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The Actor Review Index – MovieActors.com
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Named one of 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2014 and is among the highest-paid actresses in the world.
Amy Adams
🔼One of the New York theater world's most honored actresses and a winner of every major prize for her work on Broadway and off.
Joan Allen
🔼Hugely successful stand-up comic, actor, and author, who at one time had the #1 TV series, movie, and best-selling book in the country.
Tim Allen
🔼Beloved star of such classics as The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins; gifted with an astounding 4-octave singing voice.
Julie Andrews
🔼Academy Award-winning actor (for Little Miss Sunshine) and acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.
Alan Arkin
🔼Fast-talking original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live (1975–1979).
Dan Aykroyd
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Prolific film and TV actor and famous for the concept of interconnectedness via the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon".
Kevin Bacon
🔼Renowned for his ability to physically transform himself in service of disappearing into his character.
Christian Bale
🔼First melted filmgoers' hearts at the age of 6 in Steven Spielberg's beloved blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Drew Barrymore
🔼One-time Breck Girl model who made her mark in Hollywood as Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman.
Kim Basinger
🔼Multi-talented southern actress who rose from cashier and waitressing stints to acclaimed star of such films as Misery and Titanic.
Kathy Bates
🔼Four-time Academy Award nominee for The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia, and The Kids Are All Right.
Annette Bening
🔼Her combination of looks, talent, and tenacity propelled her from beauty pageant queen phenom to acclaimed actress.
Halle Berry
🔼Actor, musician, and cult idol; known for both his flamboyant film characters and as one of the driving forces of Tenacious D.
Jack Black
🔼Rose to fame as the wholesome preacher's daughter on the WB's longest-running family drama, 7th Heaven.
Jessica Biel
🔼Regal and elegant, she ascended to the ranks of Hollywood stardom with her Academy Award-nominated turn as Queen Elizabeth.
Cate Blanchett
🔼The best-known Shakespearean actor of the late 20th century, he began his career in London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Kenneth Branagh
🔼He made his film debut as an infant in the arms of his real mother Dorothy, in the 1950 melodrama The Company She Keeps.
Jeff Bridges
🔼Youngest-ever Best Actor Oscar winner, for his performance in Roman Polanski's The Pianist at the age of 29.
Adrien Brody
🔼Has won over filmgoers and critics alike with her wholesome, buoyant portrayals of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.
Sandra Bullock
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As the nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Cage altered his last name to avoid accusations of nepotism
Nicolas Cage
🔼British icon in the 1960s, leading action star in the late '70s, and knighted in 1993, Michael Caine has built an amazing career.
Michael Caine
🔼Offbeat, off-kilter, outlandish actor with a strangely childish comic persona, enhanced by deceptively straight-laced looks.
Steve Carell
🔼One of the most popular film stars in the world, he came from an impoverished Hong Kong family.
Jackie Chan
🔼Acclaimed character actor of stage, screen, and television, he often steals the scenes in which he appears.
Don Cheadle
🔼Born into a lower-income California family, she escaped poverty by entering show business as a go-go dancer at the age of 16.
Cher
🔼One of Britain's best-known actors, writers, and comedians, he is most famous for his work with Monty Python.
John Cleese
🔼This son of journalist Nick Clooney and nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney has always had show business in his blood.
George Clooney
🔼Brainy and beautiful, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in A Beautiful Mind.
Jennifer Connelly
🔼Truly a Superstar of Superstars, he was born into a middle-class Scottish family in the first year of the worldwide Depression.
Sean Connery
🔼After spending his youth on his father's cattle ranch, it's not surprising that he often plays cowboys and ranchers.
Chris Cooper
🔼Earthy and modern, with the glamorous aura of a silent-era film starlet, she has achieved fame in her home country of France.
Marion Cotillard
🔼One of the Britain's most famous stars, he waited tables as a struggling teenage actor, and went on to star as James Bond.
Daniel Craig
🔼This Oscar winner is equally at home in tough guy roles such as L.A. Confidential (1997) and gentler roles such as Proof (1991).
Russell Crowe
🔼Studied ballet at Spain's Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and volunteered at Mother Theresa's mission in Calcutta.
Penelope Cruz
🔼The daughter of film stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, she launched her film career as a "scream queen" in horror movies.
Jamie Lee Curtis
🔼The son of actor Richard Cusack and brother of actress Joan Cusack, he started his career at the age of 8.
John Cusack
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Known for playing darkly eccentric characters, he's one of the screen's more provocative, distinctive, and engaging actors.
Willem Dafoe
🔼This model-turned-actress seemed to come out of nowhere in 1994 when she debuted opposite Jim Carrey in The Mask.
Cameron Diaz
🔼He went from obscure actor to Hollywood golden boy when he and Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting.
Matt Damon
🔼Audiences have watched since 1994 as she matured from awkward teen to one of the most popular actresses of her generation.
Claire Danes
🔼This former Victoria's Secret model and MENSA member earned her place in Hollywood by playing quirky protagonists.
Geena Davis
🔼One of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, he's won an unprecedented three Best Actor Oscars.
Daniel Day-Lewis
🔼One of Britain's most respected and popular actresses, her career encompasses the stage, screen, and television.
Judi Dench
🔼A former teen idol, he survived the perils of adolescent heartthrob status to earn a reputation as a respected adult actor.
Johnny Depp
🔼Specializes in portraying characters who are simultaneously obnoxious jerks yet somehow, amazingly, lovable.
Danny DeVito
🔼From relatively humble beginnings, few actors in the world have had careers as successful and diverse as his.
Leonardo DiCaprio
🔼Hailed by many critics as one of the most brilliant and versatile actors of his generation.
Robert Downey Jr.
🔼One of Hollywood's most versatile, charismatic, and energetic leading men for more than 40 years.
Richard Dreyfuss
🔼Starting with Bonnie & Clyde, she helped usher in a new golden era in American films, appearing in many of the greatest films of the '70s.
Faye Dunaway
🔼One of the leading actors of her generation, she made her name in teen films without becoming typecast in the teen film ghetto.
Kirsten Dunst
🔼One of Hollywood's most distinguished, popular, and versatile actors, he's able to totally immerse himself in his roles.
Robert Duvall
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With his rugged good looks and icon status, he's long been one of the few actors whose name on a marquee virtually guaranteed a hit.
Clint Eastwood
🔼Known for his superhero roles as the Marvel Comics characters Steve Rogers / Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Chris Evans
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One of Ireland's best rising stars, with memorable roles ranging from failing writer, to conflicted hit man, to Alexander the Great.
Colin Farrell
🔼A member of the SNL Screen Actors Guild, he made his film debut as one of the amazingly clueless brothers in A Night at the Roxbury.
Will Ferrell
🔼Got her start with fluffy '60s sitcoms before growing steadily into a respected and Academy Award winning actress.
Sally Field
🔼One of the highest profile actors in the world, he's made his indelible mark in such films as Schindler's List and the Harry Potter series.
Ralph Fiennes
🔼Part of the "Brit Pack" of rising, young British actors in the late '80s, his films have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide to date.
Colin Firth
🔼Won great acclaim and an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It.
Laurence Fishburne
🔼If he'd listened to studio heads early in his career, he'd still be a carpenter and never become one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
Harrison Ford
🔼One of the most popular black comedians of the late '90s, he was born Eric Marlon Bishop in the small town of Terrell, Texas.
Jamie Foxx
🔼His enviable versatility allows him to be equally convincing in comedies, dramas, and adventure films alike.
Brendan Fraser
🔼He rose to fame and a beloved place in American culture as part of the cast of the 1970s children's program The Electric Company.
Morgan Freeman
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Anxious yet likable, this character actor is the son of Yale president and Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
Paul Giamatti
🔼Best known as an action hero in such movies as the Lethal Weapon cop series, and the first three installments of Mad Max.
Mel Gibson
🔼Tall, gangly, and oddly handsome, he's an unlikely heart throb, but for women fond of eccentric intellectuals, he fills the bill perfectly.
Jeff Goldblum
🔼With a talent as hefty as his girth, he's proven himself as both a distinguished character actor and an engaging leading man.
John Goodman
🔼The daughter of a former ship captain, she knew she wanted to act after witnessing a performance by stage actress Hazel Dawn.
Ruth Gordon
🔼He escaped his humble Bristol environs and tumultuous home life by joining a troupe of acrobats, where he became a stilt-walker.
Cary Grant
🔼His classic good looks make him a shoo-in for romantic leads, but he's also justly famous for his comic abilities and eccentricities.
Hugh Grant
🔼Show business and the arts run strongly in her family — her parents are filmmakers and her brother is, like her, a successful actor.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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One of America's leading actors, he spent much of his childhood moving about with his father, who was an itinerant cook.
Tom Hanks
🔼Son of a convicted murderer, veteran of multiple arrests, and tireless proponent of hemp, he's colorful even by Hollywood standards.
Woody Harrelson
🔼With his sharp blue-eyed gaze and blue-collar demeanor, he has a quiet charisma and electric intensity that can erupt without warning.
Ed Harris
🔼Her first big screen gig, in The Princess Diaries, was also her breakthrough, and she became familiar to millions of moviegoers.
Anne Hathaway
🔼He was a favorite in his native country in his pre-teens, starring in Australian TV shows like Neighbours and Home and Away.
Chris Hemsworth
🔼Magical screen presence and tireless crusader for children's rights, she was one of the most enduring screen icons of the 20th century.
Audrey Hepburn
🔼One of the most original, versatile, and prolific actors in Hollywood, he made a name for himself playing dysfunctional characters.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
🔼Daughter of Goldie Hawn, she bears a distinct resemblance to her famous mother in both looks and performance vivacity.
Kate Hudson
🔼A precociously talented child star, she was drawing paychecks as a TV actress from the age of ten.
Helen Hunt
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A star in his native Australia thanks to his TV work, he became known in America via his role as Logan/Wolverine in the X-Men movies.
Hugh Jackman
🔼After a series of character parts in the '80s, he emerged in the '90s as one of the most prominent and respected actors in Hollywood.
Samuel L. Jackson
🔼Universally regarded as one of the sexiest women in Hollywood, she has actually been acting professionally since the age of eight.
Scarlett Johannsson
🔼He earned an enduring place in the zeitgeist with his portrayal of Matthew Broderick's outwitted foe in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Jeffrey Jones
🔼An eighth-generation Texan, he attended Harvard University, where he roomed with future U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Tommy Lee Jones
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Though she trained for an operatic career, she found her most gainful employment in musical comedy and revue work.
Madeline Kahn
🔼After rising to fame in a series of Woody Allen comedies, she went on to enjoy a successful film career as an actress and as a director.
Diane Keaton
🔼Equally adept at thoughtful drama and over-the-top comedy, he has a knack for giving ordinary guys an idiosyncratic twist.
Michael Keaton
🔼Once trapped in decorative parts, she spent the latter half of the '90s and the new millennium earning much-deserved critical respect.
Nicole Kidman
🔼Brilliant and chameleon-like, he can play just about anyone, from Nazi war criminals to Jewish Holocaust survivors to quiet bookshop owners.
Ben Kingsley
🔼Despite his obvious talent, it wasn't until his amazing performance as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors that the world took notice.
Val Kilmer
🔼One of those rare actors whose onscreen characterizations are not overshadowed by his offscreen antics.
Kevin Kline
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He decided in his preteen years to launch himself as an actor, and stories abound concerning how far he was willing to go to that end.
Shia LaBeouf
🔼The daughter of an acting coach and nightclub singer/centerfold, she made her stage debut at the tender age of six.
Diane Lane
🔼First came to international attention for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Jude Law
🔼Ledger received numerous posthumous accolades for his critically acclaimed performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Heath Ledger
🔼A private school-educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, his career spanned 50 years.
Jack Lemmon
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Dreamy eyed and radiating a kind of lo-fi intensity, he was a natural for the Thoughtful Young Man roles he made his name with.
Tobey Maguire
🔼One of the leading actors of his generation and an important figure in world cinema, he is renowned for his trademark "icy calm".
John Malkovich
🔼Given to playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, his jowly features and seedy, rumpled demeanor were his calling cards.
Walter Matthau
🔼Blessed with stylish good looks worthy of fashion magazines, she started on Canadian TV before rising to Hollywood features.
Rachel McAdams
🔼One of the few to win acting's Triple Crown: an Oscar (for Fargo), a Tony (for Good People), and an Emmy (for Olive Kitteridge).
Frances McDormand
🔼Rocketed to fame thanks to his turns as a heroin addict in Trainspotting and as young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I.
Ewan McGregor
🔼The ultimate thinking man's sex symbol, she's also one of the most respected actresses of British stage, screen, and television.
Helen Mirren
🔼Had a successful modeling career with plans to pursue a path in journalism, before switching to a successful acting career.
Michelle Monaghan
🔼The daughter of a military judge and a social worker, she's proven herself adept in both blockbusters and smaller, more cerebral films.
Julianne Moore
🔼Among the most successful and unpredictable SNL alums, forging an eccentric career spanning low-brow slapstick farce and adult drama.
Bill Murray
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With charismatic versatility and quiet forcefulness, he lays claim to being one of the most compelling actors of the late 20th century.
Liam Neeson
🔼A classic anti-hero, he helped define the new breed of Hollywood star — rebellious, contentious and fiercely non-conformist.
Jack Nicholson
🔼Won almost instant stardom with his film debut in 1996's Primal Fear, with a chilling performance as an altar boy accused of murder.
Edward Norton
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Whether playing a punk rocker, an assassin, a war vet, or a ghoul, he amazes viewers with his ability to disappear into his roles.
Gary Oldman
🔼Blessed with immense talent, he chalked up one of the most formidable and heatedly honored acting resumes of the 20th century.
Peter O'Toole
🔼One of a handful of stars who, though best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal grace and skill.
Clive Owen
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Volcanic and intense, he's one of Hollywood's premier actors — whose list of credits includes many of the finest films of his era.
Al Pacino
🔼Her breakthrough role came in 2007 when she played the title character in Jason Reitman's comedy film Juno (2007).
Ellen Page
🔼Justly acclaimed for her classic beauty, she had to toil for years before earning respect for her acting talent.
Michelle Pfeiffer
🔼He began his career under the name of "Leaf," and lived for a long time in the shadow of his older brother, River.
Joaquin Phoenix
🔼Son of a trucking company manager, he was raised in Missouri, the oldest of three children, and brought up in a strict Baptist home.
Brad Pitt
🔼From his 1950 debut onward, he's been considered one of the most brilliant Canadian actors of his generation.
Christopher Plummer
🔼With an Oscar before she was 30, she's emerged as one of the most promising actresses of her generation.
Natalie Portman
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The providential intervention of a close friend at a key moment made all the difference for this handsome, high-flying actor.
Ryan Reynolds
🔼One of the few child stars to successfully transition to adult roles, she's been impressing audiences since debuting in 1990's Mermaids.
Christina Ricci
🔼While he made his name playing ruthless villains, he proved himself equally remarkable in romantic, comic, and good-guy dramatic roles.
Alan Rickman
🔼He tapped into his skills as a comedian when he was just 13, signing up for comedy classes and honing his deadpan style.
Seth Rogen
🔼As a youth, he aspired to follow the footsteps of his father, who, in addition to being a big league baseball player, was also an actor.
Kurt Russell
🔼Initially getting her start on television, Ryan became a star with her titular role in the smash 1989 comedy When Harry Met Sally.
Meg Ryan
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Though his polarizing antics divide audiences, his films have performed consistently well at the box office despite critical disfavor.
Adam Sandler
🔼Will forever be associated with the '70s "American film renaissance" thanks to The French Connection, Klute, Jaws, and All That Jazz.
Roy Scheider
🔼Has always said that the secret to a successful career is not taking off like a rocket, but to "always keep the engine running."
Gary Sinise
🔼Is there a theatergoer or film fan alive who hasn't, at some point, fallen in love with this sublimely brilliant British comedic actress?
Maggie Smith
🔼His formidable success in many industry arenas demonstrate without question that he qualifies as a "Renaissance man."
Will Smith
🔼Enigmatic and brilliant, he says that "The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen."
Kevin Spacey
🔼Curly haired and sandy-voiced, she's a natural when it comes to playing Southerners, because she hails from the South herself.
Mary Steenburgen
🔼A quintessential Everyman who parlayed his easygoing persona into one of the most successful and honored careers in film history.
Jimmy Stewart
🔼As the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, his decision to pursue a career as a comic writer and actor surprised almost no one.
Ben Stiller
🔼Her combination of deadpan comic timing and undeniable beauty made her an instant hot property in Hollywood.
Emma Stone
🔼Widely considered the most gifted film actress of the late 20th century, she represents the essence of onscreen dramatic art.
Meryl Streep
🔼American audiences first caught this suave and dashing British actor in the hallucinatory Beatles drama Across the Universe (2007).
Jim Sturgess
🔼Bearing the most enjoyably sinister face this side of Vincent Price, he made his name in some of the most influential films of the '70s.
Donald Sutherland
🔼From the honed subtleties he has shown in supporting roles, to his screen command as a star, he's covered abundant ground.
Kiefer Sutherland
🔼She won both acclaim and recognition for her lead role in Kimberly Peirce's searing independent drama Boys Don't Cry.
Hilary Swank
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As legend has it, she was discovered by an agent while fighting with a bank manager on Hollywood Boulevard.
Charlize Theron
🔼One of the first ladies of contemporary British stage and cinema, she's won equal acclaim for her work as an actress and a screenwriter.
Emma Thompson
🔼Noted as much for her near otherworldly beauty as her considerable talent, she's one of the most renowned actresses of her age.
Uma Thurman
🔼As Vinnie Barbarino, a dim-witted high school Lothario, he shot to overnight superstardom in the Welcome Back Kotter series in 1975.
John Travolta
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His strong yet genial features and 6'4" physique appear to have been carved from an outsized slab of testosterone.
Vince Vaughn
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He made a successful transition from music to film, garnering particular early praise for his role in Boogie Nights.
Mark Wahlberg
🔼A versatile character actor whose intense demeanor and slightly off-kilter delivery serve him well in both comedies and dramas.
Christopher Walken
🔼One of Hollywood's most magnetic leading men, his poise, presence, and radiantly sane intelligence permeate whatever film he's in.
Denzel Washington
🔼English actress known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, acting in the eight feature films from 1999 to 2011.
Emma Watson
🔼She first earned notice as a promising newcomer in David Lynch's Cannes Film Festival prizewinner Mulholland Drive in 2001.
Naomi Watts
🔼Best known for her portrayal of the steel-jawed, alien-butt-kicking space crusader Ellen Ripley, from the four Alien movies
Sigourney Weaver
🔼A British actress whose name and darkly alluring looks effortlessly conjure up Eastern European exoticism.
Rachel Weisz
🔼He got his big break when he appeared in Oliver Stone's Platoon and Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money (both in 1986).
Forest Whitaker
🔼A volatile energy, a mad spark in the eye, and a tendency to explode into manic hilarity lies beneath his milquetoast mannerisms.
Gene Wilder
🔼She first came to the public's attention as bad girl Jen Lindley in the television series Dawson's Creek (1998).
Michelle Williams
🔼An improvisational master with a style comparable to Danny Kaye, his words would rush forth in torrents of manic energy.
Robin Williams
🔼Well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films.
Bruce Willis
🔼His brilliantly quirky acting work exudes an insouciant yet earnest charm and eccentric comic sensibility.
Owen Wilson
🔼One of a handful of actresses who carries such a wellspring of inner grace and presence that they seem destined for celebrity from birth.
Kate Winslet
🔼One of the most formidably talented members of the New Hollywood, she can do far more than pose winsomely for the camera.
Reese Witherspoon
🔼This one-time child performer has grown up to be one of the most well-respected and steadily working actors of his generation.
Elijah Wood
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Her first major film role came in the horror sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994).
Renee Zellweger
🔼Both exotic and classic, this Wales-born actress began acting as a child and by 18 was performing professionally in London's West End.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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