THE BEST ACTORS - Born 1960s and 1970s
by Prodanovic7 | created - 18 Dec 2016 | updated - 1 week ago | Public
1. Christian Bale
Actor | The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
20: Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, Reign of Fire, Equilibrium, The Machinist, Batman Begins, The Prestige, 3:10 to Yuma, I'm Not There, The Dark Knight, Public Enemies, The Fighter, The Dark Knight Rises, Out of the Furnace, American Hustle, The Big Short, Hostiles, Vice, Ford v Ferrari, Thor: Love and Thunder
2. 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 ...
28: Platoon, Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood, Don Juan DeMarco, Donnie Brasco, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow, Chocolat, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Finding Neverland, Corpse Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Public Enemies, Alice in Wonderland, The Tourist, Rango, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Black Mass, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Murder on the Orient Express, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
3. 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,...
20: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Titanic, The Beach, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Body of Lies, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, J. Edgar, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Revenant, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Don't Look Up, Killers of the Flower Moon
4. 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 ...
22: Thelma & Louise, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Se7en, Twelve Monkeys, Sleepers, Fight Club, Snatch, Ocean's Eleven, Troy, Ocean's Twelve, Babel, Ocean's Thirteen, Burn After Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Inglourious Basterds, Megamind, The Tree of Life, Moneyball, 12 Years a Slave, The Big Short, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Bullet Train
5. 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 ...
11: From Dusk Till Dawn, The Thin Red Line, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Burn After Reading, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Descendants, Gravity
6. 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),...
14: L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cinderella Man, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, Body of Lies, State of Play, Les Misérables, Man of Steel, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Thor: Love and Thunder
7. Matthew McConaughey
Actor | Interstellar
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
13: Dazed and Confused, A Time to Kill, Contact, Reign of Fire, The Lincoln Lawyer, Mud, Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street, True Detective (TV Series), Interstellar, Kubo and the Two Strings, Sing, The Gentlemen
8. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
19: Atonement, Sherlock (TV Series), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 12 Years a Slave, The Imitation Game, Penguins of Madagascar, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Black Mass, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Patrick Melrose (TV Mini-Series), Avengers: Endgame, 1917, The Power of the Dog, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
9. 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 ...
13: X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Fountain, The Prestige, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Les Misérables, The Wolverine, Prisoners, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Logan
10. Tom Hardy
Actor | Inception
With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...
13: Band of Brothers (TV Mini-Series), RocknRolla, Inception, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises, Peaky Blinders (TV Series), Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Taboo (TV Series), Dunkirk, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
11. 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 ...
11: Carlito's Way, The Game, The Thin Red Line, I Am Sam, Mystic River, 21 Grams, The Interpreter, Milk, The Tree of Life, Gangster Squad, Licorice Pizza
12. Mahershala Ali
Actor | Leave the World Behind
Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.
He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...
9: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, House of Cards (TV Series), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Green Book, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, True Detective (TV Series), Alita: Battle Angel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
13. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
8: Gladiator, Signs, The Village, Hotel Rwanda, Walk the Line, The Master, Her, Joker
14. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
10: Collateral, Goya's Ghosts, No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Biutiful, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Mother!, Dune: Part One, Being the Ricardos, Dune: Part Two
15. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor | The Master
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...
15: Scent of a Woman, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Charlie Wilson's War, Doubt, Mary and Max, Moneyball, The Master, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
16. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
12: Independence Day, Men in Black, Men in Black II, Shark Tale, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock, Seven Pounds, Men in Black 3, Focus, Suicide Squad, King Richard
17. 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 ...
15: Natural Born Killers, Zodiac, Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man 2, Due Date, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Avengers, Iron Man Three, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Oppenheimer
18. 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...
7: Moonstruck, Adaptation., Ghost Rider, Kick-Ass, The Croods, Snowden, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
19. Jamie Foxx
Actor | Collateral
Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...
11: Collateral, Law Abiding Citizen, Due Date, Rio, Horrible Bosses, Django Unchained, Rio 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Horrible Bosses 2, Soul, Spider-Man: No Way Home
20. 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 ...
6: 10 Things I Hate About You, Monster's Ball, Brokeback Mountain, I'm Not There, The Dark Knight, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
21. Colin Firth
Actor | A Single Man
Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...
11: Valmont, Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini-Series), The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, The King's Speech, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bridget Jones's Baby, 1917
22. Sam Rockwell
Actor | Moon
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...
5: The Green Mile, Iron Man 2, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Vice, Jojo Rabbit
23. Casey Affleck
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
11: Good Will Hunting, American Pie 2, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Gone Baby Gone, Out of the Furnace, Interstellar, Manchester by the Sea, Triple 9, Oppenheimer
24. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
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13: The Usual Suspects, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, 21 Grams, Sin City, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sicario, Le Petit Prince, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Avengers: Infinity War, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Escape at Dannemora (TV Mini-Series), The French Dispatch
25. Forest Whitaker
Actor | The Last King of Scotland
Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to...
8: Platoon, Bloodsport, The Butler, Out of the Furnace, Taken 3, Arrival, Rogue One, Black Panther
26. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
10: 28 Days Later..., Cold Mountain, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Peaky Blinders (TV Series), Dunkirk, A Quiet Place Part II, Oppenheimer
27. Jared Leto
Actor | Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
10: The Thin Red Line, Fight Club, Girl, Interrupted, American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club, Suicide Squad, Blade Runner 2049, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Morbius
28. Ke Huy Quan
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom "Head of the ...
4: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Loki (TV Series)
29. Mark Rylance
Actor | Bridge of Spies
Mark Rylance was born in Ashford, Kent, the son of Anne (née Skinner) and David Waters, both English teachers. His grandmother was Irish. His parents moved to Connecticut in 1962 and Wisconsin in 1969, where his father taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. Rylance attended this ...
4: Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Don't Look Up
30. 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 ...
5: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Crash, The Whale, Killers of the Flower Moon
31. 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 ...
7: A Few Good Men, Outbreak, Jerry Maguire, As Good as It Gets, American Gangster, Don Jon, The Butler
32. Adrien Brody
Actor | The Pianist
Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the ...
11: The Thin Red Line, The Pianist, The Village, King Kong, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Midnight in Paris, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Peaky Blinders (TV Series), The French Dispatch, Asteroid City
33. Bradley Cooper
Actor | A Star Is Born
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...
18: The Hangover, Limitless, The Hangover Part II, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hangover Part III, American Hustle, Guardians of the Galaxy, American Sniper, Joy, War Dogs, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, The Mule, Avengers: Endgame, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Thor: Love and Thunder, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
34. 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 ...
14: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, Zodiac, The Kids Are All Right, Shutter Island, The Avengers, Now You See Me, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spotlight, Now You See Me 2, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Poor Things
35. 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 ...
21: Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean's Eleven, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Ocean's Twelve, The Departed, Ocean's Thirteen, The Bourne Ultimatum, Invictus, True Grit, Contagion, Elysium, Interstellar, The Martian, Jason Bourne, Ford v Ferrari, The Last Duel, Thor: Love and Thunder, Oppenheimer
36. 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. ...
12: Top Gun, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Collateral, Oblivion, Edge of Tomorrow, Top Gun: Maverick
37. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
14: The People vs. Larry Flynt, American History X, Fight Club, The Score, The Italian Job, The Illusionist, The Incredible Hulk, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, Glass Onion, Asteroid City
38. 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...
21: Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Thin Red Line, No Country for Old Men, Seven Pounds, Zombieland, Friends with Benefits, The Hunger Games, Now You See Me, Out of the Furnace, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, True Detective (TV Series), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Triple 9, Now You See Me 2, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Venom, Zombieland: Double Tap, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
39. Ethan Hawke
Actor | Training Day
Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old. His mother raised him alone for the ...
10: Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, Great Expectations, Training Day, Before Sunset, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Before Midnight, The Magnificent Seven, Moon Knight (TV Mini Series), Glass Onion
40. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
8: Band of Brothers (TV Mini-Series), 300, Inglourious Basterds, X: First Class, 12 Years a Slave, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix
41. Kenneth Branagh
Actor | Henry V
Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...
5: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Dunkirk, Murder on the Orient Express, Tenet, Oppenheimer
42. 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 ...
9: Schindler's List, The English Patient, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Menu
43. 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 ...
13: Donnie Brasco, Deconstructing Harry, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, Man on the Moon, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, The Hangover Part II, 12 Years a Slave, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Le Petit Prince, The Holdovers
44. 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 ...
13: Groundhog Day, 8 Mile, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Revolutionary Road, Boardwalk Empire (TV Series), Mud, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Nocturnal Animals, The Shape of Water, Knives Out, Bullet Train, The Flash
45. Jeremy Renner
Actor | The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Lee Renner was born in Modesto, California, the son of Valerie (Tague) and Lee Renner, who managed a bowling alley. After a tumultuous yet happy childhood with his four younger siblings, Renner graduated from Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College. He explored several areas of...
9: The Town, The Avengers, American Hustle, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Arrival, Tag, Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye (TV Mini Series)
46. Jude Law
Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...
15: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Road to Perdition, Cold Mountain, Closer, The Aviator, The Holiday, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sherlock Holmes, Contagion, Hugo, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Young Pope (TV Mini-Series), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Captain Marvel
47. 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 ...
12: Gladiator, Blood Diamond, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Seventh Son, The Legend of Tarzan, Aquaman, Serenity, Shazam!, A Quiet Place Part II, Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods
48. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
9: Freaks and Geeks (TV Series), Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Milk, 127 Hours, This Is the End, Le Petit Prince, 11.22.63 (TV Mini-Series)
49. Steve Carell
Actor | The Office
Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...
6: The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office (TV Series), The Big Short, Vice, The Morning Show (TV Series), Asteroid City
50. Colin Farrell
Actor | The Lobster
Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.
Farrell was born on ...
9: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Way Back, Horrible Bosses, The Lobster, True Detective (TV Series), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dumbo, The Gentlemen, The Batman
51. Antonio Banderas
Actor | The Mask of Zorro
Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.
He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...
12: Philadelphia, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, La piel que habito, Puss in Boots, The Expendables 3, Dolor y gloria, Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
52. 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...
12: Boogie Nights, Bulworth, Crash, Hotel Rwanda, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Iron Man 2, Iron Man Three, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame
53. Chadwick Boseman
Actor | Black Panther
Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...
4: Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame
54. 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...
10: Love Actually, Serenity, Inside Man, Children of Men, American Gangster, 12 Years a Slave, The Martian, Triple 9, Doctor Strange, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
55. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
6: The Nutty Professor, Mulan, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After
56. Sacha Baron Cohen
Actor | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London. He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. His father, born in England and raised in Wales, was of Eastern European Jewish descent, while his mother was born...
11: Madagascar, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Hugo, The Dictator, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Les Misérables, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
57. Jeffrey Wright
Actor | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Born and raised in Washington DC, Jeffrey Wright graduated from Amherst College in 1987. Although he studied Political Science while at Amherst, Wright left the school with a love for acting. Shortly after graduating he won an acting scholarship to NYU, but dropped out after only two months to ...
13: The Manchurian Candidate, Broken Flowers, Source Code, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Boardwalk Empire (TV Series), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, The Good Dinosaur, BoJack Horseman (TV Series), Westworld (TV Series), The French Dispatch, The Batman, Asteroid City
58. 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 (...
7: Boogie Nights, The Italian Job, The Departed, The Lovely Bones, The Fighter, Ted, Ted 2
59. 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 ...
17: Apocalypse Now, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Mystic River, The Matrix Revolutions, Bobby, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Contagion, Man of Steel, Hannibal (TV Series), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Passengers, John Wick: Chapter 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Mule, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, John Wick: Chapter 4
60. 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 ...
15: Deconstructing Harry, Road to Perdition, The Terminal, Lucky Number Slevin, The Devil Wears Prada, The Lovely Bones, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, BoJack Horseman (TV Series), Spotlight, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Beauty and the Beast, Feud (TV Series)
61. 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,...
16: The Goonies, No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, Milk, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, True Grit, Men in Black 3, Gangster Squad, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Sicario, Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Avengers: Endgame, Dune: Part One, Dune: Part Two
62. John C. Reilly
Actor | Chicago
Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years, from seedy ne'er-do-wells, to lovable, good-natured schlepps.
The fifth of six ...
13: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Boogie Nights, The Thin Red Line, Magnolia, Gangs of New York, Chicago, The Hours, The Aviator, Carnage, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lobster, Sing, Licorice Pizza
63. 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 ...
6: Gosford Park, The Bourne Identity, Closer, Sin City, Inside Man, Children of Men
64. 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 ...
5: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Incredible Hulk, The Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
65. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
11: Dazed and Confused, Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, State of Play, The Town, Argo, Gone Girl, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Last Duel
66. 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: ...
5: Liar Liar, The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kick-Ass 2
67. Idris Elba
Actor | Beasts of No Nation
An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped...
14: The Wire (TV Series), American Gangster, RocknRolla, The Office (TV Series), Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Zootopia, The Jungle Book, Finding Dory, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, The Suicide Squad, Thor: Love and Thunder
68. 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,...
10: Mad Men (TV Series), Shrek Forever After, The Town, Legion (TV Series), Tag, Bad Times at the El Royale, Good Omens (TV Series), Top Gun: Maverick, The Morning Show (TV Series), Fargo (TV Series)
69. Bob Odenkirk
Actor | Nobody
Robert John Odenkirk was born in Berwyn, Illinois, to Barbara (Baier) and Walter Odenkirk, who worked in printing. His ancestry includes German and Irish. He grew up in Naperville, IL, the second of seven children. He worked as a DJ for WIDB, his college radio station at Southern Illinois ...
9: How I Met Your Mother (TV Series), Breaking Bad (TV Series), Nebraska, Fargo (TV Series), Better Call Saul (TV Series), The Post, Incredibles 2, Little Women, Nobody
70. Ewan McGregor
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...
14: Trainspotting, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Big Fish, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Angels & Demons, The Ghost Writer, A Million Ways to Die in the West, T2 Trainspotting, Fargo (TV Series), Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Mini Series)
71. Jason Bateman
Actor | Arrested Development
Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).
He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director...
8: Arrested Development (TV Series), Juno, Hancock, State of Play, Horrible Bosses, This Is Where I Leave You, Horrible Bosses 2, Zootopia
72. Andy Serkis
Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...
14: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, King Kong, The Prestige, Flushed Away, The Adventures of Tintin, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Black Panther, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, The Batman
73. Hugh Grant
Actor | Love Actually
Hugh Grant, one of Britain's best known faces, has been equally entertaining on-screen as well as in real life, and has had enough sense of humor to survive a media frenzy. He is known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), with Andie MacDowell, Notting Hill (1999), opposite Julia ...
11: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Cloud Atlas, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Gentlemen, The Undoing (TV Mini Series), Glass Onion, Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
74. Mads Mikkelsen
Actor | Hannibal
Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...
5: Jagten, Hannibal (TV Series), Doctor Strange, Rogue One, Druk
75. John Krasinski
Actor | Jack Ryan
American actor John Krasinski is known for his role as sardonic nice guy Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV sitcom, The Office (2005), for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979,...
8: The Office (TV Series), The Holiday, Shrek the Third, Monsters vs. Aliens, Monsters University, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
76. Ricky Gervais
Writer | The Office
Ricky Dene Gervais was born in a suburb of Reading, Berkshire, to Eva Sophia (House) and Lawrence Raymond Gervais, who was a hod carrier and labourer. His father was born in Ontario, Canada, of French-Canadian descent, and his mother was English. He was educated at Ashmead Comprehensive School and ...
7: The Office (TV Series), Extras (TV Series), Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Le Petit Prince, After Life (TV Series)
77. Ben Stiller
Producer | Tropic Thunder
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).
His parents made no real...
14: Empire of the Sun, Meet the Parents, The Royal Tenenbaums, Meet the Fockers, Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV Series), Madagascar, Arrested Development (TV Series), Night at the Museum, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Megamind, Little Fockers, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
78. Ryan Reynolds
Actor | Deadpool 2
Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. ...
8: Blade: Trinity, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Green Lantern, The Croods, Deadpool, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Deadpool 2, Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
79. Hugo Weaving
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria, to English parents Anne (Lennard), a tour guide and teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. Hugo has an older brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna, who both also live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the ...
14: The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, V for Vendetta, Happy Feet, Captain America: The First Avenger, Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Hacksaw Ridge, Patrick Melrose (TV Mini-Series)
80. Owen Wilson
Actor | The Royal Tenenbaums
Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and ...
16: Anaconda, Shanghai Noon, Meet the Parents, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shanghai Knights, Meet the Fockers, The Darjeeling Limited, Marley & Me, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Little Fockers, Midnight in Paris, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Loki (TV Series), The French Dispatch
81. 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 ...
7: Road to Perdition, The Golden Compass, The Adventures of Tintin, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Logan Lucky, Knives Out, Glass Onion
82. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
6: Atonement, X: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, It Chapter Two
83. David Duchovny
Actor | The X Files
David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...
5: Working Girl, Twin Peaks (TV Series), The X Files (TV Series), The X Files, Californication (TV Series)
84. Zach Galifianakis
Actor | The Hangover
Zach Galifianakis was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to Mary Frances (Cashion), who owned a community arts center, and Harry Galifianakis, a heating oil vendor. His father is of Greek descent and his mother is of mostly English and Scottish ancestry. Zach moved to New York City after failing ...
7: Into the Wild, The Hangover, Due Date, The Hangover Part II, Puss in Boots, The Hangover Part III, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
85. Chris Pratt
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington, to Kathleen Louise (Indahl), who worked at a supermarket, and Daniel Clifton Pratt, who remodeled houses. He is of mostly Norwegian descent. He graduated from Lake Stevens High...
16: Parks and Recreation (TV Series), Moneyball, Her, The Lego Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World, The Magnificent Seven, Passengers, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Avengers: Endgame, Onward, Thor: Love and Thunder, Jurassic World: Dominion, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
86. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
10: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Troy, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
87. Martin Freeman
Actor | Black Panther
Martin Freeman is an English actor, known for portraying Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office (2001), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock (2010) and Lester Nygaard in the dark ...
10: Love Actually, The Office (TV Series), Sherlock (TV Series), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Fargo (TV Series), Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
88. 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, ...
5: L.A. Confidential, Memento, The King's Speech, Iron Man Three, Mare of Easttown (TV Series)
89. Keanu Reeves
Actor | The Matrix
Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patric Reeves, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese...
12: Dracula, Speed, The Devil's Advocate, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Something's Gotta Give, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Toy Story 4, John Wick: Chapter 4
90. Michael Kenneth Williams
Actor | The Wire
Emmy-nominated actor and producer Michael Kenneth Williams was one of his generation's most respected and acclaimed talents. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life--often with surprising tenderness--Williams established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ...
9: The Wire (TV Series), Gone Baby Gone, The Incredible Hulk, Boardwalk Empire (TV Series), Community (TV Series), 12 Years a Slave, Triple 9, The Night Of (TV Mini-Series), When They See Us (TV Mini-Series)
91. Aaron Paul
Actor | Breaking Bad
Aaron Paul was born Aaron Paul Sturtevant in Emmett, Idaho, to Darla (Haynes) and Robert Sturtevant, a retired Baptist minister. While growing up, Paul took part in church programs, and performed in plays.
He attended Centennial High School in Boise, Idaho. It was there, in eighth grade, that Aaron ...
5: Breaking Bad (TV Series), BoJack Horseman (TV Series), Triple 9, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Westworld (TV Series)
92. Tobey Maguire
Actor | Brothers
Tobias Vincent Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California. His parents were 18 and 20, and not yet married, when he was born. His mother, Wendy (Brown), did advertising, publicity, and acting in Hollywood for years as she coached and managed Tobey. His father, Vincent Maguire, was a cook and ...
9: The Ice Storm, Deconstructing Harry, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Brothers, The Great Gatsby, Spider-Man: No Way Home
93. 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 ...
12: Friends (TV Series), The 40 Year Old Virgin, Night at the Museum, Parks and Recreation (TV Series), Monsters vs. Aliens, This Is the End, Le Petit Prince, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
94. Wesley Snipes
Actor | Blade
Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York City, where he very early decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career. He attended ...
4: Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity, The Expendables 3
95. Pedro Pascal
Actor | The Last of Us
Pedro Pascal is a Chilean-born actor. He is best known for portraying the roles of Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), Javier Peña in the Netflix series Narcos (2015), the titular character in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019) and Joel Miller in the...
6: Game of Thrones (TV Series), Narcos (TV Series), The Equalizer 2, The Mandalorian (TV Series), Wonder Woman 1984, The Last of Us (TV Series)
96. 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 ...
6: The Fifth Element, Jackie Brown, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3, Silver Linings Playbook
97. Charlie Sheen
Actor | Two and a Half Men
Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, in New York City. His father, actor Martin Sheen (born Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez), was at the time just breaking into the business, with performances on Broadway. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art ...
5: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon, Wall Street, Two and a Half Men (TV Series), Due Date
98. Jon Bernthal
Actor | The Wolf of Wall Street
Jon Bernthal was born and raised in Washington D.C., the son of Joan (Marx) and Eric Bernthal, a lawyer. His grandfather was musician Murray Bernthal. Jon went to study at The Moscow Art Theatre School, in Moscow, Russia, where he also played professional baseball in the European professional ...
10: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Ghost Writer, The Pacific (TV Mini-Series), The Walking Dead (TV Series), The Wolf of Wall Street, Sicario, Daredevil (TV Series), The Punisher (TV Series), Ford v Ferrari, King Richard
99. Jean-Claude Van Damme
Actor | Double Impact
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...
4: Bloodsport, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Expendables 2, Kung Fu Panda 3
100. Jason Statham
Actor | Crank
Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman ...
16: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Transporter, The Italian Job, Collateral, Cellular, Transporter 2, Crank, Transporter 3, Crank: High Voltage, The Expendables, The Expendables 2, Parker, The Expendables 3, Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
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