My favorite tv and movie characters
by shopgirl1293 | created - 21 Feb 2019 | updated - 22 Feb 2019 | Public
1. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
Jack Sparrow (POTC franchise) Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow) Glen Lantz (A nightmare on Elm Street 84) Gilbert Grape (What's eating Gilbert Grape?) Sands (Once Upon a Time in Mexico) Edwards Scissorhands (Edwards Scissorhands) Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows)
2. Daniel Radcliffe
Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, ...
Harry Potter (Harry Potter franchise)
3. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
Logan "Wolverine" (X-Men franchise) Stanley (Swordfish) Peter Lyman (Scoop)
4. 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 ...
Olive (Easy A) Jules (Superbad) Natalie (The House Bunny) Allison Vandermeersh (Ghost of Girlsfriends Past) Wichita (Zombieland) Hannah (Crazy, Stupid, Love) Skeeter Phelan (The Help) Grace Faraday (Gangster Squad) Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2) Mia (La La Land) Annie Landsberg (Maniac)
5. Emma Watson
Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter franchise) Pauline Fossil (Ballet Shoes) Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) Nicki (The Bling Ring) Belle (Beauty and The Beast) Mae (The Circle)
6. Anna Faris
Actress | The House Bunny
Anna Kay Faris was born on November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Karen (Bathurst), a special education teacher, and Jack Faris, a sociologist. She was raised in Edmonds, Washington. Her ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, French, Dutch, Irish, and Welsh. Anna started acting very ...
Cindy (Scary Movie franchise) Shelley Darlingson (The House Bunny) Christy Plunkett (Mom) Erica (Friends) Jane F. (Smiley Face)
7. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
Novalee Nation (Where the heart is) Ann August (Anywhere but here) Mathilda (Leon: The Professional) Sara (Cold Mountain) Sam (Gardent State) Evey (V for Vendetta) Anne Boleyn (The Other Boleyn Girl) Nina Sayers (Black Swan) Emma (No Strings Attached) Jane Foster (Thor franchise)
8. 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 ...
Frodo (Lord of the rings trilogy) Casey Connor (The Faculty) Dolan 37th (The Last Witch Hunter) Frank (Maniac) Mark (The Good Son) Sandy Ricks (Flipper)
9. Emily Browning
Actress | A Series of Unfortunate Events
Australian actress Emily Browning was born in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia, to Shelley and Andrew Browning. She has two younger brothers. Her start in acting came after a classmate's father, involved in the acting business, noticed her "acting all ditsy" in a school play. Emily found an agent and ...
Babydoll (Sucker Punch) Katie Harwood (Ghost Ship) Young Kaitlin (Darkness Falls) Anna (The Uninvited) Violet (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
10. 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,...
Jack Dawson (Titanic) Romeo (Romeo + Juliet) Arnie Grape (What's eating Gilbert Grape?) Toby (This Boy's Life) Jim Carroll (The Basketball Diaries) Hank (Marvin's Room) Richard (The Beach) Billy (The Departed) Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Catch me if you can) Cobb (Inception) Jordan Belfort (The Wolf on Wall Street)
11. Elliot Page
Actor | Juno
Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for...
Juno Macgruff (Juno) Hayley Stark (Hard Candy) Ariadne (Inception) Bliss Cavendar (Whip It)
12. Christina Ricci
Actress | Casper
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...
Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family) Roberta (Now and Then) Kat (Casper) Patti (That Darn Cat) Katrina Van Tassel (Sleepy Hollow) Val (200 Cigarettes) Elizabeth (Prozac Nation) Penelope Wilhern (Penelope) Rae (Black Snake Moan)
13. Kirsten Dunst
Actress | Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...
Torrance Shipman (Bring It On) Judy Shepherd (Jumanji) Claudia (Interview with the Vampire) Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service, voice, english version) Verena von Stefan (All I wanna do) Lux Lisbon (The Virgin Suicides) Amber Atkins (Drop Dead Gorgeous) Betsy Jobs (Dick) Kelly Woods (Get Over It) Claire Colbern (Elizabethtown) Regan (Bachelorette)
14. 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,...
John McClain (Die Hard series) Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) Mikey (Look Who's Talking, voice) Ernest Menville (Death Becomes Her) Korben Dallas (The Fifth Element) Harry Stamper (Armageddon) Jimmy Tudeski (The Whole Nine Yards) Hartigan (Sin City) David Dunn (Unbreakable) Paul Stevens (Friends)
15. 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, ...
Indiana 'Indy' Jones (Indiana Jones franchise) Han Solo (Star Wars franchise) Rick Deckard (Blade Runner) Jack Ryan (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger) President James Marshall (Air Force One) Quinn Harris (Six days, seven nights)
16. Josh Hartnett
Actor | Lucky Number Slevin
Joshua Daniel Hartnett was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Wendy Anne (Kronstedt) and Daniel Thomas Hartnett, a building manager. His father is of Irish and German descent, and his mother is of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. Hartnett graduated from South High School in Minneapolis in June of ...
Zeke Tyler (The Faculty) John Tate (Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later) Capt. Danny Walker (Pearl Harbor) Eben Olesen (30 Days of Night) Ethan Chandler (Penny Dreadfall)
17. Seth Green
Actor | Robot Chicken
Seth Green has starred in numerous films and television series including the Austin Powers trilogy, The Italian Job (2003), Without a Paddle (2004), Party Monster (2003), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Old Dogs (2009) and dozens more, including starring roles in Sexy Evil Genius (2013), The Story of Luke...
Richie Tozer - age 12 (It) Emil (The X-Files) Mick (Idle Hands) Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Scott Evil (Austin Powers Trilogy) Lyle (The Italian Job) Selby (Enemy of the State) Daryl (How I met your Mother) Dan Mott (Without a Paddle) Mitch Miller (That 70's Show)
18. Tom Felton
Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Tom Felton was born in Epsom, Surrey, to Sharon and Peter Felton. He has been acting since he was 8 years old at the suggestion of an actress friend of his family who recognized Felton's theatrical qualities. Felton met with an agent, and two weeks later, after auditioning with over 400 other ...
Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter franchise)
19. Lucy Hale
Actress | Truth or Dare
Lucy Hale has captured the attention of millions through her dynamic on-screen performances in some of the most buzzed about projects in film and television. Hale recently starred as the lead, DC Lake Edmunds, in the new series, Ragdoll, which is streaming on AMC and Alibi. Last year, she finished ...
Rose Baker (Priviliged) Aria Montgomery (Pretty Little Liars) Phoebe Nichols (CSI Miami) Sherrie (Scream 4) Katie Scherbatsky (How I met your Mother) Stella Abbott (Life Sentence) Olivia Barron (Truth or Dare) Lily (Dude)
20. Ashley Benson
Actress | Spring Breakers
Ashley Victoria Benson was born on December 18, 1989 in Anaheim Hills, California, to Shannon (Harte) and Jeff Benson. She has Irish, English, and German ancestry. She has been dancing competitively since she was 2 with hip hop, jazz, ballet, tap and lyrical. She has been singing since she was ...
Hanna Marin (Pretty Little Liars) Abby Deveraux (Days of Our Lives) Amy Beck (CSI Miami) Carly Whitman (How I met your Mother) Lady Lisa (Pixels)
21. Dylan O'Brien
Actor | Teen Wolf
Dylan O'Brien was born in New York City, to Lisa Rhodes, a former actress who also ran an acting school, and Patrick B. O'Brien, a camera operator. His father is of Irish descent and his mother is of English, Spanish, and Italian ancestry. Dylan grew up in Springfield Township, Union County, New ...
Stiles Stilinski (Teen Wolf) Thomas (The Maze Runner Trilogy) Mitch (American Assassin)
22. Saoirse Ronan
Actress | Hanna
Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...
Susie Salmon (The Lovely Bones) Hanna (Hanna) Agatha (The Grand Budapest Hotel) Lady Bird McPherson (Lady Bird)
23. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Emmy Award-winning Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City, the daughter of Rosellen (Greenfield), who taught at a nursery school, and Arthur Gellar, who worked in the garment industry. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
Eating in a local restaurant, ...
Buffy Summers (Buffy the vampire Slayer) Helen Shivers (I know what you did last summer) Kathryn Merteuill (Cruel Intentions) Daphne (Scooby Doo) Amanda Shelton (Simply Irrisistible) Cici (Scream 2)
24. Paul Rudd
Actor | Ant-Man
Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His parents, Michael and Gloria, both from Jewish families, were born in the London area, U.K. He has one sister, who is three years younger than he is. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at ...
Mike Hannigan (Friends) Peter Klaven (I love you, man) David (The 40 year old virgin) Josh (Clueless) Wyatt Trips (Overnight Delivery) George Hansen (Obeject of my affection) Kevin (200 Cigarettes)
25. Chloë Grace Moretz
Actress | Kick-Ass
Moretz is best known for her work in the sci-fi thriller series The Peripheral, created by Scott B. Smith; the Mattson Tomlin-directed sci-fi thriller Mother/Android; Neil Jordan's thriller Greta; Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud, which claimed the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award at the ...
Chelsea Lutz (The Amityville Horror, 2005) Carrie White (Carrie, 2013) Carolyn Soddard (Dark Shadows) Cassie Sullivan (The 5th Wave) Mindy Macready/Hit Girl (Kick-Ass) Abby (Let Me In)
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