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List 10 of your favourite movie actors and actresses. You can even detail the movies you think they gave their best performances in.

Actresses:

1. Helana Bonham Carter (A Room With A View, Sweeney Todd)
2. Glenn Glose (Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liasons)
3. Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
4. Sally Field (Not Without My Daughter, Steel Magnolias)
5. Dame Maggie Smith (Tea With Mussolini, A Private Function, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
6. Kathy Bates (Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes)
7. Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
8. Sigourney Weaver (Snow White: A Tale of Terror)
9. Bette Midler (Down and out in Beverly Hills)
10. Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)

Actors:

1. Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
2. Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands)
3. James Stewart (Vertigo, Rear Window, It's a Wonderful Life)
4. Robert De Niro (Awakenings, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Cape Fear)
5. Tom Cruise (Interview with the Vampire)
6. Robin Williams (The Birdcage, Awakenings, Mrs Doubtfire)
7. Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
8. Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
9. John Candy (Uncle Buck)
10. John Malkovich (Dangerous Liasons)

As with all my lists it's in no order.

Actors:

1. Robert Preston (The Music Man, Victor/Victoria, The Last Starfighter, How the West was Won)
2. George Sanders...you have to love his voice! (Rebecca, All About Eve)
3. James Stewart (he's in everything)
4. James Marsden (Hairspray, Enchanted)
5. Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madera, The Maltese Falcon)
6. Christian Bale (Newsies, Batman Begins/The Dark Knight)
7. Vincent Price (Master of the World)
8. Claude Rains (The Invisible Man, Casablanca)
9. Charlie Chaplin (City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush)
10. Sean Connery (From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, The Last Crusade)

How could I have forgotten Roddy McDowall! Ahhhh! Too many people to mention. Peter Loree and David Niven too! Plus Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and lots of other people!

Actresses:

1. Kathrine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen)
2. Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, Sabrina, My Fair Lady)
3. Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Pride and Prejudice/i])
4. Angela Lansbury
5. Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express)
6. Helana Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd)
7. Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria)
8. Lesley Ann Warren (The Happiest Millionaire)
9. Hayley Mills (All her Disney films)
10. Ginger Rogers (Swing Time, Top Hat)

In no particular order:

Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Maggie Smith
Cate Blanchett
Helena Bonham Carter
Angela Lansbury
Emma Thompson
Tilda Swinton
Susan Sarandon

Morgan Freeman
Joaquin Phoenix
Shia LaBeouf
Christopher Lee
John Travolta
Kenneth Branagh
Jack Nicholson

I'll update my list after I think for a little while. This list is just off the top of my head.

In no order beyond alphabetical, and the films (or occasional TV Shows) I mention are my favorites and not necessarily their best work.

Top 10 Favorite Male Actors:
1. Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, The Dark Knight)
2. Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, Sabrina, The Caine Mutiny)
3. Montgomery Clift (The Heiress, A Place in the Sun, The Misfits)
4. John Cusack (The Sure Thing, Say Anything..., Serendipity)
5. James Dean (East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause, Giant)
6. Ioan Gruffudd ("Horatio Hornblower", 102 Dalmatians, Amazing Grace)
7. Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Tootsie, Moonlight Mile)
8. Gregory Peck (The Yearling, Gentleman's Agreement, To Kill A Mockingbird)
9. Tyrone Power (Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, Nightmare Alley, The Sun Also Rises)
10. David Tennant ("Doctor Who", "Blackpool", Casanova)

Top 10 Favorite Female Actors:
1. Lucille Ball ("I Love Lucy", Too Many Girls, Five Came Back)
2. Sandra Bullock (Speed, Miss Congeniality, The Lake House)
3. Juliette Binoche (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Bleu, Chocolat)
4. Greta Garbo (Grand Hotel, Camille, Ninotchka)
5. Greer Garson (Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest)
6. Audrey Hepburn (everything except Green Mansions as I could never warm up to that movie)
7. Nicole Kidman (Dead Calm, Moulin Rouge!, Bewitched - shut up)
8. Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers)
9. Susan Sarandon (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Thelma and Louise, The Client)
10. Gene Tierney (Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, The Mating Season)

Albert

I don't like differentiating between "actor" and "actress" since both are doing the same thing: acting. It's just as sexist as "headmaster" and "headmistress". And we certainly don't say "Doctor" and "Doctoress" or anything like that. So I always just say "actor".

lol, no actresses then since we don't call female doctors doctresses...


Female Actors
1. Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider, Girl, Interrupted)
2. Catherine Zeta Jones (Entrapment, Chicago)
3. Penelope Cruz (All the pretty horses, Volver)
4. Winona Ryder (Beetleguise, Reality Bites)
5. Salma Hayek (Frida, Dogma)
6. Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, Sweeney Todd)
7. Sandra Bullock (The Net, Miss Congeniality)
8. Geena Davis (The Long Kiss Goodnight, Thelma and Louise)
9. Natalie Portman (Where the heart is, V for Vendetta)
10. Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream, Blood Diamond)
11. Brenda Song

Male Actors.
1. Clive Owen (Closer, Bent)
2. Hugh Jackman (X-men, The Prestiege)
3. Christian Bale (The Machinist, Batman Begins)
4. Gael Garcia Bernal (Y tu mama tambien, Babel)
5. Harrison Ford (The Fugitive, Indiana Jones)
6. Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow)
7. Nicholas Cage (Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air)
8. Gerard Butler (Tomb Raider: COL, 300)
9. Russel Crowe (A Beautiful mind, 3:10 to Yuma)
10. Bruce Willis (Hostage, The Sixth Sense)

Top 10 Actors
1. Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
2. Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon)
3. Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption)
4. Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko)
5. Harrison Ford (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
6. Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta)
7. Christian Bale (American Psycho)
8. Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
9. Robert Downey Jr. (Zodiac)
10. Sidney Poitier (To Sir... With Love)

Top 10 Actresses
1. Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta)
2. Katherine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
3. Michelle Pfeiffer (Hairspray)
4. Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
5. Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark)
6. Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
7. Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost)
8. Emma Thompson (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
9. Judy Garland (The Wizard of Oz)
10. Cher (Mask)

And an honorable mention goes out to Kathy Griffin. She hasn't really done too much acting outside "Suddenly Susan" but she's probably my favourite celebrity of all time. She's always a hoot to watch.

In no particular order...

<u>Male Actors</u>:

1. Matthew Broderick (<i>Ferris Bueller's Day Off</i>)
2. Steve Carrell (<i>The 40 Year-Old Virgin</i>, <i>Dan in Real Life</i>, <i>Little Miss Sunshine</i>)
3. Edward Norton (<i>Fight Club</i>, <i>American History X</i>)
4. Mike Myers (<i>So I Married an Axe Murderer</i>, the <i>Austin Powers</i> trilogy, <i>The Love Guru</i>)
5. Johnny Depp (<i>Finding Neverland</i>, <i>Edward Scissorhands</i>, <i>From Hell</i>)
6. Robin Williams (<i>Hook</i>, <i>Mrs. Doubtfire</i>, <i>Jack</i>)
7. Adam Brody (<i>In the Land of Women</i>)
8. Brad Pitt (<i>Fight Club</i>, <i>Seven</i>)
9. Michael J. Fox (the <i>Back to the Future</i> trilogy)
10. Tim Allen (<i>For Richer or Poorer</i>)

<u>Female Actors</u>:

1. Lucille Ball (<i>I Love Lucy</i>, <i>The Long, Long Trailer</i>, <i>Yours, Mine, and Ours</i> (1968))
2. Rachel McAdams (<i>Mean Girls</i>, <i>The Notebook</i>)
3. Bette Midler (<i>Hocus Pocus</i>, <i>The First Wives Club</i>, <i>The Stepford Wives</i> (2004))
4. Nicole Kidman (<i>Moulin Rouge!</i>, <i>The Stepford Wives</i> (2004), <i>Bewitched</i>)
5. Molly Shannon (<i>Superstar</i>, <i>A Night at the Roxbury</i>)
6. Helena Bonham Carter (<i>Fight Club</i>, <i>Conversations with Other Women</i>, <i>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</i>)
7. Mila Kunis (<i>That '70s Show</i>, <i>Family Guy</i>)
8. Christina Applegate (<i>Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead</i>, <i>Married with Children</i>)
9. Kirstie Alley (<i>For Richer or Poorer</i>, <i>Fat Actress</i>)
10. Lindsay Lohan (<i>Georgia Rule</i>)

Scaps wrote:Nicole Kidman (Bewitched - shut up)

No need to be ashamed. She was so cute! I just wanted to hug her!

In no real order (actors) and top performances (films):

01. Boris Karloff (The Mummy, Bride of Frankenstien, Frankenstien)
02. Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Big Train[TV])
03. William H Macy (The Cooler, Pleasentville, Wag the Dog)
04. Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Benny and June, What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Note: No Pirate films!)
05. Mark Gatiss/Steve Pemberton/Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen[TV] - cheating having 3, but really they can play anyone... or anything)
06. Michael Gambon (Joe's Palace[TV], The Singing Detective[TV], Toys)
07. Ewan McGregor (Big Fish, ER [TV - guest star], Moulin Rouge!)
08. Steve Coogan (Various Alan Partridge projects [Radio/TV], 24 Hour Party People, Around the World in 80 Days)
09. Leonardo DiCaprio (just Blood Diamond - an incredible performance)
10. Peter Cook (The Comic Strip Presents... Mr Jolly Lives Next Door [TV], The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, Supergirl)

11. Rebecca Hall (Starter for 10, The Prestige, Joe's Palace[TV])
12. Myrna Loy (any Thin Man movie)
13. Nicole Kidman (Dogville, The Others, Bangkok Hilton[TV])
14. Jennifer Connelly (Blood Diamond, Dark City, Hulk)
15. Jane Krakowski (Ally McBeal[TV]... she really deserves more parts)
16. Kathy Bates (Fried Green Tomatoes, Misery, Dolores Claiborne)
17. Dakota Fanning (I Am Sam, War of the Worlds, Hide and Seek)
18. Julia Sawalha (Press Gang[TV], Absolutely Fabulous[TV], Chicken Run)
19. Molly Shannon (Year of the Dog, Wet Hot American Summer... deserves more)
20. Tamsin Greig (Green Wing[TV], Black Books[TV], Love Soup[TV])

You know, its when going over the actresses, I see how little work decent actresses can get (especially a funny one), just look at the male to female ratio on most movie cast lists on IMDB. What a shame on our society.

Prince Ali wrote:4. Mike Myers (<i>So I Married an Axe Murderer</i>, the <i>Austin Powers</i> trilogy, <i>The Love Guru</i>)
6. Robin Williams (<i>Hook</i>, <i>Mrs. Doubtfire</i>, <i>Jack</i>)
7. Adam Brody (<i>In the Land of Women</i>)
9. Michael J. Fox (the <i>Back to the Future</i> trilogy)
10. Tim Allen (<i>For Richer or Poorer</i>)

Ummmm....wtf?!
Haha.

Here are mine alphabetized since I couldn't possibly rank them the way I do for movies.

Actors
Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The African Queen)
Sean Connery (Goldfinger, The Wind and the Lion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Awakenings)
Johnny Depp (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Pirates of the Caribbean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Witness)
Tom Hanks (Big, A League of Their Own, Forrest Gump)
Liam Neeson (Schindler's List, Rob Roy, Nell)
Al Pacino (The Godfather, Scarface, Scent of a Woman)
Gregory Peck (Gentleman's Agreement, Roman Holiday, To Kill A Mockingbird)
James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story, It's A Wonderful Life, Rear Window)

Actresses
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy)
Judy Garland (The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star is Born)
Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs, Little Man Tate, Nell)
Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, Ella Enchanted, Becoming Jane)
Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!, The Stepford Wives, Bewitched [you're not alone, Scaps ])
Angela Lansbury (Bedknobs and Broomsticks; Murder, She Wrote; Beauty and the Beast)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice, Death Becomes Her, The Devil Wears Prada)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment, Chicago)

Mandy Moore
Corbin Bleu
Christian Bale
Hilary Duff
Julia Roberts
Julia Stiles
Molly Ringwald
Audrey Hepburn
Drew Barrymore
Jennifer Lopez
Sandra Bullock
Meg Ryan
Lindsay Lohan
Ben Affleck
Gene Kelly
Hugh Grant


(in no particular order, but the first 3 are my top 3 favorites)

I think that, for me, a lot of times my "favorite actors" are my favorite because they're in movies that I really like...it's more based on what they're in than how they act, I guess...

Actors:

Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter, Pulp Fiction)
Johnny Depp (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow)
Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars)
Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean, Mystery Men)
Jim Carrey (Lemony Snicket, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Alan Rickman (Harry Potter, Galaxy Quest)
Jeremy Irons (The Lion King, Casanova)
Steve Carrell (The Office, 40-Year Old Virgin)
John O'Hurley (Seinfeld)
Michael Gambon (Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter)

Actresses:

Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd, Fight Club)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice, The Devil Wears Prada)
Kate Winslet (Titanic, Finding Neverland)
Joanna Lumley (James and the Giant Peach, Corpse Bride)
Maggie Smith (Hook, Keeping Mum, Harry Potter)
Bernadette Peters (Cinderella, Into the Woods)
Julia Louis Dreyfus (Seinfeld)
Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia, Michael Clayton)
Jennifer Saunders (Absoluetley Fabulous, Shrek 2)
Nicole Kidman (The Hours, The Golden Compass)

James wrote:

Prince Ali wrote:4. Mike Myers (<i>So I Married an Axe Murderer</i>, the <i>Austin Powers</i> trilogy, <i>The Love Guru</i>)
6. Robin Williams (<i>Hook</i>, <i>Mrs. Doubtfire</i>, <i>Jack</i>)
7. Adam Brody (<i>In the Land of Women</i>)
9. Michael J. Fox (the <i>Back to the Future</i> trilogy)
10. Tim Allen (<i>For Richer or Poorer</i>)

Ummmm....wtf?!
Haha.

Not a fan, I take it?

Camster and Kelvin wrote:Cam:
No need to be ashamed. She was so cute! I just wanted to hug her!

Kelvin:
you're not alone, Scaps

Thanks guys! Glad to know there's more Kidman-in-Bewitched fans out there besides me!

Albert

Favorite Actresses
1. Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy; The Long, Long Trailer; Yours, Mine, and Ours)
2. Edie Adams (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Worl; Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella)
3. Madeline Kahn (Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles)
4. Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady; Charade)
5. Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins; Victor/Victoria; The Sound of Music)
6. Vera Miles (Psycho)
7. Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote; Bedknobs and Broomsticks; The Manchurian Candidate)
8. Ethel Merman (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Call Me Madam)
9. Anna Quayle (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Casino Royale)
10. Melora Hardin (The Office, and about any other movie or tv apperance)

Favorite Actors
1. Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther series; Casino Royale; What's New Pussycat?; Muder By Death)
2. James Marsden (Hairspray; Enchanted)
3. James Stewart (Rear Window; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Vertigo; It's A Wonderful Life)
4. Roddy McDowall (The Legend of Hell House; The Poseidon Adventure; Planet of the Apes; Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
5. Christopher Walken (Hairspray and just about anything else he's in)
6. Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean)
7. Robert Preston (The Music Man; Victor/Victoria)
8. Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
9. Tim Curry (Clue; The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
10. Mickey Rooney (just about any film he's in)

In no order:

Actresses

Lisa Kudrow (Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Friends)
Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle)
Nicole Kidman (Bewitched, The Stepford Wives)
Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions, Walk the Line)
Anne Hathaway - (The Princess Diaries, Get Smart, The Devil Wears Prada)
Lindsay Lohan - (Mean Girls, The Parent Trap, Georgia Rule)
Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, Georgia Rule)
Catharine- Zeta Jones (Chicago)
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Princess Diaries)
Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City, The Family Stone)

I had hard enough of a time coming up with those, so the actors may have to wait.

Here is my list, again in no particular order, as that is way too hard ...

Actors

Johnny Depp ~ Pirates , Sweeny Todd , Sleepy Hollow

Ewan McGregor ~ Moulin Rouge! , Little Voice , Big Fish

James McAvoy ~ Atonement, Wanted

Tom Hanks ~ The Money Pit, Sleepless In Seattle, You've Got Mail

Colin Firth ~ Bridget Jones, Mamma Mia!, Love Actually

Cary Grant ~ To Catch A Thief, Arsenic And Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby

Alan Rickman ~ Sense And Sensibility, Sweeny Todd, Harry Potter

Peter O'Toole ~ How To Steal A Million, Becket, The Lion In Winter

I can't think of any more actors to add !


Actresses

Elizabeth Taylor ~ The Taming Of The Shrew, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Vriginia Woolf?

Keira Knightley ~ Pride And Prejudice, Atonement, The Edge Of Love

Nicole Kidman ~ Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, The Others

Helena Bonham Carter ~ A Room With A View, Sweeny Todd, Twelfth Night

Kate Winslet ~ Sense And Sensibility, Titanic, Finding Neverland

Meryl Streep ~ Death Becomes Her, Postcards From The Edge, Mamma Mia!

Emma Thompson ~ Sense And Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing, Howards End

Goldie Hawn ~ The First Wives Club, Overboard, Death Becomes Her

Judy Garland ~ Meet Me In St. Louis, A Star Is Born, The Wizard Of Oz

Grace Kelly ~ High Society, Rear Window, To Catch A Theif

Top 10 Favorite Actors:

1) Cary Grant
2) James Stewart
3) Tab Hunter
4) Troy Donahue
5) Mickey Rooney
6) Van Johnson
7) Fernando Lamas
Fernando Montalban
9) Tom Tryon
10) Joseph Cotten

Top 10 Favorite Actresses:

1) Zsa Zsa Gabor
2) Doris Day
3) Bette Davis
4) Natalie Wood
5) Olivia De Havilland
6) Eleanor Parker
7) Angela Lansbury
Joan Fontaine
9) Julie Andrews
10) Angela Lansbury

Escapay wrote:

Camster and Kelvin wrote:Cam:
No need to be ashamed. She was so cute! I just wanted to hug her!

Kelvin:
you're not alone, Scaps

Thanks guys! Glad to know there's more Kidman-in-Bewitched fans out there besides me!

Albert

Count me in as well.

I honestly don't understand why people crap on that movie so much. It was a CUTE and corny love story, the kind that warms your heart.

And come on! Am I the ONLY one that thinks that Kidman and Ferrell were cute together?

Wow I can't beleave we didn't have this topic before !

Anyhoo, here's my list in no particular order :

Actors:
James Dean (East of Eden)
Tom Cruise (Interview With a Vampire)
Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands)
Sean Penn (I Am Sam)
James Caviezel (Passion of the Christ)
Guy Pearce (The Time Machine)
Colin Firth (Girl With a Pearl Earing)
Jake Gyllenhall (Brokeback Mountain)
Jude Law (A.I)
Tom Hanks (The Terminal)

Actresses :
Angelina Jolie (Girl,Interupted)
Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady)
Keira Knightley (Atonement)
Audrey Tatou (Amelie)
Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation)
Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)
Charlise Theron (Monster)
Winona Ryder (Little Women)
Nicole Kidman (The Others)
Whoopie Goldberg (The Color Purple)