People - IMDb

1. Bruce Willis

Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.

Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...

Actor (17):

2013 RED 2 (Frank Moses) 2012 Looper (Old Joe) 2012 Moonrise Kingdom (Cap. Sharp) 2012 RED (Frank Moses) - 9 Stars 2007 Live Free or Die Hard (John McClane) 2006 16 Blocks (Det. Jack Mosley) 2006 The Wrong Man (Mr. Goodkat) 2005 Sin City (Hartigan) 2005 Hostage (Jeff Talley) 2002 Hart's War (Col. William A. McNamara) 2000 Unbreakable (David Dunn) - 9 Stars 1998 The Siege (Major General William Devereaux) 1997 The Fifth Element (Korben Dallas) 1996 Last Man Standing (John Smith) 1995 Die Hard: With A Vengeance (John McClane) 1994 Pulp Fiction (Butch Coolidge) - 9 Stars 1988 Die Hard (John McClane) - 9 Stars

2. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

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2015 Samuel L. Jackson (Valentine) 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Nick Fury) 2012 Django Unchained (Stephen) - 9 Stars 2012 The Avengers (Nick Fury) - 9 Stars 2011 Captain America (Nick Fury) 2010 Iron Man 2 (Nick Fury) 2006 Black Snake Moan (Lazarus) 2005 Coach Carter (Coach Ken Carter) 2002 Changing Lanes (Doyle Gipson) 2000 Unbreakable (Elijah Price) - 9 Stars 1998 The Negotiator (Danny Roman) 1996 The Long Kiss Goodnight (Mitch Henessy) 1995 Die Hard: With a Vengeance (Zeus Carver) 1994 Pulp Fiction (Jules Winnfield) - 9 Stars

Voice Actor:

2004 The Incredibles (Frozone)

3. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

Actor (10):

2011 Moneyball (Billy Beane) 2009 Inglourious Basterds (Lt. Aldo Raine) 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Jesse James) 2005 Mr & Mrs Smith (John Smith) 2004 Ocean's Twelve (Rusty Ryan) 2001 Ocean's Eleven (Rusty Ryan) - 9 Stars 2000 Snatch (Mickey O'Neil) - 9 Stars 1999 Fight Club (Tyler Durden) 1998 Meet Joe Black (Joe Black) 1994 Interview with the Vampire (Louis de Pointe du Lac) - 9 Stars

4. Tom Cruise

Actor | Top Gun

In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...

Actor (10):

2015 Mission Impossible VI - Rogue Nation (Ethan Hunt) 2014 Edge of Tomorrow (Cage) - 9 Stars 2012 Jack Reacher (Reacher) 2010 Knight & Day (Roy Miller) 2006 Mission Impossible III (Ethan Hunt) 2004 Collateral (Vincent) 2003 The Last Samurai (Nathan Algren) 2002 Minority Report (Chief John Anderton) - 9 Stars 1996 Mission Impossible (Ethan Hunt) 1994 Interview with the Vampire (Lestat de Lioncourt) - 9 Stars

5. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

Actor (9):

2011 The Ides of March (Governor Mike Morris) 2009 Up in the Air (Ryan Bingham) 2007 Michael Clayton (Michael Clayton) 2005 Syriana (Bob Barnes) 2005 Good Night, Good Luck (Fred Friendly) - 9 Stars 2004 Ocean's Twelve (Danny Ocean) 2001 Ocean's Eleven (Danny Ocean) - 9 Stars 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Everett) 1999 Three Kings (Archie Gates)

6. Morgan Freeman

Actor | Driving Miss Daisy

With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...

Actor (9):

2013 Now You See Me (Thaddeus Bradley) 2010 RED (Joe Matheson) - 9 Stars 2008 The Dark Knight (Lucius Fox) - 9 Stars 2006 The Wrong Man (The Boss) 2005 Batman Begins (Lucius Fox) 2005 Unleashed (Sam) 2004 Million Dollar Baby (Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris) 2003 Bruce Almighty (God) 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding) - 9 Stars

7. Nicolas Cage

Actor | Face/Off

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, the son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (whose brother is director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang. He is of Italian (father) and Polish and German (mother) descent. Cage changed his...

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2010 Kick-Ass (Big Daddy) 2007 Next (Cris Johnson) 2005 Lord of War (Yuri Orlov) - 9 Stars 2004 National Treasure (Benjamin Franklin Gates) 2003 Matchstick Men (Roy Waller) 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds (Memphis Raines) 1997 Face/ Off (Castor Troy/ Sean Archer) 1997 Con Air (Cameron Poe) 1996 The Rock (Stanley Goodspeed)

8. Matt Damon

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...

Actor (9):

2011 The Adjustment Bureau (David Norris) 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne) 2004 Ocean's Twelve (Linus Caldwell) 2004 The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne) 2002 The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne) - 9 Stars 2001 Ocean's Eleven (Linus Caldwell) - 9 Stars 2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance (Rannulph Junuh) 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley (Tom Ripley) - 9 Stars 1997 Good Will Hunting (Will)

9. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...

Director (9):

2005 Munich 2002 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Minority Report - 9 Stars 1993 Jurassic Park 1991 Hook 1989 Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade - 9 Stars 1984 Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark - 9 Stars 1975 Jaws

10. Harrison Ford

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...

Actor (8):

1992 Patriot Games (Jack Ryan) 1989 Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Indiana Jones) - 9 Stars 1984 Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Indiana Jones) 1983 Return of the Jedi (Han Solo) 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones) - 9 Stars 1980 Empire Strikes Back (Han Solo) - 9 Stars 1979 Apocalypse Now (Col. Lucas) 1977 A New Hope (Han Solo)

11. Johnny Depp

Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...

Actor (8):

2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Cap. Jack Sparrow) 2010 The Tourist (Frank Tupelo) 2009 The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Imaginarium Tony 1) 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Cap. Jack Sparrow) 2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Cap. Jack Sparrow) 2004 Secret Window (Mort Rainey) - 9 Stars 2003 Once Upon A Time in Mexico (Sands) 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Cap. Jack Sparrow) - 9 Stars

12. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...

Actor (7):

1994 True Lies (Harry Tasker) 1991 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (The Terminator) - 9 Stars 1990 Total Recall (Douglas Quaid/ Hauser) - 9 Stars 1987 The Running Man (Ben Richards) 1987 Predator (Dutch) 1985 Commando (John Matrix) 1984 The Terminator (The Terminator)

13. Hugh Jackman

Actor | Les Misérables

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...

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2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past (Logan / Wolverine) 2013 The Wolverine (Logan/ Wolverine) 2006 The Prestige (Robert Angier) - 9 Stars 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand (Logan / Wolverine) 2004 Van Helsing (Van Helsing) 2003 X-Men 2 (Logan / Wolverine) 2001 Swordfish (Stanley Jobson) 2000 X-Men (Logan / Wolverine)

14. John Travolta

Actor | Pulp Fiction

John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...

Actor (7):

2005 Be Cool (Chili Palmer) 2001 Swordfish (Gabriel Shear) 1997 Face/ Off (Sean Archer/ Castor Troy) 1996 Broken Arrow (Maj. Vic Denkins) 1995 Get Shorty (Chili Palmer) 1994 Pulp Fiction (Vincent Vega) - 9 Stars 1978 Grease (Danny)

15. Robert Downey Jr.

Actor | Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.

Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...

Actor (7):

2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Tony Stark/ Iron Man) 2013 Iron Man 3 (Tony Stark/ Iron Man) 2012 The Avengers (Tony Stark/ Iron Man) - 9 Stars 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Sherlock Holmes) 2009 Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes) 2009 The Soloist (Steve Lopez) 2008 Iron Man (Tony Stark/ Iron Man)

16. Christian Bale

Actor | The Dark Knight

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...

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2014 Exodus: Gods & Kings (Moses) 2008 The Dark Knight (Bruce Wayne) - 9 Stars 2006 The Prestige (Alfred Borden) - 9 Stars 2004 Batman Begins (Bruce Wayne) 2004 The Machinist (Trevor Reznik) 2002 Equilibrium (John Preston)

17. David Koepp

Writer | Jurassic Park

David Koepp is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for writing Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi and Panic Room directed by David ...

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2012 Premium Rush (Writer) 2004 Secret Window (Director/ Writer) - 9 Stars 2002 Spider-Man (Writer) 1996 Mission Impossible (Writer) 1993 Jurassic Park (Writer) 1991 Toy Soldiers (Writer)

18. Guy Pearce

Actor | Memento

Guy Edward Pearce was born October 5, 1967 in Cambridgeshire, England, UK to Margaret Anne and Stuart Graham Pearce. His father was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to English and Scottish parents, while Guy's mother is English. Pearce and his family initially traveled to Australia for two years, ...

Actor (6):

2011 Lockout (Snow) 2008 The Hurt Locker (Staff Sergeant Matt Thompson) - 9 Stars 2008 Traitor (Roy Clayton) 2002 The Time Machine (Alexander Hartdegen) 2002 The Count of Monte Cristo (Fernand Mondego) 2000 Memento (Leonard) - 9 Stars

19. Jamie Foxx

Actor | Collateral

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...

Actor (6):

2012 Django Unchained (Django) - 9 Stars 2009 Law Abiding Citizen (Nick Rice) 2009 The Soloist (Nathaniel Ayers) 2005 Jarhead (Staff Sgt. Sykes) 2004 Ray (Ray Charles) 2004 Collateral (Max)

20. Joss Whedon

Producer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Joss Whedon is the middle of five brothers - his younger brothers are Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon. Both his father, Tom Whedon and his grandfather, John Whedon were successful television writers. Joss' mother, Lee Stearns, was a history teacher and she also wrote novels as Lee Whedon. Whedon was ...

Director/ Writer (6):

2015 The Avengers 2012 Much Ado About Nothing - 9 Stars 2012 The Avengers - 9 Stars 2005 Serenity 1997 Alien: Resurrection (Writer) 1995 Toy Story (Writer)

TV Writer:

2013-2014 Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 2008 Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog 2002-2003 Firefly 1997-2003 Buffy The Vampire Slayer

21. Kevin Spacey

Actor | L.A. Confidential

Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...

Actor (6):

2011 Margin Call (Sam Rogers) - 9 Stars 2008 21 (Micky Rosa) 2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal (Michael Lynch) 1999 American Beauty (Lester Burnham) - 9 Stars 1998 The Negotiator (Chris Sabian) 1995 The Usual Suspects (Roger 'Verbal' Kint) - 9 Stars

Voice Actor:

2009 Moon (GERTY) 1998 A Bug's Life (Hopper)

22. Pete Docter

Writer | Up

Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.

Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...

Director/ Writer (6):

2015 Inside Out - 9 Stars 2009 Up 2008 Wall-E (Writer) 2001 Monsters, Inc - 9 Stars 1999 Toy Story 2 (Writer) 1995 Toy Story (Writer) - 9 Stars

23. Robert De Niro

Actor | Cape Fear

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

Actor (6):

2011 Killer Elite (Hunter) 2001 The Score (Nick Wells) - 9 Stars 1999 Analyze This (Paul Vitti) 1995 Heat (Nick McCauley) 1987 The Untouchables (Al Capone) 1974 The Godfather: Part II (Vito Corleone)

24. Robert Duvall

Actor | The Apostle

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...

Actor (6):

2012 Jack Reacher (Cash) 2003 Open Range (Boss Spearman) 1993 Falling Down (Det. Prendergrast) - 9 Stars 1979 Apocalypse Now (Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore) 1974 The Godfather Part II (Tom Hagen) 1972 The Godfather (Tom Hagen)

25. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

Actor (6):

2002 Insomnia (Walter Finch) 2002 One Hour Photo (Seymour Parrish) - 9 Stars 1997 Good Will Hunting (Sean Maguire) 1995 Jumanji (Alan Parrish) 1991 Hook (Peter Banning) 1989 Dead Poets Society (John Keating)

Voice Actor:

2006 Happy Feet (Ramon/ Lovelace) 1992 Aladdin (Genie) 1980 Popeye (Popeye)

26. Scarlett Johansson

Actress | Lost in Translation

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...

Actress (6):

2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff) 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff) 2012 The Avengers (Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff) - 9 Stars 2010 Iron Man 2 (Black Widow/ Natasha Romanoff) 2006 The Prestige (Olivia Wenscombe) - 9 Stars 2005 The Island (Sarah Jordan)

27. Antonio Banderas

Actor | The Mask of Zorro

Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.

He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...

Actor (5):

2005 The Legend of Zorro (Zorro) 2003 Once Upon A Time in Mexico (El Mariachi) 1998 The Mask of Zorro (Zorro) 1995 Desperado (El Mariachi) 1994 Interview with the Vampire (Armand) - 9 Stars

28. Bryan Singer

Director | X-Men

Bryan Singer is an American film director and producer who got his start writing and co-directing the short film Lions Den with his classmates while he attended USC. He was hired by 20th Century Fox to direct X-Men, which helped kick-start the superhero renaissance. He later directed three sequels....

Director/ Writer (5):

2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past (Director) 2011 X-Men: First Class 2003 X-Men 2 2002 X-Men 1995 The Usual Suspects (Director) - 9 Stars

29. Colin Farrell

Actor | The Lobster

Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.

Farrell was born on ...

Actor (5):

2009 The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (Imaginarium Tony 3) 2008 In Bruges (Ray) 2003 The Recruit (James Douglas Clayton) 2002 Phone Booth (Stu Shepard) - 9 Stars 2002 Hart's War (Lt. Thomas Hart)

30. Daniel Craig

Actor | Casino Royale

One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

He was born ...

Actor (5):

2012 Skyfall (James Bond) 2011 Cowboys & Aliens (Jake Lonergan) 2008 Quantum of Solace (James Bond) 2006 Casino Royale (James Bond) - 9 Stars 2004 Layer Cake (XXXX)

31. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

Actor (5):

2014 The Equalizer (Robert McCall) 2007 American Gangster (Frank Lucas) 2006 Inside Man (Det. Keith Frazier) - 9 Stars 2004 Man on Fire (Joyhn W. Creasy) 2001 Training Day (Det. Alonzo Harris) - 9 Stars

32. James Cameron

Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water

James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...

Director/ Writer (5):

2009 Avatar 1994 True Lies 1991 Terminator 2: Judgement Day - 9 Stars 1986 Aliens 1984 The Terminator

33. John Logan

Writer | Skyfall

John Logan was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing, on spec, his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday." He won the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle awards for his play RED, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and the Golden Theatre on ...

Writer (5):

2012 Skyfall 2011 Hugo - 9 Stars 2003 The Last Samurai 2002 The Time Machine 2000 Gladiator

34. Jude Law

Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley

Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...

Actor (5):

2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Dr. John Watson) 2011 Hugo (Hugo's Father) - 9 Stars 2009 Sherlock Holmes (Dr. John Watson) 2009 The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (Imaginarium Tony 2) 1999 The Talented Mr Ripley (Dickie Greenleaf) - 9 Stars

35. Michael Douglas

Actor | Wall Street

A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.

In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...

Actor (5):

2015 Ant-Man (Hank Pym) 2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Gordon Gekko) 1993 Falling Down (William Foster) - 9 Stars 1992 Basic Instinct (Det. Nick Curran) 1987 Wall Street (Gordon Gekko)

36. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

Actor (5):

1996 The Rock (John Patrick Mason) 1989 Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Dr. Jones) - 9 Stars 1987 The Untouchables (Jim Malone) 1971 Diamonds are Forever (James Bond) 1964 Goldfinger (James Bond)

37. Terry Gilliam

Writer | Brazil

Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...

Director/ Writer (5):

2009 The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus 1982 Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Writer) 1979 Life of Brian - 9 Stars 1975 Monty Python & The Holy Grail (Writer) 1971 And Now for Something Completely Different (Writer)

38. Andrew Niccol

Writer | GATTACA

New Zealand-born screenwriter-director Andrew Niccol began his career in London, successfully directing TV commercials before moving to Los Angeles in order to make films "longer than 60 seconds." He interested high-powered producer Scott Rudin in his The Truman Show (1998) script, but Rudin was not...

Director/ Writer (4):

2011 In Time 2005 Lord Of War - 9 Stars 1998 The Truman Show - 9 Stars 1997 Gattaca - 9 Stars

39. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...

Actor (4):

2012 Argo (Tony Mendez) - 9 Stars 2009 State of Play (Stephen Colins) 2003 Paycheck (Jennings) 2002 Changing Lanes (Gavin Banek)

Director/ Writer:

2012 Argo - 9 Stars

40. Ben Kingsley

Actor | Sexy Beast

Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...

Actor (4):

2013 Iron Man 3 (Trevor Slattery/ The 'fake' Mandarin) 2011 Hugo (Georges Melies) - 9 Stars 2006 The Wrong Man (The Rabbi) 2000 Sexy Beast (Don Logan)

41. Chris Evans

Actor | The Avengers

Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (Capuano), who worked at the Concord Youth Theatre, and G. ...

Actor (4):

2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Steve Rogers/ Captain America) 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Steve Rogers/ Captain America) 2012 The Avengers (Steve Rogers/ Captain America) 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger (Steve Rogers/ Captain America)

42. Chris Hemsworth

Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman

Christopher "Chris" Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth (née van Os), an English teacher & Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His brothers are actors, Liam Hemsworth & Luke Hemsworth; he is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...

Actor (4):

2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Thor) 2013 Thor: The Dark World (Thor) 2012 Snow White and the Huntsman (The Huntsman) 2012 The Avengers (Thor)

43. Christopher McQuarrie

Writer | The Usual Suspects

Christopher McQuarrie is an acclaimed producer, director and an Academy Award® winning writer. McQuarrie grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey and in lieu of college, he spent the first five years out of school traveling and working at a detective agency. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue...

Director/ Writer (4):

2014 Edge of Tomorrow (Writer) - 9 Stars 2012 Jack Reacher (Director/ Writer) 2010 The Tourist (Writer) 1995 The Usual Suspects (Writer) - 9 Stars

44. Christopher Nolan

Writer | Tenet

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...

Director/ Writer (4):

2008 The Dark Knight - 9 Stars 2006 The Prestige - 9 Stars 2005 Batman Begins 2000 Memento - 9 Stars

45. Clive Owen

Actor | Children of Men

British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting ...

Actor (4):

2011 Killer Elite (Spike) 2007 Shoot'em Up (Smith) 2006 Inside Man (Dalton Russell) - 9 Stars 2005 Sin City (Dwight)

46. Don Cheadle

Actor | Crash

Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. His childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye (née North), a teacher; father Donald Frank Cheadle Sr., a clinical psychologist; sister Cindy; and brother Colin. After graduating from high...

Actor (4):

2011 The Guard (FBI agent Wendell Everett) 2008 Traitor (Samir Horn) 2004 Hotel Rwanda (Paul Rusesabinga) - 9 Stars 2004 Crash (Det. Graham Waters) - 9 Stars

47. Geoffrey Rush

Actor | The King's Speech

Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...

Actor (4):

2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Barbossa) 2010 The King's Speech (Lionel Logue) - 9 Stars 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Barbossa) 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Barbossa) - 9 Stars

48. Jake Gyllenhaal

Actor | Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...

Actor (4):

2011 Source Code (Colter Stevens) - 9 Stars 2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Dastan/ The Prince) 2005 Jarhead (Anthony Swofford) 2001 Donnie Darko (Donnie Darko)

49. Jeremy Renner

Actor | The Hurt Locker

Jeremy Lee Renner was born in Modesto, California, the son of Valerie (Tague) and Lee Renner, who managed a bowling alley. After a tumultuous yet happy childhood with his four younger siblings, Renner graduated from Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College. He explored several areas of...

Actor (4):

2015 Mission Impossible VI - Rogue Nation (William Brandt) 2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Clint Barton/ Hawkeye) 2012 The Avengers (Clint Barton/ Hawkeye) - 9 Stars 2008 The Hurt Locker (Sgt. First Class William James) - 9 Stars

50. Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor | Inception

Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...

Actor (4):

2012 Django Unchained (Calvin Candle) - 9 Stars 2011 J. Edgar (J. Edgar Hoover) 2006 Blood Diamond (Danny Archer) - 9 Stars 2002 Catch Me If You Can (Frank Agagnale Jr.)

51. Michael Caine

Actor | The Dark Knight

Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...

Actor (4):

2008 The Dark Knight (Alfred) - 9 Stars 2006 The Prestige (Cutter) - 9 Stars 2005 Batman Begins (Alfred) 1969 The Italian Job (Charlie Croker)

52. Quentin Tarantino

Writer | Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.

In January of...

Director/ Writer (4):

2012 Django Unchained - 9 Stars 2009 Inglourious Basterds 2004 Kill Bill: Vol II 1994 Pulp Fiction - 9 Stars

53. Robert Redford

Actor | The Natural

Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...

Actor (4):

2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Alexander Pierce) 2001 Spy Game (Nathan Muir) 2001 The Last Castle (Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin) 1973 The Sting (Johnny Hooker) - 9 Stars

54. Aaron Eckhart

Actor | The Dark Knight

Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior ...

Actor (3):

2008 The Dark Knight (Harvey Dent/ Two Face) - 9 Stars 2005 Thankyou for Smoking (Nick Naylor) - 9 Stars 1998 Thursday (Nick)

55. Billy Ray

Writer | Captain Phillips

Billy Ray is known for Captain Phillips (2013), The Hunger Games (2012) and Shattered Glass (2003). He is married to Stacy Sherman. They have two children.

Director/ Writer (3):

2012 The Hunger Games (Writer) 2003 Shattered Glass (Director/ Writer) - 9 Stars 2002 Hart's War (Writer)

56. Clark Gregg

Actor | The Avengers

Clark Gregg is an American actor, writer and director from Boston who is known for portraying Phil Coulson in various Marvel movies, shows and video games. He also acted in Mr. Popper's Penguins, The West Wing, 500 Days of Summer, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Labor Day and Live by Night.

Actor (3):

2012 Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato) - 9 Stars 2012 The Avengers (Agent Phil Coulson) - 9 Stars 2011 Thor (Agent Coulson)

TV Actor:

2013-2014 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (Phil Coulson)

Voice Actor:

2012-2013 Ultimate Spider-Man (Agent Phil Coulson)

57. Doug Liman

Producer | Edge of Tomorrow

Douglas Eric Liman is a Jewish-American filmmaker and producer who directed Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Chaos Walking, Jumper, Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fair Game, Locked Down, Edge of Tomorrow, The Wall and American Made. He executive produced the Bourne sequels except The Bourne Legacy, The ...

Director (3):

2014 Edge of Tomorrow - 9 Stars 2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2002 The Bourne Identity - 9 Stars

58. Edward Norton

Actor | Fight Club

American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.

His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...

Actor (3):

2006 The Illusionist (Eisenheim) 2001 The Score (Jack Teller) - 9 Stars 1999 Fight Club (The Narrator)

59. Hugo Weaving

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria, to English parents Anne (Lennard), a tour guide and teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. Hugo has an older brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna, who both also live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the ...

Actor (3):

2005 V for Vendetta (V) - 9 Stars 1999 The Matrix (Agent Smith) - 9 Stars 1998 The Interview (Eddie Rodney Flemming)

60. Jason Reitman

Producer | Up in the Air

Jason Reitman is a Canadian filmmaker and producer who notably directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Juno, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air, Young Adult and Tully. He produced Chloe and Jennifer's Body, two films that advanced Amanda Seyfried's career for adult oriented roles. He is the son of Ivan...

Director/ Writer (3):

2009 Up in the Air 2007 Juno (Director) 2005 Thankyou for Smoking - 9 Stars

61. Jay Oliva

Art_department | Wonder Woman

Jay Oliva is an American Director, Producer, show-runner and senior illustrator. He resides in Los Angles, California where he began his career in animation working on Fox's animated series "Spider-Man" in 1996.

He became a Director on the CGI series "Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles"in ...

Director (3):

2013 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 - 9 Stars 2012 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 - 9 Stars 2007 Doctor Strange

TV Director:

2010-2012 Young Justice

62. Mark Ruffalo

Actor | Spotlight

Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...

Actor (3):

2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Bruce Banner/ The Hulk) 2013 Now You See Me (Dylan Rhodes) 2012 The Avengers (Bruce Banner/ The Hulk) - 9 Stars

63. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

Actress (3):

2005 V for Vendetta (Evey) - 9 Stars 2004 Garden State (Sam) 1994 Leon the Professional (Mathilda) - 9 Stars

64. Paul Verhoeven

Director | RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...

Director (3):

1992 Basic Instinct 1990 Total Recall - 9 Stars 1987 Robocop

65. Steven Soderbergh

Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...

Director (3):

2004 Ocean's Twelve 2000 Ocean's Eleven - 9 Stars 2000 Traffic

66. Uma Thurman

Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Uma Karuna Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. She is the daughter of Nena Thurman (née Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge), a fashion model and socialite who now runs a mountain retreat, and of Robert Thurman (Robert Alexander ...

Actress (3):

2004 Kill Bill: Vol II (Beatrix Kiddo) 2003 Kill Bill: Vol I (The Bride) 1994 Pulp Fiction (Mia Wallace) - 9 Stars

67. Ang Lee

Director | Wo hu cang long

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

Director (2):

2012 Life of Pi - 9 Stars 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

68. Audrey Tautou

Actress | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Audrey Justine Tautou was born on August 9, 1976 in Beaumont, France, to Evelyne Marie Laure (Nuret), a teacher, and Bernard Tautou, a dental surgeon. Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at 'Cours Florent'. In 1998 she won the best young actress award...

Actress (2):

2001 Amelie (Amelie Poulain) - 9 Stars 2002 Dirty Pretty Things (Senay Gelik)

69. Bud Spencer

Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!

Bud Spencer, the popular Italian actor who starred in innumerable spaghetti Westerns and action-packed potboilers during the 1960s and 1970s, was born Carlo Pedersoli on October 31, 1929, in Naples. The first Italian to swim the 100-meter freestyle in less than a minute, Spencer competed as a ...

Actor:

1971 Trinity is STILL My Name! (Bambino) 1970 They Call Me Trinity (Bambino) - 9 Stars

70. Cary Elwes

Actor | Saw

Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London, England, the third son of interior designer/shipping heiress Tessa Georgina Kennedy and the late portrait painter Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes. He is the brother of producer/agent Cassian Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. He was raised in London and attended ...

Actor (2):

1993 Robin Hood Men In Tights (Robin Hood) 1987 The Princess Bride (Westley) - 9 Stars

71. Charles Chaplin

Writer | The Great Dictator

Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...

Actor/ Director/ Writer (2):

1940 The Great Dictator - 9 Stars 1936 Modern Times - 9 Stars

72. Chloë Grace Moretz

Actress | Kick-Ass

Moretz is best known for her work in the sci-fi thriller series The Peripheral, created by Scott B. Smith; the Mattson Tomlin-directed sci-fi thriller Mother/Android; Neil Jordan's thriller Greta; Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud, which claimed the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award at the ...

Actress (2):

2011 Hugo (Isabelle) - 9 Stars 2010 Kick-Ass (Mindy Macready/ Hit-Girl)

73. Christoph Waltz

Actor | Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...

Actor (2):

20121 Django Unchained (Dr. King Schultz) - 9 Stars 2009 Inglourious Basterds (Col. Hans Landa)

74. Djimon Hounsou

Actor | Blood Diamond

Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in west Africa to Albertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He moved to Lyon, France, when he was 13. Hounsou has graced the catwalks of Paris and London as a popular male model. He has since left his modeling career and has worked on Gladiator (2000) by ...

Actor (2):

2009 Push (Henry Carver) 2006 Blood Diamond (Solomon Vandy) - 9 Stars

Voice Actor:

2010 Black Panther (T'Challa) - Mini Series

75. Duncan Jones

Director | Moon

Duncan Jones was born on May 30, 1971 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Moon (2009), Source Code (2011) and Mute (2018). He has been married to Rodene Ronquillo since November 6, 2012. They have two children.

Director/ Writer (2):

2011 Source Code (Director) - 9 Stars 2009 Moon (Writer/ Director) - 9 Stars

76. Emily Blunt

Actress | Edge of Tomorrow

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British actress known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and The Girl on the Train (2016), among many others.

Blunt was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London, England, the second of ...

Actress (2):

2014 Edge of Tomorrow (Rita) - 9 Stars 2011 The Adjustment Bureau (Elise Sellas)

77. Enzo Barboni

Director | I due superpiedi quasi piatti

Enzo Barboni (nick name E.B. Clucher) is one of the most representative filmmakers of the last line of the western to Italian thanks to the parodistic and trumpet-like series of Trinity. Born in 1922, Enzo Barboni began operating as a car operator in 1942, only twenty years later, and in 1961 ...

Director/ Writer (2):

1971 Trinity is STILL My Name! 1970 They Call Me Trinity - 9 Stars

78. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Director | Das Leben der Anderen

As the son of a Lufthansa manager, Henckel von Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels, where he passed his international high school diploma in 1991. He then spent two years studying in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) with the following ...

Director/ Writer (2):

2010 The Tourist 2006 The Lives of Others - 9 Stars

79. Gore Verbinski

Director | Rango

Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...

Director:

2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - 9 Stars

80. John Musker

Writer | Hercules

John Musker is an American animated film director who collaborates with Ron Clements. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are ...

Director/ Writer (2):

1992 Aladdin - 9 Stars 1989 The Little Mermaid

81. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actor | Inception

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and ...

Actor (2):

2012 Looper (Joe) 2005 Brick (Brendan) - 9 Stars

Director/ Writer:

2014 HitRecord on TV (Both)

82. M. Night Shyamalan

Producer | Lady in the Water

Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.

He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...

Director/ Writer (2):

2004 The Village - 9 Stars 2000 Unbreakable - 9 Stars

83. Nathan Fillion

Actor | Castle

Nathan Fillion was born on 27 March 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the son of Cookie (Early) and Bob Fillion, both retired English teachers, and has an older brother, Jeff. His father is of French-Canadian descent, and his mother is of English, German, Finnish, and Norwegian ancestry. In ...

Actor (2):

2012 Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry) - 9 Stars 2005 Serenity (Mal)

TV Actor:

2009-2014 Castle (Richard Castle) 2008 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along BLog (Captain Hammer) 2002-2003 Firefly (Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds)

84. Paul Haggis

Writer | Crash

Paul Haggis established himself over twenty years with an extensive career in television, before his big break into features arrived when he became the first screenwriter to garner two Best Film Academy Awards back-to-back for his scripts: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, ...

Director/ Writer (2):

2006 Casino Royale (Writer) - 9 Stars 2004 Crash (Director/ Writer) - 9 Stars

85. Rian Johnson

Producer | Knives Out

Rian Johnson was born in Maryland and at a young age his family moved to San Clemente, California, where he was raised. After graduating from high school, he went on to attend the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His first feature film, Brick (2005), was released in 2005 ...

Director/ Writer (2):

2012 Looper (Both) 2005 Brick (Both) - 9 Stars

86. Ron Clements

Writer | Hercules

Ron Clements is an American animated film director who collaborates with John Musker. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The Little Mermaid and Aladdin are ...

Director/ Writer (2):

1992 Aladdin - 9 Stars 1989 The Little Mermaid

87. Sandra Bullock

Producer | The Proposal

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...

Actress (2):

2009 The Blind Side (Leigh Anne Tuohy) 2004 Crash (Jean Cabot) - 9 Stars

88. Terence Hill

Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!

Terence Hill was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice, Italy to a chemist. His mother was German, and as a child the family lived near Dresden, Saxony, Germany where they survived the Allied bombings of World War II. Italian film-maker Dino Risi discovered him at a swimming meet and he...

Actor:

1971 Trinity is STILL My Name! (Trinity) 1970 They Call Me Trinity (Trinity) - 9 Stars

89. Terry Jones

Writer | The Meaning of Life

Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...

Director/ Writer (2):

1979 Life of Brian - 9 Stars 1975 Monty Python & The Holy Grail

90. Tom Hiddleston

Actor | The Avengers

Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...

Actor (2):

2013 Thor: The Dark World (Loki) 2012 The Avengers (Loki) - 9 Stars

91. Will Ferrell

Producer | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student ...

Actor (2):

2006 Stranger than Fiction (Harold Crick) - 9 Stars 2005 The Producers (Franz Liebkind)

TV Actor:

2009 Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush (George Bush)

Voice Actor:

2010 Megamind (Megamind)

92. Adrien Brody

Actor | The Pianist

Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the ...

Actor:

2005 The Jacket (Jack Starks) - 9 Stars

93. Alexis Denisof

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy

Alexis Denisof was born on February 25, 1966 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Avengers (2012) and Angel (1999). He has been married to Alyson Hannigan since October 11, 2003. They have two children.

Actor:

2012 Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick) - 9 Stars

94. Amy Acker

Actress | Angel

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas where she graduated Lake Highlands High School, Amy Acker is the oldest of four children; she has two sisters and one brother. An acting major at Southern Methodist University, Amy acted in several college theater productions. She appeared in various roles during ...

Actress:

2012 Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) - 9 Stars

TV Actress:

2012-2014 Person of Interest (Root)

95. Andy Lau

Actor | Mou gaan dou

Andy Lau Tak-wah, (born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter, presenter, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same...

Actor:

2002 Infernal Affairs - 9 Stars

96. Anthony Minghella

Writer | The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anthony Minghella was the son of immigrants from Italy, who own an ice-cream factory on the Isle of Wight, where Anthony was born on January 6, 1954. He and his two siblings, Edana Minghella and Dominic Minghella, grew up there, a popular British holiday spot. After graduating from the University of...

Director/ Writer:

1999 The Talented Mr Ripley - 9 Stars

97. Asa Butterfield

Actor | Hugo

Asa Butterfield was born in Islington, London, England, to Jacqueline Farr and Sam Butterfield. He began acting at the age of 8, after a talent spotting casting director saw him at his local after school drama club, The Young Actors Theatre in Islington. Following on from a couple of small roles in...

Actor:

2011 Hugo (Hugo Cabret)

98. Ben Ripley

Writer | Source Code

Ben Ripley grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. A cum laude graduate of Stanford University and an honors graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, he sold his first screenplay to Fox in 2002. Since then he has worked steadily in the genres of horror, ...

Writer:

2011 Source Code - 9 Stars

99. Clayton Jacobson

Director | Kenny

Clayton Jacobson was born on October 26, 1963 in Australia. He is a director and editor, known for Kenny (2006), Brothers' Nest (2018) and Upgrade (2018).

Director/ Writer:

2006 Kenny - 9 Stars

100. Danny Boyle

Director | 127 Hours

Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...

Director:

2008 Slumdog Millionaire - 9 Stars