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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho are your top 5 favorite actors?
Mine:
Tom Hanks
Helen Mirren
Kate Winslet
Morgan Freeman
Russell Crowe (the actor, not the individual)
cachukis
(2,239 posts)Meryl Streep.
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)Alan Rickman
Bernadette Peters
Benedict Cumberbatch
Mandy Patinkin
Liz Taylor
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)George Clooney
Julia Robert's
Matt Damon
Maggie Smith
Denzel Washington
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Robert De Niro
Jack Nicholson
Morgan Freeman
The Divine Ms. M
Will Ferrell
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Billy Bob Thornton
Tommy Lee Jones
Morgan Freeman
Scarlet Johansen
Peter Dinklage
choie
(4,111 posts)Katharine Hepburn
Robert Redford
Helen Mirren
Meryl Streep
Runners up: Kate Winslet, Al Pacino
Skittles
(153,160 posts)Casey Affleck
Paul Dano
Diane Lane
Emily Blunt
William Hurt
I really liked Mark Blum but he was an early casualty of Covid
True Dough
(17,304 posts)would definitely get an honorable mention from me! Hope to see more of him in the years to come.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)He made it with his partner, Zoe Kazan.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)I make it a point to watch anything he is in
loved it
True Dough
(17,304 posts)But it's on my "must watch" list. With winter creeping closer, I'm guessing my wife and I will see it pretty soon.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)he's a good director, too
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)blm
(113,057 posts)Kim Tae Ri, Michael Shannon
lisa58
(5,755 posts)Spencer Tracy
Gregory Peck
Jack Lemmon
Shirley MacLaine
Anthony Hopkins
Groundhawg
(550 posts)Margot robbie
Edward Norton
Gene Hackman
Clint Eastwood
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)1. Denzel
2. Viola Davis
3. Angela Bassett
4. Samuel Jackson
5. Robert Deniro
OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)Hanks, DeNiro, Pacino, Streep, J Fonda.
Honorable mention (in no particular order)-
Mirren, O'Toole, Freeman, Keaton, Harrelson, M. Ryan, DiCaprio, Affleck(both), Douglas, Boothe, Russell, Beuschemi, Thornton, Damon, D. Washington, Cumberbach, Oldman, Jones, Knightly, Bridges (both), Depp, Hoffman, Redford, Winslet, S. Jackson, Craig.....off the top of my head.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Living: Maggie Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Craig, Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Emily Blunt. Comedy: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Eddie Murphy, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle. Ok, I went way over, and there are still a lot more.
Not living: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ingrid Bergman, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Rosalind Russell, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, David Niven, Paul Henried, Peter Lorre, etc. Again, a lot more I can't think of right now.
Walleye
(31,017 posts)Robert Mitchum
Katherine Hepburn
Robert de Niro
Denzel Washington
Claire Trevor
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,841 posts)Aamir Khan
Akshay Kumar
Ohara Sayako
Miyamoto Nobuko
Tom and Jerry
True Dough
(17,304 posts)"One of these things is not like the others."
LeftInTX
(25,313 posts)Harker
(14,016 posts)Paul Newman
Katherine Hepburn
Shimura Takashi
Nakadai Tatsuya
Oskar Werner
Ask me again, and you'll get a different list.
Auggie
(31,169 posts)He's among the top actors working IMO. Love watching him. All these folks:
Christian Bale
Robert DeNiro
Samuel L. Jackson
Cate Blanchett
Meryl Streep
No longer with us:
Humphrey Bogart
Robert Mitchum
Cary Grant
Stan Laurel
Martin Balsam
True Dough
(17,304 posts)but that's why we have Auggie coming in to school us at post #25!
No Leonardo DiCaprio votes yet, either!
Harker
(14,016 posts)He was in a bunch of my favorites. Psycho, Hombre, Seven Days in May, 12 Angry Men...
Auggie
(31,169 posts)Harker
(14,016 posts)malthaussen
(17,194 posts)In no particular order.
-- Mal
wnylib
(21,449 posts)Among the living: Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Cate Blanchet, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Graham Greene, Sidney Poitier.
No longer living: Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Cicily Tyson, Liz Taylor.