All actors/actresses

101. Emma Stone

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...

Superbad (2007)
Zombieland (2009)
Easy A (2010)
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
The Help (2011)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Gangster Squad (2013)
Birdman (2014)
The Interview (2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
La La Land (2016)
Maniac (2018)
The Favourite (2018)
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Cruella (2021)

102. 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 ...

Into the Wild (2007)
The Hangover (2009)
Up in the Air (2009)
The Hangover Part II (2011)
Puss in Boots (2011)
The Hangover Part III (2013)
Birdman (2014)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Missing Link (2019)

103. Naomi Watts

Actress | Mulholland Dr.

Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, England to Myfanwy Edwards "Miv" (Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), Pink Floyd's road manager. Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when she was seven and she ...

Mulholland Dr. (2001)
21 Grams (2003)
King Kong (2005)
Inland Empire (2006)
Eastern Promises (2007)
The Impossible (2012)
Birdman (2014)
While We're Young (2014)
Bojack Horseman (2014)
St. Vincent (2014)
Demolition (2015)
Twin Peaks (2017)
Vice (2018)
Boss Level (2020)

104. Roy Scheider

Actor | Jaws

Lean, angular-faced and authoritatively spoken lead / supporting actor Roy Scheider obviously never heard the old actor's axiom about "never appearing with kids or animals" lest they overshadow your performance. Breaking that rule did him no harm, though, as he achieved pop cult status by finding, ...

The French Connection (1971)
Jaws (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)
Sorcerer (1977)
All That Jazz (1979)
Jurassic Park (1994)

105. Val Kilmer

Actor | The Doors

Val Kilmer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Swanette (Ekstadt) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer, who was a real estate developer and aerospace equipment distributor. His mother, born in Indiana, was from a Swedish family, and his father was from Texas. Val studied at Hollywood's ...

Top Gun (1986)
Willow (1988)
The Doors (1991)
True Romance (1993)
Tombstone (1993)
Batman Forever (1995)
Heat (1995)
Alexander (2004)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Kill the Irishman (2011)
The Snowman (2017)

106. Wes Studi

Actor | The Last of the Mohicans

From small-town Oklahoma native to internationally acclaimed actor and musician, Wes Studi credits his passion and multi-faceted background for his powerful character portrayals that forever changed a Hollywood stereotype. Within a few years of his arrival in Hollywood, Studi caught the attention ...

Dances with Wolves (1990)
The Doors (1991)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Heat (1995)
Avatar (2009)
A million Ways to die in the West (2014)
Hostiles (2017)
Soul (2020)

107. Tom Sizemore

Actor | Saving Private Ryan

Tom Sizemore rose in prominence throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy actor, sought by the most respected directors in the business.

Thomas Edward Sizemore, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Judith (Schannault), an ombudsman staff member, and Thomas Edward Sizemore, ...

True Romance (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Heat (1995)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Twin Peaks (2017)

108. 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 ...

Pusher (1996)
King Arthur (2004)
Pusher II (2004)
Adam's Apples (2005)
Casino Royale (2006)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
The Hunt (2012)
The Salvation (2014)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Polar (2019)
Another Round (2020)
Riders of Justice (2020)
Chaos Walking (2021)

109. Willem Dafoe

Actor | Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...

Platoon (1986)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Wild at Heart (1990)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Aviator (2004)
Inside Man (2006)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
John Carter (2012)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
John Wick (2014)
Finding Dory (2016)
The Great Wall (2016)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Death Note (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
Aquaman (2018)
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Togo (2019)
Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The Northman (2022)

110. 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 ...

The Green Mile (1999)
Matchstick Men (2003)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Moon (2009)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
7 Psychopaths (2012)
Mr. Right (2015)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)
Vice (2018)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Richard Jewell (2019)

111. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

Annie Hall (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Batman Returns (1992)
True Romance (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Antz (1998)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Kill the Irishman (2011)
7 Psychopaths (2012)
Eddie the Eagle (2015)
The Jungle Book (2016)

112. Tony Jaa

Actor | Ong-bak 3

Japanom Yeerum was born on February 5, 1976, in the northeastern province of Surin, Thailand. His parents were elephant herders. Jaa watched martial arts films as a young kid and began to emulate some of his idols, from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan to Jet Li. Jaa studied martial arts at the local ...

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
The Protector (2005)
Ong-Bak 2 (2008)
Ong-Bak 3 (2010)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

113. 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 ...

Atonement (2007)
Sherlock (2010)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Mowgli (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Good Omens (2019)
1917 (2019)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

114. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

Goldfinger (1964)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Time Bandits (1981)
Highlander (1986)
The Untouchables (1987)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Rock (1996)

115. 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...

Band of Brothers (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Layer Cake (2004)
Rocknrolla (2008)
Bronson (2008)
Inception (2010)
Warrior (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
This Means War (2012)
Lawless (2012)
Locke (2013)
Peaky Blinders (2013)
The Drop (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Legend (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
Dunkirk (2017)
Venom (2018)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

116. Domhnall Gleeson

Actor | Ex Machina

Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise (2010-2011), About Time (2013), Ex Machina (2015) and The Revenant (2015).

He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, alongside whom he has appeared in several films and ...

True Grit (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Black Mirror (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Dredd (2012)
About Time (2013)
Ex Machina (2014)
The Revenant (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
American Made (2017)
Mother! (2017)
Peter Rabbit (2018)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

117. Oscar Isaac

Actor | Ex Machina

Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking ...

Body of Lies (2008)
Drive (2011)
Sucker Punch (2011)
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Ex Machina (2014)
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Annihalation (2018)
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (2018)
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Triple Frontier (2019)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Dune (2021)

118. 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 ...

Ali G Indahouse (2002)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Sherlock (2010)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The World's End (2013)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Fargo (2014)
The First Avenger: Civil War (2016)
Cargo (2017)
Black Panther (2018)

119. 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. ...

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Blade Trinity (2004)
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Ted (2012)
R.I.P.D (2013)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Deadpool (2016)
Life (2017)
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Pokemon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
6 Underground (2019)
Free Guy (2021)
Red Notice (2021)
The Adam Project (2022)

120. 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 ...

Predators (2010)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
House of Cards (2013)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Free State of Jones (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse (2018)
Green Book (2018)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Eternals (2021)

121. Daisy Ridley

Actress | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress. She is best known for her breakthrough role as "Rey" in the 2015 film, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). Daisy was born in Westminster, London, on April 10, 1992. She is the daughter of Louise Fawkner-Corbett and Chris Ridley. Her ...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Peter Rabbit (2018)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Chaos Walking (2021)

122. Charlize Theron

Producer | Monster

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...

The Italian Job (2003)
Monster (2003)
Hancock (2008)
The Road (2009)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Long Shot (2019)
Bombshell (2019)

123. Nicholas Hoult

Actor | Mad Max: Fury Road

Nicholas Hoult was born on December 7, 1989 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK as Nicholas Caradoc Hoult. His parents are Glenis Hoult, a piano teacher and Roger Hoult, a pilot. He has three siblings, two sisters and one brother. His great-aunt was one of the most popular actresses of her time, ...

About a Boy (2002)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
The Favourite (2018)
Dark Phoenix (2019)

124. Billy Bob Thornton

Actor | Sling Blade

Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Virginia Roberta (Faulkner), a psychic, and William Raymond (Billy Ray) Thornton, an educator, high school history teacher, and basketball coach (now deceased). He is the older brother of James Donald (Jimmy Don) (born in ...

Tombstone (1993)
Dead Man (1995)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Fargo (2014)

125. Patrick Wilson

Actor | The Phantom of the Opera

Patrick Joseph Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, the son of Mary Kathryn (Burton), a voice teacher and professional singer, and John Franklin Wilson, a news anchor.

Wilson has a B.F.A. in Drama from Carnegie-Mellon University. His theater work has produced ...

Watchmen (2009)
Insidious (2010)
The A-Team (2010)
Prometheus (2012)
The Conjuring (2013)
Fargo (2014)
Stretch (2014)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Batman V Superman (2016)
The Founder (2016)
The Commuter (2018)
Aquaman (2018)
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
In the Tall Gras (2019)
Midway (2019)

126. Kurt Russell

Actor | Escape from New York

Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...

Escape from New York (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Tombstone (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Death Proof (2007)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
The Hateful 8 (2015)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)

127. Channing Tatum

Actor | 21 Jump Street

Channing Tatum was born in a small town, Cullman, Alabama, 50 miles north of Birmingham. He is the son of Kay (Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Matthew Tatum, who worked in construction. Growing up, he was full of energy and somewhat troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in ...

Public Enemies (2009)
The Eagle (2011)
21 Jump Street (2012)
Don Jon (2013)
22 Jump Street (2014)
Foxcatcher (2014)
The Hateful 8 (2015)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Free Guy (2021)

128. 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 ...

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Four Rooms (1995)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Hardcore Henry (2015)
Mr. Right (2015)
Twin Peaks (2017)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

129. Michael Madsen

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Michael Madsen is an enigmatic force in the entertainment industry, widely regarded as one of the most intense and compelling actors of our time. With an electrifying presence both on and off the screen, Madsen has captivated audiences worldwide with his mesmerizing performances, making an ...

The Doors (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004)
Sin City (2006)
The Hateful 8 (2015)
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)

130. Tim Robbins

Actor | Mystic River

Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...

Top Gun (1986)
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
High Fidelity (2000)
Mystic River (2003)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

131. 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 ...

Carlito's Way (1993)
The Game (1997)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Mystic River (2003)
21 Grams (2003)
Milk (2008)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Gangster Squad (2013)
Angry Birds (2016)
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Licorice Pizza (2021)

132. Kevin Bacon

Actor | Footloose

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.

Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...

Tremors (1990)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Sleepers (1996)
Mystic River (2003)
Death Sentence (2007)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Super (2010)
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
R.I.P.D (2013)
Patriots Day (2016)

133. Uma Thurman

Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Uma Karuna Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. She is the daughter of Nena Thurman (née Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge), a fashion model and socialite who now runs a mountain retreat, and of Robert Thurman (Robert Alexander ...

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Gattaca (1997)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

134. Bruce Willis

Actor | Die Hard

Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.

Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...

Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Hudson Hawk (1991)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Four Rooms (1995)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
12 Monkeys (1995)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Unbreakable (2000)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Sin City (2006)
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Planet Terror (2007)
The Expendables (2010)
RED (2010)
Looper (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Expandables 2 (2012)
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
RED 2 (2013)
Sin City 2 (2014)
Death Wish (2018)
Glass (2019)
Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

135. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...

Fight Club (1999)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
The King's Speech (2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Les Miserables (2012)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Suffragette (2015)
Ocean's Eight (2018)
Enola Holmes (2020)

136. Alicia Vikander

Actress | Ex Machina

Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved...

Ex Machina (2014)
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Tomb Raider (2018)
The Green Knight (2021)

137. Christoph Waltz

Actor | Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...

Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Django Unchained (2012)
Epic (2013)
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Spectre (2015)
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
The French Dispatch (2021)

138. Daniel Brühl

Actor | Rush

Daniel Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain. His father was German TV director Hanno Brühl (1937-2010), who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His Spanish mother was a teacher. He also has a brother and a sister, Oliver and Miriam. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he ...

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Rush (2013)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Nebenan (2021)
The King's Man (2021)

139. Liam Neeson

Actor | Kinsey

Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...

The Mission (1986)
Schindler's List (1993)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Batman Begins (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Taken (2008)
The A-Team (2010)
The Next Three Days (2010)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
The Grey (2011)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Battleship (2012)
Taken 2 (2012)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Non-Stop (2014)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Run All Night (2015)
Silence (2016)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
The Commuter (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Men in Black: International (2019)
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

140. Ken Watanabe

Actor | The Last Samurai

Ken Watanabe was born on October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Japan. Both of his parents were teachers: his mother taught general education and his dad taught calligraphy. He became interested in acting at the age of 24, when a director of England's National Theater Company, where he was studying, told him ...

The Last Samurai (2003)
Batman Begins (2005)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Inception (2010)
Godzilla (2014)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Pokemon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

141. 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...

Collateral (2004)
Miami Vice (2006)
The Kingdom (2007)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Django Unchained (2012)
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Baby Driver (2017)
Robin Hood (2018)
Just Mercy (2019)
Soul (2020)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

142. Walton Goggins

Actor | Justified

Walton Goggins is an actor of considerable versatility and acclaim who has delivered provocative performances in a multitude of feature films and television series. He won a Critics' Choice Award for his performance in the HBO comedy series "Vice Principals" and landed an Emmy nomination for his ...

Shanghai Noon (2000)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Predators (2010)
Lincoln (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Hateful 8 (2015)
American Ultra (2015)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Tomb Raider (2018)

143. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

Taxi Driver (1976)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Inside Man (2006)
Elysium (2013)
Hotel Artemis (2018)

144. Anthony Hopkins

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Chaplin (1992)
Bram Stokers Dracula (1992)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Alexander (2004)
Fracture (2007)
The Wolfman (2010)
Thor (2011)
RED 2 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Noah (2014)
Westworld (2016)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
The Two Popes (2019)
The Father (2020)

145. Bill Hader

Actor | The Skeleton Twins

Bill Hader is an American comedian and actor who is known for playing in Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013. He created and starred in the HBO show Barry. He also played Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Colonel Custer from Night at the Museum 2, Fear from Inside Out and ...

Superbad (2007)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Nicht at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
Men in Black 3 (2012)
22 Jump Street (2014)
Finding Dory (2016)
Sausage Party (2016)
Angry Birds (2016)
Power Rangers (2017)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
It Chapter Two (2019)

146. Seth Rogen

Producer | This Is the End

An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.

Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...

Donnie Darko (2001)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Superbad (2007)
Neighbors (2014)
22 Jump Street (2014)
The Interview (2014)
Sausage Party (2016)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Long Shot (2019)
The Lion King (2019)

147. 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 ...

Schindler's List (1993)
Red Dragon (2002)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
In Bruges (2008)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Skyfall (2012)
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Spectre (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Dolittle (2020)
The King's Man (2021)

148. Bill Murray

Actor | Lost in Translation

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...

Ghostbusters (1984)
Scrooged (1988)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Coffee & Cigarettes (2003)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Zombieland (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Monuments Men (2014)
St. Vincent (2014)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
The French Dispatch (2021)

149. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

Annie Hall (1977)
Alien (1979)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Aliens (1986)
Alien 3 (1992)
The Village (2004)
Avatar (2009)
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Chappie (2015)
Finding Dory (2016)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

150. Michael J. Fox

Actor | Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
The Frighteners (1996)

151. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

Awakenings (1990)
Aladdin (1992)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Insomnia (2002)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
The Butler (2013)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

152. 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...

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Dogma (1999)
Smokin' Aces (2006)
The Town (2010)
Argo (2012)
Gone Girl (2014)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Batman V Superman (2016)
Justice League (2017)
Triple Frontier (2019)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
The Last Duel (2021)

153. Stellan Skarsgård

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Stellan Skarsgård was born in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Gudrun (Larsson) and Jan Skarsgård. He became a star in his teens through the title role in the TV-series Bombi Bitt och jag (1968). Between the years 1972-88 he was employed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where...

Hunt for Red October (1990)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Ronin (1998)
King Athur (2004)
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End (2007)
Mama Mia (2008)
Angels & Demons
Thor (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Kraftidioten (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Chernobyl (2019)
Dune (2021)

154. Keira Knightley

Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Keira Christina Knightley was born March 26, 1985 in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born ...

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
King Arthur (2004)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Begin Again (2013)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Everest (2015)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

155. 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 ...

Trainspotting (1996)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Angels & Demons (2009)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Perfect Sense (2011)
The Impossible (2012)
Fargo (2014)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)

156. Gerard Butler

Actor | 300

Gerard James Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. His family is of Irish origin. Gerard spent some of his very early childhood in Montreal, Quebec, but was mostly raised, along with his older brother and sister, in his hometown of Paisley. His parents ...

300 (2006)
Rocknrolla (2008)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
London Has Fallen (2016)
Gods of Egypt (2016)
Geostorm (2017)
Den of Thieves (2018)
Hunter Killer (2018)

157. Ian McShane

Actor | Deadwood

A natural at portraying complex villains, anti-heroes, and charming heavies, Ian McShane is the classically trained, award-winning actor who has grabbed attention and acclaim from audiences and critics around the world with his unforgettable gallery of scoundrels, kings, mobsters and thugs.

And, now...

Sexy Beast (2000)
Death Race (2008)
Game of Thrones (2011)
Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
John Wick (2014)
Hercules (2014)
Grimsby (2016)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
American Gods (2017)
Hellboy (2019)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

158. Chris Penn

Actor | Reservoir Dogs

Christopher Shannon Penn was born on October 10, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, the third son of actress Eileen Ryan (née Annucci) and director, actor, and writer Leo Penn. His siblings are musician Michael Penn and actor Sean Penn. His father was from a Lithuanian Jewish/Russian Jewish family, ...

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
True Romance (1993)
Rush Hour (1998)

159. Steve Buscemi

Actor | Fargo

Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to...

Mystery Train (1989)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Dead Man (1995)
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Fargo (1996)
Con Air (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Grey Zone (2001)
Coffee & Cigarettes (2003)
Grown Ups (2010)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Hubie Halloween (2020)
The King of Staten Island (2020)

160. Chris Evans

Actor | The Avengers

Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (Capuano), who worked at the Concord Youth Theatre, and G. ...

Sunshine (2007)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Ant-Man (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Spiderman: Homecoming (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
Free Guy (2021)
Don't Look Up (2021)

161. Anthony Mackie

Actor | The Hurt Locker

Anthony Mackie is an American actor. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Martha (Gordon) and Willie Mackie, Sr., who owned a business, Mackie Roofing. Anthony has been featured in feature films, television series and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ...

8 Mile (2002)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Half Nelson (2006)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Real Steel (2011)
Black Mirror (2011)
Gangster Squad (2013)
Pain & Gain (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Ant-Man (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Triple 9 (2016)
Detroit (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
IO (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

162. 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 ...

The Bourne Identity (2002)
King Arthur (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
Inside Man (2006)
Sin City (2006)
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Killer Elite (2011)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Gemini Man (2019)

163. Rosario Dawson

Actress | Rent

This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawson's powerhouse talent stands out the most in edgy...

Kids (1995)
Men in Black II (2002)
Alexander (2004)
Sin City (2006)
Death Proof (2007)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill for (2014)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
The Mandalorian (2019)
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)

164. Ice Cube

Soundtrack | Friday

Ice Cube was born in South Central Los Angeles, to Doris (Benjamin), a custodian and hospital clerk, and Hosea Jackson, a UCLA groundskeeper. He first came to public notice as a singer and songwriter with the controversial and influential band N.W.A. His compositions with that group included many ...

Boyz in the Hood (1991)
21 Jump Street (2012)
22 Jump Street (2014)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

165. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

Alien (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Dead Man (1995)
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (2001)
Hellboy (2004)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Indiana Jones ánd the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Harrry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Hercules (2014)

166. Ed Harris

Actor | Appaloosa

By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.

Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Rock (1996)
The Truman Show (1998)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
The Way Back (2010)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Pain & Gain (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Run All Night (2015)
Westworld (2016)
Mother! (2017)
Kodachrome (2017)
Geostorm (2017)

167. Jennifer Connelly

Actress | A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Labyrinth (1986)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Noah (2014)
Only the Brave (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

168. 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 ...

Reality Bites (1994)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Gattaca (1997)
Training Day (2001)
Lord of War (2005)
The Purge (2013)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
First Reformed (2017)
Juliet, Naked (2018)
The Guilty (2021)
The Northman (2022)

169. 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 ...

The Thin Red Line (1998)
Urban Legend (1998)
Fight Club (1999)
Requiem For a Dream (2000)
American Psycho (2000)
Alexander (2004)
Lord of War (2005)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
The Outsider (2018)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

170. Rose Byrne

Actress | Spy

Rose Byrne was born in Balmain, Sydney, Australia. She is the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher.

She landed her first role in a movie, Dallas Doll (1994), when she was 15 years old.

Since then, Rose has appeared in a ...

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Troy (2004)
Sunshine (2007)
Insidious (2010)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Neighbors (2014)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Instant Family (2018)
Juliet, Naked (2018)
Peter Rabbit (2018)
I am Mother (2019)

171. Jeff Bridges

Actor | The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...

The Big Lebowski (1998)
Surf's Up (2007)
Iron Man (2008)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
True Grit (2010)
R.I.P.D (2013)
Hell Or High Water (2016)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Only the Brave (2017)
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

172. 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 ...

Weird Science (1985)
Chaplin (1992)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Richard III (1995)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Zodiac (2007)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Chef (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Dolittle (2020)

173. Julianne Moore

Actress | Far from Heaven

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...

The Fugitive (1993)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
Hannibal (2001)
Children of Men (2006)
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Don Jon (2013)
Non-Stop (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

174. Jamie Bell

Actor | Billy Elliot

Described by top film critic Mark Kermode as an "unbelievably versatile" actor, Jamie Bell was born in 1986 in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK, to Eileen (Matfin) and John Bell, a toolmaker. He comes from a family of dancers including his grandmother, mother, aunt, and ...

King Kong (2005)
Defiance (2008)
Jumper (2008)
The Eagle (2011)
Filth (2013)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
TURN (2014)
6 Days (2017)
Rocketman (2019)

175. Kevin McNally

Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Kevin McNally was born on April 27, 1956, in Bristol, England. He grew up in Birmingham where he attended Redhill and Mapledene Junior schools and Central Grammar School for Boys. At the age of 16, he got his first job at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A year later he received a scholarship to the ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Johnny English (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Valkyrie (2008)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
TURN (2014)
Legend (2015)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

176. Mark Hamill

Actor | Star Wars

Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - ...

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (1983)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The Mandalorian (2019)
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)

177. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margaret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took ...

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Joe Kidd (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Unforgiven (1992)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Gran Torino (2008)
The Mule (2018)

178. Gene Hackman

Actor | The French Connection

Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...

The French Connection (1971)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Hoosiers (1986)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Antz (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Runaway Jury (2003)

179. Daniel Day-Lewis

Actor | There Will Be Blood

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Boxer (1997)
Gangs of New York (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Lincoln (2012)
Phantom Thread (2017)

180. 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...

Reality Bites (1994)
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Meet the Parents (2000)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Megamind (2010)
Tower Heist (2011)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
While We're Young (2014)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
Hubie Halloween (2020)

181. 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:...

Gattaca (1997)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Aviator (2004)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Hugo (2011)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Contagion (2011)
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

182. Thomas Kretschmann

Actor | King Kong

Thomas Kretschmann was born in East Germany. Before becoming an actor, he was a swimmer. He has acted in several popular American movies, such as Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), The Pianist (2002), U-571 (2000), In Enemy Hands (2004), etc. He has three children, Nicolas, Stella and Sascha with ...

Stalingrad (1993)
The Pianist (2002)
Downfall (2004)
King Kong (2005)
Wanted (2008)
Valkyrie (2008)
Cars 2 (2011)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
Central Intelligence (2016)
Jungle (2017)
A Taxi Driver (2017)
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)

183. Michael Douglas

Actor | Wall Street

A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.

In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...

Romancing the Stone (1984)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Falling Down (1993)
The Game (1997)
Ant-Man (2015)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)

184. Kevin Costner

Actor | The Postman

Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...

Silverado (1985)
The Untouchables (1987)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Open Range (2003)
Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman V Superman (2016)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Molly's Game (2017)
The Highwaymen (2019)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

185. Donnie Yen

Actor | Ip Man

Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou, China. His mother, Bow-sim Mark, was a kung fu master and his father, Kylster Yen, a newspaper editor and amateur musician. When Donnie was just two years old, the family moved to Hong Kong and then, when he was 11, to Boston, Massachusetts.

There, Master Bow-sim ...

New Dragon Gate Inn (1992)
Hero (2002)
Shanghai Knights (2003)
Yip Man (2008)
Yip Man 2 (2010)
Dragon (2011)
Kung Fu Jungle (2014)
Yip Man 3 (2015)
Rogue One (2016)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Mulan (2020)

186. 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...

S.W.A.T (2003)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Town (2010)
Thor (2011)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocoll (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
American Hustle (2013)
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Arrival (2016)
Wind River (2017)
Tag (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Hawkeye (2021)

187. 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, ...

L.A. Confidential (1997)
Memento (2000)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Road (2009)
The King's Speech (2010)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Lawless (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
The Rover (2014)
Brimstone (2016)
Alien: Covenant (2017)

188. 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 ...

The Hurt Locker (2008)
Real Steel (2011)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Ant-Man (2015)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)

189. Jack Black

Actor | School of Rock

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los ...

Demolition Man (1993)
High Fidelity (2000)
The School of Rock (2003)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
King Kong (2005)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Sex Tape (2014)
Jumanji (2017)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

190. 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 ...

Scent of a Woman (1992)
Hard Eight (1996)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
Almost Famous (2000)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Red Dragon (2002)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Moneyball (2011)
The Master (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

191. Lucy Liu

Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Born to immigrants in New York City, Lucy Liu has always tried to balance an interest in her cultural heritage with a desire to move beyond a strictly Asian-American experience. Her mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, is from Beijing & her father, Tom Liu, a civil engineer, is from Shanghai. Once ...

Payback (1999)
Shanghai Noon (2000)
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004)
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Detachment (2011)

192. 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 ...

Bad Boys (1995)
Independence Day (1996)
Men in Black (1997)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Men in Black II (2002)
Bad Boys II (2003)
I, Robot (2004)
Hancock (2008)
Men in Black 3 (2012)
After Earth (2013)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Bright (2017)
Aladdin (2019)
Gemini Man (2019)
Spies in Disguise (2019)
Bad Boys for Life (2020)

193. Martin Lawrence

Actor | Martin

Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is an African-American comedian, producer, writer, director and actor. He is known for his roles in the Bad Boys trilogy, Martin, Def Comedy Jam, Big Momma's House, Open Season, House Party, Boomerang, Wild Hogs, What's Happening Now!!, Nothing to Lose, Life and Blue ...

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Bad Boys for Life (2020)

194. Salma Hayek

Actress | Frida

Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her father is of Lebanese descent and her mother is of Mexican/Spanish ancestry. After having seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) in a local movie theater, she decided she wanted to become an actress. At age 12, she...

Four Rooms (1995)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Dogma (1999)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Frida (2002)
Grown Ups (2010)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Savages (2012)
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Sausage Party (2016)
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Eternals (2021)

195. Ray Liotta

Actor | Narc

Intense was the word for Ray Liotta. He specialized in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice-guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. He was born in Newark, New ...

Goodfellas (1990)
Cop Land (1997)
Hannibal (2001)
Blow (2001)
Revolver (2005)
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Bee Movie (2007)
Killing Them Softly (2012)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill for (2014)
Stretch (2014)
Marriage Story (2019)
Hubie Halloween (2020)
No Sudden Move (2021)

196. Joel Edgerton

Actor | The Gift

Joel Edgerton was born on June 23, 1974 in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, to Marianne (van Dort) and Michael Edgerton, who is a solicitor and property developer. His brother is filmmaker Nash Edgerton. His mother is a Dutch immigrant. Joel went to Hills Grammar School in the Western Suburbs...

Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones (2002)
King Arthur (2004)
Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Warrior (2011)
The Thing (2011)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Life (2015)
The Gift (2015)
Bright (2017)
It Comes at Night (2017)
Red Sparrow (2018)
Boy Erased (2018)
The King (2019)
The Green Knight (2021)

197. John Goodman

Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane

John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...

Raising Arizona (1987)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Though? (2000)
Evan Allmighty (2007)
Bee Movie (2007)
The Artist (2011)
Death Sentence (2007)
Argo (2012)
The Hangover Part III (2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Monuments Men (2014)
Trumbo (2015)
Patriots Day (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Atomic Blonde (2017)

198. 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...

Wanted (2008)
Moneyball (2011)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Jurassic World (2015)
Passengers (2016)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Onward (2020)

199. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actor | Inception

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and ...

Inception (2010)
Looper (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
Don Jon (2013)
The Interview (2014)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Snowden (2016)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Knives Out (2019)
7500 (2019)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

200. Elliot Page

Actor | Juno

Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for...

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Inception (2010)
Super (2010)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)