The Best Actors Ever - 2020s
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 04 Apr 2023 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicPoints from my "The Best Films Ever Made"-Lists. Only Actors in films from the 2020s. Vol. 1 = 100%, Vol. 2 = 50%, Vol. 3 = 33%, Vol. 4 = 25%, Vol. 5 = 20 %, Vol. 6 = 17%
1. 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 ...
1082 points
2. Devid Striesow
Actor | Im Westen nichts Neues
Devid Striesow was born on October 1, 1973 in Bergen auf Rügen, East Germany [now Germany]. He is an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), The Counterfeiters (2007) and Before the Fall (2004). He has been married to Francine since 2008. They have two children.
1002 points
3. Albrecht Schuch
Actor | Im Westen nichts Neues
Albrecht Schuch was born on August 21, 1985 in Jena, German Democratic Republic. He is an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020).
1001 points
4. 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, ...
843 points
5. Paul Giamatti
Actor | Sideways
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...
837 points
6. Dominic Sessa
Actor | The Holdovers
Dominic Sessa was born on October 25, 2002 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for The Holdovers (2023), Tow and Oh. What. Fun..
837 points
7. Thomas Bo Larsen
Actor | Jagten
Thomas Bo Larsen was born on November 27, 1963 in Gladsaxe, Denmark. He is an actor, known for The Hunt (2012), The Celebration (1998) and Another Round (2020).
824 points
8. Magnus Millang
Writer | Selvhenter
Magnus Millang (born July 20, 1981, in Copenhagen) is a Danish actor, director and screenwriter. Millang has starred and created an array of award-winning comedy and satire.
In 2014, he debuted in his first major feature film role in Thomas Vinterberg's film THE COMMUNE. His collaboration with ...
824 points
9. Lars Ranthe
Actor | Druk
Lars Ranthe was born on August 26, 1969 in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor, known for Another Round (2020), Adam's Apples (2005) and Dirch (2011). He has been married to Christine Albeck Børge since 1998.
824 points
10. Ricardo Darín
Actor | Nueve reinas
Ricardo Darín was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 16, 1957. He works since he was a little boy, and has obtained with the years a remarkable evolution from soap opera gallant and tv comedies to an excellent leading figure of the most importants Argentinian movies. At the age of 10 he ...
819 points
11. Peter Lanzani
Actor | El Clan
Peter Lanzani was born on August 24, 1990 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is an actor and director, known for The Clan (2015), 4x4 (2019) and Argentina, 1985 (2022).
819 points
12. Felix Kammerer
Actor | Im Westen nichts Neues
Felix Kammerer was born in Vienna, Austria. The Austrian actor is a son of two opera singers, Hans Peter Kammerer and Angelika Kirchschlager.
He gained early stage experience with the Hörbiger youth ensemble before training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. An engagement at the ...
818 points
13. Aaron Hilmer
Actor | Im Westen nichts Neues
Aaron Hilmer was born on May 11, 1999 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018) and Luden (2023).
818 points
14. Edin Hasanovic
Actor | Im Westen nichts Neues
Edin Hasanovic was born on April 2, 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He is an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Shifting the Blame (2012) and Familie Braun (2016).
818 points
15. 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 ...
818 points
16. Jeffrey Wright
Actor | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Born and raised in Washington DC, Jeffrey Wright graduated from Amherst College in 1987. Although he studied Political Science while at Amherst, Wright left the school with a love for acting. Shortly after graduating he won an acting scholarship to NYU, but dropped out after only two months to ...
808 points
17. John Ortiz
Actor | Silver Linings Playbook
John Ortiz was born on November 21, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Gangster (2007) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). He is married to Jennifer Ortiz. They have one child.
808 points
18. Adam Brody
Actor | The O.C.
Adam Jared Brody was born and raised in San Diego, California, the son of Valerie Jill (Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Alan Brody, a lawyer. His parents, both originally from Michigan, are both from Jewish families (from Russia and Poland). Adam spent a lot of his teen years hanging out with ...
808 points
19. Sterling K. Brown
Actor | Black Panther
The Emmy Award-winning actor stars in NBC's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated drama series This Is Us (2016). For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe, becoming the first African-American actor to win his category in ...
808 points
20. David Strathairn
Actor | Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Russell Strathairn was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Mary Frances (Frazier), a nurse, and Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr., a physician. He has two siblings, Tom and Anne. His ancestry includes English, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Hawaiian, and one ...
804 points
21. Ali Suliman
Actor | The Kingdom
Ali Suliman is one of the most prominent Arab actors in the international film industry. This is evidenced by his dominant presence across the 2021's international festivals with a slew of remarkable works, including Amira (2021) by director Mohamed Diab at the Venice International Film Festival, ...
649 points
22. Matthias Schweighöfer
Actor | Army of the Dead
Grimme-Preis award winner, Matthias Schweighöfer, is one of Germany's most successful actors and is quickly becoming an international phenomenon.
Schweighöfer was most recently seen in Christopher Nolan's film, "Oppenheimer," Netflix's "Heart of Stone" opposite Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan and "The ...
642 points
23. Lars Eidinger
Actor | Clouds of Sils Maria
Lars Eidinger, born in Berlin, studied at the prestigious Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin.
Since 1999 he has been an ensemble member at the Berliner Schaubühne. His portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III. in the productions of Thomas Ostermeier were internationally acclaimed and made him...
579 points
24. Jon Bernthal
Actor | The Wolf of Wall Street
Jon Bernthal was born and raised in Washington D.C., the son of Joan (Marx) and Eric Bernthal, a lawyer. His grandfather was musician Murray Bernthal. Jon went to study at The Moscow Art Theatre School, in Moscow, Russia, where he also played professional baseball in the European professional ...
504 points
25. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
400 points
26. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
399 points
27. Jamie Dornan
Actor | The Fall
Jamie Dornan was born on May 1, 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Fall (2013), A Private War (2018) and Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021). He has been married to Amelia Warner since April 27, 2013. They have three children.
399 points
28. Ciarán Hinds
Actor | Belfast
Ciarán Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 9, 1953. He was one of five children and the only son. His father was a doctor who hoped to have Ciarán follow in his footsteps, but that was not to be. It was his mother Moya, an amateur actress, who was the real influence behind his ...
399 points
29. Mark Rylance
Actor | Bridge of Spies
Mark Rylance was born in Ashford, Kent, the son of Anne (née Skinner) and David Waters, both English teachers. His grandmother was Irish. His parents moved to Connecticut in 1962 and Wisconsin in 1969, where his father taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. Rylance attended this ...
398 points
30. Jens Albinus
Actor | Idioterne
Jens Albinus was born on January 3, 1965 in Bogense, Denmark. He is an actor and director, known for The Idiots (1998), Antichrist (2009) and Dancer in the Dark (2000).
395 points
31. Ben Whishaw
Actor | Skyfall
Proclaimed by many critics as one of the best young actors of his generation, Benjamin John Whishaw was born in Clifton, Bedfordshire, to Linda (Hope), who works in cosmetics, and Jose Whishaw, who works in information technology. He has a twin brother, James. He is of French, German, Russian (...
394 points
32. Andre Braugher
Actor | Homicide: Life on the Street
Many actors have attempted to crack both genres of drama and comedy. Few have succeeded, among them the genial Andre Braugher (pronounced 'Ahn-drey Braw-ger'). A two-time Emmy Award winner, he is especially remembered for two seminal roles: as the intense, often explosive Detective Frank Pembleton ...
393 points
33. 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.
392 points
34. 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 ...
392 points
35. Mark Ruffalo
Actor | Spotlight
Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
392 points
36. 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 ...
392 points
37. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
390 points
38. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
390 points
39. 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 ...
390 points
40. 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 ...
389 points
41. Colin Farrell
Actor | The Lobster
Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.
Farrell was born on ...
389 points
42. 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...
389 points
43. Tom Bateman
Actor | Murder on the Orient Express
Tom was born in 1989, to two teachers, one of fourteen children and has a twin brother. Brought up in Jericho in Oxford he attended Cherwell School before joining the National Youth Theatre and enrolling at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he was awarded the Leverhulme ...
389 points
44. Dario Argento
Writer | Profondo rosso
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...
389 points
45. Alex Lutz
Actor | Guy
Alex Lutz was born on August 25, 1978 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Guy (2018), Strangers by Night (2023) and Le talent de mes amis (2015).
389 points
46. Brendan Fraser
Actor | The Mummy
Brendan James Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents Carol Mary (Genereux), a sales counselor, and Peter Fraser, a journalist and travel executive. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French-Canadian ancestry. As his parents frequently moved, Brendan can claim ...
388 points
47. Ty Simpkins
Actor | Jurassic World
At his young age, Ty Simpkins has proudly accomplished more than most in the world of entertainment - he has starred in two of the biggest blockbusters of all time. Simpkins can be seen opposite Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in Universal's dinosaur box office monster hit Jurassic World. Prior...
388 points
48. Timothée Chalamet
Actor | Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. ...
331 points
49. Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Actor | Kvinden i buret
"There are those who miss being in-depth with the world," explains Nikolaj Lie Kaas in an interview with Politiken on April 29th, 2001, "but for me superficiality means a lot - that's where I get my drive." This is an interesting comment from an actor, whose acting always strikes a deeply personal ...
258 points
50. Filippo Scotti
Actor | È stata la mano di Dio
Filippo Scotti (Gravedona, 22 December 1999) is an Italian actor, protagonist of the film It was the hand of God presented at the Venice Film Festival 2021, with which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best emerging actor.
He began his acting career in 2010, when he enrolled in various ...
258 points
51. Toni Servillo
Actor | La grande bellezza
Actor and director Toni Servillo was born in Afragola in 1959. In 1977 Servillo founded the Teatro Studio in Caserta for whom he directed 'Propaganda' (1979), 'Norma' (1982), 'Billy il bugiardo' (1983) and 'Guernica' (1985), amongst others. In 1986 he collaborated with the Falso Movimento group, ...
258 points
52. Johan Heldenbergh
Actor | The Broken Circle Breakdown
Johan Heldenbergh (55) grew up in Gent (Belgium) dreaming of being a movie director and actor, but he was converted to theatre in the late eighties, during his education in the prestigious Studio Herman Teirlinck acting school in Antwerp. The fact that Flanders didn't have a real, or interesting ...
257 points
53. Raymond Thiry
Actor | The Paradise Suite
Raymond Thiry is a European actor. He started out in theatre in 1987 with his theatre group Alex d'Electrique, a well known group with success in the Netherlands as well as in Germany.
After starring in several prime time TV series, he takes up the lead in 2006 in the art house film Langer Licht by ...
257 points
54. Boris Isakovic
Actor | Quo vadis, Aida?
Boris Isakovic was born on December 14, 1966 in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He is an actor, known for Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), Last Christmas (2019) and The Last Panthers (2015). He is married to Jasna Djuricic.
257 points
55. Mohammad Seddighimehr
Actor | Bivehaye Ghamgin Salar Jang
Mohammad Seddighimehr is known for The Sad Widows of the Warlord (2016), Viper of Tehran (2024) and Mah Bibi (2022).
256 points
56. Ke Huy Quan
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom "Head of the ...
255 points
57. James Hong
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
James Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, but at some point along the way became interested in acting. He graduated from the University of Southern California and practiced for 1½ years as a road engineer with the County of Los ...
255 points
58. Bo Burnham
Writer | Bo Burnham: Inside
Robert Pickering Burnham is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He is known for writing and directing the middle school comedy film Eighth Grade. He also acted in Funny People, Rough Night, American Virgin, Hall Pass, The Big Sick and Promising Young Woman.
255 points
59. Clancy Brown
Actor | The Shawshank Redemption
A tall, wavy-haired US actor with a deep, resonant voice, Clancy Brown has proven himself a versatile performer with first-class contributions to theatre, feature films, television series and even animation.
Clarence J. Brown III was born in 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, to Joyce Helen (Eldridge), a concert...
255 points
60. Adam Brody
Actor | The O.C.
Adam Jared Brody was born and raised in San Diego, California, the son of Valerie Jill (Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Alan Brody, a lawyer. His parents, both originally from Michigan, are both from Jewish families (from Russia and Poland). Adam spent a lot of his teen years hanging out with ...
255 points
61. Ray Nicholson
Actor | The Benchwarmers
Ray Nicholson was born on February 20, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and assistant director, known for The Benchwarmers (2006), The Outsider (2018) and Promising Young Woman (2020).
255 points
62. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
254 points
63. 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, ...
254 points
64. Hidetoshi Nishijima
Actor | Doraibu mai kâ
Hidetoshi Nishijima was born on March 29, 1971 in Hachioji, Japan. He is an actor, known for Drive My Car (2021), The Wind Rises (2013) and License to Live (1998).
254 points
65. Masaki Okada
Actor | Doraibu mai kâ
Masaki Okada was born on August 15, 1989 in Japan. He is an actor, known for Drive My Car (2021), Confessions (2010) and I Give My First Love to You (2009).
254 points
66. Eddie Redmayne
Actor | Les Misérables
British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
253 points
67. Sacha Baron Cohen
Actor | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London. He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. His father, born in England and raised in Wales, was of Eastern European Jewish descent, while his mother was born...
253 points
68. John Carroll Lynch
Actor | The Founder
John Carroll Lynch was born August 1, 1963 in Boulder, Colorado, and was raised in Denver. It was there John found a passion for acting and became a Denver Broncos fan. He graduated in the mid-80s with a B.F.A. in theatre from the The Catholic University of America / Hartke Theatre Acting program. ...
253 points
69. 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 ...
253 points
70. Frank Langella
Actor | Frost/Nixon
Frank Langella was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, to Angelina and Frank A. Langella, a business executive. He is of Italian descent.
A stage and screen actor of extreme versatility, Frank Langella won acclaim on the New York stage in "Seascape" and followed it up with the title role in the Edward Gorey...
253 points
71. Michael Keaton
Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...
253 points
72. Vincent D'Onofrio
Actor | Men in Black
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio was born on June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, to Phyllis, a restaurant manager and server, and Gene D'Onofrio, a theatre production assistant and interior designer. He is of Italian descent and has two older sisters. He studied at the Actors Studio and the American ...
252 points
73. 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 ...
252 points
74. Leszek Lichota
Actor | Znachor
Leszek Lichota was born on August 17, 1977 in Walbrzych, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Forgotten Love (2023), 3xLOVE (2016) and Lincz (2010).
252 points
75. James Krishna Floyd
Actor | My Brother the Devil
James Krishna Floyd was born in London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for My Brother the Devil (2012), The Good Karma Hospital (2017) and No Man's Land (2020).
252 points
76. Ahmed Malek
Actor | The Swimmers
Ahmed Malek Mostafa (born 29 September 1995) is an Egyptian actor. His first audition came at the age of eight when his uncle took him to perform in a commercial. In 2005, Malek had his first role in the TV series "Ayamna el helwa" (Our Good Days). A few years later, he played a small role in "...
252 points
77. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
250 points
78. Diego Calva
Actor | Babylon
Born in March 1992 in Mexico City.
He studied for a time in the Center of Cinematographic Training (CCC) degree in cinematographic direction. He has recorded several short films as director and actor.
In 2015 he starred in "Te Prometo Anarquía" by Julio Hernández Cordón, with whom he won several ...
250 points
79. Tobey Maguire
Actor | Brothers
Tobias Vincent Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California. His parents were 18 and 20, and not yet married, when he was born. His mother, Wendy (Brown), did advertising, publicity, and acting in Hollywood for years as she coached and managed Tobey. His father, Vincent Maguire, was a cook and ...
250 points
80. 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).
234 points
81. Bill Nighy
Actor | Love Actually
Bill Nighy is an award-winning British character actor. He was born William Francis Nighy on December 12, 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, England, to Catherine Josephine (Whittaker), a psychiatric nurse from Glasgow, and Alfred Martin Nighy, who was English-born and managed a garage in Croydon.
At school,...
187 points
82. Bill Skarsgård
Actor | It
Bill Istvan Gunther Skarsgard is a Swedish actor, producer, director, writer, voice actor, and model. He is best known for portraying Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the supernatural horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. He also voiced the ...
187 points
83. Jason Clarke
Actor | Zero Dark Thirty
Jason Clarke is an Australian actor, known for often being cast in antagonist roles in feature films. In 1969, Clarke was born in Winton, Queensland, a small town where the main industries are sheep and cattle raising. Winton was established as a township in 1879, but its main claim to fame are a ...
187 points
84. Robert Pattinson
Actor | Twilight
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...
187 points
85. Christian Friedel
Actor | The Zone of Interest
Christian Friedel was born on March 9, 1979 in Magdeburg, East Germany [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He is an actor and music artist, known for The Zone of Interest (2023), 13 Minutes (2015) and Babylon Berlin (2017).
187 points
86. Anders Danielsen Lie
Actor | Verdens verste menneske
Anders Danielsen Lie was born on January 1, 1979 in Oslo, Norway. He is an actor, known for 22 July (2018), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Personal Shopper (2016).
Anders Danielsen Lie is a Norwegian film actor, musician and has earned a degree in medicin. He had his cinematic breakthrough as an 11-...
187 points
87. Selahattin Pasali
Actor | Kurak Günler
Pasali was born in Mugla, Bodrum.
He was transferred to Darüssafaka Sports Club at the age of 14. He was the team captain throughout the youth. He completed his education in Budapest by studying Art Management. He then studied acting at Craft Atelier.
He started his first acting career with the 'Kalp...
187 points
88. 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 ...
186 points
89. 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...
186 points
90. Josh Brolin
Actor | Avengers: Endgame
Rugged features and a natural charm have worked for Josh Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin. He has played roles as a policeman, a hunter, and the President of the United States.
Brolin was born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, to Jane Cameron (Agee), a Texas-born wildlife activist,...
186 points
91. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
186 points
92. Shia LaBeouf
Actor | Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf's natural talent and raw energy have secured his place as one of Hollywood's leading men.
Most recently, LaBeouf starred alongside Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn in Kornel Mundruczo's Oscar® nominated Pieces of a Woman. In the critically acclaimed film, a grieving couple (Kirby/LaBeouf...
186 points
93. Maciej Musialowski
Actor | Sala samobójców. Hejter
Maciej Musialowski was born on December 5, 1993 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He is an actor, known for The Hater (2020), Druga szansa (2016) and Code Name: Challenge (2020).
185 points
94. Caleb Landry Jones
Actor | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Caleb Landry Jones is an American actor and musician, known for his roles as Banshee in X-Men: First Class, Jeremy Armitage in Get Out, Red Welby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Ty Carter in The Outpost, Jeff in Finch, and Martin Bryant in Nitram. His accolades include a Cannes Film ...
184 points
95. Anthony LaPaglia
Actor | Without a Trace
Anthony wanted to be a soccer player but he didn't have the skills so he taught in a school for 10 months until he realized that it wasn't his vocation and then spent some years working in a shoe store before moving to New York where he spent time as a barman and a sprinkler system installer to ...
184 points
96. 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...
184 points
97. Tommy Lee Jones
Actor | The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...
184 points
98. Teo Yoo
Actor | Past Lives
Teo Yoo was born and raised in Cologne, Germany. He began acting when studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, NY at the age of 20. He later continued his studies in an intensive course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. After having acted in various independent films ...
184 points
99. 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 ...
184 points
100. André Dussollier
Actor | Un long dimanche de fiançailles
André Dussollier was born on February 17, 1946 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France. He is an actor, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), Tell No One (2006) and Amélie (2001).
184 points
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