My Favourite Actors

1. Harvey Keitel

American actor and producer Harvey Keitel was born on May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Miriam (Klein) and Harry Keitel. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists (...

2. Tim Roth

Actor | Rob Roy

Often mistaken for an American because of his skill at imitating accents, actor Tim Roth was born Timothy Simon Roth on May 14, 1961 in Lambeth, London, England. His mother, Ann, was a teacher and landscape painter. His father, Ernie, was a journalist who had changed the family name from "Smith" to ...

3. Chris Penn

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Christopher Shannon Penn was born on October 10, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, the third son of actress Eileen Ryan (née Annucci) and director, actor, and writer Leo Penn. His siblings are musician Michael Penn and actor Sean Penn. His father was from a Lithuanian Jewish/Russian Jewish family, ...

4. 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...

5. Lawrence Tierney

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Legendary Hollywood "tough guy", on screen and off. Remembered as the title character in Dillinger (1945) and as the consummately brutal lover of Claire Trevor in Born to Kill (1947). Notorious for his frequent, well-publicized barroom brawls and the like, including being stabbed in 1973. In his ...

6. Michael Madsen

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Michael Madsen is an enigmatic force in the entertainment industry, widely regarded as one of the most intense and compelling actors of our time. With an electrifying presence both on and off the screen, Madsen has captivated audiences worldwide with his mesmerizing performances, making an ...

7. Edward Bunker

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Edward Bunker was born on December 31, 1933 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Reservoir Dogs (1992), Runaway Train (1985) and The Longest Yard (2005). He was married to Jennifer Steele. He died on July 19, 2005 in Burbank, California, USA.

8. Quentin Tarantino

Writer | Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.

In January of...

9. Randy Brooks

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Randy Brooks was born on January 30, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Reservoir Dogs (1992), Colors (1988) and Assassination (1987).

10. Kirk Baltz

Actor | Snowfall

A working actor since the late 1980s, Kirk Baltz is perhaps most famous for playing the part of Marvin Nash, the tortured police officer in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992). To prepare for the role, Baltz asked co-star Michael Madsen to drive him around in the trunk of Madsen's car.

Baltz ...

11. Steven Wright

Actor | Natural Born Killers

Steven Wright was born on December 6, 1955 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Natural Born Killers (1994), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) and Reservoir Dogs (1992).

12. John Travolta

Actor | Pulp Fiction

John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...

13. Bruce Willis

Actor | Die Hard

Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.

Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...

14. Ving Rhames

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Strikingly featured and muscular American actor Ving Rhames was born Irving Rameses Rhames in Harlem, New York, to Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. A good student, Ving entered the New York High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting. He studied ...

15. Eric Stoltz

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Eric Hamilton Stoltz is a theater-trained actor and producer who has starred in both independent and studio films. He was born on September 30, 1961 in Whittier, California, to Evelyn Vawter, a violinist and schoolteacher, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher. He has English, German and ...

16. 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...

17. Phil LaMarr

Actor | Pulp Fiction

A Los Angeles native, Phil is a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School, Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of Mad TV (1995) and as Marvin in Pulp Fiction (1994).

In addition to numerous appearances on stages across the country, in ...

18. Peter Greene

Actor | The Mask

Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1965. He discovered acting in his mid 20s in New York, where he was trained at Lee Strasberg's studio. Then his deep voiced, tall and pale persona showed up on TV and films in 1990. His first leading roles were in Laws of Gravity (1992) and Clean, Shaven (1993), the...

19. Duane Whitaker

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Duane Whitaker, a native of Lubbock Texas, has spent the last 30 years as one of Hollywood's most entertaining hyphenates. As an actor, Whitaker is most recognized as Maynard, the sadistic pawn shop owner, in Pulp Fiction. Of course, you don't walk onto the set of a ground breaking film like Pulp ...

20. Paul Calderon

Actor | King of New York

Paul Calderon was born in 1959 in Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for King of New York (1990), Four Rooms (1995) and Pulp Fiction (1994). He has been married to Catherine E Salsich since 1986. They have two children.

21. Frank Whaley

Actor | Broken Arrow

Frank Whaley is a critically acclaimed actor/writer/director. He is best known for the films Pulp Fiction (1994) and Swimming with Sharks (1994), and has worked with Oliver Stone multiple times. His feature directorial debut, Joe the King (1999), earned him the Waldo Salt Screenwriting prize at the...

22. Burr Steers

Director | Igby Goes Down

Burr Steers was born on October 8, 1965 in the USA. He is a director and actor, known for Igby Goes Down (2002), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016).

23. Stephen Hibbert

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Stephen Hibbert was born on September 19, 1960 in Fleetwood, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and The Cat in the Hat (2003). He was previously married to Alicia Agos and Julia Sweeney.

24. Sean Bean

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

Sean Bean's career since the eighties spans theatre, radio, television and movies. Bean was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to Rita (Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. He worked for his father's welding firm before he decided to become an actor. He attended RADA in London and appeared in a ...

My Favourite Actors

1. Harvey Keitel

2. Tim Roth

3. Chris Penn

4. Steve Buscemi

5. Lawrence Tierney

6. Michael Madsen

7. Edward Bunker

8. Quentin Tarantino

9. Randy Brooks

10. Kirk Baltz

11. Steven Wright

12. John Travolta

13. Bruce Willis

14. Ving Rhames

15. Eric Stoltz

16. Christopher Walken

17. Phil LaMarr

18. Peter Greene

19. Duane Whitaker

20. Paul Calderon

21. Frank Whaley

22. Burr Steers

23. Stephen Hibbert

24. Sean Bean

25. Richard Madden

26. Kit Harington

27. Isaac Hempstead Wright

28. Art Parkinson

29. Kristian Nairn

30. Thomas Brodie-Sangster

31. Steve Blount

32. John Stahl

33. Donald Sumpter

34. Ron Donachie

35. Jamie Sives

36. Clive Mantle

37. Charles Dance

38. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

39. Peter Dinklage

40. Ian Gelder

41. Eugene Simon

42. Jerome Flynn

43. Daniel Portman

44. Ian Whyte

45. Andy Kellegher

46. Karl Davies

47. Fintan McKeown

48. Harry Lloyd

49. Iain Glen

50. Jason Momoa

51. Ian McElhinney

52. Michiel Huisman

53. Jacob Anderson

54. Steven Cole

55. Elyes Gabel

56. Mark Addy

57. Jack Gleeson

58. Gethin Anthony

59. Dean-Charles Chapman

60. Stephen Dillane

61. Liam Cunningham

62. Lucian Msamati

63. Kerr Logan

64. Patrick Malahide

65. Alfie Allen

66. Pilou Asbæk

67. Michael Feast

68. Ralph Ineson

69. Forbes KB

70. Tobias Menzies

71. Clive Russell

72. Roger Ashton-Griffiths

73. Finn Jones

74. James Faulkner

75. Tom Hooper

76. Alexander Siddig

77. Pedro Pascal

78. Toby Sebastian

79. Deobia Oparei