Best Actors
by ilias_vanhoutte | created - 06 Feb 2014 | updated - 09 Apr 2020 | PublicStarting approximatley in the 1970's This list is based on personal opinion, succes (awards & nominations) and the roles the actors played.
1. 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 ...
Good movies:
There Will Be Blood
Lincoln
My Left Foot
Gangs of New York
The Last of the Mohicans
In the Name of The Father
Oscars: 3
Oscar Nominations: 5
2. 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 ...
Good movies:
The Departed
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Batman
Easy Rider
Chinatown
A Few Good Men
As Good as It Gets
About Schmidt
Oscars: 3
Oscar Nominations: 12
3. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
Good movies:
Goodfellas
The Deer Hunter
The Mission
Casino
The Godfather: Part 2
Silver Linings Playbook
Meet The Parents
Heat
Taxi Driver
Cape Fear
Once Upon a Time in America
The Untouchables
Raging Bull
Ronin
Mean streets
Oscars: 2
Oscar Nominations: 7
4. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 3
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 5
BAFTA Nominations: 3
Good movies:
The Master
Walk in the Line
Quills
Gladiator
Her
Inherent Vice
Ladder 49
Buffalo Soldiers
Signs
5. John Malkovich
Actor | Being John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...
Good movies:
In the Line of Fire
Being John Malkovich
Empire of the Sun
Johnny English
Burn After Reading
Dangerous Liaisons
Red 1&2
Oscar Nominations: 2
6. Jonah Hill
Actor | 21 Jump Street
Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 2
GG Nominations: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Good movies:
21 jumpstreet
The wolf of wall street
Superbad
The Sitter
The Watch
This is the End
Get Him to the Creek
Moneyball
7. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
GG Nominations: 2
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
Nightcrawler
Brokeback Mountain
Prisoners
Southpaw
Enemy
Zodiac
Donnie Darko
Source Code
Jarhead
8. 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 ...
9. 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 ...
Good movies:
Twelve Monkeys
Fightclub
Mr & Mss Smith
Legends of the fall
World War Z
Moneyball
Inglourious Bastards
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Fury
Babel
Burn After Reading
Snatch
Ocean's Eleven
Se7en
Seven Years in Tibet
Thelma & Louise
Oscars: (1)
Oscar Nominations: 3+1
10. 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,...
Good movies:
Catch Me If You Can
Gangs of New York
The Departed
Shutter Island
Blood Diamond
Inception
Django Unchained
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Beach
The Aviator
Titanic
Basketball Diary's
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Revenant
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 5+1 for producing
11. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 4
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 4
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 5
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1
Good movies:
Doubt
Synecdoche, New York
Capote
The Master
Charlie Wilson's War
The Ides of March
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Mission Impossible 3
12. 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. ...
Good movies:
Pirates of the caribbean
The king's speech
Shakespear in Love
La migliore offerta
Quills
Les Misérables
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 4
13. 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...
Good movies:
Inglorious Bastards (made him famous)
Django Unchained
Spectre
Oscars: 2
Oscar Nominations: 2
14. 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)...
Good movies:
Serpico
The Godfather Part 1&2
And Justice for All
Scarface
Sea of Love
Scent of a Women
Heat
Insomnia
Dog Day Afternoon
Carlito's Way
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 8
15. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
Awards & Nominations:
GG Nominations: 1
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 3
Good movies:
The Last King of Scotland
Trance
Wanted
Filth
X: First Class
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Split
16. Steve Carell
Actor | The Office
Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 7
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 6
Good movies:
Foxcather
Anchorman 1&2
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Dinner For Schmucks
Get Smart
Evan Almighty
Little Miss Sunshine
Dan in Real Life
The Office (serie)
17. 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, ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
GG Nominations: 4
Good movies:
Drive
The Ides of March
The Place Beyond the Pines
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Fracture
Blue Valentine
18. John C. Reilly
Actor | Chicago
Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years, from seedy ne'er-do-wells, to lovable, good-natured schlepps.
The fifth of six ...
Good movies:
Carnage
Cyrus
Step Brothers
The Promotion
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Boogie Nights
Gangs of New-York
The Aviator
The Perfect Storm
Magnolia
We Need to Talk About Kevin
19. 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 ...
Good movies:
Interstellar
The Wolf of Wall Street
Dallas Buyers Club
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mud
Surfer, Dude
True Detective (serie)
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 1
20. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
Good movies:
The silence of the lambs
Hannibal
Red Dragon
The elephant man
Nixon
Fracture
Bad company
The mask of Zoro
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 4
21. Ralph Fiennes
Actor | The Constant Gardener
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...
Good movies:
Harry Potter
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Shindler's List
Skyfall
Red Dragon
The English Patient
Spectre
The Constant Gardner
Strange Days
Oscar Nominations: 2
22. Shia LaBeouf
Actor | Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf's natural talent and raw energy have secured his place as one of Hollywood's leading men.
Most recently, LaBeouf starred alongside Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn in Kornel Mundruczo's Oscar® nominated Pieces of a Woman. In the critically acclaimed film, a grieving couple (Kirby/LaBeouf...
Good movies:
Transformers
Fury
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & II
Lawless
Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps
Disturbia
Eagle Eye
American honey
23. Michael Shannon
Actor | Take Shelter
Michael Corbett Shannon was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Geraldine Hine, a lawyer, and Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University. His grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon.
Shannon began his professional stage career in Chicago. His ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
Good movies:
Take shelter
The iceman
Revolutionary Road
8 Mile
99 Homes
Boardwalk Empire (serie)
24. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 2
Good movies:
The dark Knight
A Knight's Tale
Brokeback Mountain
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Patriot
Casanova
25. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 2
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
The Dark Knight
The Machinist
Empire of the Sun
The Prestige
American Psycho
The fighter
26. 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).
...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 1
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
Sin City
Traffic
21 Grams
Snatch
The Usual Suspects
Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas
Sicario
The Hunted
27. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 2
GG Nominations: 7
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 5
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3
Good movies:
The king's Speech
The Wings of the Dove
Fightclub
Alice in Wonderland
Sweeney Todd
Les Misérables
Harry Potter
28. 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...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 2
GG Nominations: 4
Primetime Emmy Award: 1
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 8
Good movies:
No Country for Old Men
Natural Born Killers
Surfer, Dude
Zombieland
Now You See Me
The Messenger
Semi-pro
The Hunger Games
True Detective (serie)
29. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
Awards & Nominations:
Golden Globes: 2
GG Nominations: 6
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Good movies:
Me,Myself and Irene
The Mask
Bruce Almighty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Truman Show
Dumb & Dumber
Ace ventura
Liar Liar
30. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 2
Oscar Nominations: 5
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 5
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
Mystic River
Milk
21 Grams
I Am Sam
Sweet and Lowdown
Dead Man Walking
Dogtown & Z-Boys
The Thin Red Line
31. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 3
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 2
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1
Good movies:
American History X
Fightclub
Birdman
The Illusionist
Primal Fear
Red Dragon
The Italian Job
32. 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...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 3
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 4
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 3
Good movies:
No Country for Old Men
Biutiful
Skyfall
Before Night Falls
Mar Adentro
33. Mads Mikkelsen
Actor | Hannibal
Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...
Awards & Nominations:
Cannes Film Festival: 1
Good movies:
Jagten
Casino royal
Hannibal (serie)
The salvation
Pusher
34. Jessica Lange
Actress | Tootsie
Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 2
Oscar Nominations: 6
Golden Globes: 5
GG Nominations: 15
Primetime Emmy Award: 3
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 7
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Good movies:
Tootsie
Frances
Blue Sky
King Kong
Cape Fear
Rob Roy
American Horror Story (serie)
35. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 2
Oscar Nominations: 7
Good movies:
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Elizabeth
The Aviator
Blue Jasmine
Notes on Scandal
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Lord of the Rings 1,2&3
The Hobbit 1,2&3
Robin Hood
Babel
36. John Goodman
Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane
John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...
Awards & Nominations:
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 5
Primetime Emmy Award: 1
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 11
Good movies:
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski
Argo
Inside Llewyn Davis
37. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 3
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 2
Good movies:
127 Hours
Pineapple Express
This is the End
The Interview
Spiderman
Oz the Great and Powerful
38. 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 ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 3
GG Nominations: 5
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1
Good movies:
Due date
Sherlock Holmes
Natural Born Killers
Chaplin
Tropic Thunder
Iron Man 1, 2 & 3
The Avengers
Zodiac
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
39. Zach Galifianakis
Actor | The Hangover
Zach Galifianakis was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to Mary Frances (Cashion), who owned a community arts center, and Harry Galifianakis, a heating oil vendor. His father is of Greek descent and his mother is of mostly English and Scottish ancestry. Zach moved to New York City after failing ...
Awards & Nominations:
Primetime Emmy Award: 2
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 4
Good movies:
The Hangover
Due Date
Birdman
The Campaign
Visioneers
40. Jude Law
Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 2
GG Nominations: 3
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
Sherlock Holmes 1&2
Enemy at the Gates
Cold Mountains
Black sea
Aritficial Intelligence
Repo Men
Dom Hemingway
41. 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...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 1
Good movies:
The Experiment
The Last King of Scotland
Platoon
Southpaw
The Butler
Bird
42. Will Ferrell
Producer | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student ...
Awards & Nominations:
GG Nominations: 2
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 3
Good movies
Anchorman 1&2
Stepbrothers
Talladega nights
Blades of glory
The other guys
Get hard
Stranger Than Fiction
Elf
43. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orléans, France, she ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 3
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
The Dark Knight Rises
Midnight in Paris
Inception
La Môme
De Rouille et d'os
Macbeth
44. 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...
Awards & Nominations:
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 4
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 6
Good movies:
Fargo
Reservoir Dogs
The Big Lebowksi
45. 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...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 2
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 2
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 2
Good movies:
Ray
Collateral
Django Unchained
Law Abiding Citizen
The Kingdom
Miami Vice
46. Adrien Brody
Actor | The Pianist
Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscars: 1
Oscar Nominations: 1
GG Nominations: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Primetime Emmy Nominations: 1
Good movies:
The Experiment
The Pianist
Predators
High School
King Kong
The Thin Red Line
47. Mickey Rourke
Actor | Sin City
Mickey Rourke was born Phillip Andre Rourke, Jr. on September 16, 1952, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Annette Elizabeth (Cameron) and Philip Andre Rourke. His father was of Irish and German descent, and his mother was of mostly English and French-Canadian ancestry. When he was six years old,...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
Golden Globes: 1
GG Nominations: 1
BAFTA Awards: 1
BAFTA Nominations: 1
Good movies:
The Wrestler
Sin City 1&2
The Expendables
Man on Fire
Double Team
Rumble Fish
48. Rooney Mara
Actress | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...
Awards & Nominations:
Oscar Nominations: 1
GG Nominations: 1
Cannes FF: 1
Good movies:
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Social Network
Her
Carol
49. Ben Foster
Actor | Hell or High Water
Ben Foster was born October 29, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Gillian Kirwan and Steven Foster, restaurant owners. His younger brother is actor Jon Foster. His paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families that immigrated to Massachusetts (his grandfather became a prominent judge in ...
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50. Danny McBride
Actor | Pineapple Express
Daniel Richard McBride is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He starred in the HBO television series Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, also co-creating the former two with frequent collaborator Jody Hill while creating the latter himself. He has ...
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