TVLine's Performers of the Week
by steved739 | created - 15 Aug 2021 | updated - 1 day ago | PublicAdding both the actors that received the recognition and the honorable mentions.
Quick note - This list is sorted by an actor's most recent appearance, so if you see a date missing a winner or honorable mention, that would probably be because they received another mention later on.
Random facts:
- Grant Gustin and Claire Danes are tied for the most appearances on Performer of the Week, with 8 combined Performer of the Week and Honorable Mentions titles each. Sarah Paulson is in second place, with 7 combined Performer of Week and Honorable Mention titles each.
- 6 people are tied for having the most Performer of the Week titles (with 4): Freddie Highmore, Uzo Aduba, Bill Hader, Billie Piper, Julianna Margulies, and Christine Baranski.
- Stephen Amell has the most Honorable Mentions, with 6.
- 14 people on this list are deceased: Treat Williams, Lance Reddick, Andre Braugher, David McCallum, Ron Cephas Jones, Glenda Jackson, Leslie Jordan, Robert Morse, Louie Anderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Cicely Tyson, Diana Rigg, Miguel Ferrer, & Luke Perry.
- Quickest wait between appearances belongs to Kevin Chapman, who received an Honorable Mention for his work on Person of Interest a week after winning Performer of the Week for his work on Person of Interest. Harrison Ford has the second quickest wait, who received an Honorable Mention for his work on Shrinking two weeks after winning Performer of the Week for his work on 1923.
- Longest wait between appearances goes to Norman Reedus, who was named Performer of the Week for his work on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 10 years and 6 months after being named Performer of the Week for his work on The Walking Dead. Emma Stone has the second longest wait between appearances, having received an Honorable Mention for her work on The Curse 9 years and 8 months after receiving an Honorable Mention for her work on The Tonight Show.
- Youngest person to receive Performer of the Week is...whoever played the baby in Breaking Bad. I don't have her mentioned on this list because I don't know who played her.
- Apart from said baby, the only other "actor" not placed on the list is The Machine from Person of Interest.
- The current record for Most Actors to Receive Performer of the week is 12, when every cast member of The Boys (sans Dominique McElligott and Nathan Mitchell) won the title on 6/25/22 for their work on the episode "Herogasm".
- I could be wrong on this, but there are only 5 actors to receive a Performer of the Week mention for voice-acting a character; Jane Krakowski for her work on BoJack Horseman, Alan Tudyk for his work on Harley Quinn, Tara Strong for her work on Loki, Mae Whitman for her work on Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, and Devery Jacobs for her work on What If...?. This is my one complaint with the series; I really wish they would highlight the work that voice actors do more frequently. They're capable of delivering equally stellar performances while under different guidelines.
1. Richard Gadd
Actor | Baby Reindeer
Richard Gadd was born on May 11, 1990 in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Baby Reindeer (2024), Wedding Season (2022) and Against the Law (2017).
Winner - April 27, 2024
2. Tadanobu Asano
Actor | Mongol
Tadanobu Asano's a Japanese film actor. His father suggested he take on what became his first role in the TV show Kimpachi Sensei at 16. His film debut was Swimming Upstream (1990) though his first major critical success was in Shunji Iwai's La cuisine: Fried Dragon Fish (1993). His first critical ...
Honorable Mention - April 27, 2024
3. Jordan Calloway
Actor | Black Lightning
Jordan Calloway was born on October 18, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Black Lightning (2018), Riverdale (2017) and Countdown (2019).
Honorable Mention - April 27, 2024
4. Gary Cole
Actor | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Gary Michael Cole is an American television, film and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he has had starring roles in the TV series Midnight Caller, American Gothic, The West Wing, Crusade, The Good Wife, ...
Honorable Mention - April 27, 2024
5. Walton Goggins
Actor | Justified
Walton Goggins is an actor of considerable versatility and acclaim who has delivered provocative performances in a multitude of feature films and television series. He won a Critics' Choice Award for his performance in the HBO comedy series "Vice Principals" and landed an Emmy nomination for his ...
Winner - April 20, 2024 Honorable Mention - March 7, 2015 Honorable Mention - November 15, 2014
6. Ella Purnell
Actress | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ella Purnell was born in London, U.K. She is best known for her roles in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016), in BBC One's Ordeal By Innocence (2017) and Starz' Sweetbitter (2017), in which she plays the series lead role of Tess in the adaptation of Stephanie Danler's ...
Winner - April 20, 2024
7. Maya Rudolph
Actress | Bridesmaids
Maya Rudolph was born on July 27, 1972 in Gainesville, Florida, to Richard Rudolph, a music producer, and soul singer Minnie Riperton. Her mother was African-American and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Lithuania, Russia, Germany, and Hungary). In 1973, Maya, her parents, and her...
Honorable Mention - April 20, 2024 Honorable Mention - June 25, 2022 Honorable Mention - September 22, 2018 Honorable Mention - June 3, 2017
8. Rebecca Wisocky
Actress | Devious Maids
Rebecca Wisocky has performed in film, television and stage as of mid-'90s, but best-known for her role as socialite Evelyn Powell on Lifetime television comedy-drama Devious Maids (2013).
Wisocky has won Obie Award for her portrayal of Leni Riefenstahl in 'Amazons and Their Men'. She also performed...
Honorable Mention - April 20, 2024
9. Hiroyuki Sanada
Actor | Tasogare Seibei
Hiroyuki Sanada was born on October 12, 1960 in Tokyo. He made his film debut when he was 5 in Rokyoku komori-uta (1965) (Shin'ichi Chiba played the lead role.) His father died when he was 11. He joined Japan Action Club, organized & run by Sonny Chiba, when he was 12. He 1st became famous as an ...
Winner - April 13, 2024
10. Jerry Seinfeld
Producer | Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Betty (Hesney) and Kalman Seinfeld. His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent, while Jerry's maternal grandparents, Salha and Selim Hosni, were Syrian Jewish immigrants (from Aleppo). He moved with his family, including sister Carolyn, to ...
Honorable Mention - April 13, 2024
11. Anthony Boyle
Actor | Tolkien
Anthony Boyle is an actor and writer, known for The Lost City of Z (2016), Pillow Talk (2012) and Onus (2016). Though born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his formal training as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 2013. Graduating in 2016 (BA with ...
Honorable Mention - April 13, 2024
12. Katherine Renee Kane
Actress | FBI
Katherine Renee Kane was born on December 21, 1991. She is an actress, known for FBI (2018), Extra Ordinary (2016) and The Bag (2018). She is married to Jay Weiss. They have one child.
Honorable Mention - April 13, 2024
13. Domhnall Gleeson
Actor | Ex Machina
Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise (2010-2011), About Time (2013), Ex Machina (2015) and The Revenant (2015).
He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, alongside whom he has appeared in several films and ...
Winner - April 6, 2024 Honorable Mention - October 29, 2022
14. Sonja Sohn
Actress | Slam
Sonja Sohn was born on May 9, 1964 in Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Slam (1998), The Wire (2002) and Baltimore Rising (2017). She was previously married to Adam Plack.
Honorable Mention - April 6, 2024
15. Jaina Lee Ortiz
Actress | Girls Trip
Jaina Lee Ortiz was born Jessica Ortiz at Fort Ord army base in California and was raised in The Bronx, New York. The only child of first generation Puerto Rican parents, Ortiz spent her early years learning Salsa at a dance studio. What started out as a hobby, later turned into a profession and by...
Honorable Mention - April 6, 2024 Honorable Mention - April 9, 2022
16. Alan Tudyk
Actor | Rogue One
Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up in Plano, where he attended Plano Sr. High. In 1990, he went on to study drama at Lon Morris Jr. College. While there, he was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for Drama. He was also named Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beau. During this ...
Honorable Mention - April 6, 2024 Honorable Mention - September 17, 2022 Winner - March 13, 2021
17. Jay Hayden
Actor | Station 19
Jay Hayden was born as Jonathan Hayden. Hayden was born in Northfield, Vermont and is of mixed Korean and Irish ancestry. His first major role was in the 2011 horror film State of Emergency, playing the lead. In 2012, he went to star on the Hulu mockumentary comedy-drama series, Battleground.
Hayden...
Winner - March 30, 2024
18. Aisling Bea
Actress | This Way Up
Aisling Bea is an actor, stand-up comedian, and writer from Ireland. In 2020 she won a BAFTA for Breakthrough Talent for her television series This Way Up, in which she also starred. In 2014 she won the British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comedian. She trained at LAMDA (The London Academy for ...
Honorable Mention- March 30, 2024
19. Carla Gugino
Actress | Watchmen
Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist. She is of Italian (father) and English-Irish (mother) ancestry. Gugino moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But ...
Honorable Mention - March 30, 2024
20. Pollyanna McIntosh
Actress | The Walking Dead
Pollyanna McIntosh grew up in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her birthplace of Scotland, where she first began performing, on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. At 16, she left for London and soon became involved in indie filmmaking (her first paid gig was as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's ...
Honorable Mention - March 30, 2024 Honorable Mention - March 10, 2018
21. Anna Sawai
Actress | Ninja Assassin
Anna Sawai was born in New Zealand. She is an actress, known for Ninja Assassin (2009), F9: The Fast Saga (2021) and Pachinko (2022).
Winner - March 23, 2024
22. Renée Elise Goldsberry
Actress | Hamilton
Renee Goldsberry was born in San Jose, California, and raised in both Houston, Texas, and Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a bachelors degree in acting, and went on to attend graduate school at the University of Southern California, where she received her ...
Honorable Mention - March 23, 2024 Honorable Mention - May 15, 2021 Honorable Mention - December 7, 2019 Honorable Mention - February 24, 2018
23. Andrew Lincoln
Actor | The Walking Dead
Andrew Lincoln is a British actor. Lincoln spent his early childhood in Hull, Yorkshire before his family relocated to Bath, Somerset when he was age 10. He was educated at Beechen Cliff School in Bath, and then the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His father is a civil engineer...
Honorable Mention - March 23, 2024 Honorable Mention - February 27, 2016 Winner - March 28, 2015 Winner - November 9, 2012
24. 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, ...
Winner - March 16, 2024
25. Scarlett Johansson
Actress | Lost in Translation
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
Winner - March 16, 2024
26. Chyler Leigh
Actress | Not Another Teen Movie
Chyler is an actress and singer who currently stars opposite Andie MacDowell in THE WAY HOME for Hallmark. She is well-known for playing "Alex Danvers" in SUPERGIRL for six seasons and "Lexie Grey" in GREY'S ANATOMY. Chyler also reprised her role of "Alex Danvers" in THE FLASH and has been featured...
Honorable Mention - March 16, 2024 Honorable Mention - February 11, 2023 Honorable Mention - November 19, 2016 Honorable Mention - February 13, 2016
27. Tobias Menzies
Actor | Manhunt
Tobias was born in London. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1998 and began his acting career in popular UK series such as Foyle's War (2002), Midsomer Murders (1997), and Casualty (1986). He also appeared in the controversial drama A Very Social Secretary (2005). He is ...
Honorable Mention - March 16, 2024 Honorable Mention - April 16, 2016 Winner - September 20, 2014
28. Danai Gurira
Actress | Black Panther
Danai Gurira was born in Grinnell, Iowa, to Josephine and Roger Gurira, who were from Zimbabwe. Her father was then teaching Chemistry at Grinnell College. When she was five, the family moved back to Zimbabwe, residing in the capital Harare. Gurira later returned to the United States, and studied ...
Winner - March 9, 2024 Winner - March 28, 2020 Honorable Mention - March 23, 2019 Honorable Mention - February 27, 2016 Honorable Mention - March 9, 2013
29. Juliette Binoche
Actress | The English Patient
Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, France, to Monique Yvette Stalens, a director, teacher, and actress, and Jean-Marie Binoche, a sculptor, director, and actor. Her mother was born in Czestochowa, Poland, of French, Walloon Belgian, and Polish descent, while her father is French. Juliette was only...
Honorable Mention - March 9, 2024
30. Andie MacDowell
Actress | Groundhog Day
Andie MacDowell was born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina, to Pauline Johnston (Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive. She was enrolled at Winthrop College located in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Initially discovered by a ...
Honorable Mention - March 9, 2024
31. Edi Patterson
Actress | The Righteous Gemstones
Edi grew up in Texas and lives in Los Angeles. She is a Groundlings Main Company member, and regularly performs there in improv and sketch comedy shows. She is also a member of improvisational theatre company Impro Theatre, which performs full-length, completely improvised plays. Edi likes fun and ...
Honorable Mention - March 9, 2024 Honorable Mention - July 8, 2023 Winner - October 19, 2019 Honorable Mention - November 18, 2017
32. Noomi Rapace
Actress | Män som hatar kvinnor
Swedish actress Noomi Rapace was born in Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden to Swedish actress Nina Norén and Spanish Flamenco singer Rogelio de Badajoz (Rogelio Durán). Her parents did not stay together, and when she was five she moved to Iceland with her mother and stepfather, where she lived for...
Winner - March 2, 2024
33. Calista Flockhart
Actress | Ally McBeal
Calista Kay Flockhart was born 11 November, 1964 in Freeport, Illinois. Her mother, Kay (Honohan), was a school teacher, and her father, Ronald Flockhart, worked for Kraft Foods Inc. She has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry. Calista was named after her great-grandmother.
Flockhart ...
Honorable Mention - March 2, 2024 Honorable Mention - May 20, 2017
34. Bobby Hogan
Actor | Chicago P.D.
Bobby Hogan is known for Chicago P.D. (2014), American Horror Stories (2021) and FBI (2018).
Honorable Mention - March 2, 2024
35. Ruth Wilson
Actress | Luther
Ruth Wilson, born on 13 January 1982, is an English actress. She is known for her performances in Suburban Shootout (2006), Jane Eyre (2006), and as "Alice Morgan" in the BBC-TV psychological crime drama, Luther (2010), since 2010. She has also appeared in Anna Karenina (2012), The Lone Ranger (...
Honorable Mention - March 2, 2024 Honorable Mention - August 18, 2018 Honorable Mention - December 5, 2015 Honorable Mention - December 20, 2014 Honorable Mention - September 7, 2013
36. Jodie Foster
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...
Winner - February 24, 2024
37. Sarayu Blue
Actress | I Feel Bad
Sarayu Blue is a stage, film, and television actress. While perhaps more well-known for her sharp comedic timing, she has also shown her great range in dramas, as seen in the Amazon limited series, "Expats," starring opposite Nicole Kidman, and directed by Lulu Wang. Blue began her career stealing ...
Honorable Mention - February 24, 2024
38. Brian Dietzen
Actor | From Justin to Kelly
Hailing from Colorado, Brian Dietzen made his big-screen debut alongside Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini in From Justin to Kelly (2003) . He graduated with a BFA, majoring in acting, the University of Colorado at Boulder. He performed with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for two years and spent...
Honorable Mention - February 24, 2024 Honorable Mention - January 21, 2023 Honorable Mention - February 5, 2022 Winner - January 28, 2017
39. Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Actor | Luce
Kelvin Harrison Jr. was born on July 23, 1994 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Luce (2019), Monsters and Men (2018) and It Comes at Night (2017).
Honorable Mention - February 24, 2024
40. Aaron Pierre
Actor | The Underground Railroad
A graduate of the prestigious LAMDA in London, Aaron Pierre is currently recording a lead role as Mufasa in Barry Jenkins' highly anticipated Lion King prequel for Disney. He played Caesar in Barry Jenkins' award-winning limited series The Underground Railroad for Amazon and also starred in M. ...
Honorable Mention - February 24, 2024
41. Estelle Parsons
Actress | Bonnie and Clyde
The charming, witty, and immeasurably talented Estelle Parsons was born November 20, 1927 in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Elinor and Eben Parsons. She attended the Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine, and later graduated from Connecticut College in 1949. She worked as a singer with a band before she ...
Honorable Mention - February 24, 2024
42. Vanessa Lachey
Actress | Disaster Movie
Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. She is the daughter of Helen Ramos Bercero and Vincent Charles Minnillo, a crew member on an Air Force aircraft (he has since retired). Her father is American, from Ohio, and is of half Italian, one ...
Winner - February 17, 2024
43. LL Cool J
Actor | Deep Blue Sea
L.L. Cool J was born James Todd Smith in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, the son of Ondrea Griffith and James Louis Smith, Jr.
Todd, as he was called, did not have a very happy childhood. At the age of four, he saw his mother and grandfather shot by his own father. After they recovered from their ...
Winner - February 17, 2024
44. Kevin Kane
Actor | Inside Amy Schumer
Kevin Kane serves as actor (Matt), director and Executive Producer on Life & Beth. He also stars as Detective Terry Bruno on Law and Order: SVU. Recent film credits include Mark Jackson's This Teacher (LA Film Fest Jury Award), Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Uncle Silas, Lez Bomb, Im Not Me (IFP ...
Honorable Mention - February 17, 2024
45. Treat Williams
Actor | Deep Rising
Richard Treat Williams was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Marian (Andrew), who dealt in antiques, and Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive. At the age of three, his family moved to Rowayton, Connecticut. Educated at prep-school, he first made a serious commitment to his craft during ...
Honorable Mention - February 17, 2024
46. Maya Erskine
Actress | PEN15
Maya Erskine was born on May 7, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for PEN15 (2019), Wine Country (2019) and Blue Eye Samurai (2023).
Winner - February 10, 2024 Honorable Mention - September 19, 2020
47. Donald Glover
Actor | Solo: A Star Wars Story
The multi-talented Donald Glover is a writer, actor, musician, comedian, producer and director, who performs under the stage names Childish Gambino and mcDJ. He was born Donald McKinley Glover at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly (...
Winner - February 10, 2024 Honorable Mention - September 17, 2022 Honorable Mention - April 7, 2018 Honorable Mention - November 5, 2016
48. Nicholas Gonzalez
Actor | The Good Doctor
Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Alex Santiago on the Showtime television series Resurrection Blvd. and Dr. Neil Melendez on the ABC television series The Good Doctor. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Gonzalez is conversant in Spanish, having lived...
Honorable Mention - February 10, 2024
49. 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 ...
Honorable Mention - February 10, 2024
50. Leo Woodall
Actor | One Day
Leo Woodall, British actor. He is the youngest of three children, he has an older sister, Constance, and an older brother, Gabriel. His father, Andrew Woodall, is an actor. His mother, Jane Mary Ashton, studied drama, although she did not pursue an acting career. His ancestors also include Maxine ...
Honorable Mention - February 10, 2024
51. Tom Hollander
Actor | Pride & Prejudice
Tom Hollander was born the second child of educated parents, both teachers. He grew up in Oxford, (UK).
Hollander credits the happy atmosphere of the Dragon School with his childhood introduction to acting. There, encouraged by an influential teacher named Andrew Roberts, he won the title role in "...
Winner - February 3, 2024
52. Phaedra Parks
Actress | Will Trent
Phaedra Parks stars in the hit Bravo reality series "Real Housewives of Atlanta," now in its ninth season and one of the network's highest rated shows. Parks is also a successful attorney, businesswoman, media personality, motivational speaker, author and social activist.
As managing partner of The ...
Honorable Mention - February 3, 2024
53. Lance Reddick
Actor | John Wick
Incisive, intense, multi-talented American actor Lance Solomon Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two sons, to Solomon Reddick and public schoolteacher Dorothy Gee. Having opted initially for a career in music, he attended first the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Walden ...
Honorable Mention - February 3, 2024
54. 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 (...
Honorable Mention - February 3, 2024 Winner - July 30, 2016
55. Sofía Vergara
Actress | Hot Pursuit
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, is a housewife. Her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, provides cattle to the meat industry. She has five siblings. She was educated at a private bilingual Spanish/...
Winner - January 27, 2024
56. Todd Lasance
Actor | NCIS: Sydney
Todd Lasance was born on February 18, 1985 in Newcastle, Australia. He is an actor, known for NCIS: Sydney (2023), Without Remorse (2021) and Spartacus (2010).
Honorable Mention - January 27, 2024
57. Georgina Haig
Actress | Once Upon a Time
Georgina Haig is an Australian performer known for her extensive work across varied genres and her portrayal of iconic characters, including Queen Elsa in Once Upon a Time, Paula Yates in INXS: Never Tear Us Apart and Olivia Cotterill in Secret Bridesmaids Business. After graduating from the ...
Honorable Mention - January 27, 2024
58. Nicole Kidman
Actress | Moulin Rouge!
Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.
Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...
Honorable Mention - January 27, 2024 Winner - November 7, 2020 Winner - March 25, 2017
59. Sam Spruell
Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman
Sam Spruell was born in Southwark, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Legend (2015) and Taken 3 (2014).
Winner - January 20, 2024
60. Shanola Hampton
Actress | Shameless
Shanola Hampton was born May 27 in Long Island, NY to a Pastor and an IRS agent. She was raised in Summerville, South Carolina with her three sisters. In college she earned a degree in Theater, with emphasis in Performance from Winthrop University along with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from ...
Honorable Mention - January 20, 2024
61. Emma Stone
Actress | La La Land
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...
Honorable Mention - January 20, 2024 Honorable Mention - May 3, 2014
62. 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, ...
Winner - January 13, 2024
63. Alaqua Cox
Actress | Hawkeye
Alaqua Cox was born on February 13, 1997 in Keshena, Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress, known for Hawkeye (2021), Echo (2023) and Marvel Studios: Assembled (2021).
Honorable Mention - January 13, 2024
64. Wrenn Schmidt
Actress | For All Mankind
Melinda Wrenn Schmidt is an American actress, best known for her starring role as NASA engineer and flight director Margo Madison in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. Other television roles include Julia Sagorsky in the period drama series Boardwalk Empire (...
Honorable Mention - January 13, 2024
65. Juno Temple
Actress | Atonement
Juno Violet Temple was born in London, England, into a showbiz family, the daughter of producer Amanda Temple and film director Julien Temple. She was named 'Juno' after her parents took a visit to the Grand Canyon during pregnancy and found they were standing on a butte of Cape Final known as Juno...
Winner - January 6, 2024
66. Heather Gay
Self | The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip
Heather Gay was previously married to Billy Gay III.
Honorable Mention - January 6, 2024
67. Amy Hill
Actress | The Cat in the Hat
Amy Hill's television and film credits number over 180. As a voice actor, she's been heard as recurring characters on numerous shows including "American Dad", "Lilo and Stitch" (film and series), "King of the Hill", and HBO's "Happily Ever After." She had recurring roles on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend", "...
Honorable Mention - January 6, 2024
68. Domenick Lombardozzi
Actor | Cold Pursuit
Domenick Lombardozzi was born on March 25, 1976 in Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Cold Pursuit (2019), The Family (2013) and Find Me Guilty (2006).
Honorable Mention - January 6, 2024
69. Ncuti Gatwa
Actor | Barbie
Ncuti Gatwa was born on October 15, 1992 in Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda. He is an actor, known for Barbie (2023), Sex Education (2019) and The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021).
Winner - December 30, 2023 Honorable Mention - September 30, 2023 Honorable Mention - September 25, 2021
70. Luke Kirby
Actor | Mambo Italiano
Luke Farrell Kirby is a Canadian actor. In 2019, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Lenny Bruce on the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Kirby was born in Hamilton, Ontario, to American parents. His mother is from Brooklyn, New York, and his father grew up "along the ...
Honorable Mention - December 30, 2023 Winner - March 12, 2022
71. Devery Jacobs
Actress | Reservation Dogs
Devery Jacobs was born and raised in Kahnawa:ke Mohawk Territory and is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. Her breakout leading role in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) landed her a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Since then, Jacobs is ...
Honorable Mention - December 30, 2023 Winner - September 23, 2023 Winner - October 1, 2022 Honorable Mention - August 22, 2022
72. Imelda Staunton
Actress | Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton is an English actress and singer from Archway, London. Her ancestry is primarily Irish. She has worked extensively in theater, and has won 4 Laurence Olivier Awards; 3 for leading roles and one for a supporting role. Her best known role in films has been the recurring villain ...
Winner - December 23, 2023
73. Lauren E. Banks
Actress | Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Lauren E. Banks is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Howard University, from which she received her MFA and BFA in acting respectively. In 2017, Lauren was awarded Yale's Carol Finch Dye Award, whose previous recipients include Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep. Banks is most known for ...
Honorable Mention - December 23, 2023
74. Kiersey Clemons
Actress | Dope
Kiersey Clemons was born December 17 in Pensacola, Florida. She grew up in a military family traveling the U.S before settling in Southern California with her parents and three sisters. Always having a love for theatre and performance, the actor/musician has quickly become known for the diverse and...
Honorable Mention - December 23, 2023
75. David Oyelowo
Actor | Lawmen: Bass Reeves
David Oyelowo also known as 'David O', is a classically trained stage actor who has quickly become one of Hollywood's most sought-after talents. He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and received the "Scholarship for Excellence" from Nicholas Hytner in 1998.
David ...
Winner - December 16, 2023
76. Jonathan Bailey
Actor | Bridgerton
Jonathan Stuart Bailey is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he began his career as a child performer in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when he was seven years old, and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. Since then, he has ...
Honorable Mention - December 16, 2023
77. Jennifer Jason Leigh
Actress | The Hateful Eight
Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of writer Barbara Turner and actor Vic Morrow. Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry. She is the sister of Carrie Ann Morrow and half-sister of actress Mina ...
Honorable Mention - December 16, 2023
78. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Actor | Candyman
Nathan was brought up in Wandsworth, London, He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, which he graduated from in 2006. He made his professional stage debut playing a number of roles in 'Brixton Stories' at the Lyric, Hammersmith and has also appeared on stage in 'The History Boys' at ...
Honorable Mention - December 16, 2023
79. David Tennant
Actor | Doctor Who
Widely considered as one of the greatest stage and screen actors of his generation both in his native Scotland and internationally, David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald, who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish ...
Honorable Mention - December 16, 2023 Honorable Mention - June 8, 2019 Winner - August 12, 2017 Honorable Mention - January 30, 2016
80. Matt Bomer
Actor | In Time
Matthew Staton Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, to Elizabeth Macy (Staton) and John O'Neill Bomer IV, a Dallas Cowboys draft pick. Matt was raised in Spring, Texas, and educated at Klein High School, near Houston. After school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in...
Winner - December 9, 2023 Winner - May 31, 2014
81. Jon Hamm
Actor | Mad Men
Jon Hamm is an American actor and producer from St. Louis, Missouri who is known for playing Don Draper in Mad Men. He also played Mister Sinister in a deleted scene of The New Mutants and Legion, Brogan from Shrek Forever After, and other films and shows including Sucker Punch, Million Dollar Arm,...
Honorable Mention - December 9, 2023 Honorable Mention - October 30, 2021 Honorable Mention - March 14, 2020
82. Jon Lovitz
Actor | Happiness
Jonathan Michael Lovitz is a American comedian and actor from Tarzana who is known for voicing Jay Sherman from The Critic and for being a Saturday Night Live cast member in the 1990s. He acted in a lot of Adam Sandler films such as The Wedding Singer, Little Nicky, Hotel Transylvania, Grown Ups 2 ...
Honorable Mention - December 9, 2023
83. Krys Marshall
Actress | For All Mankind
Krys Marshall has wasted no time establishing herself as a promising young actress, gaining respect and accolades for her hard work on the stage and screen.
She can currently be seen in the Apple TV+ series "For All Mankind" playing Danielle Poole, a NASA engineer and the agency's first ...
Honorable Mention - December 9, 2023
84. Tony Shalhoub
Actor | Monk
Anthony Marc Shalhoub was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joseph Shalhoub, who owned a grocery chain, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at age ten, later marrying Shalhoub's mother, Helen (Seroogy), who herself was born in Wisconsin, to Lebanese parents. ...
Honorable Mention - December 9, 2023 Honorable Mention - September 17, 2016
85. Christine Baranski
Actress | Mamma Mia!
Christine Baranski is an American actress from Buffalo, New York. She has had a relatively lengthy career in both film and television. She has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards, winning once. One of her most popular roles was that of neuroscientist Dr. Beverly Hofstadter in the sitcom " The Big ...
Winner - December 2, 2023 Winner - November 5, 2022 Winner - April 5, 2014 Winnner - October 19, 2013
86. Jillian Bell
Actress | 22 Jump Street
Jillian Bell was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She began studying improv at the age of eight. She graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in 2002, and then moved to Los Angeles, where she became a member of the Groundlings. She auditioned for Saturday Night Live, and though she did not join the ...
Honorable Mention - December 2, 2023
87. Tim Matheson
Actor | National Lampoon's Animal House
Tim Matheson is an American actor, director and producer perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth talking 'Eric "Otter" Stratton' in the 1978 comedy, National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), but has had a variety of other well-known roles both before and since, including critical accolades...
Honorable Mention - December 2, 2023
88. Brie Larson
Actress | Room
Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
Winner - November 25, 2023
89. Noah J. Ricketts
Actor | Summoning Sylvia
Noah J. Ricketts is known for Summoning Sylvia (2023), Fellow Travelers (2023) and High Fidelity (2020).
Honorable Mention - November 25, 2023
90. Mari Yamamoto
Actress | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Mari Yamamoto was born in Japan and grew up in London and Tokyo. She is completely bilingual in Japanese and English. She has a BA in International Relations from ICU(Tokyo) and studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York for two years. She was a member of The Bats at...
Honorable Mention - November 25, 2023
91. Elizabeth Debicki
Actress | The Great Gatsby
Debicki was born in Paris to a Polish father and an Australian mother of Irish descent who were both dancers. When she was five, the family moved to Melbourne, where she grew up with two younger siblings. She became interested in ballet at an early age and trained as a dancer until deciding to ...
Winner - November 18, 2023 Winner - November 19, 2022
92. Carrie Coon
Actress | Gone Girl
Originally from Copley, OH, Carrie Coon is a Chicago-based theatre, television and film actress. She received a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Mount Union, followed by her MFA in Acting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Coon was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best ...
Honorable Mention - November 18, 2023 Winner - June 10, 2017 Winner - October 31, 2015 Winner - August 9, 2014
93. Chloe Troast
Actor | The Basics
Chloe Troast was born on May 14, 1997 in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Basics (2020), Sweethearts and Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023).
Honorable Mention - November 18, 2023
94. Mae Whitman
Actress | One Fine Day
Mae was born in Los Angeles, California to Pat Musick, a voice artist, and Jeffrey Whitman, a personal manager and set construction coordinator. She began her career with a voice-over for a Tyson Chicken commercial. Whitman attended Ribét Academy, a private preparatory school in Los Angeles.
Whitman...
Honorable Mention - November 18, 2023 Honorable Mention - October 4, 2014
95. Aja Naomi King
Actress | The Birth of a Nation
King appeared in several short films before landing guest roles on the CBS procedurals Blue Bloods and Person of Interest. Her big break came in 2012 when she was cast as new surgical intern Cassandra Kopelson on the CW drama Emily Owens, M.D. The series was canceled after a single season in 2013. ...
Winner - November 11, 2023 Honorable Mention - November 2, 2019 Honorable Mention - February 4, 2017
96. Brendan Fraser
Actor | The Mummy
Brendan James Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents Carol Mary (Genereux), a sales counselor, and Peter Fraser, a journalist and travel executive. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French-Canadian ancestry. As his parents frequently moved, Brendan can claim ...
Honorable Mention - November 11, 2023 Honorable Mention - October 30, 2021
97. Tom Hiddleston
Actor | The Avengers
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...
Honorable Mention - November 11, 2023 Winner - July 17, 2021
98. Madison Lintz
Actress | The Walking Dead
Madison Lintz was born on May 11, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her acting career when she was only 6 years old. She had been in a few commercials and voice-overs and did a commercial for a national Golden Corral spot which aired all over the country. Her big acting break came when she got ...
Honorable Mention - November 11, 2023
99. Billy Crudup
Actor | Almost Famous
Known as much for his rigorous career choices as for his talent and chiseled good looks, Billy Crudup has been straddling the line between serious actor and "it" leading man for several years. He is father to eighteen-year-old William Atticus Parker -- a director, writer and actor.
Crudup was born ...
Winner - November 4, 2023
100. Allegra Edwards
Actress | Upload
Allegra Edwards was born on April 19, 1988 in Santa Clara, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Upload (2020), Briarpatch (2019) and Alternatino with Arturo Castro (2019). She has been married to Clayton Snyder since October 3, 2020. They have one child.
Honorable Mention - November 4, 2023
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