Actors

by shape5 | created - 25 Mar 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | Public

1. 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 ...

American Psycho, Hostiles, Shaft, The Machinist, The Fighter, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Public Enemies, Swing Kids, The Prestige, Vice, The New World, Reign of Fire, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Terminator Salvation, Equilibrium, Knight of Cups, Ford v Ferrari, Empire of the Sun

2. Gary Oldman

Actor | The Dark Knight

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), ...

Immortal Beloved, Léon: The Professional, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Darkest Hour, JFK, Hannibal, True Romance, Lawless, Air Force One, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Fifth Element, Red Riding Hood, Harry Potter, Hannibal, Murder in the First, The Book of Eli, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Lost in Space, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

3. 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 ...

Red Eye, Inception, Anna, Dunkirk, In the Heart of the Sea, 28 Days Later, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Anthropoid, Transcendence, A Quiet Place Part II, Peaky Blinders (TV)

4. 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:...

Enemy at the Gates, Road to Perdition, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sherlock Holmes, Hugo, The Aviator, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Gattaca, Side Effects, Contagion, Black Sea, Fantastic Beasts, Existenz, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Young Pope (TV)

5. Hugo Weaving

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria, to English parents Anne (Lennard), a tour guide and teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. Hugo has an older brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna, who both also live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the ...

The Matrix, V For Vendetta, Mortal Engines, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Captain America, Cloud Atlas, Hacksaw Ridge

6. 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 ...

Saving Private Ryan, Sully, Bridge of Spies, Greyhound, Cast Away, Forrest Gump, The Man with One Red Shoe, Catch Me If You Can, Cloud Atlas, The Green Mile, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Road to Perdition, Apollo 13, The Terminal, The Da Vinci Code, The Post, The Ladykillers, The 'Burbs, The Money Pit, Nothing in Common, Turner & Hooch, Big, Bachelor Party, Volunteers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Mazes and Monsters, Tales from the Crypt (TV), Band of Brothers (TV)

7. 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 ...

The Thin Red Line, King Kong, The Village, Dummy, The Jacket, The Grand Budapest Hotel, See How They Run, The Singing Detective, New York Stories, Peaky Blinders (TV)

8. Harrison Ford

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...

Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Frantic, The Fugitive, What Lies Beneath, Air Force One, Jack Ryan (film series), Witness, Presumed Innocent, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now

9. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

James Bond, The Untouchables, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Just Cause, Finding Forrester, The Hunt for Red October, Entrapment, The Rock, Time Bandits, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Murder on the Orient Express, Highlander, The Avengers (1998)

10. 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 ...

Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man, Chaplin, Less Than Zero, Weird Science, Tuff Turf, The Pick-up Artist, Back to School, Soapdish, Natural Born Killers, Black and White, Bowfinger, In Dreams, Zodiac, Tropic Thunder, Due Date, Doolittle, The Singing Detective, The Gingerbread Man, A Scanner Darkly, The Avengers, Saturday Night Live (TV)

11. 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,...

Titanic, Catch Me If You Can, Shutter Island, Inception, Aviator, Gangs of New York, The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

12. 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: ...

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Truman Show, Bruce Almighty, Me Myself & Irene, The Cable Guy, Yes Man, Liar Liar, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Man on the Moon, Once Bitten, Batman Forever, The Number 23, Kick-Ass 2, Just Kidding (TV), Saturday Night Live (TV), The Office (TV)

13. 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 ...

The Green Mile, Choke, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Seven Psychopaths, See How They Run, Iron Man 2, Moon, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Charlie's Angels, Vice, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Poltergeist (2015)

14. 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 ...

Trading Places, Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hrs., The Golden Child, Bowfinger, The Nutty Professor, The Distinguished Gentleman, Boomerang, Metro, The Haunted Mansion, Meet Dave, Saturday Night Live (TV)

15. 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 ...

Fight Club, Primal Fear, Rounders, The Illusionist, American History X, Birdman, The Bourne Legacy, The Incredible Hulk, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The 25th Hour, Kingdom of Heaven

16. 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 ...

Pan, The Prestige, The Front Runner, The Fountain, Reminiscence, X-Men, Real Steel, Deadpool 2

17. 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 ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Finding Neverland, Secret Window, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Blow, Chocolat, Sleepy Hollow, Public Enemies, Pirates of the Caribbean, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, Mortdecai, Transcendence, Dark Shadows, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Alice in Wonderland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Murder on the Orient Express, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Ninth Gate, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Before Night Falls, Benny & Joon, From Hell

18. Dustin Hoffman

Actor | Tootsie

Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...

Marathon Man, Rain Man, Sleepers, The Graduate, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Finding Neverland, Mad City, The Lost City, Meet the Fockers, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Stranger than Fiction, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Outbreak, Sphere, Papillon

19. Kevin Spacey

Actor | L.A. Confidential

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...

Swimming with Sharks, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Horrible Bosses, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Se7en, 21, Shrink, Superman Returns, Outbreak, L.A. Confidential

20. 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 ...

Gangs of New York, The Last of the Mohicans, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln

21. Gérard Depardieu

Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac

Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, to Anne Jeanne Josèphe (Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, who was a metal worker and fireman. Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Café de la Gare", along ...

Green Card, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, The Count of Monte Cristo, 102 Dalmatians, Life of Pi

22. William Hurt

Actor | A History of Violence

William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...

Altered States, Vantage Point, A History of Violence, The Village, Dark City, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Race, Mr. Brooks, Body Heat, Too Big to Fail, Changing Lanes, Black Widow, The Avengers, Captain America, Robin Hood (2010), Lost in Space, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Incredible Hulk (2008), Nightmares and Dreamscapes (TV)

23. James Earl Jones

Actor | Rogue One

Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...

Star Wars, Jack Ryan (film series), Coming to America, Field of Dreams, Matewan, The Man, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Dr. Strangelove, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, Soul Man, Conan the Barbarian

24. 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 ...

The Manchurian Candidate, American Gangster, The Hurricane, Malcolm X, The Great Debaters, Glory, Flight, The Mighty Quinn, Deja Vu, The Magnificent Seven, The Book of Eli, The Equalizer, Out of Time, He Got Game, The Taking of Pelham 123, Unstoppable

25. 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 ...

Happiness, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Mission: Impossible III, State and Main, The Big Lebowski, Patch Adams, 25th Hour

26. 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 ...

Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, X-Men, The Wolverine, The Golden Compass, Cats, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Holmes, The Da Vinci Code, The Keep, Gods and Monsters, Six Degrees of Separation

27. 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, ...

The Shawshank Redemption, Dark Waters, Jacob’s Ladder, War of the Worlds, Code 46, VHYes, Cadillac Man, High Fidelity, Mission to Mars, The Hudsucker Proxy, Bull Durham, Top Gun, Amazing Stories (TV, 1986)

28. 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 ...

The Mauritanian, The Courier, 1917, The Imitation Game, The Current War, The Fifth Estate, Doctor Strange, Avengers, 12 Years a Slave, Sherlock (TV)

29. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...

Man with No Name Trilogy (Dollars Trilogy), Unforgiven, Hang 'Em High, Tightrope, Escape from Alcatraz, Pale Rider, In the Line of Fire, Absolute Power, The Mule, Dirty Harry

30. Max von Sydow

Actor | Flash Gordon

Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.

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The Exorcist, The Quiller Memorandum, Shutter Island, Three Days of the Condor, Dune, Flash Gordon, Never Say Never Again, Dreamscape, Voyage of the Damned, Awakenings, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Robin Hood (2010), Death Watch, What Dreams May Come, Citizen X, Minority Report, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Game of Thrones (TV)

31. Rowan Atkinson

Actor | Johnny English

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on 6 January, 1955, in Consett, Co. Durham, UK, to Ella May (Bainbridge) and Eric Atkinson. His father owned a farm, where Rowan grew up with his two older brothers, Rupert and Rodney. He attended Newcastle University and Oxford University where he earned degrees ...

Bean, Johnny English, The Witches, Never Say Never Again, Mr. Bean (TV)

32. 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, ...

The Silence of the Lambs, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Meet Joe Black, Fracture, Chaplin, Instinct, Mission: Impossible 2, The Edge, Proof, Transformers: The Last Knight, The World's Fastest Indian, Westworld (TV)

33. John Cleese

Actor | A Fish Called Wanda

John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he ...

Monty Python, Time Bandits, A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It, Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough, Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV), Fawlty Towers (TV), Doctor Who (TV, 1979)

34. 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...

The Shawshank Redemption, Glory, Se7en, Unforgiven, Dreamcatcher, Now You See Me, Lucy, The Power of One, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Hard Rain, RED, London Has Fallen, War of the Worlds, Transcendence, Oblivion, Lucky Number Slevin, Wanted, Outbreak, Deep Impact, Bruce Almighty, Ted 2, The Twilight Zone (TV, 1985)

35. 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 ...

X-Men, Inglourious Basterds, Assassin's Creed, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Steve Jobs, 300, The Counselor, Haywire, Frank, Band of Brothers (TV)

36. Willem Dafoe

Actor | Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...

The Lighthouse, Shadow of the Vampire, Animal Factory, The Last Temptation of Christ, Faraway So Close!, Murder on the Orient Express (2017), To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Aviator, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Aquaman, John Wick, The Boondock Saints, Daybreakers, Mr. Bean's Holiday, American Psycho, Clear and Present Danger, Spider-Man, Existenz, Born on the Fourth of July, The Hitchhiker (TV, 1986)

37. 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),...

Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, The Insider, American Gangster, The Nice Guys, Robin Hood (2010), Unhinged, The Man with the Iron Fists, The Loudest Voice (TV)

38. 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 ...

Interstellar, The Wolf of Wall Street, Free State of Jones, Reign of Fire, The Dark Tower, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, U-571, Mud, Dazed and Confused, Tropic Thunder

39. 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 ...

The Shining, Batman, Wolf, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Departed, As Good as It Gets, A Few Good Men, Mars Attacks!, Hoffa, The Terror, The Raven

40. Laurence Fishburne

Actor | The Matrix

Critically hailed for his forceful, militant, authoritative figures and one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile performers, Laurence (John) Fishburne III has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a number of NAACP Image honors.

Born in Augusta, Georgia on July 30, 1961, to Hattie ...

Boyz n the Hood, The Matrix, Event Horizon, Welcome to Hollywood, Apocalypse Now, Contagion, Mission: Impossible III, The Tuskegee Airmen, Just Cause, The Mule, Passengers, 21, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Predators, John Wick, Quicksilver, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Miami Vice (TV)

41. 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 ...

High Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank, The Thin Red Line, Love & Mercy, Being John Malkovich, 1408, Pushing Tin, 2012, The Raven, Blood Money, The Frozen Ground, Stand By Me, Better Off Dead, Say Anything..., Sixteen Candles, Arsenal, The Factory, Distorted, Maps to the Stars, Reclaim, Hot Tub Time Machine

42. 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 ...

Love & Mercy, The Illusionist, Parkland, Man on the Moon, Too Big to Fail, River of Fundament, Straight Outta Compton, San Andreas, I Think We're Alone Now, Morgan, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, Sideways, The Hangover Part II, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Private Parts, Jungle Cruise

43. Ian Holm

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

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...

Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Alien, The Aviator, Time Bandits, The Day After Tomorrow, Brazil, Lord of War, The Fifth Element, eXistenZ, From Hell

44. Alec Baldwin

Actor | The Departed

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 ...

Malice, The Departed, The Hunt for Red October, The Edge, The Shadow, State and Main, Beetlejuice, The Aviator, Mission: Impossible, Fun with Dick and Jane, BlacKkKlansman, A Star Is Born, Framing John DeLorean, Saturday Night Live (TV)

45. 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 ...

Good Will Hunting, Insomnia, Mrs. Doubtfire, One Hour Photo, What Dreams May Come, Good Morning Vietnam, Patch Adams, Dead Poets Society, Fathers' Day, Night at the Museum, The Birdcage, The Final Cut, Awakenings, Cadillac Man, Shrink

46. Gene Hackman

Actor | The French Connection

Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...

Unforgiven, Wyatt Earp, The Quick and the Dead, The Birdcage, Riot, The Split, Enemy of the State, The Firm, Superman, Absolute Power, The Royal Tenenbaums, Heartbreakers, Young Frankenstein, The Conversation, The French Connection

47. Guy Pearce

Actor | Memento

Guy Edward Pearce was born October 5, 1967 in Cambridgeshire, England, UK to Margaret Anne and Stuart Graham Pearce. His father was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to English and Scottish parents, while Guy's mother is English. Pearce and his family initially traveled to Australia for two years, ...

Memento, First Snow, Lawless, Equals, Alien: Covenant, Iron Man 3, The Time Machine, The Count of Monte Cristo, Prometheus

48. Matt Damon

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, The Martian, Elysium, The Bourne Identity, Interstellar, Contagion, The Informant!, The Last Duel, The Departed, Rounders, Ocean's Eleven, The Rainmaker, Ford v Ferrari

49. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

Harry Potter, 1984, Hellboy, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Snowpiercer, The Osterman Weekend, Midnight Express, Hercules, V for Vendetta, Alien, History of the World Part I, Doctor Who (TV, 2013)

50. Dennis Haysbert

Actor | Far from Heaven

Dennis Haysbert was born on June 2, 1954 in San Mateo, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Far from Heaven (2002), 24 (2001) and Heat (1995). He was previously married to Lynn Griffith and Elena Simms.

Far from Heaven, The Dark Tower, Major League, LUV, The Thirteenth Floor, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Absolute Power, Ted 2

51. Christopher Lee

Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...

Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Ten Little Indians, The Man with the Golden Gun, House of the Long Shadows, Season of the Witch, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1941, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Hugo, Star Wars, Time Bandits, The Mummy (1959), Dark Shadows, Sleepy Hollow, The Golden Compass, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Oblong Box, The Gorgon, Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The Skull, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV), Space: 1999 (TV)

52. 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...

Respect, The Crying Game, Vantage Point, The Great Debators, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Black Panther, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Arrival, Platoon, Phone Booth, Panic Room, Species, Stakeout, The Enemy Within, The Color of Money, Good Morning Vietnam, Amazing Stories (TV, 1986)

53. 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 ...

Whiplash, The Ladykillers, Spider-Man, The Front Runner, First Snow, La La Land, Burn After Reading, The Accountant, Justice League, Jobs, Thank You for Smoking, Terminator Genisys

54. Colin Farrell

Actor | The Lobster

Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.

Farrell was born on ...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Phone Booth, Minority Report, Horrible Bosses, Widows, Fright Night, Total Recall, Seven Psychopaths, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The New World, Miami Vice (2006), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Batman (2022)

55. Ryan Reynolds

Actor | Deadpool 2

Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. ...

The Amityville Horror (2005), Buried, Deadpool, Smokin' Aces, The Nines, R.I.P.D., The Captive, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Outer Limits (TV, 1995)

56. 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...

Falling Down, Fatal Attraction, Traffic, The Game, Ant-Man, A Perfect Murder, Black Rain, Unlocked, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, Romancing the Stone

57. 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).

...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Usual Suspects, Sicario, The Way of the Gun, Traffic, The Hunted, Sin City, Inherent Vice, Swimming with Sharks, Snatch, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Avengers: Infinity War

58. Peter Cushing

Actor | Star Wars

Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was ...

Cash on Demand, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Uncanny, Horror of Dracula, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Horror Express, The Skull, The Mummy (1959), Scream and Scream Again, Star Wars, Hammer House of Horror (TV)

59. 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 ...

Dreamscape, Knives Out, Malcolm X, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Somewhere in Time, Triple Cross, The Insider, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dolores Claiborne, Wolf, The Return of the Pink Panther, A Beautiful Mind, The New World, 12 Monkeys, Starcrash

60. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

From Dusk till Dawn, Ocean's Trilogy, Burn After Reading, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Tomorrowland, The Perfect Storm, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Spy Kids

61. Tom Hardy

Actor | Inception

With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...

Lawless, Inception, Venom, RocknRolla, Dunkirk, Capone, Legend, Locke, The Dark Knight Rises, Black Hawk Down, Layer Cake, Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Peaky Blinders (TV), Taboo (TV), Band of Brothers (TV)

62. Liev Schreiber

Actor | Spotlight

Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). His mother is from a working-class Jewish family from Poland and ...

The Manchurian Candidate, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Daytrippers, Spotlight, Taking Woodstock, The Omen (2006), Salt, Defiance, Phantoms, Sphere, The Hurricane

63. Jesse Eisenberg

Actor | The Social Network

Curly haired and with a fast-talking voice, Jesse Eisenberg is a movie actor, known for his Academy Award nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network. He has also starred in the films The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Education of Charlie Banks, 30 Minutes or ...

The Social Network, The Double, The Art of Self-Defense, Vivarium, Louder Than Bombs, Now You See Me, Zombieland, Justice League, The Village

64. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

Changing Lanes, The Sunset Limited, Pulp Fiction, Shaft, 1408, Coming to America, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Unbreakable Trilogy, The Great White Hype, Jumper, Basic, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, The Avengers, Iron Man, Kong: Skull Island, Sphere, Do the Right Thing, The Exorcist III, The Legend of Tarzan, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Patriot Games, Star Wars, True Romance, Menace II Society, Juice, Hard Eight, Jurassic Park, Goodfellas

65. John Turturro

Actor | Fading Gigolo

Highly talented, lightly built American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles.

Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian-American parents, Katherine (...

Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Do the Right Thing, Transformers, Secret Window, Two Thousand and None, Fear X, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Monday Night Mayhem, The Big Lebowski, The Taking of Pelham 123, Miller's Crossing, He Got Game, Rounders, To Live and Die in L.A., The Color of Money, The Batman (2022), The Night Of (TV), Miami Vice (TV)

66. 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 ...

Jagged Edge, Tron, Fearless, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Tideland, Only the Brave, R.I.P.D., How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Bad Times at the El Royale, 8 Million Ways to Die, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Vanishing, The Only Living Boy in New York, The Big Lebowski, Iron Man, King Kong (1976)

67. Jeffrey Wright

Actor | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Born and raised in Washington DC, Jeffrey Wright graduated from Amherst College in 1987. Although he studied Political Science while at Amherst, Wright left the school with a love for acting. Shortly after graduating he won an acting scholarship to NYU, but dropped out after only two months to ...

Presumed Innocent, Shaft, O.G., Source Code, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Manchurian Candidate, Only Lovers Left Alive, James Bond, The Batman (2022), Westworld (TV)

68. Cary Grant

Actor | North by Northwest

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...

Charade, Indiscreet, The Awful Truth, Houseboat, Walk Don't Run, Monkey Business, Notorious, Suspicion,

69. Bradley Cooper

Actor | A Star Is Born

Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...

American Sniper, Limitless, Burnt, War Dogs, The Place Beyond the Pines, The A-Team, The Hangover, A Star Is Born, Case 39, The Mule, Wedding Crashers, Yes Man, Changing Lanes, Limitless (TV)

70. 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 ...

War Dogs, The Wolf of Wall Street, Superbad, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Strange Wilderness, Maniac (TV)

71. Ewan McGregor

Actor | Moulin Rouge!

Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...

Christopher Robin, Doctor Sleep, Trainspotting, Beauty and the Beast, Big Fish, American Pastoral, The Island, Haywire, Nightwatch, The Ghost Writer, Angels & Demons, Mortdecai, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Star Wars, Black Hawk Down, Tales from the Crypt (TV)

72. Ron Perlman

Actor | Hand of God

Ron Perlman is a classically-trained actor who has appeared in countless stage plays, feature films and television productions.

Ronald N. Perlman was born April 13, 1950 in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. His mother, Dorothy (Rosen), is retired from the City Clerk's Office. His father, ...

Enemy at the Gates, The City of Lost Children, Sleepwalkers, Season of the Witch, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Drive, Pacific Rim, Moonwalkers, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Cronos, Alien Resurrection, Hellboy, The Outer Limits (TV, 1998), Miami Vice (TV)

73. 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 ...

Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading, Shadow of the Vampire, In the Line of Fire, Alive, RED, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Johnny English, Unlocked, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ripley's Game, Art School Confidential, Rounders, Extremely Wicked Shockingly Evil and Vile, The New Pope (TV)

74. Andrew McCarthy

Director | Orange Is the New Black

Andrew McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, until he was 15, when his family moved to Bernardsville. He attended the Pingry School, a prep school, where he performed in plays and musicals and played basketball. At 18, he went to New York University as a theatre major and wound up as the lead ...

Less Than Zero, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Amazing Stories (TV, 1986), Tales from the Crypt (TV)

75. Viggo Mortensen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.

Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...

The Lord of the Rings, A Perfect Murder, Witness, Falling, A History of Violence, Vanishing Point, Miami Vice (TV)

76. 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 ...

Enemy of the State, Six Degrees of Separation, Hitch, Focus, The Pursuit of Happyness, Independence Day, Seven Pounds, Men in Black, I Robot

77. Bruce Spence

Actor | Mad Max 2

Bruce Spence was born on September 17, 1945 in New Zealand. When he was growing up in Henderson, just out of Auckland, the last thing he ever expected to be was an actor. Bruce's family were winemakers, and he worked in the family winery from a very tender age, later attending Henderson High School...

Mad Max, Dark City, The Matrix Revolutions, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Winchester, I Frankenstein, Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, Nightmares & Dreamscapes (TV)

78. 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...

Horrible Bosses, Dodgeball, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Identity Thief, Smokin' Aces, Thunder Force, Starsky and Hutch, The Kingdom, Arrested Development (TV), The Outsider (TV), Knight Rider (TV, 1984)

79. Tom Cruise

Actor | Top Gun

In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...

Risky Business, Mission: Impossible, Interview with the Vampire, The Color of Money, Born on the Fourth of July, Valkyrie, Collateral, Oblivion, Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher, War of the Worlds, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Tropic Thunder, Rain Man, The Outsiders, Legend, Top Gun, Cocktail, Days of Thunder

80. Michael Clarke Duncan

Actor | The Green Mile

Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago's South Side by his single mother, Jean, a house cleaner, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, but his mother wouldn't let ...

The Green Mile, The Whole Nine Yards, Armageddon, Sin City, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, The Players Club, Friday, The Island

81. Chris Farley

Actor | Tommy Boy

Christopher Crosby Farley was born on February 15, 1964, in Madison, Wisconsin, to Mary Anne (Crosby) and Thomas Farley, who owned an oil company. Among his siblings are actors Kevin P. Farley and John Farley. He was of Irish heritage. Farley studied theatre and communications on Marquette ...

Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Beverly Hills Ninja, Saturday Night Live (TV)

82. 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,...

12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, Four Rooms, RED, Unbreakable Trilogy, Looper, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, Armageddon, Lucky Number Slevin, Grindhouse: Planet Terror, The Whole Nine Yards, Die Hard, The Twilight Zone (TV, 1985), Miami Vice (TV)

83. Corey Feldman

Actor | Stand by Me

Corey Scott Feldman began his career at the age of three, starring in a Clio Award-winning McDonald's commercial and has sustained a career for nearly 50 years as a steadily working actor, with more than 80 films under his belt. Corey began his career in guest-starring roles on television series ...

Stand by Me, Gremlins, The 'Burbs, The Lost Boys, The Goonies, Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys, Tales from the Crypt (TV)

84. Elijah Wood

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

Elijah Wood is an American actor best known for portraying Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In addition to reprising the role in The Hobbit series, Wood also played Ryan in the FX television comedy Wilfred (2011) and voiced Beck in the Disney XD animated ...

The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Back to the Future Part II, Deep Impact

85. 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...

The Thin Red Line, Natural Born Killers, White Men Can't Jump, Semi-Pro, Indecent Proposal, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Defendor, Now You See Me, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Venom, Zombieland, 2012, A Scanner Darkly

86. Charlie Sheen

Actor | Two and a Half Men

Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, in New York City. His father, actor Martin Sheen (born Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez), was at the time just breaking into the business, with performances on Broadway. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art ...

Platoon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Wraith, Wall Street, Young Guns, Major League, Scary Movie, Being John Malkovich, Machete Kills, Due Date, Amazing Stories (TV, 1986)

87. 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, ...

Fracture, Blade Runner 2049, The Notebook, Drive, First Man, Gangster Squad, La La Land, Murder by Numbers, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Nice Guys

88. Kurt Russell

Actor | Escape from New York

Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...

Breakdown, Unlawful Entry, Forrest Gump, Crypto, The Hateful Eight, Death Proof, Vanilla Sky, Poseidon, The Thing, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Fast and the Furious, Escape from New York, Tombstone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV), Lost In Space (TV)

89. Aaron Eckhart

Actor | The Dark Knight

Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior ...

The Dark Knight, I Frankenstein, Thank You for Smoking, London Has Fallen, Sully, Battle: Los Angeles

90. Bruce Lee

Actor | Jing wu men

Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream North American and ...

Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury, The Big Boss, Game of Death, Batman (TV, 1967)

91. Patrick McGoohan

Actor | The Prisoner

Born in America, and raised in Ireland and England, actor Patrick McGoohan rose to become the number-one British TV star in the 1950s to 1960s era. His parents moved to Ireland when he was very young and McGoohan acquired a neutral accent that sounds at home in British or American dialogue. He was ...

Scanners, All Night Long, Escape from Alcatraz, Danger Man (TV, 1960)

92. Rufus Sewell

Actor | Dark City

Rufus Sewell was born on the 29th of October 1967 in Twickenham, England. His mother, Jo, was Welsh, and was an artist and painter. His father, Bill Sewell, was an English-Australian animator who was born in Australia to English parents and died when Rufus was 10. He has one brother, Caspar. He ...

Old, The Illusionist, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Dark City, The Pale Horse (TV)

93. 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). ...

Harry Potter, Die Hard, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

94. John Candy

Actor | Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells but Candy always rebounded.

Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in ...

National Lampoon's Vacation, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Canadian Bacon, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, Cool Runnings, JFK, Volunteers, 1941

95. Bruce Campbell

Actor | Bubba Ho-Tep

In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead (1981), in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling ...

The Evil Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, Intruder, Icebreaker, Running Time, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Escape from L.A., Ash vs Evil Dead (TV)

96. 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...

Spotlight, Night Shift, Johnny Dangerously, The Founder, Birdman, Beetlejuice, Batman (1989)

97. Steve Martin

Writer | Roxanne

Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. In 1960, he got a job at the Magic ...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Spanish Prisoner, Bowfinger, The Pink Panther (2006), The Jerk, Leap of Faith, Three Amigos, The Man with Two Brains, Little Shop of Horrors, Roxanne

98. Matthew Broderick

Actor | The Producers

A slight comic actor chiefly known for his boyish charm, Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962 in New York City, to Patricia Broderick (née Biow), a playwright and painter, and James Broderick, an actor. His father had Irish and English ancestry, and his mother was from a Jewish family (from...

Glory, WarGames, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Cable Guy

99. Jason Lee

Actor | Almost Famous

Born in Santa Ana, California in 1970, Jason Lee is an American film photographer, actor, producer, and director. Well known for having been a professional skateboarder during skateboarding's very pivotal late 80s and early 90s, Lee would go on to pursue acting in 1993, working in film, television,...

Mallrats, Enemy of the State, Heartbreakers, Vanilla Sky, Dreamcatcher, Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, My Name Is Earl (TV)

100. Don Johnson

Actor | Miami Vice

Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...

Guilty as Sin, Dragged Across Concrete, Knives Out, Django Unchained, Machete, Watchmen (TV), Miami Vice (TV), Tales of the Unexpected (TV)



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