SAG: Best actors (Movie pictures and TV)

1. Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...

7/11 Won from 2007 to 2013 (Comedy Series 30 Rock) Nominated in 1996 (TV movies/Miniseries A streetcar named desire), 2001 (TV movies/Miniseries Nuremberg), 2004 (Supporting The Cooler) and 2014 (Comedy Series 30 Rock)

2. Tony Shalhoub

Actor | Monk

Anthony Marc Shalhoub was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joseph Shalhoub, who owned a grocery chain, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at age ten, later marrying Shalhoub's mother, Helen (Seroogy), who herself was born in Wisconsin, to Lebanese parents. ...

4/10 Won in 2004, 2005 (Comedy Series Monk), 2019 and 2020 (Comedy Series The marvelous Mrs. Maisel) Nominated in 2003, from 2007 to 2010 (Comedy Series Monk) and 2024 (TV movies/Limited Series Mr. Monk's last case: A Monk movie)

3. James Gandolfini

Actor | The Sopranos

James Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey, to Santa (Penna), a high school lunchlady, and James Joseph Gandolfini, Sr., a bricklayer and head school janitor. His parents were both of Italian origin. Gandolfini began acting in the New York theater. His Broadway debut was in the 1992 revival ...

3/8 Won in 2000, 2003 y 2008 (Drama Series The Sopranos) Nominated in 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007 (Drama Series The Sopranos), and in 2014 (Supporting Enough said)

4. Kevin Spacey

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...

3/7 Won in 2000 (Leading American beauty), 2015 and 2016 (Drama Series House of cards) Nominated in 1996 (Supporting The usual suspects), 2009 (TV movies/Miniseries Recount), 2014 and 2017 (Drama Series House of cards)

5. Sean Hayes

Actor | Will & Grace

Sean Patrick Hayes was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His father, Ronald, a lithographer, left the family when Sean was a young child. His mother, Mary, works at a food bank, and raised Sean and his four siblings on her own. Sean supported himself as a classical ...

3/7 Won in 2002, 2003 and 2006 (Comedy Series Will & Grace) Nominated in 2001, 2004 and 2005 (Comedy Series Will & Grace) and 2003 (TV movies/Miniseries Martin and Lewis)

6. 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 ...

3/7 Won in 2003 (TV movies/Miniseries Door to door), 2015 and 2017 (Comedy Series Shameless) Nominated in 1997 (Supporting Fargo), 2005 (TV movies/Miniseries The wool cap), 2007 (TV movies/Miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the stories of Stephen King) and 2016 (Comedy Series Shameless)

7. 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 ...

3/7 Won in 2013-2014 (Drama Series Breaking Bad) and 2017 (TV movies/Miniseries All the way) Nominated from 2010 to 2012 (Drama Series Breaking Bad) and 2016 (Leading Trumbo)

8. Jason Bateman

Actor | Arrested Development

Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).

He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director...

3/6 Won in 2019, 2021 and 2023 (Drama Series Ozark) Nominated in 2005, 2014 (Comedy Series Arrested development) and 2018 (Drama Series Ozark)

9. Paul Giamatti

Actor | Sideways

Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...

3/5 Won in 2006 (Supporting Cinderella man), 2009 (TV movies/Miniseries John Adams) and 2012 (TV movies/Miniseries Too big to fail) Nominated in 2005 (Leading Sideways) and 2024 (Leading The holdovers)

10. John Lithgow

Actor | The World According to Garp

If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. He was born in Rochester, New York, to Sarah Jane (Price), an actress, and Arthur Washington Lithgow III, who was both a theatrical producer and director. John's father was ...

3/4 Won in 1997-1998 (Comedy Serie 3rd Rock from the Sun) and 2017 (Drama Serie The Crown) Nominated in 2001 (TV movies/Miniseries Don Quixote)

11. Daniel Day-Lewis

Actor | There Will Be Blood

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...

3/3 Won in 2003 (Leading Gangs of New York), 2008 (Leading There will be blood) and 2013 (Lincoln)

12. Dennis Franz

Actor | NYPD Blue

Dennis Franz was born Dennis Franz Schlacta in Maywood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and is the son of Eleanor (Mueller) and Franz Ferdinand Schlachta, who were postal workers. He has two sisters, Marlene (born 1938) and Heidi (born 1935). He graduated from Southern Illinois University and was ...

2/8 Won in 1995 and 1997 (Drama Series NYPD Blue) Nominated in 1996 and from 1998 to 2002 (Drama Series NYPD Blue)

13. 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. ...

2/6 Won in 1997 (Leading Shine) and 2005 (TV movies/Miniseries The life and death of Peter Sellers) Nominated in 1999 (Supporting Shakespeare in love), 2001 (Leading Quills), 2011 (Supporting The king's speech) and 2018 (TV movies/Miniseries Genius)

14. 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 ...

2/6 Won in 2004 and 2006 (Drama Series 24) Nominated in 2003, 2005, 2007 (Drama Series 24) and 2009 (TV movies/Miniseries 24)

15. Hugh Laurie

Actor | House M.D.

Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959, to Patricia (Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, a doctor, both of Scottish descent. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Son of an Olympic gold medalist in the sport, he rowed for the England youth team (1977) and for ...

2/6 Won in 2007 and 2009 (Drama Series House M.D.) Nominated in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011 (Drama Series House M.D.)

16. Anthony Edwards

Actor | ER

Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, to a well-blended family. He is the youngest of five children, and the son of Erika Kem (Weber), a landscape painter and artist, and Peter Edwards, an architect. His mother was of German descent, and his father was of English,...

2/5 Won in 1996 and 1998 (Drama Series ER) Nominated in 1997, 1999 and 2001 (Drama Series ER)

17. Martin Sheen

Actor | The Departed

Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. Moving flawlessly between artistic mediums, Sheen's acting range is striking.

Sheen was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estevez in Dayton, Ohio, to Mary-Ann (Phelan), an Irish ...

2/5 Won in 2001 and 2002 (Drama Series The West wing) Nominated in 2000, 2003 y 2004 (Drama Series The West wing)

18. 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...

2/5 Won in 2011 and 2012 (Drama Series Boardwalk Empire) Nominated from 2013 to 2015 (Drama Series Boardwalk Empire)

19. Gary Sinise

Actor | Forrest Gump

Gary Alan Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, to Mylles S. (Alsip) and Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E., a film editor. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Swedish ancestry. His family moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. ...

2/4 Won in 1996 (TV movies/Miniseries Truman) and 1998 (TV movies/Miniseries George Wallace) Nominated twice in 1995 (Supporting Forrest Gump and TV movies/Miniseries The Stand)

20. Al Pacino

Actor | Serpico

Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.

He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...

2/4 Won in 2004 (TV movies/Miniseries Angels in America) and 2011 (TV movies/Miniseries You don't know Jack) Nominated in 2014 (TV movies/Miniseries Phil Spector) and 2020 (Supporting The Irishman)

21. 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 ...

2/4 Won in 2015 (TV movies/Miniseries The normal heart) and 2021 (TV movies/Limited series I know this much is true) Nominated in 2011 (Supporting The kids are all right) and 2015 (Supporting Foxcatcher)

22. Mahershala Ali

Actor | Leave the World Behind

Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.

He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...

2/3 Won in 2017 (Supporting Moonlight) and 2019 (Supporting Green book) Nominated in 2020 (TV movies/Miniseries True Detective III)

23. 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 ...

2/3 Won in 2001 (Comedy Series Ally McBeal) and 2024 (Supporting Oppenheimer) Nominated in 2009 (Supporting Tropic Thunder)

24. Jason Sudeikis

Actor | Ted Lasso

Jason Sudeikis was born on September 18, 1975 in Fairfax, Virginia as Daniel Jason Sudeikis. His father is Daniel Joseph Sudeikis, a Vice President of a business development and his mother is Kathryn (née Wendt), a travel agent at Brennco and President of the American Society of Travel Agents. He ...

2/3 Won in 2021 and 2022 (Comedy Series Ted Lasso) Nominated in 2024 (Comedy Series Ted Lasso)

25. Michael J. Fox

Actor | Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

2/2 Won in 1999 and 2000 (Comedy Series Spin City)

26. Idris Elba

Actor | Beasts of No Nation

An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped...

2/2 Won twice in 2016 (Supporting Beasts of no nation and TV movies/Miniseries Luther)

27. Sam Rockwell

Actor | Moon

Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...

2/2 Won in 2018 (Supporting Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri) and 2020 (TV movies/Miniseries Fosse/Verdon)

28. Jeremy Allen White

Actor | Shameless

Jeremy Allen White (born 1991) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his long-running role as Phillip "Lip" Gallagher on the Showtime dreamed series Shameless (2011-2021). He has also appeared in the first season of the thriller series Homecoming (2018) and in several films...

2/2 Won in 2023 and 2024 (Comedy series The Bear)

29. David Hyde Pierce

Actor | Frasier

David Hyde Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He is the youngest child of George and Laura Pierce (both deceased) and has two older sisters (Barbara and Nancy) and an older brother (Thomas). As a child, he was very interested in music (particularly piano) and regularly played the ...

1/8 Won in 1996 (Comedy Series Frasier) Nominated in 1995 and from 1997 to 2002 (Comedy Series Frasier)

30. Ty Burrell

Actor | Modern Family

Tyler Gerald Burrell was born on August 22, 1967 in Grants Pass, Oregon, where his family owned a business. He is the son of Sheri Rose (Hauck), a teacher, and Gary Gerald Burrell, a family therapist, and is primarily of English and German ancestry. He earned a BA from Southern Oregon University ...

1/7 Won in 2014 (Comedy Series Moder family) Nominated from 2011 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2017 (Comedy Series Modern family)

31. Peter Dinklage

Actor | Game of Thrones

Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) . For this he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a...

1/7 Won in 2020 (Drama Series Game of Thrones) Nominated in 2004 (Leading The Station Agent), and from 2014 to 2018 (Drama Series Game of Thrones)

32. Sterling K. Brown

Actor | Black Panther

The Emmy Award-winning actor stars in NBC's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated drama series This Is Us (2016). For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe, becoming the first African-American actor to win his category in ...

1/7 Won in 2018 (Drama Series This is us) Nominated in 2017 (TV movies/Limited Series American Crime Story), 2017, 2019-2021 (Drama Series This is us) and 2024 (Supporting American fiction)

33. Michael C. Hall

Actor | Dexter

Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Janice (Styons), a guidance counselor, and William Carlyle Hall, who worked for IBM. Michael is a graduate of NYU's Master of Fine Arts program in acting. He is known for the titular character "Dexter" in Dexter (2006) and as mortician "David ...

1/6 Won in 2010 (Drama Series Dexter) Nominated from 2007 to 2009, 2011 and 2012 (Drama Series Dexter)

34. Robert Duvall

Actor | The Apostle

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...

1/6 Won in 1999 (Supporting A civil action) Nominated in 1997 (TV movies/Miniseries The man who captured Eichmann), 1998 (Leading The Apostle), 2007 (TV movies/Miniseries Broken Trail), 2011 (Leading Get low) and 2015 (Supporting The Judge)

35. 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,...

1/6 Won in 2016 (Leading The revenant) Nominated in 2005 (Leading The Aviator), twice in 2007 (Leading Blood Diamond and Supporting The Departed), 2012 (Leading J. Edgar) and 2020 (Leading Once upon a time in... Hollywood)

36. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

1/6 Won in 2017 (Leading Fences) Nominated in 2000 (Leading The Hurricane), 2002 (Leading Training day), 2013 (Leading The flight), 2018 (Leading Roman J. Israel, Esq.) and 2022 (Leading The tragedy of Macbeth)

37. Jason Alexander

Actor | Seinfeld

Jay Scott Greenspan, known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, film director, and television presenter. An Emmy and Tony winner, he is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series Seinfeld (1989), for which he was nominated for seven consecutive...

1/5 Won in 1995 (Comedy Series Seinfeld) Nominated from 1996 to 1999 (Comedy Serie Seinfeld)

38. Tom Hanks

Producer | Cast Away

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...

1/5 Won in 1995 (Leading Forrest Gump) Nominated in 1996 (Leading Saving Private Ryan), 2001 (Leading Cast away), 2014 (Leading Captain Phillips) and 2020 (Supporting A beautiful day in the neighborhood)

39. 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. ...

1/5 Won in 1996 (Supporting Apollo 13) Nominated in 1997 (TV movies/miniseries Riders of the purple sage), 2003 (Supporting The hours), 2006 (TV movies/Miniseries Empire Falls) and 2013 (TV movies/Miniseries Game change)

40. Ben Kingsley

Actor | Sexy Beast

Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...

1/5 Won in 2002 (TV movies/Miniseries Anne Frank: The whole story) Nominated in 1999 (TV movies/Miniseries The tale of Sweeney Todd), 2002 (Supporting Sexy beast), 2004 (Leading House of sand and fog) and 2016 (TV movies/Miniseries Tut)

41. Russell Crowe

Actor | Les Misérables

Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...

1/5 Won in 2002 (Leading A beautiful mind) Nominated in 2000 (Leading The Insider), 2001 (Leading Gladiator), 2006 (Leading Cinderella man) and 2002 (TV movies/Miniseries The loudest voice)

42. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

1/5 Won in 2010 (Leading Crazy heart) Nominated in 2001 (Supporting The contender), 2011 (Leading True Grit), 2017 (Supporting Hell or High water) and 2023 (Drama series The old man)

43. Jamie Foxx

Actor | Collateral

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...

1/4 Won in 2005 (Leading Ray) Nominated twice in 2005 (Supporting Collateral and TV movies/Miniseries Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams story) and 2020 (Supporting Just Mercy)

44. 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 ...

1/4 Won in 2006 (Leading Capote) Nominated in 2000 (Leading Flawless), 2009 (Supporting Doubt) and 2013 (Supporting The Master)

45. Forest Whitaker

Actor | The Last King of Scotland

Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to...

1/4 Won in 2007 (Leading The last king of Scotland) Nominated in 1995 (TV movies/Miniseries The enemy within), 2004 (TV movies/Miniseries Deacons for defense) and 2014 (Leading The butler)

46. Sean Penn

Actor | Mystic River

Sean Penn is a powerhouse film performer capable of intensely moving work, who has gone from strength to strength during a colourful film career, and who has drawn much media attention for his stormy private life and political viewpoints.

Sean Justin Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the ...

1/4 Won in 2009 (Leading Milk) Nominated in 1996 (Leading Dead man walking), 2002 (Leading I am Sam) and 2004 (Leading Mystic River)

47. Christian Bale

Actor | The Dark Knight

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...

1/4 Won in 2011 (Supporting The Fighter) Nominated in 2016 (Supporting The big short), 2019 (Leading Vice) and 2020 (Leading Ford v. Ferrari)

48. Michael Douglas

Actor | Wall Street

A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.

In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...

1/4 Won in 2014 (TV movies/Miniseries Behind the Candelabra) Nominated in 2019, 2020 and 2022 (Comedy Series The Kominsky Method)

49. 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 ...

1/3 Won in 2004 (Leading Pirates of the Caribbean: The curse of the Black Pearl) Nominated in 2005 (Leading Finding Neverland) and 2016 (Leading Black Mass)

50. 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...

1/3 Won in 2005 (Supporting Million dollar baby) Nominated in 1995 (Leading The Shawshank redemption) and 2010 (Leading Invictus)

51. Paul Newman

Actor | The Hustler

Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...

1/3 Won in 2006 (TV movies/Miniseries Empire Falls) Nominated in 1995 (Leading Nobody's fool) and 2004 (TV movies/Miniseries Our Town)

52. Jeremy Irons

Actor | Dead Ringers

British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Young Jeremy didn't prove very fond of figures. He visited mainland England only once a year. He wound up ...

1/3 Won in 2007 (TV movies/Miniseries Elizabeth I) Nominated in 2010 (TV movies/Miniseries Georgia O'Keeffe) and 2014 (TV movies/Miniseries The Hollow Crown)

53. Kevin Kline

Actor | Wild Wild West

Kevin Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Margaret and Robert Joseph Kline, who owned several stores. His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. After attending Indiana University in Bloomington, Kline studied at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1972, ...

1/3 Won in 2008 (TV movies/Miniseries As you like it) Nominated in 2002 (Leading Life as a house) and 2010 (TV movies/Miniseries Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac)

54. Javier Bardem

Actor | Skyfall

Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...

1/3 Won in 2008 (Supporting No country for old men) Nominated in 2013 (Supporting Skyfall) and 2022 (Being the Ricardos)

55. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

1/3 Won in 2012 (Supporting Beginners) Nominated in 2006 (TV movies/Miniseries Our Fathers) and 2010 (Supporting The last station)

56. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

1/3 Won in 2013 (Supporting Lincoln) Nominated in 1996 (TV movies/Miniseries The good old boys) and 2008 (Supporting No country for old men)

57. 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 ...

1/3 Won in 2014 (Supporting Dallas Buyers Club) Nominated in 2021 (Supporting The little things) and 2022 (Supporting House of Gucci)

58. Eddie Redmayne

Actor | Les Misérables

British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).

Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...

1/3 Won in 2015 (Leading The theory of everything) Nominated in 2016 (Leading The Danish girl) and 2023 (Supporting The good nurse)

59. Gary Oldman

Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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), ...

1/3 Won in 2018 (Leading Darkest hour) Nominated in 2000 (Supporting The contender) and 2021 (Leading Mank)

60. Rami Malek

Actor | Bohemian Rhapsody

Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors ...

1/3 Won in 2019 (Leading Bohemian Rhapsody) Nominated in 2016 and 2017 (Drama Series Mr. Robot)

61. 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 ...

1/3 Won in 2020 (Leading Joker) Nominated in 2001 (Supporting Gladiator) and 2006 (Leading Walk the line)

62. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

1/3 Won in 2020 (Supporting Once upon a time in... Hollywood) Nominated in 2009 (Leading The curious case of Benjamin Button) and 2014 (Leading Moneyball)

63. Michael Keaton

Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...

1/3 Won in 2022 (TV movies/Limited series Dopesick) Nominated in 2008 (TV movies/Miniseries The company) and 2015 (Leading Birdman)

64. Nicolas Cage

Actor | Face/Off

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...

1/2 Won in 1996 (Leading Leaving Las Vegas) Nominated in 2003 (Leading Adaptation)

65. Cuba Gooding Jr.

Actor | Jerry Maguire

Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968, in The Bronx, New York. His mother, Shirley (Sullivan), was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father, Cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient, which had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool". His ...

1/2 Won in 1997 (Supporting Jerry Maguire) Nominated in 2010 (TV movies/Miniseries Gifted hands: The Ben Carson Story)

66. Jack Nicholson

Actor | Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...

1/2 Won in 1998 (Leading As good as it gets) Nominated in 2003 (Leading About Schmidt)

67. Sam Waterston

Actor | The Killing Fields

Sam Waterston was born on November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Killing Fields (1984), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Law & Order (1990). He has been married to Lynn Louisa Woodruff since January 26, 1976. They have three children. He was ...

1/2 Won in 1999 (Drama Series Law & Order) Nominated in 1998 (Drama Series Law & Order)

68. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

1/2 Won in 2000 (TV movies/Miniseries Tuesdays with Morrie) Nominated in 1998 (TV movies/Miniseries 12 angry men)

69. Benicio Del Toro

Actor | Sicario

Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).

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1/2 Won 2001 (Leading Traffic) Nominated in 2004 (Supporting 21 grams)

70. Albert Finney

Actor | Murder on the Orient Express

The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...

1/2 Won in 2001 (Supporting Erin Brockovich) Nominated in 2003 (TV movies/Miniseries The gathering storm)

71. Ian McKellen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...

1/2 Won in 2002 (Supporting LOTR: The fellowship of the ring) Nominated in 1999 (Leading Gods and monsters)

72. Tim Robbins

Actor | Mystic River

Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...

1/2 Won in 2004 (Supporting Mystic River) Nominated in 1995 (Leading The Shawshank redemption)

73. 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 ...

1/2 Won in 2009 (Supporting The dark Knight) Nominated in 2006 (Leading Brokeback Mountain)

74. 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. ...

1/2 Won in 2010 (TV movies/Miniseries Taking chance) Nominated in 1996 (Supporting Murder in the first)

75. Colin Firth

Actor | A Single Man

Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...

1/2 Won in 2011 (Leading The king's speech) Nominated in 2010 (Leading A single man)

76. Matthew McConaughey

Actor | Interstellar

American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...

1/2 Won in 2014 (Leading Dallas Buyers Club) Nominated in 2015 (Drama Series True Detective)

77. Jeffrey Tambor

Actor | Transparent

Jeffrey Tambor starred in Amazon Studios hit series TRANSPARENT, playing family patriarch "Mort Pfefferman," who over the course of the show becomes the unforgettable "Maura." Tambor's groundbreaking performance earned him two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award and a Critics' Choice ...

1/2 Won in 2016 (Comedy Series Transparent) Nominated in 2017 (Comedy Series Transparent)

78. Chadwick Boseman

Actor | Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...

1/2 Won in 2021 (Leading Ma Rainey's black bottom) Nominated in 2021 (Supporting Da 5 Bloods)

79. Daniel Kaluuya

Actor | Get Out

Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor and writer. He is best known for Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018) and for portraying Fred Hampton in Judas & The Black Messiah (2021).

He had a supporting role in Sicario (2015).

He also starred in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits".

For his work in...

1/2 Won in 2021 (Supporting Judas and the black messiah) Nominated in 2018 (Leading Get out)

80. 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 ...

1/2 Won in 2022 (Leading King Richard) Nominated in 2007 (Leading The pursuit of happyness)

81. Sam Elliott

Actor | A Star Is Born

Tall, thin, wiry Sam Elliott is the classic picture of the American cowboy. Elliott began his acting career on the stage and his film debut was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Although his future wife, Katharine Ross co-starred in the film, the two did not meet until they filmed The ...

1/2 Won in 2023 (TV movie/Limited series 1883) Nominated in 2019 (Supporting A star is born)

82. Steven Yeun

Actor | Minari

Steven Yeun was born in Seoul, South Korea, to June and Je Yeun. His family first immigrated to Canada and stayed there for one year, and then moved to the U.S. He has a brother named Brian. He began acting while at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI, where he studied Psychology as a major (BS in ...

1/2 Won in 2024 (TV movies/Limited Series Beef) Nominated in 2021 (Leading Minari)

83. Martin Landau

Actor | Ed Wood

Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...

1/1 Won in 1995 (Supporting Ed Wood)

84. Raul Julia

Actor | Street Fighter

Raul Julia was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Olga Arcelay, a mezzo-soprano singer, and Raúl Juliá, an electrical engineer. He graduated from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan. Here he studied the rigorous classical curriculum of the Jesuits and was always active ...

1/1 Won in 1995 (TV movies/Miniseries The burning season)

85. Alan Rickman

Actor | Die Hard

Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...

1/1 Won in 1997 (TV movies/Miniseries Rasputin)

86. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

1/1 Won in 1998 (Supporting Good Will Hunting)

87. Roberto Benigni

Actor | La vita è bella

Roberto Benigni was born on October 27, 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Tiger and the Snow (2005) and Down by Law (1986). He has been married to Nicoletta Braschi since December 26, 1991.

1/1 Won in 1999 (Leading La vita è bella)

88. Christopher Reeve

Actor | Superman

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City, to journalist Barbara Johnson (née Barbara Pitney Lamb) and writer/professor F.D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve). He came from an upper-class family; his paternal grandfather was CEO of Prudential Financial, and one of his ...

1/1 Won in 1999 (TV movies/Miniseries Rear window)

89. Michael Caine

Actor | The Dark Knight

Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...

1/1 Won in 2000 (Supporting The cider house rules)

90. Brian Dennehy

Actor | First Blood

Imposing, barrel-chested and often silver-haired Brian Dennehy was a prolific US actor, well respected on both screen and stage over many decades. He was born in July 1938 in Bridgeport, CT, and attended Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship. Brian majored in history, ...

1/1 Won in 2001 (TV movies/Miniseries Death of a Salesman)

91. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

1/1 Won in 2003 (Supporting Catch me if you can)

92. Jerry Orbach

Actor | Law & Order

Jerry Orbach was born in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Leon Orbach, a former vaudevillian actor, was a German Jewish immigrant, who was born in Hamburg, Germany, and Emily (nee Olexy), a radio singer, was born in Pennsylvania to immigrant Polish-Lithuanian Roman Catholic parents, Alexander...

1/1 Won in 2005 (Drama Series Law & Order)

93. Eddie Murphy

Actor | The Nutty Professor

Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...

1/1 Won in 2007 (Supporting Dreamgirls)

94. Christoph Waltz

Actor | Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...

1/1 Won in 2010 (Supporting Inglorious basterds)

95. Jean Dujardin

Actor | The Artist

In 1995 he began his first one man show, the same year he met Bruno Salomone, Eric Collado, Emmanuel Joucla and Eric Massot with whom he created the "Nous Ç Nous". In 1999, he became "Loulou" in Un gars, une fille (1999). This part permitted him to show his talent to a larger public. Since the end ...

1/1 Won in 2012 (Leading The Artist)

96. 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 ...

1/1 Won in 2013 (TV movies/Miniseries Hatfields & McCoys)

97. J.K. Simmons

Actor | Whiplash

J.K. Simmons is an American actor.

He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).

He had ...

1/1 Won in 2015 (Supporting Whiplash)

98. Alexander Skarsgård

Actor | The Legend of Tarzan

Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Valter Skarsgård. For most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in Europe but had not yet ...

1/1 Won in 2018 (TV movies/Miniseries Big Little Lies)

99. Darren Criss

Actor | Little White Lie

Darren Criss was born on February 5, 1987 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Little White Lie (2009), Glee (2009) and A Very Potter Musical (2009). He has been married to Mia Swier since February 16, 2019. They have one child.

1/1 Won in 2019 (TV Movies/Miniseries American Crime Story: The assassination of Gianni Versace)

100. Troy Kotsur

Actor | CODA

Troy Kotsur has been acting and directing for over 20 years. Deaf since birth, he was raised in Mesa, AZ. In his career he has had critically acclaimed performances in major films, a lead role in the Broadway run of a Tony Award-winning play, and numerous memorable roles on Television.

Troy has ...

1/1 Won in 2022 (Supporting CODA)