Top 20 Performances of 1992
by Aunt-Peg | created - 22 Aug 2011 | updated - 1 day ago | PublicThese are my top 20 performances listed in order for each category (lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor & supporting actress).
1. Harvey Keitel
Actor | Reservoir Dogs
American actor and producer Harvey Keitel was born on May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Miriam (Klein) and Harry Keitel. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists (...
in Bad Lieutenant (best performance by an actor in a lead role 1992)
2. Stephen Rea
Actor | The Crying Game
Stephen Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Belfast High School and the Queen's University, where he studied English. He later trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In 1970s, he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with the talented Gabriel Byrne and Colm Meaney. After ...
in The Crying Game (2nd choice)
3. Enrico Lo Verso
Actor | Così ridevano
Enrico Lo Verso was born on January 18, 1964 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for The Way We Laughed (1998), Hudson Hawk (1991) and Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006). He has been married to Elena Montagna since July 29, 1989. They have one child.
in The Stolen Children (3rd choice)
4. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
in Light Sleeper (4th choice)
5. Huw Garmon
Actor | Hedd Wyn
Huw Garmon was born in October 1966 in Anglesey, Wales, UK. He is an actor, known for Hedd Wyn (1992), Killer Elite (2011) and A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013).
in Hedd Wynn (5th choice)
6. Susan Sarandon
Actress | Thelma & Louise
It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...
in Lorenzo's Oil (best performance by an actress in a lead role 1992)
7. Brigitte Roüan
Actress | Outremer
Brigitte Roüan was born on September 28, 1946 in Toulon, Var, France. She is an actress and director, known for Overseas (1990), After Sex (1997) and Grosse (1985).
Olivier, Olivier (2nd choice)
8. Johanna ter Steege
Actress | Spoorloos
From 1979 to 1984 Johanna ter Steege studied at the academy of dramatic art in Kampen to become a drama teacher. Her initial desire to develop theatre for and with children prompted her to seek a career as an actress and a teacher. From 1984 to 1988 she attended the school of acting at Arnhem to ...
in Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe (3rd choice)
9. Lisa Harrow
Actress | Sunday
Intelligent and luminous red-haired Lisa Harrow was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on August 25, 1943. A scholarship from the New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council is what sent Lisa studying abroad.
Accepted by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, she later was invited to become a ...
in The Last Days of Chez Nous (4th choice)
10. Romane Bohringer
Actress | Les nuits fauves
Romane Bohringer was born on August 14, 1973 in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Oise, France. She is an actress and director, known for Savage Nights (1992), L'amour flou (2018) and The Apartment (1996).
in Savage Nights (5th choice)
11. Jaye Davidson
Actor | The Crying Game
Jaye was born in Riverside, California in 1968, the son of a Ghanaian father and English mother. The family left for England when Jaye was two and a half. Jaye left school at 16 and had been alternately unemployed and doing odd jobs (running for a production company, working in a factory) ever ...
in The Crying Game (best performance by an actor in a supporting role 1992)
12. Daniel Pollock
Actor | Romper Stomper
Daniel Pollock was born on August 24, 1968 in Australia. He was an actor, known for Romper Stomper (1992), The Magistrate (1989) and Proof (1991). He died on April 13, 1992 in Newtown, Sydney, Australia.
in Romper Stomper (2nd choice)
13. Sydney Pollack
Director | Tootsie
Sydney Pollack was an Academy Award-winning director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and produced over 40 films.
Sydney Irwin Pollack was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, to Rebecca (Miller), a homemaker, and David Pollack, a professional boxer turned pharmacist...
in Husbands and Wives (3rd choice)
14. Peter Coyote
Actor | Bitter Moon
Peter Coyote was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA as Robert Peter Cohon to Ruth (Fidler) and Morris Cohon, an investment banker. He is an actor, known for Bitter Moon (1992), Sphere (1998) and Patch Adams (1998). Coyote was previously married to Stefanie Pleet and Marilyn McCann.
in Bitter Moon (4th choice)
15. Rupert Graves
Actor | Sherlock
Britain's Rupert Graves made his professional stage debut in 1983 in The Killing of Mr. Toad and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of Torch Song Trilogy. By the mid-80s he was a presence in quality films and TV, including Merchant Ivory films Room With A View where ...
in Damage (5th choice)
16. Susan Sarandon
Actress | Thelma & Louise
It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...
in Light Sleeper (best performance by an actress in a supporting role 1992)
17. Joan Plowright
Actress | The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own...
in Enchanted April (2nd choice)
18. Judy Davis
Actress | Husbands and Wives
Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She found international success with the role of Adela Quested in A Passage to India (1984). Her performance was nominated an Academy Award for Best...
in Husbands and Wives (3rd choice)
19. Whoopi Goldberg
Actress | Ghost
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in...
in The Player (4th choice)
20. Marisa Tomei
Actress | My Cousin Vinny
Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to Patricia "Addie" (Bianchi), a teacher of English, and Gary Tomei, a lawyer, both of Italian descent. Marisa has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy ...
in My Cousin Vinny (5th choice)
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