I collected over 30 lists of best actors (I am using the term to include film and TV performers of all genders) and combined them into one meta-list. The results are below, organized by rank, that is, with the actors on the most lists at the top. Each entry includes the actors’ name, country of birth (and later citizenship, if relevant), dates of birth and death, a photo of the actor performing in a movie; and a selected filmography. This list contains all the actors whose names were contained on at least three of the original source lists. Actors on the same number of lists are presented in chronological order by date of birth.

On 30 lists

Marlon Brando (US, 1924-2004)
The Men (1950); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Viva Zapata! (1952); Julius Caesar (1953); The Wild One (1953); On the Waterfront (1954); Sayonara (1957); One-Eyed Jacks (1961); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962): The Godfather (1972); Last Tango in Paris (1972); Superman (1978); Apocalypse Now (1979); Roots: The Next Generations (TV 1979); A Dry White Season (1989); The Freshman (1990); Don Juan DeMarco (1995); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).

Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

On 29 lists

Robert De Niro (US, 1943- )
Mean Streets (1973); The Godfather, Part II (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); New York, New York (1977); The Deer Hunter (1978); Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983); Angel Heart (1987); Midnight Run (1988); Awakenings (1990); Cape Fear (1991); The Fan (1996); Analyze This (1999); Meet the Parents (2000); The Good Shepherd (2006); The Wizard of Lies (TV 2017); The Irishman (2019); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

Robert De Niro in Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver (1976).

On 28 lists

Jack Nicholson (US, 1937- )
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960); Easy Rider (1969); Five Easy Pieces (1970); The Last Detail (1973); Chinatown (1974); One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975); The Shining (1980); Terms of Endearment (1983); Batman (1989); A Few Good Men (1992); Hoffa (1992); Wolf (1994); As Good as It Gets (1997); The Pledge (2001); About Schmidt (2002); Something’s Gotta Give (2003); The Departed (2006); The Bucket List (2007).

Jack Nicholson in his Oscar-winning role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).

On 26 lists

Humphrey Bogart (US, 1899-1957)
The Petrified Forest (1936); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); The Roaring Twenties (1939); They Drive By Night (1940); High Sierra (1941); The Maltese Falcon (1941); Casablanca (1942); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950); The African Queen (1951); Beat the Devil (1953); Sabrina (1954); The Caine Mutiny (1954); The Harder They Fall (1956).

Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942).

Al Pacino (US, 1940- )
The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The Godfather (1972); Serpico (1973); The Godfather, Part II (1974); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); …And Justice For All (1979); Author! Author! (1982); Scarface (1983); Sea of Love (1989): Dick Tracy (1990); Glengarry Glen Ross (1992); Scent of a Woman (1992); Heat (1995); Donnie Brasco (1997); The Devil’s Advocate (1997); The Insider (1999); Any Given Sunday (1999); Insomnia (2002); Angels in America (TV 2003); Ocean’s Thirteen (2007); You Don’t Know Jack (TV 2010); Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019); The Irishman (2019); House of Gucci (2021).
Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

Daniel Day-Lewis (UK, 1957- )
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985); A Room with a View (1985); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); My Left Foot (1989); The Last of the Mohicans (1992); In the Name of the Father (1993); The Age of Innocence (1993); The Crucible (1996); The Boxer (1997); Gangs of New York (2002); The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005); There Will Be Blood (2007); Nine (2009): Lincoln (2012); Phantom Thread (2017).

Daniel Day-Lewis in his Oscar-winning performance in There Will Be Blood (2007).

On 25 lists

James Stewart (US, 1908-1997)
After the Thin Man (1936); You Can’t Take It With You (1938); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Shop Around the Corner (1940); It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); Harvey (1950); Winchester ’73 (1950); The Naked Spur (1953); The Glenn Miller Story (1954); Rear Window (1954); Vertigo (1958); Anatomy of a Murder (1959); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962); How the West Was Won (1962); Hawkins (TV 1973-1974).

James Stewart and Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940), for which Stewart won a Best Actor Oscar.

On 24 lists

Meryl Streep (US, 1949- )
The Deer Hunter (1978); Holocaust (TV 1978); Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981); Sophie’s Choice (1982); Silkwood (1983); Out of Africa (1985); Ironweed (1987); A Cry in the Dark (1988); Postcards from the Edge (1990); Death Becomes Her (1992); The River Wild (1994); The Bridges of Madison County (1995); One True Thing (1998); Music of the Heart (1999); Adaptation (2002); The Hours (2002); Angels in America (TV 2003); The Devil Wears Prada (2006); Doubt (2008); Mamma Mia! (2008); Julie & Julia (2009); It’s Complicated (2009); The Iron Lady (2011); Into the Woods (2014); Florence Foster Jenkins (2016); The Post (2017); Big Little Lies (TV 2019); Only Murders in the Building (TV 2023-2024).

Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice., for which she won an Oscar.

On 23 lists

Cary Grant (UK/US, 1904-1986)
I’m No Angel (1933); She Done Him Wrong (1933); The Awful Truth (1937); Bringing Up Baby (1938); Gunga Din (1939); His Girl Friday (1940); The Philadelphia Story (1940); Suspicion (1941); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Notorious (1946); To Catch a Thief (1955); North by Northwest (1959); Charade (1963).

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940).

Katharine Hepburn (US, 1907-2003)
Morning Glory (1933); Little Women (1933); Alice Adams (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); The Philadelphia Story (1940); Woman of the Year (1942); Adam’s Rib (1949); The African Queen (1951); Pat and Mike (1952); Summertime (1955); The Rainmaker (1956); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967); The Lion in Winter (1968); The Trojan Women (1971); Love Among the Ruins (TV 1975); The Corn Is Green (TV 1979); On Golden Pond (1981).

Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938).

On 22 lists

Charlie Chaplin (UK, 1889-1977)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914); The Tramp (1915); The Floorwaker (1916); The Pawnshop (1916); One A.M. (1916); The Rink (1916); Easy Street (1917); The Cure (1917); The Immigrant (1917); A Dog’s Life (1918); Shoulder Arms (1918); The Kid (1921); The Idle Class (1921); Pay Day (1922); The Pilgrim (1923); The Gold Rush (1925); The Circus (1928); City Lights (1931); Modern Times (1936); The Great Dictator (1940); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Limelight (1952); A King in New York (1957).

Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in City Lights (1931).

Tom Hanks (US, 1956- )
Splash (1984); Nothing in Common (1986); Big (1988); A League of Their Own (1992); Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Philadelphia (1993); Forrest Gump (1994); Apollo 13 (1995); Toy Story and sequels (1995-2019) That Thing You Do! (1996); Saving Private Ryan (1998); You’ve Got Mail (1998); The Green Mile (1999); Cast Away (2000); Catch Me If You Can (2002); Road to Perdition (2002); Charlie Wilson’s War (2007); Captain Phillips (2013); Saving Mr. Banks (2013); Bridge of Spies (2015); Sully (2016); The Post (2017); A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019); News of the World (2020); Elvis (2022); A Man Called Otto (2022); Here (2024).

Tom Hanks in Penny Marshall’s Big (1988).

On 21 lists

Henry Fonda (US, 1905-1982)
Jezebel (1938); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Lady Eve (1941); My Darling Clementine (1946); Fort Apache (1948); Mister Roberts (1955); The Wrong Man (1956); 12 Angry Men (1957); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968); Midway (1976); Gideon’s Trumpet (TV 1980); On Golden Pond (1981).

Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell in John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Dustin Hoffman (US, 1937- )
The Graduate (1967); Midnight Cowboy (1969); John and Mary (1969); Little Big Man (1970); Lenny (1974), Marathon Man (1976); All the President’s Men (1976); Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); Tootsie (1982); Death of a Salesman (TV 1985); Rain Man (1988); Dick Tracy (1990); Hook (1991); Wag the Dog (1997); Meet the Fockers (2004); Finding Neverland (2004); I Heart Huckabees (2004); Stranger than Fiction (2006); Kung Fu Panda (2008); The Meyerowitz Stories (2017); Megalopolis (2024).

Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross in Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (1967).

Denzel Washington (US, 1954- )
A Soldier’s Story (1984); Cry Freedom (1987); Glory (1989); Mississippi Masala (1991); Malcolm X (1992); Philadelphia (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); Devil in a Blue Dress (1995); Courage Under Fire (1996); He Got Game (1998); The Hurricane (1999); Remember the Titans (2000); Training Day (2001); Antwone Fisher (2002); John Q. (2002); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); Inside Man (2006); American Gangster (2007); The Book of Eli (2010); Flight (2012); The Equalizer and sequels (2014-2023); Fences (2016); Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017); The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021); Gladiator II (2024).

Denzel Washington plays the title role in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992).

On 20 lists

Bette Davis (US, 1908-1989)
Of Human Bondage (1934); Dangerous (1935); Kid Galahad (1937); Marked Woman (1937); Jezebel (1938); Dark Victory (1939); The Old Maid (1939); The Letter (1940); The Little Foxes (1941); Now, Voyager (1942); Mr. Skeffington (1944); All About Eve (1950); The Star (1952); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).

Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950).

On 19 lists

John Wayne (US, 1907-1979)
Stagecoach (1939); Red River (1948); Fort Apache (1948); She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); Rio Grande (1950); The Quiet Man (1952); The Searchers (1956); Rio Bravo (1959); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); True Grit (1969).

John Wayne in John Ford’s The Searchers (1956).

Paul Newman (US, 1925-2008)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); Cat at a Hot Tin Roof (1959); Sweet Bird of Youth (1959); The Hustler (1961); Hud (1963); Torn Curtain (1966); Cool Hand Luke (1967); Rachel, Rachel (1968); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); The Sting (1973); The Towering Inferno (1974); Slap Shot (1977); Absence of Malice (1981); The Verdict (1982); The Color of Money (1986); Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); Nobody’s Fool (1994); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); Road to Perdition (2002); Empire Falls (TV 2005).

Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Johnny Depp (US, 1963- )
Cry-Baby (1990); Edward Scissorhands (1990); What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993); Benny & Joon (1993); Ed Wood (1994); Don Juan DeMarco (1995); The Brave (1997); Donnie Brasco (1997); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); Sleepy Hollow (1999); Blow (2001);  Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003-2017); Finding Neverland (2004); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007); Alice in Wonderland (2010); The Tourist (2010); Rango (2011); Dark Shadows (2012); Black Mass (2015); Minamata (2020); Jeanne du Barry (2023).
Johnny Depp in Ed Wood (1994), one of his many collaborations with Tim Burton.

On 18 lists

Ingrid Bergman (Sweden, 1915-1982)
Intermezzo (1936); Casablanca (1942); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Gaslight (1944); Spellbound (1945); Notorious (1946); Joan of Arc (1948); Stromboli (1950); Viaggio in Italia (1954); Anastasia (1956); Indiscreet (1958); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Autumn Sonata (1978).

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942).

Sidney Poitier (US/Bahamas, 1927-2022)
Blackboard Jungle (1955); Edge of the City (1957); The Defiant Ones (1958); Porgy and Bess (1959); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); Lilies of the Field (1963); A Patch of Blue (1965); To Sir, with Love (1967); In the Heat of the Night (1967); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967); Separate but Equal (TV 1991); Mandela and de Klerk (TV 1997).

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967).

Gene Hackman (US, 1930- )
Bonnie & Clyde (1967); Downhill Racer (1969); I Never Sang for My Father (1970); The French Connection (1971); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); Night Moves (1975); Superman (1978); Under Fire (1983); Twice in a Lifetime (1985); Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning (1988); Full Moon in Blue Water (1988); Another Woman (1988); Class Action (1991); Unforgiven (1992); The Firm (1993); Get Shorty (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Absolute Power (1997); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

Gene Hackman in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974).

Anthony Hopkins (UK, 1937- )
The Lion in Winter (1968); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (TV 1976); Magic (1978); Mussolini and I (TV 1985); 84 Charing Cross Road (1987); The Silence of the Lambs (1991); Howards End (1992); The Remains of the Day (1993); Shadowlands (1993); The Road to Wellville (1994); Legends of the Fall (1994); Nixon (1995); Amistad (1997); Titus (1999); Hannibal (2001); The Human Stain (2003); The World’s Fastest Indian (2005); Proof (2005); The City of Your Final Destination (2009); Hitchcock (2012); Westworld (TV 2016-2017); King Lear (TV 2018); The Two Popes (2019); The Father (2020).

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in James Ivory’s The Remains of the Day (1993).

Morgan Freeman (US, 1937- )
Street Smart (1987); Glory (1989); Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Lean on Me (1989); Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991); Unforgiven (1992); The Shawshank Redemption (1994); Seven (1995); Deep Impact (1998); Nurse Betty (2000); The Sum of All Fears (2002); Bruce Almighty (2003): Million Dollar Baby (2004); Lucky Number Slevin (2006); Invictus (2009); Red (2010); The Dark Knight Rises (2012); Oblivion (2013); Going in Style (2017); Vanquish (2021); 57 Seconds (2023); My Dead Friend Zoe (2024).

Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Leonardo DiCaprio (US, 1974- )
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993); The Basketball Diaries (1995); Marvin’s Room (1996); Romeo + Juliet (1996); Titanic (1997); The Beach (2000); Catch Me If You Can (2002); Gangs of New York (2002); The Aviator (2004); Blood Diamond (2006); The Departed (2006); Revolutionary Road (2008); Inception (2010); Shutter Island (2010); J. Edgar (2011); Django Unchained (2012); The Great Gatsby (2013); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); The Revenant (2015); Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019); Don’t Look Up (2021); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in Martin Scorcese’s The Aviator (2004).

On 17 lists

Laurence Olivier (UK, 1907-1989)
Wuthering Heights (1939); Rebecca (1940); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Henry V (1944); Hamlet (1948); Richard III (1955); The Prince and the Showgirl (1957); The Entertainer (1960); Spartacus (1960); Sleuth (1972); Marathon Man (1976); The Boys from Brazil (1978); A Little Romance (1979).

Laurence Olivier directed and starred in Hamlet (1948).

Judy Garland (US, 1922-1969)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937); The Wizard of Oz (1939); Babes in Arms (1939); For Me and My Gal (1942); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); The Harvey Girls (1946); Easter Parade (1948); Summer Stock (1950); A Star is Born (1954); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).
Judy Garland in George Cukor’s A Star Is Born (1954).

Audrey Hepburn (UK, 1929-1993)
Roman Holiday (1953); Sabrina (1954); Funny Face (1957); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961); The Children’s Hour (1961); Charade (1963); My Fair Lady (1964); Two for the Road (1967); Wait Until Dark (1967); Robin and Marian (1976).

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961).

On 16 lists

Buster Keaton (US, 1895-1966)
The Goat (1921); Cops (1922); Our Hospitality (1923); Sherlock, Jr. (1924); The Navigator (1924); Go West (1925); Seven Chances (1925); The General (1926); College (1927); Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928); The Cameraman (1928); Limelight (1952); Film (1965).

Buster Keaton in The General (1926).

James Cagney (US, 1899-1986)
The Public Enemy (1931); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); The Roaring Twenties (1939); Each Dawn I Die (1939); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); 13 Rue Madeleine (1947); White Heat (1949); Mr. Roberts (1955); Man of a Thousand Faces (1957); One, Two, Three (1961); Ragtime (1981).

James Cagney in Raoul Walsh’s White Heat (1949).

Toshiro Mifune (Japan, 1920-1997)
Drunken Angel (1948); Stray Dog (1949); Rashomon (1950); Seven Samurai (1954); The Samurai Trilogy (1954-1956); Throne of Blood (1957); The Lower Depths (1957); The Hidden Fortress (1958); Yojimbo (1961); High and Low (1963); Hell in the Pacific (1968).

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954).

Clint Eastwood (US, 1930- )
A Fistful of Dollars (1964); For a Few Dollars More (1965); The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); Hang ‘Em High (1968); Kelly’s Heroes (1970); Play Misty for Me (1971); Dirty Harry (1971); High Plains Drifter (1973); Magnum Force (1973); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); Tightrope (1984); Pale Rider (1985); Unforgiven (1992); In the Line of Fire (1993); The Bridges of Madison County (1995); Space Cowboys (2000); Million Dollar Baby (2004); Gran Torino (2008).

Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966).

Harrison Ford (US, 1942- )
American Graffiti (1973); Star Wars (1977); The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Blade Runner (1982); Return of the Jedi (1983); Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Witness (1985); The Mosquito Coast (1986); Working Girl (1988); Presumed Innocent (1990); Patriot Games (1992); The Fugitive (1993); Clear and Present Danger (1994); Sabrina (1995); Air Force One (1997); Six Days, Seven Nights (1998); What Lies Beneath (2000); Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); Cowboys & Aliens (2011); 42 (2013); Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); Shrinking (TV 2023- ); 1923 (TV 2023- ).

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982).

Russell Crowe (New Zealand, 1964- )
Romper Stomper (1992); Hammers over the Anvil (1993); L.A. Confidential (1997); The Insider (1999); Gladiator (2000); A Beautiful Mind (2001); Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); Cinderella Man (2005); 3:10 to Yuma (2007); American Gangster (2007); State of Play (2009); Robin Hood (2010); Les Misérables (2012); Boy Erased (2018); True History of the Kelly Gang (2019); The Loudest Voice (TV 2019).

Russell Crowe in Gladiator (2000).

Christian Bale (UK, 1974- )
Empire of the Sun (1987); Velvet Goldmine (1998); American Psycho (2000); The Machinist (2004); Batman Begins (2005); The Prestige (2006); Rescue Dawn (2006): 3:10 to Yuma (2007); The Dark Knight (2008); Public Enemies (2009); Terminator Salvation (2009); The Fighter (2010); The Dark Knight Rises (2012); American Hustle (2013); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014); The Big Short (2015); Vice (2018); Ford v Ferrari (2019); Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
Christian Bale in David O. Russell’s The Fighter (2010), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

On 15 lists

Spencer Tracy (US, 1900-1967)
Fury (1936); Captains Courageous (1937); Boys Town (1938); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Adam’s Rib (1949); Father of the Bride (1950); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); The Old Man and the Sea (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Inherit the Wind (1960); It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967).

Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960).

Barbara Stanwyck (US, 1907-1990)
Stella Dallas (1937); Union Pacific (1939); The Lady Eve (1941); Meet John Doe (1941); Ball of Fire (1941); Double Indemnity (1944); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); The Big Valley (TV 1965-1969); The Thorn Birds (TV 1983).

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944).

Kirk Douglas (US, 1916-2020)
Out of the Past (1947); Champion (1949); Ace in the Hole (1951); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952);
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); Lust for Life (1956); Paths of Glory (1957); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Spartacus (1960); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Seven Days in May (1964).

Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957).

Sean Connery (UK, 1930-2020)
Dr. No (1962); From Russia with Love (1963); Goldfinger (1964); Thunderball (1965); You Only Live Twice (1967); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); The Name of the Rose (1986); The Untouchables (1987); The Hunt for Red October (1990).

Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger (1964).

Samuel L. Jackson (US, 1948- )
Do the Right Thing (1989); Jungle Fever (1991); Pulp Fiction (1994); Against the Wall (TV 1994); Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995); A Time to Kill (1996); Hard Eight (1996); The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996); Eve’s Bayou (1997); One Eight Seven (1997); Jackie Brown (1997); The Negotiator (1998); Star Wars Episodes I, II, III (1999-2005); Shaft (2000); The Caveman’s Valentine (2001); Changing Lanes (2002); S.W.A.T. (2003); The Incredibles (2004); Coach Carter (2005); Snakes on a Plane (2006); Black Snake Moan (2007); Mother and Child (2009); The Avengers (2012); Django Unchained (2012); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2015); The Hateful Eight (2015); The Piano Lesson (2024).
Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994).

Cate Blanchett (Australia, 1969- )
Oscar and Lucinda (1997); Elizabeth (1998); An Ideal Husband (1999); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); Charlotte Gray (2001); Bandits (2001); The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003); Coffee and Cigarettes (2003); Veronica Guerin (2003); The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004); The Aviator (2004); Babel (2006); Notes on a Scandal (2006); I’m Not There (2007); Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); Blue Jasmine (2013); How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014); Carol (2015); Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019); Mrs. America (TV 2020); Nightmare Alley (2021); Don’t Look Up (2021); Tár (2022); Disclaimer (2024).
Cate Blanchett as one of the many sides of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There (2007).

Kate Winslet (UK, 1975- )
Heavenly Creatures (1994); Sense and Sensibility (1995); Hamlet (1996); Titanic (1997); Hideous Kinky (1998); Holy Smoke! (1999); Quills (2000); Iris (2001); Enigma (2001); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); Finding Neverland (2004); Little Children (2006); The Reader (2008); Revolutionary Road (2008); Carnage (2011); Mildred Pierce (TV 2011); Labor Day (2013); A Little Chaos (2014); Divergent (2014); Steve Jobs (2015); The Dressmaker (2015); Wonder Wheel (2017); Ammonite (2020); Mare of Easttown (TV 2021); I Am Ruth (TV 2022); Lee (2023); The Regime (TV 2024).

Kate Winslet in Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).

On 14 lists

Clark Gable (US, 1901-1960)
Red Dust (1932); It Happened One Night (1934); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Call of the Wild (1935); Gone with the Wind (1939); Key to the City (1950); Mogambo (1953); Run Silent, Run Deep (1958); Teacher’s Pet (1958); But Not For Me (1959); The Misfits (1961).

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934).

Greta Garbo (Sweden/US, 1905-1990)
The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Anna Christie (1930); Mata Hari (1931); Grand Hotel (1932); Queen Christina (1933); Anna Karenina (1935); Camille (1936);
Ninotchka (1939).

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926).

Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Citizen Kane (1941); Journey Into Fear (1943); Jane Eyre (1943); The Stranger (1946); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); Macbeth (1948); Othello (1951); Mr. Arkadin (1955); Touch of Evil (1958); Compulsion (1959); The Trial (1962); Chimes at Midnight (1965); The Immortal Story (1968); F for Fake (1973); Butterfly (1982).

Orson Welles directed and starred in Citizen Kane (1941).

Jack Lemmon (US, 1925-2001)
Mister Roberts (1955); Some Like It Hot (1959); The Apartment (1960); Days of Wine and Roses (1962); The Odd Couple (1968); The Out-of-Towners (1970); Save the Tiger (1973); The Front Page (1974); The China Syndrome (1979); Missing (1982); Glengarry Glen Ross (1992); Grumpy Old Men (1993).

Jack Lemmon (right, in drag) and Joe E. Brown in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959).

Kevin Spacey (US, 1959- )
Swimming with Sharks (1994); Seven (1995); The Usual Suspects (1995); Outbreak (1995); A Time to Kill (1996); L.A. Confidential (1997); American Beauty (1999); Pay It Forward (2000); The Shipping News (2001); K-PAX (2001); Beyond the Sea (2004); Superman Returns (2006); 21 (2008); Recount (TV 2008); Casino Jack (2010); Margin Call (2011); Horrible Bosses (2011); House of Cards (TV 2013-2017); Baby Driver (2017).

Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999).

Jodie Foster (US, 1962- )
Tom Sawyer (1973); Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); Bugsy Malone (1976); Freaky Friday (1976); Five Corners (1987); The Accused (1988); The Silence of the Lambs (1991); Little Man Tate (1991); Shadows and Fog (1992); Nell (1994); Maverick (1994); Contact (1997); Panic Room (2002); Flightplan (2005); The Brave One (2007); Carnage (2011); The Beaver (2011); The Mauritanian (2021); Nyad (2023); True Detective: Night Country (2024).
Jodie Foster in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

Nicole Kidman (Australia, 1967- )
Dead Calm (1989); Billy Bathgate (1991); Far and Away (1992); To Die For (1995); Batman Forever (1995); The Portrait of a Lady (1996); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Moulin Rouge! (2001); The Others (2001); The Hours (2002); Dogville (2003); Cold Mountain (2003); Birth (2004); The Stepford Wives (2004); The Interpreter (2005); Bewitched (2005); Margot at the Wedding (2007); Nine (2009); Rabbit Hole (2010); The Paperboy (2012); Hemingway & Gelhorn (2012); Lion (2016); Big Little Lies (TV 2017-2019); The Beguiled (2017); The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017); Boy Erased (2018); Destroyer (2018); Bombshell (2019); The Undoing (TV 2020); Being the Ricardos (2021); The Perfect Couple (TV 2024); Babygirl (2024).

Nicole Kidman in Lars van Trier’s Dogville (2003).

On 13 lists

Joan Crawford (US, 1904-1977)
The Unknown (1927); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Possessed (1931); Grand Hotel (1932); Rain (1932); The Women (1939); Strange Cargo (1940); A Woman’s Face (1941); Mildred Pierce (1945); Humoresque (1946); Possessed (1947); Daisy Kenyon (1947); Sudden Fear (1952); Torch Song (1953); Johnny Guitar (1954); Autumn Leaves (1956); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).

Joan Crawford (left) in George Cukor’s The Women (1939).

Vivien Leigh (UK, 1913-1967)
A Yank at Oxford (1938); Sidewalks of London (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Waterloo Bridge (1940); That Hamilton Woman (1941); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); Anna Karenina (1948); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); The Deep Blue Sea (1955); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961); Ship of Fools (1965).

Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Burt Lancaster (US, 1913-1994)
The Killers (1946), Jim Thorpe-All American (1951); The Crimson Pirate (1952); From Here to Eternity (1953); Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957); Sweet Smell of Success (1957); Elmer Gantry (1960); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); Birdman of Alcatraz (1962); Seven Days in May (1964); The Professionals (1966); Ulzana’s Raid (1972); Go Tell the Spartans (1978); Atlantic City (1980); Local Hero (1983).

Burt Lancaster as critic J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957).

Alec Guinness (UK, 1914-2000)
Great Expectations (1946); Oliver Twist (1948); Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949); The Lavender Hill Mob (1951); The Man in the White Suit (1951); The Prisoner (1955); The Ladykillers (1955); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The Horse’s Mouth (1958); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Star Wars (1977); The Empire Strikes Back (1980); A Passage to India (1984).

Alec Guinness in David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

Gregory Peck (US, 1916-2003)
Spellbound (1945); Duel in the Sun (1946); Gentleman’s Agreement (1947); Twelve O’Clock High (1949); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); Roman Holiday (1953); Moby Dick (1956); On the Beach (1959); The Guns of Navarone (1961); Cape Fear (1962); To Kill A Mockingbird (1962); The Boys from Brazil (1978).

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962).

Peter Sellers (UK, 1925-1980)
The Ladykillers (1955); I’m All Right Jack (1959); The Mouse That Roared (1959); Lolita (1962); Waltz of the Toreadors (1962); Only Two Can Play (1962); The Pink Panther series (1963-1964, 1975-1976); Dr. Strangelove (1964); What’s New Pussycat? (1965); The Wrong Box (1966); Casino Royale (1967); I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968); There’s A Girl in My Soup (1970); Being There (1979); The Fiendish Plot of Mr. Fu Manchu (1980).

Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).

Marilyn Monroe (US, 1926-1962)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950); All About Eve (1950); Monkey Business (1952); Don’t Bother To Knock (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); Niagara (1953); There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954); The Seven Year Itch (1955); Bus Stop (1956); The Prince and the Showgirl (1957); Some Like It Hot (1959); The Misfits (1961).

Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959). 

Gary Oldman (UK, 1958- )
Sid and Nancy (1986); Prick Up Your Ears (1987); Track 29 (1988); The Firm (1989); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991); JFK (1991); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992); True Romance (1993); Léon: The Professional (1994); Immortal Beloved (1994); Air Force One (1997); Nil by Mouth (1997); The Fifth Element (1997); Lost in Space (1998); The Contender (2000); Harry Potter series (2004-2011); Batman Begins and sequels (2005, 2008, 2012); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011); Darkest Hour (2017); Mank (2020); Slow Horses (TV 2022- ); Oppenheimer (2023).

Gary Oldman as Detective Norman Stansfield in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional (1994).

Sean Penn (US, 1960- )
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); Bad Boys (1983); Racing with the Moon (1984); The Falcon and the Snowman (1985); At Close Range (1986); Colors (1988); Casualties of War (1989); Carlito’s Way (1993); Dead Man Walking (1995); The Crossing Guard (1995); She’s So Lovely (1997); The Game (1997); Hurlyburly (1998); The Thin Red Line (1998); Sweet and Lowdown (1999); I Am Sam (2001); The Pledge (2001); Mystic River (2003); 21 Grams (2003); The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004); All the King’s Men (2006); Milk (2008); The Tree of Life (2011); The Professor and the Madman (2019); Flag Day (2021); Licorice Pizza (2021); Asphalt City (2023).
Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking (1995).

Heath Ledger (Australia, 1979-2008)
Two Hands (1999); 10 Things I Hate About You (1999); The Patriot (2000); A Knight’s Tale (2001); Monster’s Ball (2001); Ned Kelly (2003); Brokeback Mountain (2005); Casanova (2005); Lords of Dogtown (2005); Candy (2006); I’m Not There (2007); The Dark Knight (2008); The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).

Heath Ledger in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (2008).

Natalie Portman (Israel/US, 1981- )
Léon: The Professional (1994); Everyone Says I Love You (1996); Star Wars, Episodes I, II, III (1999-2005); Cold Mountain (2003); Garden State (2004); Closer (2004); V for Vendetta (2006); Hotel Chevalier (2007); The Other Boleyn Girl (2008); Black Swan (2010); No Strings Attached (2011).
Natalie Portman in Zach Braff’s Garden State (2004).

On 12 Lists

Marlene Dietrich (Germany/US, 1901-1992)
The Blue Angel (1930); Morocco (1930); Shanghai Express (1932); Blonde Venus (1932); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Destry Rides Again (1939); A Foreign Affair (1948); Stage Fright (1950); Rancho Notorious (1952); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); Touch of Evil (1958); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sterberg’s Morocco (1930).

Grace Kelly (US, 1929-1982)
High Noon (1952); Mogambo (1953); Dial M for Murder (1954); Rear Window (1954); The Country Girl (1954); To Catch a Thief (1955); High Society (1956).
Grace Kelly and James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).

James Dean (US, 1931-1955)
East of Eden (1955); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Giant (1956).
James Dean in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

Robert Duvall (US, 1931- )
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); M*A*S*H (1970); The Godfather (1972); The Conversation (1974); The Godfather, Part II (1974); Network (1976); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976); Apocalypse Now (1979); The Great Santini (1979); True Confessions (1981); Tender Mercies (1983); The Natural (1984); Lonesome Dove (TV 1989); Rambling Rose (1991); Stalin (TV 1992); The Apostle (1997); A Civil Action (1998); Deep Impact (1998); Thank You for Smoking (2005); Broken Trail (TV 2006); Crazy Heart (2009); The Road (2009); Get Low (2009); Seven Days in Utopia (2011); The Judge (2014).
Robert Duvall in his Oscar-winning role as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983).

Elizabeth Taylor (UK/US, 1932-2011)
National Velvet (1944); Father of the Bride (1950); A Place in the Sun (1951); Ivanhoe (1952); Giant (1956); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Butterfield 8 (1960); Cleopatra (1963); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); The Taming of the Shrew (1967).

Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 (1960), for which she won an Oscar.

Peter O’Toole (UK, 1932-2013)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Becket (1964); Lord Jim (1965); The Lion in Winter (1968); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969); The Ruling Class (1972); The Stunt Man (1980); My Favorite Year (1982); The Last Emperor (1987); Venus (2006).

Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Michael Caine (UK, 1933- )
Zulu (1964); The Ipcress File (1965); Alfie (1966); The Italian Job (1969); Get Carter (1971); Sleuth (1972); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); A Bridge Too Far (1977); Dressed to Kill (1980); Deathtrap (1982); Educating Rita (1983); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988); The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992); Little Voice (1998); The Cider House Rules (1999); The Quiet American (2002); Secondhand Lions (2003); Batman Begins and sequels (2005, 2008, 2012); Children of Men (2006); Harry Brown (2009); Inception (2010); Interstellar (2014); Youth (2015); Dunkirk (2017); Tenet (2020).

Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983).

Christopher Walken (US, 1943- )
Annie Hall (1977); The Deer Hunter (1978); Heaven’s Gate (1980); The Dead Zone (1983); At Close Range (1986); The Comfort of Strangers (1990); True Romance (1993); Pulp Fiction (1994); The Prophecy (1995); Sleepy Hollow (1999); Catch Me If You Can (2002); Around the Bend (2004); Wedding Crashers (2005); Hairspray (2007); A Late Quartet (2012); Seven Psychopaths (2012); The Jungle Book (2016); Percy (2020); Severance (TV 2022- ); Dune Part 2 (2024).

Christopher Walken in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978).

Diane Keaton (US, 1946- )
The Godfather (1972); Play It Again, Sam (1972); Sleeper (1973); The Godfather Part II (1974); Love and Death (1975); Annie Hall (1977); Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977); Interiors (1978); Manhattan (1979); Reds (1981); Shoot the Moon (1982); Mrs. Soffel (1984); Crimes of the Heart (1986); Baby Boom (1987); The Good Mother (1988); Father of the Bride and sequel (1991, 1995); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993); Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (TV 1994); Marvin’s Room (1996); The First Wives Club (1996); Something’s Gotta Give (2003); The Family Stone (2005); Morning Glory (2010).

Diane Keaton in the title role of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977).

Ralph Fiennes (UK, 1962- )
Schindler’s List (1993); Quiz Show (1994); Strange Days (1995); The English Patient (1996); Oscar and Lucinda (1997); The End of the Affair (1999); Sunshine (1999); Spider (2002); The Constant Gardener (2005); The Harry Potter series (2005-2011); Bernard and Doris (TV 2006); The Reader (2008); The Duchess (2008); In Bruges (2008); The Hurt Locker (2009); Coriolanus (2011); The Invisible Woman (2013); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); A Bigger Splash (2015); The Forgiven (2021); The Menu (2022); Conclave (2024).

Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener (2005).

Tom Cruise (US, 1962- )
Taps (1981); The Outsiders (1983); Risky Business (1983); Top Gun (1986); The Color of Money (1986); Rain Man (1988); Cocktail (1988); Born on the Fourth of July (1989); A Few Good Men (1992); The Firm (1993); Interview with the Vampire (1994); Jerry Maguire (1996); Mission: Impossible and sequels (1996-2025); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Magnolia (1999); Vanilla Sky (2001); Minority Report (2002); The Last Samurai (2003); Collateral (2004); War of the Worlds (2005); Tropic Thunder (2008); Valkyrie (2008); Jack Reacher (2012); Oblivion (2013); Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

Tom Cruise and Jason Robards in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999).

Brad Pitt (US, 1963- )
Thelma & Louise (1991); A River Runs Through It (1992); Interview with the Vampire (1994); Legends of the Fall (1994); Seven (1995); 12 Monkeys (1995); Seven Years in Tibet (1997); Fight Club (1999); Snatch (2000); Ocean’s Eleven (2001); Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005); Babel (2006); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007); Burn After Reading (2008); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); Inglourious Basterds (2009); The Tree of Life (2011); Moneyball (2011); 12 Years a Slave (2013); The Big Short (2015); Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019); Ad Astra (2019); Babylon (2022).

Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009).

Phillip Seymour Hoffman (US, 1967-2014)
Boogie Nights (1997); Happiness (1998); Flawless (1999); Magnolia (1999); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); State and Main (2000); Almost Famous (2000); Capote (2005); Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007); The Savages (2007); Synecdoche, New York (2008); Doubt (2008); The Master (2012); A Late Quartet (2012).

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous (2000).

On 11 lists

Robert Mitchum (US, 1917-1997)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945); Crossfire (1947); Out of the Past (1947); The Night of the Hunter (1955); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957); The Enemy Below (1957); Cape Fear (1962); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963); The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Dead Man (1995).

Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Lauren Bacall (US, 1924-2014)
To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947); Key Largo (1948); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); Written on the Wind (1956); Harper (1966); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); The Shootist (1976); The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996); Dogville (2003).
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep (1946).

Frances McDormand (US, 1957- )
Blood Simple (1984); Raising Arizona (1987); Mississippi Burning (1988); Miller’s Crossing (1990); The Butcher’s Wife (1991); Short Cuts (1993); Primal Fear (1996); Fargo (1996); Lone Star (1996); Wonder Boys (2000); Almost Famous (2000); The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001); Laurel Canyon (2002); North Country (2005); Friends with Money (2006); Burn After Reading (2008); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); Olive Kitteridge (TV 2014); Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017); Nomadland (2020); The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021); Women Talking (2022).

Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her portrayal of Minnesota police chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996).

On 10 lists

Gene Kelly (US, 1912-1996)
For Me and My Gal (1942); Anchors Aweigh (1945); The Pirate (1948); The Three Musketeers (1948); On the Town (1949); Summer Stock (1950); An American in Paris (1951); Singin’ in the Rain (1952); It’s Always Fair Weather (1955); Invitation to the Dance (1956); Les Girls (1957); Inherit the Wind (1960); What a Way to Go! (1964).

Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen.

Judi Dench (UK, 1934- )
A Room with a View (1985); 84 Charing Cross Road (1987); Henry V (1989); GoldenEye and James Bond series (1995-2015); Mrs. Brown (1997); Shakespeare in Love (1998); Iris (2001); Pride & Prejudice (2005); Notes on a Scandal (2006); Jane Eyre (2011); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012); Philomena (2013); Murder on the Orient Express (2017); Cats (2019); Artemis Fowl (2020); Belfast (2021).

Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Ian McKellen (UK, 1939- )
Scandal (1989); Six Degrees of Separation (1993); And the Band Played On (TV 1994); Richard III (1995); Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (TV 1996); Gods and Monsters (1998); Apt Pupil (1998); X-Men and sequels (2000, 2003, 2006); The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003); The Da Vinci Code (2006); King Lear (TV 2008); The Prisoner (TV 2009); The Hobbit trilogy (2012-2014).
Ian McKellen (right, as director James Whale) and Brendan Fraser in Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters (1998).

Jeff Bridges (US, 1949- )
The Last Picture Show (1971); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); Against All Odds (1984); Starman (1984); Jagged Edge (1985); Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988); The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989); The Fisher King (1991); Fearless (1993); The Vanishing (1993); The Big Lebowski (1998); The Contender (2000); Seabiscuit (2003); The Door in the Floor (2004); Iron Man (2008); Crazy Heart (2009); A Dog Year (TV 2009); True Grit (2010); Hell or High Water (2016); The Old Man (TV 2022-2024).

Jeff Bridges in The Door in the Floor (2004).

Sigourney Weaver (US, 1949- )
Alien and sequels (1979, 1986, 1992, 1997); The Year of Living Dangerously (1982); Ghostbusters (1984); Gorillas in the Mist (1988); Working Girl (1988); Dave (1993); The Ice Storm (1997); Snow White: A Tale of Terror (TV 1997); Galaxy Quest (1999); A Map of the World (1999); Heartbreakers (2001); Imaginary Heroes (2004); Snow Cake (2006); Avatar and sequel (2009, 2022); The Cabin in the Woods (2012); Political Animals (TV 2012); Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014); Chappie (2015); The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (TV 2023).

Sigourney Weaver as primate researcher Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist (1988).

Robin Williams (US, 1951- )
Mork & Mindy (TV 1978-1982); Popeye (1980); The World According to Garp (1982); Moscow on the Hudson (1984); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Dead Poets Society (1989); Awakenings (1990); The Fisher King (1991); Aladdin (1992); Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); Jumanji (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Good Will Hunting (1997); Patch Adams (1998); Insomnia (2002); One Hour Photo (2002); Night at the Museum (2006); The Crazy Ones (TV 2013-2014).

Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (1997).

Edward Norton (US, 1969- )
Primal Fear (1996); The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996); Everyone Says I Love You (1996); American History X (1998); Fight Club (1999); Keeping the Faith (2000); 25^th Hour (2002); The Painted Veil (2006); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022); A Complete Unknown (2024).

Edward Norton in American History X (1998).

On 9 lists

Gary Cooper (US, 1901-1961)
Morocco (1930); A Farewell to Arms (1932); The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Meet John Doe (1941); Sergeant York (1941); Ball of Fire (1941); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); The Fountainhead (1949); High Noon (1952); Love in the Afternoon (1957).

Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941).

Joan Fontaine (UK/US, 1917-2013)
Gunga Din (1939); The Women (1939); Rebecca (1940); Suspicion (1941); Jane Eyre (1943); The Constant Nymph (1943); Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948); Born to Be Bad (1950); Ivanhoe (1952); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956); Tender Is the Night (1962).

Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940).

Steve McQueen (US, 1930-1980)
The Blob (1958); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Great Escape (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); The Cincinnati Kid (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Thomas Crown Affair (1968); Bullitt (1968); Junior Bonner (1972); The Getaway (1972); Papillion (1973).

Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw in The Getaway (1972).

Ellen Burstyn (US, 1932- )
The Last Picture Show (1971); The Exorcist (1973); Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974); Harry and Tonto (1974); Same Time, Next Year (1978); Resurrection (1980); When a Man Loves a Woman (1994); Requiem for a Dream (2000); The Stone Angel (2007); W. (2008).
Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorcese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974).

Shirley MacLaine (US, 1934- )
The Trouble with Harry (1955); Some Came Running (1958); Ask Any Girl (1958); The Apartment (1960); The Children’s Hour (1961); Irma la Douce (1963); Woman Times Seven (1967); Sweet Charity (1969); Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970); Desperate Characters (1971); The Turning Point (1977); Being There (1979); Terms of Endearment (1983); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Steel Magnolias (1989); Postcards from the Edge (1990); Guarding Tess (1994); Mrs. Winterbourne (1996); In Her Shoes (2005); Bernie (2011).

Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960).

Julie Andrews (UK, 1935- )
Mary Poppins (1964); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Sound of Music (1965); Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967); Star! (1968); Darling Lili (1970); 10 (1979); Victor Victoria (1982); That’s Life! (1986); Duet for One (1986); The Princess Diaries (2001).

Julie Andrews in Blake Edwards’ Victor Victoria (1983).

Joe Pesci (US, 1943- )
Raging Bull (1980); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); Lethal Weapon 2, 3 & 4 (1989, 1992, 1998); Goodfellas (1990); Home Alone and sequel (1990, 1992); JFK (1991); My Cousin Vinny (1992); A Bronx Tale (1993); Casino (1995); The Irishman (2019).

Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta in Goodfellas (1990), for which Pesci won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

Liam Neeson (Ireland, 1952- )
Excalibur (1981); The Bounty (1984); The Mission (1986); Suspect (1987); The Good Mother (1988); Darkman (1990); Schindler’s List (1993); Nell (1994); Rob Roy (1995); Michael Collins (1996); Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999); Gangs of New York (2002); Love Actually (2003); Kinsey (2004); Batman Begins (2005); Five Minutes of Heaven (2009); The Ice Road (2021).
Liam Neeson (left, as Oskar Schindler) and Ben Kingsley in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993).

Julianne Moore (US/UK, 1960- )
The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag (1992); Benny & Joon (1993); The Fugitive (1993); Short Cuts (1993); Vanya on 42nd Street (1994); Safe (1995); Nine Months (1995); Boogie Nights (1997); The Myth of Fingerprints (1997); The Big Lebowski (1998); An Ideal Husband (1999); Magnolia (1999); The End of the Affair (1999); Hannibal (2001); Far From Heaven (2002); The Hours (2002); Children of Men (2007); Next (2007); A Single Man (2009); The Kids Are All Right (2010); Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011); Game Change (TV 2012); Don Jon (2013); Carrie (2013); Maps to the Stars (2014); Still Alice (2014); Suburbicon (2017); May December (2023); The Room Next Door (2024). 
Julianne Moore in Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men (2007).

Robert Downey Jr. (US, 1965-)
The Pick-up Artist (1987); Less Than Zero (1987); Soapdish (1991); Chaplin (1992); Short Cuts (1993); Natural Born Killers (1994); Home for the Holidays (1995); One Night Stand (1997); Bowfinger (1999); Black and White (1999); Wonder Boys (2000); Ally McBeal (TV 2000-2001); Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005); Good Night, and Good Luck (2005); A Scanner Darkly (2006); Zodiac (2007); Iron Man and sequels (2008, 2010, 2013); Tropic Thunder (2008); Sherlock Holmes and sequel (2009, 2011); The Avengers and sequels (2012-2019); Captain America: Civil War (2016); Dolittle (2020); Oppenheimer (2023); The Sympathizer (TV 2024).

Robert Downey, Jr. in Chaplin (1992).

Joaquin Phoenix (US, 1974- )
Parenthood (1989); To Die For (1995); Inventing the Abbotts (1997); Return to Paradise (1998); The Yards (2000); Quills (2000); Gladiator (2000); Buffalo Soldiers (2001); Signs (2002); Hotel Rwanda (2004); The Village (2004); Ladder 49 (2004); Walk the Line (2005); We Own the Night (2007); Two Lovers (2008); The Master (2012); Her (2013); Inherent Vice (2014); You Were Never Really Here (2017); Joker and sequel (2019, 2024); C’mon C’mon (2020); Beau Is Afraid (2023).

Joaquin Phoenix in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012).

On 8 lists

Edward G. Robinson (Romania/US, 1893-1973)
Little Caesar (1931); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939); Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940); Double Indemnity (1944); Scarlet Street (1945); The Stranger (1946); Key Largo (1948); The Ten Commandments (1956); Cheyenne Autumn (1964).

Edward G. Robinson (left) and Fred MacMurray in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944).

Lillian Gish (US, 1893-1993)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912); The Birth of a Nation (1915); Intolerance (1916); Broken Blossoms (1919); True Heart Susie (1919); Way Down East (1920); Orphans of the Storm (1921); The Scarlet Letter (1926); Duel in the Sun (1946); Portrait of Jennie (1948); The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Lillian Gish in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms (1919).

William Holden (US, 1918-1981)
Sunset Blvd. (1950); Born Yesterday (1950); Stalag 17 (1953); Executive Suite (1954); Sabrina (1954); The Country Girl (1954); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); Picnic (1955); The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); The World of Suzie Wong (1960); The Wild Bunch (1969); Network (1976).

William Holden in Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17 (1953).

George C. Scott (US, 1927-1999)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959); The Hustler (1961); Dr. Strangelove (1964); Petulia (1968); Patton (1970); The Hospital (1971); The Hindenburg (1975); Movie Movie (1978); Hardcore (1979);
The Changeling (1980); Taps (1981); Firestarter (1984).

George C. Scott as Patton (1970).

Sophia Loren (Italy, 1934- )
The Pride and the Passion (1957); Houseboat (1958); Desire under the Elms (1958); Two Women (1960); It Started in Naples (1960); El Cid (1961); Five Miles to Midnight (1962); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian-Style (1964); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); Operation Crossbow (1965); Arabesque (1966); Man of La Mancha (1972); The Voyage (1974); A Special Day (1977); Prêt-à-Porter (1994); Between Strangers (2002); Nine (2009).
Sophia Loren and Eleonore Leonard in Two Women (1960).

Jane Fonda (US, 1937- )
Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Period of Adjustment (1962); Cat Ballou (1965); Any Wednesday (1966); The Chase (1966); Barefoot in the Park (1967); Barbarella (1968); They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969); Klute (1971); Julia (1977); Coming Home (1978); California Suite (1978); The China Syndrome (1979); 9 to 5 (1980); On Golden Pond (1981); The Dollmaker (TV 1984); Agnes of God (1985); The Morning After (1986); Monster-in-Law (2005); The Butler (2013); Youth (2015); Grace and Frankie (TV 2015-2022).

Jane Fonda won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Bree Daniels in Klute (1971).

Faye Dunaway (US, 1941- )
Bonnie and Clyde (1967); The Thomas Crown Affair (1968); Little Big Man (1970); Puzzle of A Downfall Child (1970); Chinatown (1974); Three Days of the Condor (1975); Network (1976); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); Mommie Dearest (1981); Barfly (1987); The Handmaid’s Tale (1990); Don Juan DeMarco (1995); The Twilight of the Golds (TV 1997); Gia (TV 1998).
Faye Dunaway in Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976).

Shah Rukh Khan (India, 1965- )
Deewana (1992); Baaziger (1993); Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1994); Anjaam (1994); Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995); Dil To Pagal Hai (1997); Mohabbatein (2000); Devdas (2002); Swades (2004); Don and sequel (2006, 2011); Chak De! India (2007); My Name Is Khan (2010); Ra.One (2011); Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012); Happy New Year (2014); Dilwale (2015); Fan (2016); Jawan (2023).

Shahrukh Khan in My Name Is Khan (2010).

Julia Roberts (US, 1967- )
Mystic Pizza (1988); Steel Magnolias (1989); Pretty Woman (1990); Flatliners (1990); Sleeping with the Enemy (1991); Dying Young (1991); The Pelican Brief (1993); Mary Reilly (1996); My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997); Conspiracy Theory (1997); Notting Hill (1999); Runaway Bride (1999); Erin Brockovich (2000); Ocean’s Eleven (2001); Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Closer (2004); Charlie Wilson’s War (2007); Eat Pray Love (2010); Larry Crowne (2011); August: Osage County (2013); The Normal Heart (TV 2014); Money Monster (2016); Homecoming (TV 2018); Gaslit (TV 2022).
Julia Roberts won an Oscar for the title role in Erin Brockovich (2000).

Matt Damon (US, 1970- )
Good Will Hunting (1997); The Rainmaker (1997); Saving Private Ryan (1998); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); Dogma (1999); Finding Forrester (2000); All the Pretty Horses (2000); Ocean’s Eleven (2001); The Bourne series (2002-2007); The Good Shepherd (2006); The Departed (2006); The Informant! (2009); Invictus (2009); True Grit (2010); Behind the Candelabra (TV 2013); The Monuments Men (2014); The Martian (2015); Air (2023).

Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

Charlize Theron (South Africa/US, 1975- )
The Devil’s Advocate (1997); The Cider House Rules (1999); The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000); The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001); The Italian Job (2003); Monster (2003); The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (TV 2004); North Country (2005); In the Valley of Elah (2007); Hancock (2008); The Road (2009); Young Adult (2011); Snow White and the Huntsman (2012); Prometheus (2012); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Atomic Blonde (2017); Tully (2018); Bombshell (2019).

Charlize Theron in Jason Reitman’s Young Adult (2011).

On 7 lists

Mary Pickford (Canada/US, 1892-1979)
The Lonely Villa (1909); Tess of the Storm Country (1914); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917); The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917); Stella Maris (1918); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Polyanna (1920); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1922); Sparrows (1926); My Best Girl (1927); Coquette (1929); Secrets (1933).

Mary Pickford in Stella Maris (1918).

Gloria Swanson (US, 1899-1983)
The Pullman Bride (1916); Don’t Change Your Husband (1918); Manhandled (1924); Sadie Thompson (1928); Queen Kelly (1929); Tonight or Never (1931); Sunset Blvd. (1950).
Gloria Swanson and Walter Byron in Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly (1929).

Fred Astaire (US, 1899-1987)
Flying Down to Rio (1933); The Gay Divorcee (1934); Top Hat (1935); Follow the Fleet (1936); Swing Time (1936); Shall We Dance (1937); Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940); Easter Parade (1948); The Barkleys of Broadway (1949); Royal Wedding (1951); The Band Wagon (1953); Daddy Long Legs (1955); Silk Stockings (1957); Funny Face (1957); On the Beach (1959); Finian’s Rainbow (1968).
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (1936).

Claudette Colbert (France/US, 1903-1996)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931); Cleopatra (1934); It Happened One Night (1934); Imitation of Life (1934); Midnight (1939); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Arise, My Love (1940); The Palm Beach Story (1942); So Proudly We Hail (1943); Since You Went Away (1944); The Egg and I (1947).
Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934).

Peter Lorre (Austria-Hungary/US, 1904-1964)
M (1931); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); Secret Agent (1936); The Maltese Falcon (1941); Casablanca (1942); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); Beat the Devil (1953); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).

Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang’s M (1931).

Carole Lombard (US, 1908-1942)
Me, Gangster (1928); Man of the World (1931); No Man of Her Own (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); My Man Godfrey (1936); Nothing Sacred (1937); Made for Each Other (1939); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941); To Be or Not to Be (1942).

Carole Lombard in Nothing Sacred (1937).

Olivia de Havilland (UK/US, 1916-2020)
Captain Blood (1935); Anthony Adverse (1936); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Hold Back the Dawn (1941); To Each His Own (1946); The Snake Pit (1948); The Heiress (1949); My Cousin Rachel (1952); Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).

Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

Deborah Kerr (UK, 1921-2007)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); The Adventuress (1945); Black Narcissus (1947); Edward, My Son (1949); King Solomon’s Mines (1950); From Here to Eternity (1953); The End of the Affair (1955); The King and I (1956); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); Separate Tables (1958); The Sundowners (1960); The Innocents (1961); The Chalk Garden (1964); The Night of the Iguana (1964).

Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953).

Jeanne Moreau (France, 1928-2017)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958); The Lovers (1958); La Notte (1961); The Trial (1962); Jules et Jim (1962); Diary of a Chambermaid (1964); Chimes at Midnight (1965); The Bride Wore Black (1968); The Last Tycoon (1976); Querelle (1982); Nikita (1990); Until the End of the World (1991).

Jeanne Moreau in Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962).

Robert Redford (US, 1936- )
Barefoot in the Park (1967); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Downhill Racer (1969); Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969); Jeremiah Johnson (1972); The Candidate (1972); The Sting (1973); The Way We Were (1973); Three Days of the Condor (1975); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); All The President’s Men (1976); Brubaker (1980); The Natural (1984); Out of Africa (1985); All Is Lost (2013); The Old Man & the Gun (2018).

Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor (1975).

Catherine Deneuve (France, 1943- )
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964); Repulsion (1965); The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967); Belle de Jour (1967); Tristana (1970); Lovers Like Us (1975); The Last Metro (1980); The Hunger (1983); Scene of the Crime (1987); Indochine (1992); My Favorite Season (1993); Place Vendôme (1998); Dancer in the Dark (2000); 8 Women (2002); A Talking Picture (2003); A Christmas Tale (2008); The Beloved (2011); On My Way (2013); In the Courtyard (2014); Standing Tall (2015).

Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel’s Belle de jour (1967).

Ben Kingsley (UK, 1943- )
Gandhi (1982); Betrayal (1983); Turtle Diary (1986); Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (TV 1989); Bugsy (1991); Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993); Dave (1993); Schindler’s List (1993); Sexy Beast (2000); Anne Frank: The Whole Story (TV 2001); House of Sand and Fog (2003); Mrs. Harris (TV 2005); You Kill Me (2007); Elegy (2008); Shutter Island (2010); Hugo (2011); Ender’s Game (2013); A Common Man (2013); Iron Man 3 (2015); Tut (TV 2015); Daliland (2022); Jules (2023).

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast (2001).

Michael Douglas (US, 1944- )
The Streets of San Francisco (TV 1972-1976); Coma (1978); The China Syndrome (1979); Romancing the Stone (1984); Fatal Attraction (1987); Wall Street (1987); The War of the Roses (1989); Basic Instinct (1992); Falling Down (1993); Disclosure (1994); The American President (1995); The Game (1997); Wonder Boys (2000); Traffic (2000); Solitary Man (2009); Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010); Behind the Candelabra (2013); Ant-Man (2015); The Kominsky Method (TV 2018-2021).

Michael Douglas (right) and Tobey Maguire in Wonder Boys (2000).

Helen Mirren (UK, 1945- )
O Lucky Man! (1973); The Long Good Friday (1980); Excalibur (1981); Cal (1984); 2010 (1984); White Nights (1985); The Mosquito Coast (1986); The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989); The Comfort of Strangers (1990); Prime Suspect (TV 1991-2006); The Madness of King George (1994); The Passion of Ayn Rand (TV 1999); No Such Thing (2001); Gosford Park (2001); Calendar Girls (2003); Elizabeth I (TV 2005); The Queen (2006); State of Play (2009); The Last Station (2009); Red and sequel (2010, 2013); Hitchcock (2012); Phil Spector (TV 2013); The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014); Trumbo (2015); The Leisure Seeker (2017); Catherine the Great (TV 2019): 1923 (TV 2022- ).
Helen Mirren in Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

Sally Field (US, 1946- )
Gidget (TV 1965-1966); The Flying Nun (TV 1967-1970); Sybil (TV 1976); Stay Hungry (1976); Smokey and the Bandit (1977); The End (1978); Norma Rae (1979); Absence of Malice (1981); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); Places in the Heart (1984); Murphy’s Romance (1985); Steel Magnolias (1989); Soapdish (1991); Not Without My Daughter (1991); Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); Forrest Gump (1994); A Woman of Independent Means (1995); Eye for an Eye (1996); A Cooler Climate (TV 1999); Brothers & Sisters (TV 2006-2011); The Amazing Spider-Man (2012); Lincoln (2012); Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015).

Sally Field in Places in the Heart (1984), for which she won her second Best Actress Oscar.

Susan Sarandon (US, 1946- )
Joe (1970); The Front Page (1974); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); Pretty Baby (1978); Atlantic City (1980); Tempest (1982); The Hunger (1983); The Witches of Eastwick (1987); Bull Durham (1988); White Palace (1990); Thelma & Louise (1991); Bob Roberts (1992); Lorenzo’s Oil (1992); The Client (1994); Little Women (1994); Dead Man Walking (1995); Stepmom (1998); Cradle Will Rock (1999); Igby Goes Down (2002); Moonlight Mile (2002); Bernard and Doris (TV 2006); In the Valley of Elah (2007); Enchanted (2007); The Lovely Bones (2009); You Don’t Know Jack (TV 2010); Feud: Bette and Joan (TV 2017).

Susan Sarandon in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991).

Bill Murray (US, 1950- )
Meatballs (1979); Where the Buffalo Roam (1980); Caddyshack (1980); Stripes (1981); Tootsie (1982); Ghostbusters (1984); The Razor’s Edge (1984); Scrooged (1988); What About Bob? (1991); Groundhog Day (1993); Ed Wood (1994); Kingpin (1996); Rushmore (1998); Cradle Will Rock (1999); Charlie’s Angels (2000); Lost in Translation (2003); The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004); Broken Flowers (2005); Get Low (2009); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); Hyde Park on Hudson (2012); The Monuments Men (2014); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Olive Kitteridge (TV 2015); On the Rocks (2020).

Bill Murray (right) in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003).

Willem Dafoe (US, 1955- )
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); Platoon (1986); Mississippi Burning (1988); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Born on the Fourth of July (1989); Wild at Heart (1991); Light Sleeper (1992); Clear and Present Danger (1994); Affliction (1997); Existenz (1999); The Boondock Saints (1999); Shadow of the Vampire (2000); American Psycho (2000); Spider-Man (2002); Auto Focus (2002); Once Upon A Time in Mexico (2003); Finding Nemo (2003); The Aviator (2004); The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004); Inside Man (2006); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009); Antichrist (2009); The Florida Project (2017); At Eternity’s Gate (2018); The Lighthouse (2019); Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021); Poor Things (2023).

Willem Dafoe in Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus (2002).

Holly Hunter (US, 1958- )
Raising Arizona (1987); Broadcast News (1987); Always (1989); Roe vs. Wade (TV 1989); The Piano (1993); The Firm (1993); The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (TV 1993): Copycat (1995); Home for the Holidays (1995); Crash (1996); A Life Less Ordinary (1997); Living Out Loud (1998); Jesus’ Son (1999); Timecode (2000); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); Thirteen (2003); The Incredibles and sequel (2004, 2018); Top of the Lake and sequel (2013, 2017); Strange Weather (2016); The Big Sick (2017); Mr. Mayor (TV 2021-2022).

Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito in Living Out Loud (1998).

Emma Thompson (UK, 1959- )
Fortunes of War (TV 1987); Tutti Frutti (TV 1987); Henry V (1989); The Tall Guy (1989); Dead Again (1991); Impromptu (1991); Howards End (1992); Much Ado About Nothing (1993); The Remains of the Day (1993); In the Name of the Father (1993); Sense and Sensibility (1995); Primary Colors (1998); Wit (TV 2001); Love Actually (2003); Angels in America (TV 2003); The Harry Potter series (2004-2011); Nanny McPhee (2005); Stranger than Fiction (2006); Last Chance Harvey (2008); An Education (2009); The Song of Lunch (TV 2010); Saving Mr. Banks (2013); Late Night (2019); Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022).

Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks (2013).

George Clooney (US, 1961- )
ER (TV 1994-1999); From Dusk till Dawn (1996); One Fine Day (1996); Batman & Robin (1997); The Thin Red Line (1998); Out of Sight (1998); Three Kings (1999); The Perfect Storm (2000); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); Ocean’s Eleven and sequels (2001, 2004, 2007); Solaris (2002); Intolerable Cruelty (2003); Good Night, and Good Luck (2005); Syriana (2005); The Good German (2006); Michael Clayton (2007); Up in the Air (2009); The Descendants (2011); The Ides of March (2011); Gravity (2013); Money Monster (2016); Catch-22 (TV 2019).
George Clooney in the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).

Jim Carrey (Canada/US, 1962- )
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and sequel (1994, 1995); Dumb and Dumber and sequel (1994, 2014); The Mask (1994); Batman Forever (1995); The Cable Guy (1996); Liar Liar (1997); The Truman Show (1998); Man on the Moon (1999); How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000); Me, Myself & Irene (2000); Bruce Almighty (2003); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); The Number 23 (2007); Yes Man (2008); I Love You Philip Morris (2009); Kidding (TV 2018-2020); Sonic the Hedgehog series (2020-2024).

Jim Carrey in Peter Weir’s The Truman Show (1998).

Sandra Bullock (US, 1964- )
Demolition Man (1993); Speed and sequel (1994, 1997); While You Were Sleeping (1995); The Net (1995); Hope Floats (1998); Practical Magic (1998); 28 Days (2000); Miss Congeniality and sequel (2000, 2005); Two Weeks Notice (2002); Crash (2004); Infamous (2006); The Lake House (2006); Premonition (2007); The Proposal (2009); The Blind Side (2009); Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011); The Heat (2013); Gravity (2013); Minions (2015); Bird Box (2018); The Lost City (2022).
Sandra Bullock in 28 Days (2000).

Halle Berry (US, 1966- )
Jungle Fever (1991); Boomerang (1992); Executive Decision (1996); Bulworth (1998); Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (TV 1999); X-Men and sequels (2000, 2006, 2011, 2014); Swordfish (2001); Monster’s Ball (2001); Die Another Day (2002); Gothika (2003); Catwoman (2004); Their Eyes Were Watching God (TV 2005); Things We Lost in the Fire (2007); Perfect Stranger (2007); Frankie & Alice (2010); Cloud Atlas (2012); The Call (2013); Bruised (2020).

Halle Berry won an Oscar for her performance in Monster’s Ball (2001).

Hugh Jackman (Australia, 1968- )
X-Men and sequels (2000, 2003, 2006, 2014); Kate & Leopold (2001); Van Helsing (2004); The Prestige (2006); The Fountain (2006); X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009); Real Steel (2011); Les Misérables (2012); Prisoners (2013); The Wolverine and sequel (2013, 2017); The Greatest Showman (2017); Bad Education (TV 2019); Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Hugh Jackman plays Jean Valjean in Les Miserables (2012)

Javier Bardem (Spain, 1969- )
High Heels (1991); Jamón Jamón (1992); Huevos de oro (1993); Running Out of Time (1994); El detective y la muerte (1994); Boca a boca (1995); Live Flesh (1997); Second Skin (1999); Before Night Falls (2000); The Dancer Upstairs (2002); Mondays in the Sun (2002); The Sea Inside (2004); No Country for Old Men (2007); Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Biutiful (2010); Skyfall (2012); To the Wonder (2012); Loving Pablo (Escobar) (2017); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017); Everybody Knows (2018); Being the Ricardos (2021); The Good Boss (2021); Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (TV 2024).

Javier Bardem won an Oscar for his role in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007).

On 6 lists

Jean Gabin (France, 1904-1976)
Pépé le Moko (1937); La Grande illusion (1937); Le Quai des brumes (1938); La Bête humaine (1938); Le Jour se lève (1939); Le Plaisir (1952); Touchez pas au grisbi (1954); Les Misérables (1958).

Jean Gabin in La Bête humaine (1938).

Ava Gardner (US, 1922-1990)
The Killers (1946); One Touch of Venus (1948); East Side, West Side (1949); Show Boat (1951); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Mogambo (1953); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); On the Beach (1959); 55 Days at Peking (1963); Seven Days in May (1964); The Night of the Iguana (1964); The Cassandra Crossing (1977).

Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa (1954).

Charlton Heston (US, 1923-2008)
Julius Caesar (1950); The Ten Commandments (1956); Touch of Evil (1958); The Big Country (1958); Ben-Hur (1960); El Cid (1961); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Major Dundee (1965); Planet of the Apes (1968); Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970); The Omega Man (1971); Soylent Green (1973).

Charlton Heston in Willliam Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1960).

Richard Burton (UK, 1925-1984)
The Robe (1953); Look Back in Anger (1958); Cleopatra (1963); Becket (1964); The Night of the Iguana (1964); The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); The Taming of the Shrew (1967); Where Eagles Dare (1968); Equus (1977); Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).

Richard Burton in Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Max von Sydow (Sweden, 1929-2020)
The Seventh Seal (1957); Wild Strawberries (1957); The Magician (1958); The Virgin Spring (1960); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); Winter Light (1963); Hour of the Wolf (1968); Shame (1968); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Exorcist (1973); Three Days of the Condor (1975); Flight of the Eagle (1982); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Pelle the Conqueror (1987); The Best Intentions (1992); Minority Report (2002); The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007); Shutter Island (2010); Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).

Max von Sydow in Ingmar Bergman’s The Magician (1958).

Liv Ullmann (Norway, 1938- )
Persona (1966); Shame (1968); Hour of the Wolf (1968); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Emigrants (1971); Cries and Whispers (1972); Scenes from a Marriage (1973); 40 Carats (1973); Lost Horizon (1973); Face to Face (1976); The Serpent’s Egg (1977); Autumn Sonata (1978); Farewell Moscow (1987); The Rose Garden (1989).

Liv Ullmann in Cries and Whispers (1972), one of nine films she made with director Ingmar Bergman.

Julie Christie (UK, 1940- )
Billy Liar (1963); Darling (1965); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Fahrenheit 451 (1966); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967); Petulia (1968); The Go-Between (1970); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Shampoo (1975); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Heat and Dust (1983); Hamlet (1996); Afterglow (1997); Finding Neverland (2004); Away from Her (2006).
Julie Christie in Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973).

Tommy Lee Jones (US, 1946- )
The Amazing Howard Hughes (TV 1977); Rolling Thunder (1977); Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980); The Executioner’s Song (TV 1982); Lonesome Dove (TV 1989); JFK (1991); Under Siege (1992); The Fugitive (1993); Blown Away (1994); The Client (1994); Natural Born Killers (1994); Cobb (1994); Batman Forever (1995); Men in Black and sequels (1997, 2002, 2012); U.S. Marshals (1998); The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005); No Country for Old Men (2007); In the Valley of Elah (2007); The Company Men (2010); Lincoln (2012); Hope Springs (2012); The Homesman (2014).

Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993).

John Travolta (US, 1954- )
Carrie (1976); Saturday Night Fever (1977); Grease (1978); Urban Cowboy (1980); Pulp Fiction (1994); Get Shorty (1995); Phenomenon (1996); Broken Arrow (1996); Face/Off (1997); A Civil Action (1998); The Thin Red Line (1998); Primary Colors (1998); The General’s Daughter (1999); Swordfish (2001); Hairspray (2007); The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009); Savages (2012); The People v. O.J. Simpson (TV 2016).

John Travolta in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994).

Christoph Waltz (Austria/Germany, 1956- )
Leben fur Leben (1991); Love Scenes from Planet Earth (1998); Falling Rocks (1999); Inglourious Basterds (2009); Carnage (2011); Django Unchained (2012); Big Eyes (2014); Spectre (2015); Downsizing (2017); Alita: Battle Angel (2019); The French Dispatch (2021); No Time to Die (2021).

Christoph Waltz in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009).

Mel Gibson (US/Australia, 1956- )
Tim (1979); Mad Max (1979); Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981); Gallipoli (1981); The Year of Living Dangerously (1982); The Bounty (1984); Lethal Weapon and sequels (1987, 1989, 1992, 1998); Hamlet (1990); Braveheart (1995); Ransom (1996); Conspiracy Theory (1997); The Patriot (2000); What Women Want (2000); Chicken Run (2000); Signs (2002); The Beaver (2011); Dragged Across Concrete (2018).

Mel Gibson directed and starred in the Oscar-winning Braveheart (1995).

Nicolas Cage (US, 1964- )
Valley Girl (1983); Racing with the Moon (1984); Birdy (1984) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986); Raising Arizona (1987); Moonstruck (1987); Vampire’s Kiss (1989); Honeymoon in Vegas (1992); It Could Happen to You (1994); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); Face/Off (1997); Bringing Out the Dead (1999); Adaptation (2002); National Treasure (2004); Lord of War (2005); The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); Kick-Ass (2010); Joe (2013); Dog Eat Dog (2016); Pig (2021); The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022); Dream Scenario (2023).

Nicolas Cage (left) and Nicolas Cage playing twins in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation (2002).

Juliette Binoche (France, 1964- )
Rendez-vous (1985); Hail Mary (1985); Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood) (1986); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge) (1991); Damage (1992); Three Colors: Blue (1993); The Horseman on the Roof (1995); The English Patient (1996); Code Unknown (2000); Chocolat (2000); The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000); Jet Lag (2002); Caché (2005); Paris, je t’aime (2006); Dan in Real Life (2007); Flight of the Red Balloon (2007); Summer Hours (2008); Certified Copy (2010); Cosmopolis (2012); Camille Claudel 1915 (2013); Clouds of Sils Maria (2014); Endless Night (2015); Let the Sunshine (2017); Between Two Worlds (2021).

Juliet Binoche in Michael Haneke’s Cache (2005).

Salman Khan (India, 1965- )
Maine Pyar Kiya (1989); Hum Aapke Hain Koun…! (1994); Pyaar Kiya To Dama Kya (1998); Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998); Tere Naam (2003); Dabangg (2010); Ek Tha Tiger (2012); Dabangg 2 (2012); Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015); Sultan (2016).

Salman Khan in Dabangg 2 (2012).

Viola Davis (US, 1965- )
Doubt (2008); The Help (2011); How to Get Away with Murder (TV, 2014-2020); Fences (2016); Suicide Squad (2016): Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020); The Woman King (2022), Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).

Viola Davis in The Woman King (2022).

Benicio del Toro (US: Puerto Rico, 1967- )
The Usual Suspects (1995); Basquiat (1996); Excess Baggage (1997); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); Traffic (2000); The Way of the Gun (2000); Snatch (2000); The Pledge (2001); 21 Grams (2003); Sin City (2005); Things We Lost in the Fire (2007); Che (2008); Inherent Vice (2014); Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014); Sicario (2015); A Perfect Day (2015); Escape at Dannemora (TV 2018); The French Dispatch (2021).

Benicio del Toro in 21 Grams (2003).

Will Smith (US, 1968- )
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV 1990-1996); Six Degrees of Separation (1993); Bad Boys and sequels (1995, 2003, 2020, 2024); Independence Day (1996); Men in Black (1997); Enemy of the State (1998); The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000); Ali (2001); Hitch (2005); The Pursuit of Happyness (2006); I Am Legend (2007); Seven Pounds (2008); King Richard (2021).
Will Smith in I Am Legend (2007).

Hilary Swank (US, 1974- )
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992); Boys Don’t Cry (1999); The Gift (2000); Insomnia (2002); Million Dollar Baby (2004); P.S. I Love You (2007); Amelia (2009); Conviction (2010); New Year’s Eve (2011); The Resident (2011); The Homesman (2014); You’re Not You (2014); I Am Mother (2019); The Hunt (2020); Away (TV 2020); Alaska Daily (TV 2022-2023).

Hilary Swank won an Oscar for her performance in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Reese Witherspoon (US, 1976- )
The Man in the Moon (1991); Freeway (1996); Pleasantville (1998); Cruel Intentions (1999); Election (1999); Legally Blonde (2001); Sweet Home Alabama (2002); Vanity Fair (2004); Walk the Line (2005); Rendition (2007); Water for Elephants (2011); Mud (2012); Wild (2014); Inherent Vice (2014); Little Fires Everywhere (TV 2017); Big Little Lies (TV 2017-2019); The Morning Show (TV 2019- ).

Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix as June Carter and Johnny Cash in Walk the Line (2005).

On 5 lists

The Marx Brothers (US, Chico: 1887-1961; Harpo: 1888-1964; Groucho: 1890-1977; Zeppo: 1901-1979)
The Cocoanuts (1929); Animal Crackers (1930); Monkey Business (1931); Horse Feathers (1932); Duck Soup (1933); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Day at the Races (1937); Room Service (1938); At the Circus (1939); Go West (1940); The Big Store (1941); A Night in Casablanca (1946).

The four Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (1933) (from left, Chico, Zeppo, Groucho and Harpo).

Mae West (US, 1893-1980)
She Done Him Wrong (1933); I’m No Angel (1933); Belle of the Nineties (1934); Klondike Annie (1936); Go West, Young Man (1936); My Little Chickadee (1940); Myra Breckinridge (1970).

Mae West and Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong (1933).

Jean Arthur (US, 1900-1991)
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929); The Whole Town’s Talking (1935); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); The Plainsman (1936); You Can’t Take It With You (1938); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); The More the Merrier (1943); A Foreign Affair (1948); Shane (1953).

From left: Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Thomas Mitchell in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

Chishu Ryu (Japan, 1904-1993)
Late Spring (1949); Early Summer (1951); Tokyo Story (1953); Good Morning (1959); The Bad Sleep Well (1960); Late Autumn (1960); The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (1961); An Autumn Afternoon (1962); Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990).

Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring (1949).

Takashi Shimura (Japan, 1905-1982)
Drunken Angel (1948); Stray Dog (1949); Rashomon (1950); Ikiru (1952); The Life of Oharu (1952); Seven Samurai (1954); Godzilla (1954); Throne of Blood (1957); The Hidden Fortress (1958); The Bad Sleep Well (1960); Yojimbo (1961); High and Low (1963);
Kwaidan (1964); Kagemusha (1980).

Takaski Shimura in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952).

Jean Harlow (US, 1911-1937)
The Public Enemy (1931); Platinum Blonde (1931); Red Dust (1932); Dinner at Eight (1933); Bombshell (1933); Wife vs. Secretary (1936); Libeled Lady (1936).

Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932).

Ginger Rogers (US, 1911-1995)
42^nd Street (1933); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); Flying Down to Rio (1933); The Gay Divorcee (1934); Top Hat (1935); Follow the Fleet (1936); Swing Time (1936); Shall We Dance (1937); Stage Door (1937); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); Kitty Foyle (1940); The Major and the Minor (1942); The Barkeleys of Broadway (1949); Monkey Business (1952).
Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940), for which she won an Academy Award.

Susan Hayward (US, 1917-1975)
The Fighting Seabees (1944); Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947); My Foolish Heart (1949); With a Song in My Heart (1952); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955); I Want to Live! (1958); Valley of the Dolls (1967).

Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! (1958).

Setsuko Hara (Japan, 1920-2015)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946); Late Spring (1949); A Married Life (1951); The Idiot (1951); Repast (1951); Early Summer (1951); Tokyo Story (1953); The Sound of the Mountain (1954); Late Autumn (1960); The End of Summer (1961).

Setsuko Hara (left) and Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953).

Giulietta Masina (Italy, 1921-1994)
Variety Lights (1950); The White Sheik (1952); Europe ’51 (1952); La Strada (1954); Nights of Cabiria (1957); Juliet of the Spirits (1965); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); Ginger and Fred (1986).

Giulietta Masina in Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957).

Marcello Mastroianni (Italy, 1924-1996)
Giorni d’amore (1954); Peccato che sia una canaglia (1954); Le notti bianche (1957); La Dolce Vita (1960); La notte (1962); Divorce, Italian Style (1962); 8 ½ (1963); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian Style (1964); Casanova 70 (1965); Me, Me, Me… and the Others (1966); The Pizza Triangle (1970); A Special Day (1977); La Nuit de Varennes (1982); The Story of Piera (1983); Enrico IV (1984); Ginger and Fred (1986); Dark Eyes (1987); What Time Is It (1989); Towards Evening (1990); Used People (1992); 1, 2, 3, Sun (1993); Sostiene Pereira (1996).
Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 (1963).

Gene Wilder (US, 1933-2016)
The Producers (1968); Start the Revolution Without Me (1970); Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971); Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972); Blazing Saddles (1974); Young Frankenstein (1974); Silver Streak (1976); The Frisco Kid (1979); Stir Crazy (1980); The Woman in Red (1984); Haunted Honeymoon (1986); See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989).

Gene Wilder (left) and Peter Boyle in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974).

Natalie Wood (US, 1938-1981)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); The Searchers (1956); West Side Story (1961); Splendor in the Grass (1961); Gypsy (1962); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Brainstorm (1983).

Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961).

Claudia Cardinale (Tunisia/Italy, 1938- )
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958); 8 ½ (1963); The Leopard (1963); The Pink Panther (1963); The Professionals (1966); Once Upon A Time in the West (1968); Blood Brothers (1974); Jesus of Nazareth (TV 1977); Corleone (1978); Fitzcarraldo (1982); Claretta (1984).

Claudia Cardinale in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

Harvey Keitel (US, 1939- )
Mean Streets (1973); Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); Blue Collar (1978); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Thelma & Louise (1991); Bugsy (1991); Mortal Thoughts (1991); Bad Lieutenant (1992); Reservoir Dogs (1992); The Piano (1993); Pulp Fiction (1994); Smoke (1995); Clockers (1995); From Dusk till Dawn (1996); U-571 (2000); Life on Mars (TV 2008-2009); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); The Irishman (2019); The Tattooist of Auschwitz (TV 2024).

Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993).

Glenn Close (US, 1947- )
The World According to Garp (1982); The Big Chill (1983); The Natural (1984); Something About Amelia (TV 1984); Jagged Edge (1985); Maxie (1985); Fatal Attraction (1987); Dangerous Liaisons (1988); Reversal of Fortune (1990); Hamlet (1990); 101 Dalmatians (1996); Mars Attacks! (1996); Air Force One (1997); In the Gloaming (TV 1997); Tarzan (1999); Cookie’s Fortune (1999); The Lion in Winter (TV 2003); The Chumscrubber (2005); The Shield (TV 2005); Damages (TV 2007-2012); Albert Nobbs (2011); The Wife (2017); Hillbilly Elegy (2020).

Glenn Close and John Malkovich in Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons (1988).

Kathy Bates (US, 1948- )
Misery (1990); Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); Dolores Claiborne (1995); The Late Shift (1996); Titanic (1997); The Waterboy (1998); Primary Colors (1998); About Schmidt (2002); Warm Springs (TV 2005); Midnight in Paris (2011); Harry’s Law (TV 2011-2012); American Horror Story (TV 2013-2016, 2018); Richard Jewell (2019); Matlock (TV 2024- ).

Kathy Bates in Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt (2002).

Sissy Spacek (US, 1949- )
Badlands (1973); Carrie (1976); 3 Women (1977); Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980); Raggedy Man (1981); Missing (1982); The River (1984); Crimes of the Heart (1986); The Long Walk Home (1990); JFK (1991); A Place for Annie (TV 1994); The Good Old Boys (TV 1995); Affliction (1997); The Straight Story (1999); Blast from the Past (1999); Midwives (TV 2001); In the Bedroom (2001); Tuck Everlasting (2002); North Country (2005); Pictures of Hollis Woods (TV 2007); Get Low (2009); The Help (2011); The Old Man & the Gun (2018); Night Sky (TV 2022).

Sissy Spacek (as Loretta Lynn) and Tommy Lee Jones in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980).

Ed Harris (US, 1950- )
The Right Stuff (1983); Places in the Heart (1984); Sweet Dreams (1985); Jacknife (1989); The Abyss (1989); Glengarry Glen Ross (1992); The Firm (1993); Apollo 13 (1995); Riders of the Purple Sage (TV 1996); The Truman Show (1998); Pollock (2000); A Beautiful Mind (2001); The Hours (2002); A History of Violence (2005); Empire Falls (TV 2005); Appaloosa (2008); Game Change (TV 2012); Westworld (TV 2016-2022).

Ed Harris directed and starred in the biopic Pollock (2000).

Geoffrey Rush (Australia, 1951- )
Shine (1996); A Little Bit of Soul (1998); Elizabeth (1998); Shakespeare in Love (1998); Quills (2000); The Tailor of Panama (2001); Frida (2002); Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2017); Swimming Upstream (2003); The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (TV 2004); Munich (2005); Candy (2006); The King’s Speech (2010); The Eye of the Storm (2011); The Book Thief (2013); Genius (TV 2017).

Geoffrey Rush in The Kings’s Speech (2010).

John Malkovich (US, 1953- )
Places in the Heart (1984); The Killing Fields (1984); Eleni (1985); Death of a Salesman (TV 1985); The Glass Menagerie (1987); Making Mr. Right (1987); Empire of the Sun (1987); Dangerous Liaisons (1988); The Sheltering Sky (1990); Queens Logic (1991); Shadows and Fog (1992); Of Mice and Men (1992); In the Line of Fire (1993); Mary Reilly (1996); The Portrait of a Lady (1996); Con Air (1997); Being John Malkovich (1999); Shadow of the Vampire (2000); Burn After Reading (2008); Changeling (2008); Red and sequel (2010, 2013); Shattered (2022); Mr. Blake at Your Service! (2023).

John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire (1993).

Viggo Mortensen (US, 1958- )
The Indian Runner (1991); Carlito’s Way (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); The Portrait of a Lady (1996); A Perfect Murder (1998); The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003); A History of Violence (2005); Alatriste (2006); Eastern Promises (2007); The Road (2009); A Dangerous Method (2011); Captain Fantastic (2016); Green Book (2018); Falling (2020).

Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (2005).

Forest Whitaker (US, 1961- )
Platoon (1986); Bird (1988); The Crying Game (1992); The Enemy Within (TV 1994); Phenomenon (1996); Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999); Panic Room (2002); Phone Booth (2002); American Gun (2005); The Last King of Scotland (2006); The Great Debaters (2007); Where the Wild Things Are (2009); The Butler (2013); Southpaw (2015); Roots (TV 2016); Black Panther (2018); Godfather of Harlem (TV 2019- ).

Forest Whitaker in the Jim Jarmusch film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Hong Kong, 1962- )
Love Unto Waste (1986); People’s Hero (1987); A City of Sadness (1989); My Heart is that Eternal Rose (1989); Bullet in the Head (1990); Days of Being Wild (1991); Hard Boiled (1992); The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993); Chungking Express (1994); Happy Together (1997); The Longest Nite (1998); In the Mood for Love (2000); Hero (2002); Infernal Affairs (2002); 2046 (2004); Lust, Caution (2007); Red Cliff and sequel (2008, 2009); The Grandmaster (2013); Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in Infernal Affairs (2002)

Cameron Diaz (US, 1972- )
The Mask (1994); She’s the One (1996); My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997); A Life Less Ordinary (1997); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998); There’s Something About Mary (1998); Being John Malkovich (1999); Any Given Sunday (1999); Charlie’s Angels and sequel (2000, 2003); Shrek series (2001, 2004, 2007, 2010); Vanilla Sky (2001); Gangs of New York (2002); In Her Shoes (2005); The Holiday (2006); My Sister’s Keeper (2009); Bad Teacher (2011); What To Expect When You’re Expecting (2012); The Counselor (2013); Back in Action (2025).

Cameron Diaz in There’s Something About Mary (1995, from the Farrelly Brothers.

Angelina Jolie (US, 1975- )
Hackers (1995); George Wallace (TV 1997);Gia (TV 1998);The Bone Collector (1999); Girl, Interrupted (1999); Gone in 60 Seconds (2000); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and sequel (2001, 2003); Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005); The Good Shepherd (2006); A Mighty Heart (2007); Wanted (2008); Changeling (2008); Kung Fu Panda and sequels (2008, 2011, 2016); Salt  (2010); The Tourist (2010); Malificent and sequel (2014, 2019); Maria (2024).
Angelina Jolie in Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling (2008).

On 4 lists

Renée Falconetti (France, 1892-1946)
La Comtesse de Somerive (1917); The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

Rene Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

William Powell (US, 1892-1984)
Beau Geste (1926); The Last Command (1928); The Thin Man and sequels (1934-1947); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); My Man Godfrey (1936); Libeled Lady (1936); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947); Life with Father (1947); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); Mister Roberts (1955).

William Powell (center) and Myrna Loy in Libeled Lady (1936).

Charles Laughton (UK, 1899-1962)
Island of Lost Souls (1932); The Old Dark House (1932); The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Les Misérables (1935); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); This Land is Mine (1943); The Big Clock (1948); Hobson’s Choice (1954); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); Spartacus (1960).

Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

Joseph Cotten (US, 1905-1994)
Citizen Kane (1941); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Gaslight (1944); Duel in the Sun (1946); Portrait of Jennie (1948); The Third Man (1949); Niagara (1953); Touch of Evil (1958); Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970); The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971); Soylent Green (1973).

Joseph Cotten in Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949).

James Mason (UK, 1909-1984)
Odd Man Out (1947); Julius Caesar (1953); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); A Star Is Born (1954); Bigger Than Life (1956); North by Northwest (1959); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959); Lolita (1962); The Last of Sheila (1973); Cross of Iron (1977); The Boys from Brazil (1978); Heaven Can Wait (1978); The Verdict (1982).

James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959).

Luise Rainer (Germany/Austria/US, 1910-2014)
Escapade (1935); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Good Earth (1937); The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937); Big City (1937); The Great Waltz (1938); Dramatic School (1938); The Toy Wife (1938); Hostages (1943); The Gambler (1997).

Luise Rainer and William Powell in The Great Ziegfeld (1936, for which Rainer won an Oscar.

Anthony Quinn (Mexico/US, 1915-2001)
Road to Morocco (1942); Viva Zapata! (1952); La Strada (1954); Lust for Life (1956); Barabbas (1961); The Guns of Navarone (1961); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962); Zorba the Greek (1964); A Walk in the Clouds (1995).

Anthony Quinn and Giulieta Masina in Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954).

Peter Finch (UK/Australia, 1916-1977)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952); Elephant Walk (1954); The Detective (1954); The Nun’s Story (1959); Kidnapped (1960); First Men in the Moon (1964); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); The Flight of the Phoenix (1965); Far from the Madding Crowd (1967); Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971); Network (1976); Raid on Entebbe (1977).

Peter Finch in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).

Rita Hayworth (US, 1918-1987)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); Blood and Sand (1941); You’ll Never Get Rich (1941); You Were Never Lovelier (1942); Cover Girl (1944); Gilda (1946); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); Affair in Trinidad (1952); Salome (1953); Pal Joey (1957); Separate Tables (1958).

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946).

Jennifer Jones (US, 1919-2009)
The Song of Bernadette (1943); Since You Went Away (1944); Duel in the Sun (1946); Cluny Brown (1946); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Madame Bovary (1949); Gone to Earth (1950); Ruby Gentry (1952); Carrie (1952); Beat the Devil (1953); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956).

Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (1946).

Montgomery Clift (US, 1920-1966)
The Search (1948); Red River (1948); The Heiress (1949); A Place in the Sun (1951); From Here to Eternity (1953); I Confess (1953); The Young Lions (1958); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Wild River (1960); The Misfits (1961); Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in George Stevens’ A Place in the Sun (1950).

Maureen O’Hara (Ireland/US, 1920-2015)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); How Green Was My Valley (1941); Miracle on 34^th Street (1947); Rio Grande (1950); The Quiet Man (1952); War Arrow (1953); Our Man in Havana (1959); The Parent Trap (1961); Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962); McClintock! (1963); Only the Lonely (1991).

John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in Rio Grande (1950).

Simone Signoret (France, 1921-1985)
La Ronde (1950); Casque d’or (1952); Les Diaboliques (1955); The Crucible (1957); Room at the Top (1959); Ship of Fools (1965); The Deadly Affair (1966); Games (1967); Army of Shadows (1969); Le Chat (1971); Madame Rosa (1977); L’étoile du nord (1982).

Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1959).

Doris Day (US, 1922-2019)
Young Man with a Horn (1950); On Moonlight Bay (1951); Calamity Jane (1953); Young at Heart (1954); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Pajama Game (1957); Teacher’s Pet (1958); Pillow Talk (1959); Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960); Lover Come Back (1961); That Touch of Mink (1962); The Thrill of It All (1963); Send Me No Flowers (1964).

Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk (1959).

Christopher Plummer (Canada, 1929-2021)
The Sound of Music (1965); Inside Daisy Clover (1966); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); Murder by Decree (1979); Somewhere in Time (1980); Malcolm X (1992); Twelve Monkeys (1995); Dolores Claiborne (1995): The Insider (1999); A Beautiful Mind (2001); The New World (2005); The Last Station (2009); Beginners (2010); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011); All the Money in the World (2017); Knives Out (2019).

Christopher Plummer in the Mike Mills film Beginners (2010), for which he won an Academy Award.

Jean-Louis Trintignant (France, 1930-2022)
And God Created Woman (1956); A Man and a Woman (1966); Les Biches (1968); The Man Who Lies (1968); The Great Silence (1968); Z (1969), My Night at Maud’s (1969); The Conformist (1970); Confidentially Yours (1983); The Woman of My Life (1986); Three Colors: Red (1994); The City of Lost Children (1995); Fiesta (1995); Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998); Amour (2012).

Jean-Louis Trintignant in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970).

Gena Rowlands (US, 1930-2024)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Faces (1968); Minnie and Moskowitz (1971); A Woman Under the Influence (1974); Opening Night (1977); Gloria (1980); Tempest (1982); Love Streams (1984); Another Woman (1988); Once Around (1991); Night on Earth (1991); Unhook the Stars (1996); Playing by Heart (1998); The Notebook (2004); The Skeleton Key (2005); Broken English (2007).

Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes’ film A Woman Under the Influence (1974).

Harriet Andersson (Sweden, 1932- )
Summer with Monika (1952); Sawdust and Tinsel (1953); A Lesson in Love (1954); Smiles of a Summer Night (1955); Through A Glass Darkly (1961); To Love (1964); Cries and Whispers (1972); Fanny and Alexander (1982); Dogville (2003).

Harriet Andersson in Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika (1952).

Maggie Smith (UK, 1934-2024)
Othello (1965); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969); Travels with My Aunt (1972); California Suite (1978); Death on the Nile (1978); A Room with a View (1985); Hook (1991); Sister Act (1992); The Secret Garden (1993); Gosford Park (2001); Harry Potter series (2001-2011); Downton Abbey (2010-2015); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012); Quartet (2012); The Lady in the Van (2015).

Maggie Smith won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1965).

Woody Allen (US, 1935- )
What’s New Pussycat? (1965); Casino Royale (1967); Take the Money and Run (1969); Bananas (1971); Play It Again, Sam (1972); Sleeper (1973); Love and Death (1975); The Front (1976); Annie Hall (1977); Manhattan (1979); Stardust Memories (1980); Zelig (1983); Broadway Danny Rose (1984); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); Husbands and Wives (1992); Deconstructing Harry (1997); Antz (1998); To Rome with Love (2012); Fading Gigolo (2013).

Woody Allen wrote, directed and starred in Stardust Memories (1980).

Alain Delon (France/Switzerland, 1935- )
Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) (1960); Rocco and His Brothers (1960); The Joy of Living (1961); L’eclisse (1962); The Leopard (1963); Is Paris Burning? (1965); Le Samouraï (1967); Spirits of the Dead (1968); La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) (1969), Le Cercle rouge (1970); Red Sun (1971); Un Flic (A Cop) (1972); Scorpio (1973); Monsieur Klein (1976); Swann in Love (1983); Our Story (1984).

Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967).

Jon Voight (US, 1938- )
Midnight Cowboy (1969); Catch-22 (1970); Deliverance (1972); Coming Home (1975); Runaway Train (1985); Heat (1995); Mission: Impossible (1996); The Rainmaker (1997); Rosewood (1997); Enemy of the State (1998); Varsity Blues (1999); Ali (2001); Pearl Harbor (2001); National Treasure (2004); Pope John Paul II (TV 2005); The Five People You Meet in Heaven (TV 2005); Transformers (2007); Ray Donovan (TV 2013-2019); Roe v. Wade (2020).

Jon Voight in Hal Ashby’s Coming Home (1978).

Bruce Lee (US/Hong Kong, 1940-1973)
The Green Hornet (TV 1966-1967); Marlowe (1969); The Big Boss (1971); Fist of Fury (1972); The Way of the Dragon (1972); Enter the Dragon (1973).

Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973).

Amitabh Bachchan (India, 1942- )
Anand (1971); Namak Haraam (1973); Amar Akbar Anthony (1977); Don (1978); Agneepath (1990); Hum (1991); Mohabbatein (2000); Aks (2001); Black (2005); Cheeni Kum (2007); Paa (2009).
Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu in Cheeni Kum (2007).