Best 100 Actors
by tca35 | created - 04 May 2011 | updated - 17 May 2015 | PublicBEST 100 ACTORS (Not in chronological order according to ability or likability)
1. Louis Garrel
Actor | The Dreamers
Louis Garrel was born on June 14, 1983 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Dreamers (2003), Little Women (2019) and The Innocent (2022). He has been married to Laetitia Casta since June 10, 2017. They have one child. He was previously married to Golshifteh Farahani.
2. Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Actor | La forêt de quinconces
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet was born on December 4, 1987 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Fool Moon (2016), Love Songs (2007) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010).
3. Melvil Poupaud
Actor | Laurence Anyways
Melvil Poupaud was born on January 26, 1973 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Laurence Anyways (2012), Speed Racer (2008) and Time to Leave (2005).
4. Gaspard Ulliel
Actor | Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Gaspard Ulliel's dream had always been to direct a movie, and after completing his studies at the lycée (French high school), he majored in cinema at the University of Saint-Denis, and began his acting career.
He was born in Paris, to Christine, a stylist and runway show producer, and Serge Ulliel, ...
5. George Babluani
Actor | 13 Tzameti
George Babluani is known for 13 Tzameti (2005), Metamorphoses (2014) and Money (2017).
6. Michael Pitt
Actor | The Dreamers
Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model and musician. A casting agent, whom Pitt mistook as a police officer attempting to arrest him, noticed him and recommended him for a guest role on the television series Dawson's Creek (1998) (he played Henry Parker in 15 episodes...
7. Alexander Skarsgård
Actor | The Legend of Tarzan
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Valter Skarsgård. For most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in Europe but had not yet ...
8. Guillaume Depardieu
Actor | Ne touchez pas la hache
Guillaume Depardieu was born on April 7, 1971 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Duchess of Langeais (2007), Tous les matins du monde (1991) and Pola X (1999). He was married to Elise Ventre. He died on October 13, 2008 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
9. Ran Khalil Danker
Actor | Einayim Pekukhoth
Ran Khalil Danker was born on January 7, 1983 in Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for Eyes Wide Open (2009), Miguel (2018) and The Gordin Cell (2012).
10. Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Actor | Une vieille maîtresse
Fu'ad Aït Aattou was born on November 2, 1980 in France. He is an actor, known for The Last Mistress (2007), Horsehead (2014) and What the Day Owes the Night (2012).
11. Gilles Guillain
Actor | Circle of Shadows
Gilles Guillain was born on May 11, 1982 in Santafe de Bogotá, Colombia. He is an actor, known for Circle of Shadows, Brief Crossing (2001) and Le prestige de la mort (2006).
12. 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 ...
13. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
14. Daniel Hendler
Director | Norberto apenas tarde
Daniel Hendler was born on January 3, 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is an actor and director, known for Norberto's Deadline (2010), El candidato (2016) and Phase 7 (2010). He has been married to Ana Katz since 2008. They have two children.
15. Leonardo Sbaraglia
Actor | Dolor y gloria
Leonardo Sbaraglia was born on June 30, 1970 in Sáenz Peña, Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor, known for Pain and Glory (2019), The Silence of the Sky (2016) and Intacto (2001).
16. Eduardo Noriega
Actor | The Last Stand
Eduardo Noriega Gómez was born in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. The youngest of 7 siblings, he had shown a very big talent for artistic activities since he was a child. He began taking piano lessons and got into the Santander Music Conservatory, where he studied for five years. His music professors ...
17. Juan Diego Botto
Actor | La Celestina
Juan Diego Botto was born on August 29, 1975 in Buenos Aires City, Distrito Federal, Argentina. He is an actor and director, known for La Celestina (1996), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and On the Fringe (2022). He has been married to Olga Rodriguez since 2015. They have one child.
18. Benjamin Bonenfant
Actor | Law & Order
Benjamin Bonenfant is known for Law & Order (1990), The Good Fight (2017) and Bull (2016).
19. Grégoire Colin
Director | Lisières
Grégoire Colin was born on July 25, 1975 in Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for On the Edge (2012), La baie du renard (2009) and Nénette and Boni (1996).
20. Zohar Strauss
Actor | Einayim Pekukhoth
Zohar Strauss was born on March 4, 1972 in Haifa, Israel. He is an actor, known for Eyes Wide Open (2009), Magic Men (2014) and Mary Magdalene (2018).
21. Nicolas Duvauchelle
Actor | Polisse
Touted as a rebel, Duvauchelle seem to be one of the most promising young actors in France and Europe. While studying to become a pharmacy employee, he was discovered in a boxing club in Paris. After some auditions, he starred in Le petit voleur (1999), and many other films such as Snowboarder (...
22. 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 ...
23. Benoît Magimel
Actor | La pianiste
Son of a nurse and a bank employee, Benoît Magimel was born in Paris and grew up there. At age 12, he played Momo in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) by Étienne Chatiliez. He stopped his studies at age 16 to become an actor.
But he had a dual personality: on one hand the man of low budget films ...
24. Tahar Rahim
Actor | Un prophète
Tahar Rahim was born on July 4, 1981 in Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France. He is an actor, known for A Prophet (2009), The Past (2013) and The Mauritanian (2021). He has been married to Leïla Bekhti since 2010.
25. Romain Duris
Actor | De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Appealing actor Romain Duris is the exact example of those who arrived in the movie industry by chance, and to stardom without really desiring it. Discovered by a casting director while he was waiting in front of a high school in Paris, he was offered a role. Between popular successes such as Good ...
26. Sergey Bodrov
Actor | Brat
Sergei Bodrov Jr. was born on December 27th, 1971 to producer and director Sergei Bodrov. He made his film debut in his father's Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) (Prisoner of the mountains) for which he won a Nika. From then on Sergei's career began. In 1997 he played a lead role in Brother (1997) ...
27. Gael García Bernal
Actor | Mozart in the Jungle
Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal, an actress/model & José Ángel García, an actor/director. His stepfather's cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. He began his acting career as a child, working w/ his parents in a variety of plays. At 14, he starred in a soap opera called El ...
28. Stanislas Merhar
Actor | Nettoyage à sec
Stanislas Merhar was born on January 23, 1971 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for Dry Cleaning (1997), Almayer's Folly (2011) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1998).
29. Samuel Le Bihan
Actor | Le pacte des loups
Smiling, talented, eclectic actor Samuel Le Bihan seems to be one of the most popular actors in France and Europe. He acceded to stardom thanks to movies like Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), Jet Set (2000), Shooting Stars (2002) ('Shooting Stars'), The Code (2002) ('The Code') and He Loves Me, He ...
30. Vincent Cassel
Actor | Black Swan
Blue-eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and a journalist mother, Sabine Litique. Often labeled as a tough guy because of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine (1995), the young actor, ...
31. Pablo Echarri
Actor | El elegido
Pablo Echarri was born on September 21, 1969 in Sarandí, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor and producer, known for The One (2011), Montecristo (2006) and The Method (2005). He has been married to Nancy Dupláa since February 10, 2007. They have one child.
32. Viggo Mortensen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...
33. Eric Bana
Actor | Dirty John
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family ...
34. Benno Fürmann
Actor | Speed Racer
Benno Fürmann was born on 17 January 1972 in Berlin, Germany and worked as a waiter, bouncer and drifter before attending acting lessons at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. After returning to Germany, he played several minor parts in movie and television projects until his breakthrough ...
35. Martin Compston
Actor | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Martin Compston grew up in Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire. He spent his teen years going to see soccer (football) team Celtic with his brother Barry and dreamed one day he would play for them. He attended St. Columba's High School in Gourock, Inverclyde, where he passed through his Standard ...
36. Liam Browne
Actor | Brilliantlove
Liam Browne is known for The Orgasm Diaries (2010), The Night Runner (2014) and The Second Coming: Brought to You in Low Definition (2014).
37. Jack Plotnick
Actor | Girls Will Be Girls
Jack Plotnick was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Girls Will Be Girls (2003), Gods and Monsters (1998) and Space Station 76 (2014).
38. Xavier Dolan
Actor | J'ai tué ma mère
Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for I Killed My Mother (2009), Tom at the Farm (2013) and Heartbeats (2010).
39. Alberto Ammann
Actor | Celda 211
In 2009, Alberto Ammann went from being an unknown drama student to becoming one of Spain's best known actors with just one movie. The previous year, Ammann joined the ranks of Penelope Cruz, Jordi Molla and Elena Anaya when he won a coveted spot on the list of Caras Nuevas, a discovery initiative ...
40. Yannick Renier
Director | Carnivores
Yannick Renier was born on March 29, 1975 in Brussels, Belgium. He is an actor and director, known for Carnivores (2018), Love Songs (2007) and Septième ciel Belgique (2005).
41. Xavier Lafitte
Actor | Yves Saint Laurent
Xavier Lafitte was born on August 8, 1974 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Yves Saint Laurent (2014), Ainsi soufflait le vent (2015) and Transferts (2017).
42. Dragos Bucur
Actor | The Way Back
Dragos Bucur is a famous Romanian film actor and producer.He was born on June 13, 1977 in Bucuresti, Romania. He graduated from University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1999 .In 1998, he plays first role in the movie Next Stop Paradise. Other notable roles in Boogie (2008),Politist, ...
43. Thomas Coumans
Actor | Voleurs de chevaux
Thomas Coumans was born on September 16, 1984 in Belgium. He is an actor, known for In the Arms of My Enemy (2007), Transferts (2017) and Arrêtez-moi (2013).
44. David Call
Actor | Insidious: The Red Door
David Call was born on August 14, 1982 in Issaquah, Washington, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Insidious: The Red Door (2023), Depraved (2019) and Tiny Furniture (2010).
45. Vincent Rottiers
Actor | Renoir
A rising star in French cinema, this young actor has received three nominations at the César, the highest Awards in the French Film Industry. He was born June 17, 1986 in Evry, in Essonne. As a schoolboy, he took acting classes displaying an early interest in comedy. It was a chance casting at age ...
46. Charles Berling
Actor | Ridicule
Charles Berling was born on the 30th of April 1958, in Saint-Mandé in Val de Marne, France. His father was a doctor in Toulon and his mother was an English teacher. At the age of 15, he began theater at school with his brother. His interest in acting grew thanks to his love in literature for ...
47. Jean Dujardin
Actor | The Artist
In 1995 he began his first one man show, the same year he met Bruno Salomone, Eric Collado, Emmanuel Joucla and Eric Massot with whom he created the "Nous Ç Nous". In 1999, he became "Loulou" in Un gars, une fille (1999). This part permitted him to show his talent to a larger public. Since the end ...
48. Isaïe Sultan
Actor | Domaine
Isaïe Sultan is known for Domain (2009), Boys Like Us (2014) and Xanadu (2011).
49. Arthur Dupont
Actor | Bus Palladium
Arthur Dupont was born in 1985 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France. He is an actor, known for Bus Palladium (2010), Arsène Lupin (2004) and Victor & Célia (2019).
50. Benoît McGinnis
Actor | Les amours imaginaires
Benoît McGinnis is known for Heartbeats (2010), The Hair of the Beast (2010) and Le banquet (2008).
51. François Arnaud
Actor | The Borgias
François Arnaud was born on July 5, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Borgias (2011), Blindspot (2015) and I Killed My Mother (2009).
52. Niels Schneider
Actor | Les amours imaginaires
Niels Schneider was born on January 18, 1987 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for Heartbeats (2010), Le rite (2022) and I Killed My Mother (2009).
53. Jérémie Elkaïm
Actor | La guerre est déclarée
Jérémie Elkaïm was born on August 29, 1978 in Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Declaration of War (2011), Come Undone (2000) and Hand in Hand (2012).
54. Gilles Lellouche
Actor | Ne le dis à personne
Gilles Lellouche was born on July 5, 1972 in Savigny-sur-Orge, Essonne, France. He is an actor and director, known for Tell No One (2006), Sink or Swim (2018) and Beating Hearts (2024).
55. Jan Cornet
Actor | La piel que habito
Jan Cornet was born on February 24, 1982 in Terrassa, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is an actor and director, known for The Skin I Live In (2011), Red Lights (2012) and Risen (2016).
56. 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, ...
57. Jérémie Renier
Actor | In Bruges
Jérémie Renier was born on January 6, 1981 in Brussels, Belgium. He is an actor and writer, known for In Bruges (2008), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and My Way (2012).
58. Matthias Schoenaerts
Actor | De rouille et d'os
Matthias Schoenaerts was born on December 8, 1977 in Antwerp, Belgium. His mother, Dominique Wiche, was a costume designer, translator, and French teacher, and his father was actor Julien Schoenaerts. He made his film debut at the age of 13 alongside his father in the Belgian film Daens (1992), ...
59. Guillaume Gouix
Director | Amore mio
Guillaume Gouix grew up in the community of Cabriès, which is in the department Bouches-Du-Rhône, where he spent his childhood. After a brief appearance in a TV-movie he started to study acting at the Conservatory of Marseille. Later on he continued his studies at a regional drama school in Cannes,...
60. Nicolas Maury
Actor | Garçon chiffon
Nicolas Maury was born on October 14, 1980 in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He is an actor and director, known for My Best Part (2020), Paris, I Love You (2006) and Knife + Heart (2018).
61. Vladimir Svirskiy
Actor | V tumane
Vladimir Svirskiy was born on December 7, 1982 in Borisov, Belarus, USSR [now Barysaw, Belarus]. He is an actor, known for In the Fog (2012), Shchit otechestva (2007) and Sheena667 (2019).
62. Raphaël Personnaz
Actor | Anna Karenina
Raphaël Personnaz was born on July 23, 1981 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Anna Karenina (2012), The Princess of Montpensier (2010) and Marius (2013).
63. Yiftach Klein
Actor | Entebbe
Yiftach Klein is a television, film, and stage actor with a career spanning two decades. Most recently, his performance in the series Children in the Woods earned him a Best Actor nomination at Series Mania 2022. Klein co-starred in the feature film Fill the Void, which The New York Times cited as ...
64. Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
Actor | The Informer
Mateusz Kosciukiewicz was born on May 1, 1986 in Nowy Tomysl, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is an actor and writer, known for Wszystko, co kocham (2009), Matka Teresa od kotów (2010), W imie... (2013) and Twarz (2018) - movie that won the Silver Bear at the International Film Festival in Berlin. He has...
65. Oded Leopold
Actor | 15 Years
Oded Leopold is known for 15 Years (2019), Juda (2017) and Fauda (2015).
66. Matthieu Charneau
Actor | Um Fio de Baba Escarlate
Born in Chateauroux, France, Matthieu Charneau moved to Paris after high school where he applied and was accepted into the prestigious Cours Florent, a legendary French acting school.
Soon thereafter a string of successful short-films followed, most notably Coup de Grace, directed by Justin Wu, ...
67. Maxime Dorian
Actor | Les marais criminels
Maxime Dorian was born on April 3, 1982 in Les Ulis, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. He is an actor, known for Les marais criminels (2010), Demi-soeur (2013) and Vive la crise (2017).
68. Antonio de la Torre
Actor | Balada triste de trompeta
Antonio studied journalism, but he always knew he wanted to be an actor. He worked as a sports journalist in Canal Sur Radio and Television. During this period, he often traveled to Madrid so he could assist to the Cristina Rota acting school. His first role in cinema was in Los peores años de ...
69. Matila Malliarakis
Actor | Hors les murs
Matila Malliarakis is known for Beyond the Walls (2012), The Returned (2012) and Résistance (2014).
70. Pierre Niney
Actor | Yves Saint Laurent
Pierre Niney was born in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), on March 13, 1989. He began his acting career at the age of eleven and joined the Comédie-Française troupe on October 16, 2010, when he was only twenty-one, which made him the youngest resident of the troupe. After several appearances in TV ...
71. Florian Stetter
Actor | Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
Florian Stetter was born in Munich on August 2, 1977 and lived in Regensburg until the age of 18. In 1998, he began training as an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. Stetter then worked on various German, Austrian and Swiss stages (including the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, ...
72. Tom Schilling
Actor | Oh Boy
Tom Schilling was born on February 10, 1982 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for A Coffee in Berlin (2012), Before the Fall (2004) and Who Am I (2014).
73. Antoine Olivier Pilon
Actor | Mommy
Antoine Olivier Pilon was born on June 23, 1997 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Mommy (2014), Most Wanted (2020) and 1:54 (2016).
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