Actors Discovered
by mrbilal_hadrous | created - 18 Jun 2018 | updated - 23 Mar 2023 | PublicAll of the great Movie actors i have been discovering. They are in alpahebtical order, but only from the beginning. Some great actors may not be included because i haven't seen any of their works yet. But someday it will change. Enjoy!
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 ...
Movies Watched:
American Psycho (2000)
Equilibrium (2002)
The Machinist (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
3:10 To Yuma (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Fighter (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
American Hustle (2013)
The Big Short (2015)
2. Marlon Brando
Actor | Apocalypse Now
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...
Movies Watched:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
3. Josh Brolin
Actor | Avengers: Endgame
Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. He has played roles as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United States.
Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, to Jane Cameron (Agee), a Texas-born wildlife activist,...
Movies Watched:
American Gangster (2007)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
True Grit (2010)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Everest (2015)
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...
Movies Watched:
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Death Of Stalin (2017)
5. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Dressed To Kill (1980)
Batman Begins (2005)
Children Of Men (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Harry Brown (2009)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Now You See Me (2013)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
Dunkirk (2017)
Tenet (2020)
6. 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: ...
Movies Watched:
The Truman Show (1998)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
7. Don Cheadle
Actor | Crash
Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. His childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye (née North), a teacher; father Donald Frank Cheadle Sr., a clinical psychologist; sister Cindy; and brother Colin. After graduating from high...
Movies Watched:
Boogie Nights (1997)
Traffic (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Crash (2004)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Flight (2012)
8. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Gravity (2013)
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 ...
Movies Watched:
The Untouchables (1987)
10. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Movies Watched:
The Untochables (1987)
A Perfect World (1993)
Man Of Steel (2013)
11. Daniel Craig
Actor | Casino Royale
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born ...
Movies Watched:
Road To Perdition (2002)
Munchen (2005)
Logan Lucky (2017)
12. 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),...
Movies Watched:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Gladiator (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
3:10 To Yuma (2007)
American Gangster (2007)
Body Of Lies (2008)
The Next Three Days (2010)
Les Misérables (2012)
The Nice Guys (2016)
13. 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. ...
Movies Watched:
Legend (1985)
Rain Man (1988)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
Minority Report (2002)
Collateral (2004)
Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)
14. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
American Psycho (2000)
Spider-Man (2002)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Inside Man (2006)
15. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Departed (2006)
True Grit (2010)
Elysium (2013)
The Martian (2015)
16. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Gangs Of New York (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Lincoln (2012)
17. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Mean Streets (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The King Of Comedy (1982)
The Untouchables (1987)
Midnight Run (1988)
Goodfellas (1990)
Awakenings (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Casino (1995)
Heat (1995)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Everybody's Fine (2009)
18. 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,...
Movies Watched:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Titanic (1997)
The Beach (2000)
Gangs Of New York (2002)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
The Aviator (2004)
The Departed (2006)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Body Of Lies (2008)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Shutter Island (2010)
Inception (2010)
J. Edgar (2011)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
19. 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...
Movies Watched:
The Game (1997)
Traffic (2000)
20. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
Movies Watched:
Movies Watched:
Bullitt (1968)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
21. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Zodiac (2007)
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2011)
22. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
A Perfect World (1993)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
American Sniper (2014)
23. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Megamind (2010)
24. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Schindler's List (1993)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
25. 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, ...
Movies Watched:
American Graffiti (1973)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Fugitive (1993)
Ender's Game (2013)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
26. 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...
Movies Watched:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Se7en (1995)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
The Bucket List (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Now You See Me (2013)
27. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
The Truman Show (1998)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Sideways (2004)
The Illusionist (2006)
28. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Braveheart (1995)
29. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Movies Watched:
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Flight (2012)
30. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor | Inception
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and ...
Movies Watched:
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
31. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Big (1988)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
The Green Mile (1999)
Road To Perdition (2002)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
The Terminal (2004)
The Polar Express (2004)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Sully (2016)
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019)
32. 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, ...
Movies Watched:
Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
Rain Man (1988)
Hook (1991)
Finding Neverland (2004)
33. 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, ...
Movies Watched:
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Dracula (1992)
Legends Of The Fall (1994)
Fracture (2007)
Thor (2011)
34. Djimon Hounsou
Actor | Blood Diamond
Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in west Africa to Albertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He moved to Lyon, France, when he was 13. Hounsou has graced the catwalks of Paris and London as a popular male model. He has since left his modeling career and has worked on Gladiator (2000) by ...
Movies Watched:
Gladiator (2000)
Blood Diamond (2006)
35. 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), ...
Movies Watched:
Goodfellas (1990)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Unbreakable (2000)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Iron Man (2008)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Django Unchained (2012)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
36. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
Movies Watched:
The Fugitive (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Lincoln (2012)
37. Harvey Keitel
Actor | Reservoir Dogs
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 (...
Movies Watched:
Mean Streets (1973)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
38. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
39. William H. Macy
Actor | Fargo
William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the ...
Movies Watched:
Fargo (1996)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Room (2015)
40. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Captain Fantastic (2016)
41. 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, ...
Movies Watched:
Ghostbusters (1984)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Lost In Translation (2003)
Zombieland (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
42. Liam Neeson
Actor | Kinsey
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...
Movies Watched:
Schindler's List (1993)
Gangs Of New York (2002)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Next Three Days (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Silence (2016)
43. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Batman (1989)
A Few Good Men (1992)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
About Schmidt (2002)
The Departed (2006)
The Bucket List (2007)
44. Nick Nolte
Actor | Warrior
Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska and began his career on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse and in regional theatre productions. His breakthrough role was in the TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), playing the role of "Tom/Tommy Jordache". Nick Nolte said that when he played a young man in ...
Movies Watched:
Cape Fear (1991)
Warrior (2011)
45. Gary Oldman
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Movies Watched:
Dracula (1992)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
A Christmas Carol (2009)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Mank (2020)
46. Clive Owen
Actor | Children of Men
British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting ...
The Bourne Identity (2002) Inside Man (2006) Children Of Men (2006)
47. 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)...
Movies Watched:
Serpico (1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Scarface (1983)
Scent Of A Woman (1992)
Heat (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Insomnia (2002)
48. 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, ...
Movies Watched:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Memento (2000)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
49. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
The Game (1997)
21 Grams (2003)
Mystic River (2003)
50. Joe Pesci
Actor | Goodfellas
Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....
Movies Watched:
Goodfellas (1990)
Home Alone (1990)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Casino (1995)
51. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Legends Of The Fall (1994)
Se7en (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Fight Club (1999)
Snatch (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Babel (2006)
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Megamind (2010)
Moneyball (2011)
World War Z (2013)
12 Years A Slave (2013)
The Big Short (2015)
52. 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, ...
Movies Watched:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Mystic River (2003)
53. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
54. 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...
Movies Watched:
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Se7en (1995)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
American Beauty (1999)
Moon (2009)
55. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Malcolm X (1992)
Inside Man (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
Flight (2012)
56. James Whitmore
Actor | The Shawshank Redemption
Born on October 1, 1921, in White Plains, New York, gruff veteran character actor James Whitmore earned early and widespread respect with his award-winning dramatic capabilities on Broadway and in films. He would later conquer TV with the same trophy-winning results.
The son of James Allen Whitmore ...
Movies Watched:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
57. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Awakenings (1990)
The Fisher King (1991)
Hook (1991)
Aladdin (1992)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Jumanji (1995)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Insomnia (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
World's Greatest Dad (2009)
58. 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,...
Movies Watched:
Die Hard (1988)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Unbreakable (2000)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Split (2016)
59. Ray Winstone
Actor | The Departed
Ray Winstone was born on February 19, 1957, in Hackney Hospital in London, England, to Margaret (Richardson) and Raymond J. Winstone. He moved to Enfield, at age seven, where his parents had a fruit and vegetable business. He started boxing at the age of twelve at the famous Repton Amateur Boxing ...
Movies Watched:
The Departed (2006)
Rango (2011)
Hugo (2011)
60. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Donnie Darko (2001)
Jarhead (2005)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Zodiac (2007)
Source Code (2011)
End Of Watch (2012)
Prisoners (2013)
Enemy (2013)
Everest (2015)
61. Danny Glover
Actor | Lethal Weapon
Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 35 years.
Glover was born in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover, postal workers who were also active in civil rights. Glover trained at the Black ...
Movies Watched:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Saw (2004)
62. 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...
Movies Watched:
Natural Born Killers (1994)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Seven Pounds (2008)
Zombieland (2009)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Now You See Me (2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
63. Wes Bentley
Actor | American Beauty
Wes Bentley is an American actor who first became well-known via his role in the Oscar-winning film American Beauty (1999), in which he played the soulful, artistic next-door neighbor Ricky Fitts. He also portrayed game-maker Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012), and co-stars in Lovelace (2013) ...
Movies Watched:
American Beauty (1999)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Interstellar (2014)
64. Stanley Tucci
Actor | Big Night
Actor Stanley Tucci was born on November 11, 1960, in Peekskill, New York. He is the son of Joan (Tropiano), a writer, and Stanley Tucci, an art teacher. His family is Italian-American, with origins in Calabria.
Tucci took an interest in acting while in high school, and went on to attend the State ...
Movies Watched:
Road To Perdition (2002)
The Terminal (2004)
Easy A (2010)
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Spotlight (2015)
65. Ed Harris
Actor | Appaloosa
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...
Movies Watched:
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Truman Show (1998)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Gravity (2013)
66. Philip Baker Hall
Actor | Magnolia
Philip Baker Hall was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Berdene (McDonald) and William Alexander Hall, a factory worker who was originally from Montgomery, Alabama. He did not start acting until he was 30 years old. Known to film fans for his turn as Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's one-man show film Secret...
Movies Watched:
Midnight Run (1988)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Truman Show (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
67. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Groundhog Day (1993)
8 Mile (2002)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Take Shelter (2011)
Mud (2012)
Man Of Steel (2013)
Loving (2016)
The Shape Of Water (2017)
68. Nicolas Cage
Actor | Face/Off
Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...
Movies Watched:
Lord Of War (2005)
Kick-Ass (2010)
69. Mark Strong
Actor | 1917
British actor Mark Strong, who played Jim Prideaux in the 2011 remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), is often cast as cold, calculating villains. But before he became a famous actor, he intended to pursue a career in law.
Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in London, England, to an ...
Movies Watched:
Sunshine (2007)
Body Of Lies (2008)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Kick-Ass (2010)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
70. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
71. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
The Matrix (1999)
Mystic River (2003)
Man Of Steel (2013)
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
72. Ice Cube
Soundtrack | Friday
Ice Cube was born in South Central Los Angeles, to Doris (Benjamin), a custodian and hospital clerk, and Hosea Jackson, a UCLA groundskeeper. He first came to public notice as a singer and songwriter with the controversial and influential band N.W.A. His compositions with that group included many ...
Movies Watched:
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
73. Dane DeHaan
Actor | Chronicle
Dane DeHaan recently wrapped production on Amazon Studio's international cocaine drama Zero Zero Zero, in which he stars.
On the silver screen DeHaan was last seen as Billy the Kid in The Kid opposite Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt. He played the title character in Luc Besson's Valerian and The City of...
Movies Watched:
Chronicle (2012)
74. Michael B. Jordan
Actor | Black Panther
Michael B. Jordan, the middle of three children, was born in Santa Ana, California and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He is the son of Donna (Davis), a high school counselor, and Michael A. Jordan. His middle name, Bakari, means "noble promise" in Swahili. (He is not related to, or named after, ...
Movies Watched:
Chronicle (2012)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
75. Josh Hutcherson
Actor | The Hunger Games
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born on October 12, 1992 in Union, Kentucky to Michelle Fightmaster, who worked for Delta Air Lines, and Chris Hutcherson, an EPA analyst. He has one younger brother, Connor Hutcherson. From the age of four, Josh knew that he wanted to be an actor. In order to pursue his ...
Movies Watched:
Bridge To Terabithia (2007)
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
76. Liam Hemsworth
Actor | The Hunger Games
Liam Hemsworth was born on January 13, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia, and is the younger brother of actors Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth. He is the son of Leonie (van Os), a teacher of English, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. He is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...
Movies Watched:
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
77. Donald Sutherland
Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.
Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint ...
Movies Watched:
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
78. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Inside Man (2006)
Up (2009)
79. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Actor | 12 Years a Slave
English actor, writer and director Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things...
Movies Watched:
Serenity (2005)
Inside Man (2006)
Children Of Men (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
12 Years A Slave (2013)
The Martian (2015)
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind (2019)
80. 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...
Movies Watched:
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Batman Returns (1992)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
81. Martin Sheen
Actor | The Departed
Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. Moving flawlessly between artistic mediums, Sheen's acting range is striking.
Sheen was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estevez in Dayton, Ohio, to Mary-Ann (Phelan), an Irish ...
Movies Watched:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
The Departed (2006)
82. Thomas Haden Church
Actor | Sideways
Thomas Haden Church was born Thomas Richard McMillen in Yolo, California, to Maxine (Sanders) and Carlos Richard McMillen, who was a U.S. marine and surveyor. He was raised in Texas. His mother remarried George Quesada, a widowed WWII veteran who served in Guam, in 1969. He adopted this surname ...
Movies Watched:
Tombstone (1993)
Sideways (2004)
Easy A (2010)
12 Years A Slave (2013)
83. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Equilibrium (2002)
The Martian (2015)
84. William Fichtner
Actor | Crash
A small-town guy with a big heart, William Fichtner has been captivating the hearts of Western New Yorkers for decades. Bill was born in 1956 on Long Island, New York, to Patricia A. (Steitz) and William E. Fichtner. He is of German, Irish, and English descent.
Fichtner was raised in Cheektowaga, ...
Movies Watched:
Equilibrium (2002)
The Dark Knight (2008)
85. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
Movies Watched:
Never Let Me Go (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
Silence (2016)
86. Billy Bob Thornton
Actor | Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased). He is the older brother of James Donald (Jimmy Don) (born in ...
Movies Watched:
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
87. Michael Badalucco
Actor | Léon
Michael Badalucco, a Brooklyn native, got his start in the entertainment industry at a very young age, going to work with his father Giuseppe, a Sicilian-born immigrant, who worked as a carpenter on movie sets. In 1963, during the filming of Fail Safe starring Henry Fonda, a photo of a young boy ...
Movies Watched.
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
88. James Gandolfini
Actor | The Sopranos
James Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey, to Santa (Penna), a high school lunchlady, and James Joseph Gandolfini, Sr., a bricklayer and head school janitor. His parents were both of Italian origin. Gandolfini began acting in the New York theater. His Broadway debut was in the 1992 revival ...
Movies Watched:
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
The Drop (2014)
89. Tom Wilkinson
Actor | Michael Clayton
Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, ...
Movies Watched:
Sense And Sensibility (1995)
Shakespeare In Love (1998)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
90. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
Movies Watched:
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
Collateral (2004)
Zodiac (2007)
Shutter Island (2010)
Now You See Me (2013)
Foxcatcher (2014)
Spotlight (2015)
91. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
92. David Cross
Actor | Arrested Development
David Cross is an American actor, writer and comedian who is known for playing Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development, Minion from Megamind, Crane from Kung Fu Panda, Ian Hawke from Alvin and the Chipmunks, Yivo from Futurama and Happy Time Harry from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He also acted in Grand ...
Movies Watched:
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
Megamind (2010)
93. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
Movies Watched:
The Adventurer (1917)
A Dog's Life (1918)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
94. Henry Thomas
Actor | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had a lead role in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in films ...
Movies Watched:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Legends Of The Fall (1994)
95. Danny DeVito
Actor | Matilda
Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. ...
Movies Watched:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Batman Returns (1992)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
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...
Movies Watched:
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Birdman (2014)
Spotlight (2015)
97. Chris Tucker
Actor | Rush Hour 2
At one point in time, Chris Tucker was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.
Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Louise (Bryant) and Norris Tucker, who owned a janitorial service. After graduating from high school, Tucker made a change to move to Hollywood from Georgia to pursue a career in ...
Movies Watched:
The Fifth Element (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
98. 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 ...
Movies Watched:
North By Northwest (1959)
99. James Mason
Actor | Lolita
James Mason was born in Huddersfield and had a film career spanning over 50 years during which he appeared in over 100 films in England and America but never won an Oscar. Whatever role he played, from the wounded Belfast gunman in Odd Man Out to Rommel in The Desert Fox, his creamy velvet voice ...
Movies Watched:
North By Northwest (1959)
Lolita (1962)
100. Mark Wahlberg
Producer | The Fighter
American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...
Movies Watched:
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Departed (2006)
The Fighter (2010)
Tell Your Friends