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 ...
Ten Favorite Films/TV: The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, Billy Madison, The Waterboy, Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, Click, Grown ups, Just Go With It, and Blended.
2. 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 ...
Five Favorite Films: Love and Other drugs, Brothers, Jarhead, Brokeback Mountain, and End of Watch
3. Woody Harrelson
Actor | True Detective
Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. After receiving degrees in theater arts and English from Hanover College, he...
Anything he's in.
4. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
The Kids are Alright, The Avengers, A Normal Heart, Thanks For Sharing, You Can Count on Me, 13 going on 30, etc..
5. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Ten Favorite Films: Field of Dreams, American Flyers, Waterworld, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, JFK, The Bodygaurd, The Gaurdian, The War, For the Love of the Game, and McFarland USA.
6. Morgan Freeman
Actor | Driving Miss Daisy
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...
Twenty Favorite Films: Lean on Me, The Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Baby, Clean and Sober, Glory, Se7en, The Sum of All Fears, Along came a Spider, Lucky Number Slevin, Gone Baby Gone, The Bucket List, Wanted, Deep Impact, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Almighty, An Unfinished Life, and Red.
7. Seth Rogen
Producer | This Is the End
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...
Ten Favorite Films/TV: Zach and Miri Make a Porno, Freaks and Geeks, 50/50, Knocked Up, SuperBad, Pineapple Express, Funny people, and really anything he's in..
8. John Cusack
Actor | Grosse Pointe Blank
John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, he has built a successful career playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. John was born in Evanston, Illinois, to an Irish-American ...
Ten Favorite Films: Better Off Dead, Say Anything, Con Air, Runaway Jury, Pushing Tin, High Fidelity, Serendipity, Must Love Dogs, Sixteen Candles and Martian Child.
9. Casey Affleck
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
10. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
Ten Favorite Films: Armaggeddon, Pearl Harbor, The Town, Good Will Hunting, Bounce, Jersey Girl, The Company Men, Reindeer Games, The Sum of All Fears, and Boiler Room. Other films I enjoyed him in: Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, He's Just not that into You, and Dazed and Confused.
11. Ed Harris
Actor | Appaloosa
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...
Ten Favorite Movies: Radio, Milk Money, A History of Violence, Gone Baby Gone, Apollo 13, The Rock, Step-mom, A Beautiful Mind, The Hours, Man On a Ledge. Good mix between good and evil :)
12. Cole Hauser
Actor | 2 Fast 2 Furious
Cole Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California. He is the son of Cass Warner, who founded a film production company (Warner Sisters), and Wings Hauser, an actor. His grandfathers were screenwriters Dwight Hauser and Milton Sperling, and his maternal great-grandfather was film mogul Harry M. ...
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