Coolest Names
by Wiggmortem | created - 24 May 2012 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicBest and coolest sounding celebrity names. Taking suggestions.
1. Max Records
Actor | Where the Wild Things Are
Max Records was born on June 18, 1997 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is an actor, known for Where the Wild Things Are (2009), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) and The Brothers Bloom (2008).
2. Rob Riggle
Actor | The Daily Show
Comedian, actor and United States Marine Corps Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Robert Allen Riggle, Jr. was born April 21, 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Sandra (Shrout) and Robert Allen Riggle, who worked in insurance. Riggle has amassed notable television credits and has also earned roles in many ...
3. Dax Flame
Actor | Project X
Dax Flame was born on November 5, 1991 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Project X (2012), 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014).
4. Edward Woodward
Actor | The Wicker Man
British actor Edward Woodward made a highly successful transition into Hollywood TV stardom in the mid 1980s thanks to a popular dramatic series. Possessing a magnetic, yet coldly handsome demeanor in the same mold as Christopher Plummer, he was born Edward Albert Arthur Woodward on June 1, 1930, ...
5. Moon Bloodgood
Actress | Terminator Salvation
Moon Bloodgood was born on September 20, 1975 in Alliance, Nebraska, USA. She is an actress, known for Terminator Salvation (2009), Faster (2010) and The Sessions (2012). She was previously married to Grady Hall.
6. Rip Torn
Actor | Men in Black
Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, the son of Thelma Mary (Spacek) and Elmore Rudolph Torn, who was an agriculturalist and economist, credited with popularizing the custom of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. "Rip" is a family name, taken by ...
7. Imogen Poots
Actress | Vivarium
British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer ...
8. Mackintosh Muggleton
Actor | 28 Weeks Later
Mackintosh Muggleton was born on February 16, 1994. He is an actor and director, known for 28 Weeks Later (2007), The Man in the Mist (2016) and Masters and Vices.
9. Verne Troyer
Actor | The Love Guru
With a decades-long career as an actor and stuntman, Verne Troyer was best known for playing "Mini-Me," Dr. Evil's smaller and more concentrated pure evil protégé, in the hit comedies Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and for his role in Harry ...
10. Derek Deadman
Actor | Time Bandits
The chances are, you have seen Derek Deadman in a movie - but just don't realize it! He is one of those actors to whom you instantly recognize the face, but not the name.
He has starred in a whole array of films and television series since the 1970s, playing normally minor roles, generally as the ...
11. Kick Gurry
Actor | Edge of Tomorrow
Kick Gurry was born on May 25, 1978 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and director, known for Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Spartan (2004) and Speed Racer (2008).
12. Genesis Rodriguez
Actress | The Umbrella Academy
Genesis Rodriguez was born in Miami, Florida. She is the daughter of José Luis Rodríguez 'El Puma', the famous Venezuelan singer and actor, and Carolina Perez, a Cuban model. She has two half-sisters. She was educated at the Carrolton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami. From childhood, Rodriguez ...
13. Nell Tiger Free
Actress | Game of Thrones
Nell Tiger Free was born in October 1999. She lives in Britain with her parents and older sister. She is a singer/actress. She has been in Mr Stink (2012) and has recently filmed Endeavour, an ITV television series.
14. Wes Craven
Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.
Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...
15. Rider Strong
Actor | Boy Meets World
Rider Strong is an American actor from San Francisco. He has often worked as a voice actor in animated series. His best known roles were those of rebellious teenager Shawn Hunter in the sitcom "Boy Meets World" (1993-2000), football quarterback Brick Flagg in the action comedy series "Kim Possible"...
16. Liev Schreiber
Actor | Spotlight
Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father, Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in The Keeper (1976). His mother is from a working-class Jewish family from Poland and ...
17. Jewel Staite
Actress | Firefly
Born in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada, Jewel Staite spent the first three years of life living in Maui, Hawaii. She started out as a model and was recommended at the age of six to act. She won an award as best actor in "Meeting Dad," a Vancouver, British Columbia Film School short.
18. Armie Hammer
Actor | Call Me by Your Name
Armand Douglas Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Dru Ann (Mobley) and Michael Armand Hammer, a businessman. His great-grandfather, Armand Hammer, was a prominent tycoon and philanthropist who ran the company Occidental Petroleum for many decades. Armie's ancestry includes ...
19. Armin Rohde
Actor | Lola rennt
After school, he completed his training at the Folkwang School in Essen from 1980 to 1984 and clown training with Pierre Byland. Rohde then worked at various theaters in Bielefeld and Bochum and played in the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus Bochum from 1987 to 1995. His brother Uwe Rohde, who was ...
20. Wilfried Hochholdinger
Actor | X: First Class
Wilfried Hochholdinger was born on October 8, 1962 in Bamberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for X: First Class (2011), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Physician (2013).
21. Powers Boothe
Actor | Sudden Death
Incisive, gravelly-voiced screen tough guy Powers Boothe was born on June 1, 1948 in Snyder, Texas, a sharecropper's son. Used to hard physical work "chopping cotton" as a youngster, he went on to become the first member of his family to attend university. He then proceeded to study acting via a ...
22. Texas Battle
Actor | Death Valley
As the song states, "The Stars at Night are big and bright ... Deep in the Heart of Texas!" That's what Texas Battle has: heart. A heart and desire for acting.
Texas stars in the feature, WRONG PLACE, opposite Bruce Willis and Ashley Greene, in the role of 'Captain East.' Other recent roles include ...
23. Evangeline Lilly
Actress | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia, by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of ...
24. Scoot McNairy
Actor | Argo
During the early 2000s, actor Scoot McNairy quickly came to specialize in portrayals of colorful and individualistic young men with a slightly rebellious edge. McNairy began during the early to mid-2000s, with bit parts in films including Wonderland (2003), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), and Art ...
25. In Bum Hwang
Animation_department | Samâ uôzu
In Bum Hwang is known for Summer Wars (2009), Claymore (2007) and Sword of the Stranger (2007).
26. Vin Diesel
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' ...
27. Tip Tipping
Actor | Aliens
Tip Tipping was born on February 13, 1958 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for Aliens (1986), Lifeforce (1985) and Brazil (1985). He died on February 5, 1993 in Brunton, Northumberland, England, UK.
28. Sugar Lyn Beard
Actress | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Sugar Lyn Beard was born on August 27, 1981 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016), Sausage Party (2016) and The Package (2018).
29. Wilf Scolding
Actor | Andor
Wilf Scolding is known for Andor (2022), Game of Thrones (2011) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
30. Judge Reinhold
Actor | Beverly Hills Cop
Judge Reinhold has been in over seventy-five motion picture and television roles and enjoys a 25-year relationship with an international audience of all ages. His films include Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ruthless People, and Disney's Christmas franchise, The Santa Clause 1, 2 & 3. ...
31. Slim Pickens
Actor | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy ...
32. Chosen Jacobs
Actor | It
Chosen Jacobs is definitely a rising star! Although new to Hollywood, he has always been able to entertain a crowd.
Chosen Jacobs is best known for his role as Mike Hanlon in the box office hit film, "IT Chapter One" and "IT Chapter Two". He has a recurring role on the hit CBS show "Hawaii Five-0," ...
33. Nat Faxon
Actor | The Way Way Back
Nathaniel Wales Faxon was born on October 11, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent his childhood living in the seaside community of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He joined the Brookwood School while in Boston, and then attended the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire; he also graduated ...
34. Dick Butkus
Actor | Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Richard J. Butkus, "Dick", was born in Chicago, Illinois, December 9, 1942. He graduated from the University of Illinois where he was a two time All- American line backer. A first round draft pick of the Chicago Bears, Dick played for them from 1965-1973, and was named All-Pro linebacker seven ...
35. Engelbert Humperdinck
Soundtrack | Game Night
Engelbert Humperdinck was born on May 2, 1936 in Madras, Madras Presidency, British India [now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India]. He is a music artist and actor, known for Game Night (2018), You Were Never Really Here (2017) and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996). He was previously married to ...
36. CCH Pounder
Actress | The Shield
The CCH stands for Carol Christine Hilaria, her birth name. Most of her characters are enriched with positive attributes -- strength, confidence, integrity, strong-mindedness -- and it is a testament to the abilities of this four-time Emmy nominated actress that she continues on such a high plane ...
37. Morgan Spector
Actor | The Plot Against America
Morgan Spector was born on October 4, 1980 in Sonoma County, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Plot Against America (2020), Homeland (2011) and Boardwalk Empire (2010). He has been married to Rebecca Hall since September 26, 2015. They have one child.
38. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Actress | Belle
Gugu Mbatha-Raw was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. Her father, Patrick Mbatha, is a Black South African doctor, and her mother, Anne Raw, is a Caucasian English nurse. Her parents separated when she was a year old, and she was brought up by her mother ...
39. Finn Wolfhard
Actor | It
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, actor Finn Wolfhard stars as Mike Wheeler in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series Stranger Things (2016). The hit series has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a ...
40. Constance Zimmer
Actress | UnREAL
Constance Zimmer is well-known for playing a number of standout characters in notable projects. Starting in 2005, and for six seasons, she played the role of "Dana Gordon' on HBO's critically acclaimed series "Entourage," she reprises that role when Warner Bros. released the "Entourage" film on the...
41. Rain Dove Dubilewski
Actress | Madness
Vogue, Buzzfeed, Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmo, Harper's Bazaar, Mashable, People.com and many more have all featured Rain Dove. The androgynous model/actor/speaker. She is known for for TED talk about identity, controversial films, and several viral campaigns including a lingerie shoot challenging ...
42. Ser'Darius Blain
Actor | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Ser'Darius Blain was born on March 10, 1987 in the USA. He is an actor and director, known for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Will Trent (2023) and American Underdog (2021).
43. Silas Archer Gustav
Actor | The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Silas Archer Gustav is known for The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018), Lifted and Code 13: Unreadable (2022).
44. Bobcat Goldthwait
Director | God Bless America
Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait, born May 26, 1962, is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, and star of films and television shows. He is most widely known for his at times screechy voice and scattergun delivery during his standup comedy performances and some film roles.
He was born ...
45. Wings Hauser
Actor | The Insider
The son of writer/producer/actor Dwight Hauser, who worked on (amongst many other projects) the classic "Whistler" radio series, and Geraldine Hauser (the daughter of author Tom Thieness), he raised a child as a single father, having arrived in Hollywood "with thirty dollars and a box of pampers" -...
46. Percy Daggs III
Actor | Veronica Mars
Percy Daggs III was born in Long Beach, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Veronica Mars (2004), Veronica Mars (2014) and iZombie (2015).
47. Cosmo Segurson
Writer | The Cuphead Show!
Cosmo Segurson was born on March 18, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer, known for The Cuphead Show! (2022), Ed Wood (1994) and Camp Lazlo! (2005).
48. Whip Hubley
Actor | Top Gun
Whip Hubley was born on May 17, 1957 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Top Gun (1986), Executive Decision (1996) and Species (1995). He has been married to Dinah Minot since June 4, 1988. They have three children.
49. Udo Kier
Actor | Hunters
Beginning his life with the same flair for the dramatic that would come to define his career, Udo Kier was born in Köln, Germany near the end of the 2nd world war. The hospital was bombed and buried Kier and his mother in the rubble. Both survived, and Kier would later move to London as a young ...
50. Hale Appleman
Actor | The Magicians
Graduate of famed LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts.
Studied at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.
Starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival production of David Rabe's Streamers, directed by Scott Ellis. ('08/'09 Season)
Played Jesus in the New York Premiere of Sarah ...
51. White Cross
Producer | Cranial Sacral: Coma
White Cross is known for Cranial Sacral: Coma, Masha's Mushroom and Dr. Quarantine.
52. Aya Cash
Actress | You're the Worst
Aya Rachel Cash is an American actress, was born in San Francisco, California, to poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash. On her mother's side, she is the granddaughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie. Her father's upstairs neighbor, Margarita ...
53. Rubén Blades
Actor | Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Rubén Blades was born on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, Panama. He is an actor and composer, known for Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), The Counselor (2013) and Safe House (2012). He has been married to Luba Mason since 2006. He was previously married to Lisa Lebenzon.
54. Chester Rushing
Actor | Fright Krewe
Chester Rushing is a Latino/American actor & musician best known for his role of Tommy H. on Netflix's critically acclaimed series, "Stranger Things". His work spans such Films/TV as, "Daybreak" (Netflix), "Beyond The Law", "NCIS: New Orleans" & "Logan". When Chester is not filming he streams on ...
55. Biff Wiff
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Biff Wiff is known for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Self Reliance (2023) and 9-1-1 (2018).
56. Scroobius Pip
Actor | Taboo
Scroobius Pip (born 3 August 1981) is a UK spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip sparked by their debut single 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' and has gone on to have numerous top 40 ...
57. Toni Trucks
Actress | SEAL Team
Toni Trucks is an American theater, film, and television actress.
Trucks studied Musical Theatre at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Upon graduation, she moved to New York where she performed regionally before relocating to Los Angeles to make her television debut as the ...
58. Lucien Laviscount
Actor | The Bye Bye Man
Lucien Laviscount was born on June 9, 1992 in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Bye Bye Man (2017), Snatch (2017) and Emily in Paris (2020).
59. Cush Jumbo
Actress | The Good Wife
Cush Jumbo is a British actress and writer best known for playing Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife. She was Olivier nominated for the role of Marc Anthony in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female production of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse/St Anns Warehouse NYC) and won an Evening Standard Award for writing ...
60. Rusty Schwimmer
Actress | The Perfect Storm
Rusty Schwimmer was raised in Chicago, where she grew up a fan of the theater, music and the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears and Chicago Bulls. In her formative years, she endeavored to be a singer but quickly found her way to acting and was soon drawn from the world of theater in Chicago to the land ...
61. Dack Rambo
Actor | Gunsmoke
Dack (given name Norman) and identical twin brother, Dirk Rambo (Orman), were born in sunny California in 1941. Dack's noticeable difference was a mole on his left cheek. Both happened upon an acting career, at age 21, after being discovered by Loretta Young for her TV show, while sitting in a ...
62. Diego Luna
Actor | Rogue One
Diego Luna Alexander was born on December 29, 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Alejandro Luna and Fiona Alexander, who worked as a costume designer. His father is Mexican and his mother was British, of Scottish and English descent. His mother died in a car accident when Diego was only two. He soon ...
63. O-T Fagbenle
Actor | The Handmaid's Tale
O-T fagbenle is an Emmy nominated actor, director, writer and producer. From drama to comedy, writing, producing, and acting, O-T Fagbenle has become one of the most-watched talents in the entertainment industry today. He made history in 2020 by becoming the first person to create, write, direct, ...
64. Scoop Wasserstein
Producer | The Outfit
Scoop Wasserstein is known for The Outfit (2022), Effective (2010) and Mind Fall.
65. Joplin Sibtain
Actor | Memory Man
Actor Joplin Sibtain was born in Waltham Forest, London. He had early desires to be a pianist but, at age thirteen, went to a Community Centre in Hackney where he first learned about acting. After winning a scholarship to The Webber Douglas Academy of Drama, in London, he worked for several major ...
66. Turbo Kong
Actor | Batman Begins
Turbo Kong was born on June 28, 1968 in Hong Kong. He is an actor, known for Batman Begins (2005), Game of Death - The six Doors to Hell and Downtown Torpedoes (1997).
67. Fred Asparagus
Actor | Three Amigos!
Fred Asparagus was born on June 10, 1947 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Three Amigos! (1986), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) and Colors (1988). He was married to Sandy Acord. He died on June 30, 1998 in Panorama City, California, USA.
68. Daisy Head
Actress | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Daisy Head was born on March 7, 1991 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) and Fallen (2016).
69. Debi Derryberry
Actress | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Debi Derryberry, is best known for voicing Jimmy Neutron in the Academy Award-nominated film Jimmy Neutron-Boy Genius. She also stars in Adult Swim's Tigtone as the voice of Helpy. In Netflix's Emmy Nominated F is For Family Debi voices Maureen, Philip, Bridget, Scott, Beatrice the Nurse and Kenny....
70. Polly Holliday
Actress | Gremlins
The normally erudite, soft-spoken and well-mannered Alabama-born (July 2, 1937) actress Polly Dean Holliday, daughter of a truck driver, accumulated quite an extensive theater background by the time she hit sassy, blue-collar stardom on 70s TV as gum-cracking waitress Florence Jean Castleberry on ...
71. Clemens Schick
Actor | Dogman
Clemens Schick was born on February 15, 1972 in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for DogMan (2023), Andor (2022) and Futuro Beach (2014).
72. Tank Dong
Actor | Skyfall
Tank Dong is known for Skyfall (2012), Falcon Team - Strike Back (2023) and Jue Lu Feng Sheng (2015).
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