Actors and Actresses I Cannot Work With
by Elledge_J | created - 10 months ago | updated - 1 month ago | PublicRegrettably or otherwise—
1. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
Notable Works:
Hopper [A Bug’s Life]
Theodore ‘Hickey’ Hickman [The Iceman Cometh]
Jack Vincennes [L.A. Confidential]
Lester Burnham [American Beauty]
Context: Predatory Behavior & Sexual Abuse History
2. Jeffrey Jones
Actor | Amadeus
Jeffrey Duncan Jones was born in Buffalo, New York. He is a very tall, fair-haired character actor who is recognized all over for his excellent work. He is a veteran stage actor having such plays as "The Elephant Man" and Neil Simon's "London Suite" under his belt. His first film role was in The ...
Notable Works:
Emperor Joseph II [Amadeus]
Edward R. Rooney [Ferris Bueller’s Day Off]
Charles Deetz [Beetlejuice]
Reverend Steenwyck [Sleepy Hollow]
Context: Pedophilia Conviction
3. Armie Hammer
Actor | Call Me by Your Name
Armand Douglas Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Dru Ann (Mobley) and Michael Armand Hammer, a businessman. His great-grandfather, Armand Hammer, was a prominent tycoon and philanthropist who ran the company Occidental Petroleum for many decades. Armie's ancestry includes ...
Notable Works:
Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss [The Social Network]
Prince Alcott [Mirror Mirror]
Oliver [Call Me By Your Name]
Simon Doyle [Death On the Nile]
Context: Sexually Abusive/ Predatory Cannibalistic Behavior
4. Michael Richards
Actor | Seinfeld
Immortalized as Cosmo Kramer on the classic sitcom Seinfeld (1989), West Coast comedy star Michael Richards was born on July 24, 1949, and raised in South Los Angeles, California, to Phyllis (Nardozzi), an Italian-American medical records librarian, and William Richards, an electrical engineer. ...
Notable Works:
Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
Fejos (Transylvania 6-5000)
Stanley Spadowski (UHF)
Martin Beck (Problem Child)
Context: Racist Behavior
5. Ashton Kutcher
Actor | That '70s Show
Christopher Ashton Kutcher was born on February 7, 1978 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Diane (Finnegan), who was employed at Procter & Gamble, and Larry Kutcher, a factory worker. He has a fraternal twin brother, Michael, and a sister, Tausha. He is of Czech (father) and Irish, German, and Czech (mother...
Notable Works:
Elliot (Open Season)
Steve Jobs (Jobs)
Michael Kelso (That 70s Show)
Walden Schmidt (Two and a Half Men)
Context: Protection of rapist
6. Mila Kunis
Actress | Black Swan
Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis is a Ukrainian-American actress born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991. ...
Notable Works:
Lily (Black Swan)
Lori (Ted)
Audrey (The Spy Who Dumped Me)
Amy (Bad Moms 1 & 2)
Context: Protection of rapist
7. 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...
Notable Works:
James Lort (Honey Boy)
Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan (Fury)
Tyler (The Peanut Butter Falcon)
Sean Carson (Pieces Of A Woman)
Context: Abusive Behavior and Alleged Sexual Abuse
8. Jared Leto
Actor | Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
Notable Works:
Albert Sparma (The Little Things)
Alistair Crump/ The Hatbox Ghost (Haunted Mansion)
Rayon (Dallas Buyers Club)
Paolo Gucci (House of Gucci)
Context: Alleged Sexual Abuse & Misconduct
9. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
Notable Works:
Ebenezer Scrooge [The Muppet Christmas Carol]
Alfred Pennyworth [The Dark Knight Trilogy]
Lawrence Jamieson [Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]
Sir Michael Crosby [Tenet]
Context: Retirement
10. 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, ...
Notable Works:
Captain James Hook (Hook)
Michael Dorsey/ Dorothy Michaels (Tootsie)
Charles Frohman (Finding Neverland)
Harold Meyerowitz (The Meyerowitz Stories)
Context: Abusive Behavior and Alleged Sexual Harassment
11. Bill Murray
Actor | Lost in Translation
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...
Notable Works:
Bob Harris (Lost In Translation)
Phil Connors (Groundhog Day)
Raleigh St. Clair (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Richard Campbell (The Monuments Men)
Context: Alleged Sexual Abuse & Misconduct
12. Mel Gibson
Actor | Braveheart
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...
Notable Works:
Rocky Rhodes (Chicken Run)
Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
Graham Hess (Signs)
Kurt Mayron (Daddy’s Home 2)
Context: Alt-Right Views and Abusive Behavior
13. Michael J. Fox
Actor | Back to the Future
Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
Notable Works:
Marty McFly (Back to the Future Franchise)
Dwight (Rescue Me)
Milo James Thatch (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
Frank Bannister (The Frighteners)
Context: Retirement
14. Cuba Gooding Jr.
Actor | Jerry Maguire
Cuba Gooding Jr. was born on January 2, 1968, in The Bronx, New York. His mother, Shirley (Sullivan), was a backup singer for The Sweethearts. His father, Cuba Gooding, was the lead vocalist for the R&B group The Main Ingredient, which had a hit with the song "Everybody Plays The Fool". His ...
Notable Works:
O.J. Simpson (American Crime Story)
Rod Tidwell (Jerry Maguire)
Buck (Home On the Range)
Owen Templeton (Rat Race)
Context: Alleged Sexual Abuse
15. Jonathan Majors
Actor | The Harder They Fall
Jonathan graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in acting. Jonathan is a recipient of the National Society of Arts and Letters (NSAL) National Drama Competition. Jonathan made his screen debut starring in the ABC miniseries "When We Rise" and has since landed strong roles, cementing ...
Notable Works:
Kang the Conqueror (Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania)
Montgomery Allen (The Last Black Man in San Francisco)
Jesse Brown (Devotion)
David (Da 5 Bloods)
Context: Assault Conviction
16. Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress | Shakespeare in Love
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...
Notable Works:
Margot Tennenbaum (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Viola De Lesseps (Shakespeare In Love)
Pepper Potts (MCU Phase 1-3)
Emma Woodhouse (Emma)
Context: Pseudoscientific Practices
17. 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 ...
Notable Works:
Teddy Duchamp (Stand By Me)
Clark ‘Mouth’ Devereaux (The Goonies)
Tommy Jarvis (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning)
Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 3)
Context: Scummy behavior and awful music
18. James Marsden
Actor | Hairspray
James Paul Marsden, or better known as just James Marsden, was born on September 18, 1973, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Kathleen (Scholz) and James Luther Marsden. His father, a distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences & Industry at Kansas State University, and his mother, a nutritionist, divorced...
Notable Works:
Prince Edward [Enchanted]
Corny Collins [Hairspray]
Himself [Jury Duty]
Scott Summers/ Cyclops [X-Men Franchise]
Context: Support of Brian Peck
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