Your top 10 favourite actors of all time

Not really in order, but some of my favourite on screen figures and their best performances that spring to mind):

• Rita Hayworth (Gilda, Miss Sadie Thompson, Story On Page One)
• Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce, Humoresque, Sudden Fear)
• Bette Davis (All About Eve, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager)
• Sigourney Weaver (1949-present) (Aliens, The Ice Storm, Gorillas In The Mist)
• Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, The Opposite of Sex)
• Rosalind Russell (Mame, Gypsy, Mourning Becomes Electra)
• Joan Cusack (Adams Family Values, Working Girl, Married to the Mob)
• Cathy Moriarty (White of the Eye, Soapdish, But I'm A Cheerleader)
• Martha Plimptom (200 Cigarettes, Parenthood, Shy People)
• Angelica Houston (The Witches, The Gifters, Prizzi's Honor)
 
Hmm



  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Jodie Foster
  • Alan Rickman
  • Bill Murray
  • Julie Walters
  • Allison Janney
  • Denzel Washington
  • Meryl Streep
  • Catherine O'Hara
  • Gene Wilder

Would possibly be my ten.


Also up there:

Julianne Moore
Michelle Pfeiffer
Robin Wright
Julia Roberts
Judi Dench
Goldie Hawn
Gary Oldman
Ian McKellen
Harrison Ford
Toni Collette
Morgan Freeman
Viola Davis

I'm sure I've missed a few.
 
Kate Winslet
Julianne Moore
Susan Sarandon
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Toni Collette
Cher
Lisa Kudrow
Shelley Duvall
Naomi Watts
Bette Davis
 
I don't know if it's really my "all time favourites" and I don't really stan actors the way I do musicians (except Nicole!) but off the top of my head -

Nicole Kidman
Isabelle Huppert
Julia Roberts
Jean Smart
Patricia Clarkson
Reese Witherspoon
Renee Zellweger
Anne Hathaway
Emma Thompson
DAME Judi Dench
DAME Maggie Smith

Idris Elba
Daniel Craig
Alan Rickman
Al Pacino
Hugh Grant
James Gandolfini
Javier Bardem
Michael Douglas
Stanley Tucci
 
I’d have to separate it into genders. There’s not even a single woman in my “most watched” actors on Letterboxd, and most watched doesn’t necessarily mean favourites either, otherwise a lot of us would have Samuel L Jackson at the top. And it’s just bloody weird that I have seen as many films from Seth Rogen as I have Meryl Streep.

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Ellie’s all-time stats

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This is tough. I think sth like:
  • Katharine Hepburn: Long Day's Journey into Night | Bringing Up Baby | Summertime
  • Charlie Chaplin: City Lights | Limelight | The Great Dictator
  • Marcello Mastroianni: La Dolce Vita | Le Notti Bianche | La Notte
  • Jack Nicholson: Five Easy Pieces | Ironweed | The Last Detail
  • Kinuyo Tanaka: Flame of My Love | The Love of Sumako the Actress | Mother
  • Max von Sydow: Hour of the Wolf | Shame | Pelle the Conqueror
  • Greta Garbo: Camille | Ninotchka | Flesh and the Devil
  • Vanessa Redgrave: The Devils | The Bostonians | Wetherby
  • Marlon Brando: Last Tango in Paris | On the Waterfront | A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Catherine Deneuve: Repulsion | My Favourite Season | Mississippi Mermaid
Fave perfs rather than fave films (which'd look very different for most, I think).
 
I think mine would be:

1. Merly ‘voice of an angle’ Strip
2. Al Pacino
3. Nicole Kidman
4. Isabelle Huppert
5. Emma Thompson
6. Leonardo DiCaprio
7. Jessica Lange
8. Bette Davis
9. Ethan Hawke
10. Anthony Hopkins
 
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Suedehead said:
I think mine would be:

1. Merly ‘voice of an angle’ Strip
2. Al Pacino
3. Nicole Kidman
4. Isabelle Huppert
5. Emma Thompson
6. Leonardo DiCaprio
7. Viola Davis
8. Bette Davis
9. Ethan Hawke
10. Anthony Hopkins
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Apart from Viola, a great list :disco:

I’m STILL thinking of mine.
 
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