Actors
by spiralclarity | created - 03 Jan 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | Public1. Sam Claflin
Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman
English actor Sam Claflin was born in Ipswich, England, to Susan A. (Clarke), a classroom assistant, and Mark J. Claflin, a finance officer. As a child, he was football-mad, often going to see his favorite team, Norwich City. He was a talented footballer, playing for Norwich schools at city level ...
2. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
3. Charlie Creed-Miles
Actor | Le Cinquième Élément
Charlie Creed-Miles was born on March 24, 1972 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Fifth Element (1997), Harry Brown (2009) and King Arthur (2004).
4. Tom Wlaschiha
Actor | Game of Thrones
Thomas Wlaschiha is a German actor. Internationally, he is known for his roles as Jaqen H'Ghar in the second, fifth and sixth seasons of the TV series Game of Thrones, as well as Sebastian Berger in the TV series Crossing Lines. He also appeared in four episodes of Jack Ryan. He plays Dmitri ...
5. Christopher Denham
Actor | Argo
Christopher Denham was born in Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Argo (2012), Shutter Island (2010) and Billions (2016).
6. Corey Stoll
Actor | Midnight in Paris
Corey Stoll is well known for his portrayal of 'Congressman Russo' in David Fincher's "House of Cards" (Golden Globe nomination) and for his performance in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris", in which he portrayed 'Ernest Hemingway' (Independent Spirit Award nomination.) He has appeared in many ...
7. Dennis Boutsikaris
Actor | Better Call Saul
Dennis Boutsikaris is an American character actor who has won the Obie Award twice. He is also a narrator of audio-books, for which he has won 13 Golden Earphone Awards and 8 Audie Awards. He won Best Audiobook of the Year from Amazon for his reading of American Gods.
Boutsikaris was born in Newark,...
8. Tom Lipinski
Actor | Suits
Tom Lipinski is an actor and documentary producer best known for his role as Trevor in the hit television show Suits. He is also the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award for his work producing Gone South, an investigative journalism podcast about crime in the deep south.
Born and raised in ...
9. Matt Servitto
Actor | Enchanted
Matt Servitto was born on April 7, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Enchanted (2007), Compliance (2012) and Good Head (2021). He has been married to Anne Lauterbach since September 15, 2001. He was previously married to Charissa Marie Sgouros.
10. Eric Bogosian
Actor | Talk Radio
Eric Bogosian was born in Boston and grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts. After graduating from Woburn Memorial High School in 1971, he attended the University of Chicago and graduated from Oberlin College in 1976, whereupon he moved to New York City. In New York he was hired by the Kitchen as an ...
11. Ben Shenkman
Actor | Pi
Ben Shenkman was born on September 26, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Pi (1998), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) and Blue Valentine (2010). He has been married to Lauren Greilsheimer since September 17, 2005. They have one child.
12. Stephen Kunken
Actor | The Handmaid's Tale
Stephen Kunken was born on April 30, 1971 in Upper Brookville, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Billions (2016) and Café Society (2016). He has been married to Jenn Thompson since 2005. They have one child.
13. Asia Kate Dillon
Actor | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Asia Kate Dillon was born on November 15, 1984 in Ithaca, New York, USA. They are known for playing Brandy Epps in Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Taylor Mason in Billions (2016). Their role on Billions is the first gender non-binary character shown on American television. Dillon is also the ...
14. David Costabile
Actor | Lincoln
David Costabile was born on January 9, 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Lincoln (2012), Billions (2016) and Breaking Bad (2008). He has been married to Eliza Baldi since June 25, 2012. They have two children.
15. Paul Giamatti
Actor | Sideways
Paul Giamatti is an American actor who has worked steadily and prominently for over thirty years, and is best known for leading roles in the films American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), and Barney's Version (2010) (for which he won a Golden Globe), and supporting roles in the films Cinderella ...
16. Michael Raymond-James
Actor | Jack Reacher
Michael Raymond-James is an American actor. He is best known for playing René Lenier in the first season of the HBO series True Blood, Britt Pollack on the FX series Terriers, Neal Cassidy/Baelfire on the ABC series Once Upon a Time, and Mitch Longo on the CBS All Access series Tell Me a Story.
17. Jake Weber
Actor | Dawn of the Dead
Jake Weber has worked in film, theatre and television. His film credits include Zach Snyder's remake of Dawn of the Dead, Martin Brest's remake of Meet Joe Black, Jonathan Mostow's U-571, Mike Newell's Pushing Tin, Tarsem Singh's The Cell, Marshall Herskovitz's Dangerous Beauty, Alan J. Pakula's ...
18. Amy Adams
Actress | Arrival
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...
19. Paul Rudd
Actor | Ant-Man
Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His parents, Michael and Gloria, both from Jewish families, were born in the London area, U.K. He has one sister, who is three years younger than he is. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at ...
20. Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Actor | Superbad
Christopher Mintz-Plasse is an American actor, drummer and comedian who is widely known for playing McLovin from the hit high school comedy film Superbad. He also played Fishlegs from How to Train Your Dragon, Augie Farcques from Role Models, Giuseppe from Marmaduke, Chris D'Amico from Kick-Ass, ...
21. Bill Hader
Actor | The Skeleton Twins
Bill Hader is an American comedian and actor who is known for playing in Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013. He created and starred in the HBO show Barry. He also played Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Colonel Custer from Night at the Museum 2, Fear from Inside Out and ...
22. Rupert Friend
Actor | Hitman: Agent 47
Rupert William Anthony Friend is a British actor, screenwriter, director, and lyricist. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), both of which won him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005)...
23. Hailee Steinfeld
Actress | True Grit
Hailee Steinfeld was born on December 11, 1996 in Tarzana, California, to Cheri (Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal fitness trainer. She has a brother, Griffin. Her uncle is Jake Steinfeld, a fitness trainer, and her great-uncle is actor Larry Domasin. Her father is of ...
24. Caitlin Carver
Actress | Chicago Fire
Caitlin Carver was born on March 31, 1992 in Monrovia, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Chicago Fire (2012), I, Tonya (2017) and Dear White People (2017).
25. Sam Rockwell
Actor | Moon
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...
26. Peter Sarsgaard
Actor | Shattered Glass
Boyish-looking Peter Sarsgaard was born on March 7, 1971, at Scott Air Force Base, in Bellville, Illinois, to Judy Lea (Reinhardt) and John Dale Sarsgaard, an engineer who worked for the Air Force and later Monsanto and IBM. He is a graduate of St. Louis' Washington University, where he majored in ...
27. Janet McTeer
Actress | Albert Nobbs
Janet McTeer was born on August 5, 1961 in Newcastle, England, UK to parents Jean and Allan McTeer. She was raised in York from the age of 6. She attended Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, where there was not much opportunity for drama. She became interested in acting at age 16, when she saw "...
28. Josh Lucas
Actor | Ford v Ferrari
Josh Lucas was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Michele (LeFevre), a nurse midwife, and Don Maurer, an ER doctor.
Lucas' film career began by accident in 1979 when a small Canadian film production shot on the tiny coastal South Carolina island, Sullivan's Island, where Lucas and his family lived. ...
29. Ariana Greenblatt
Actress | Barbie
Ariana Greenblatt is one of the busiest young actresses in Hollywood. At age 11, only a few short years into her career, she was already named as one of The Hollywood Reporter's 'Top Stars Under 18 To Watch' in 2019. Now at 15-years-old, Greenblatt's expansive film and television slate has most ...
30. Christopher Halladay
Actor | Mr. Robot
Christopher Halladay is known for Mr. Robot (2015), Stella's Last Weekend (2018) and God Friended Me (2018).
31. Elliot Villar
Actor | Mr. Robot
Elliot Villar was born on June 6, 1980 in Bronx, New York, USA. Elliot is an actor, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Sneaky Pete (2015) and The Son (2017). Elliot has been married to Emily Dorsch since August 22, 2009.
32. Lizzy Caplan
Actress | Hot Tub Time Machine
Actress Elizabeth Anne "Lizzy" Caplan was born in Los Angeles, California, to Barbara (Bragman), a political aide, and Richard Caplan, a lawyer. She has two older siblings, Julie and Benjamin, and was raised in a Jewish household. Her mother was a cousin of publicist Howard Bragman. Caplan was ...
33. Darren Goldstein
Actor | The Affair
Darren Goldstein was born on August 27, 1974 in Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Affair (2014) and Ozark (2017). He has been married to Katie Finneran since August 16, 2010.
34. Adria Arjona
Actress | Father of the Bride
Accustomed to airplanes and distant countries since she could recall, Adria Arjona was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Mexico City. Falling asleep in Guatemala and waking up in Argentina was not out of norm for her. She is the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother, Leslie, and a Guatemalan father, ...
35. Rhea Seehorn
Actress | Better Call Saul
Rhea Seehorn studied painting and drawing from a young age, following in the footsteps of her father and grandmother. Although she continued in the visual arts, she also had a growing passion for the movies and theatre and secretly wanted to become an actor.
Not knowing how to pursue the profession,...
36. Tom Pelphrey
Actor | Mank
Tom was born and raised in New Jersey. He began acting in high school thanks to a great teacher, and after attending FPAC at Howell High he received a BFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. While at Rutgers he also studied Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre in London...
37. Luis Gerardo Méndez
Actor | Charlie's Angels
Luis Gerardo Méndez, one of Mexico's biggest stars, is best known for playing the lead role and executive producing Netflix's first Spanish-language original comedy series CLUB DE CUERVOS.
Luis was most recently seen in a lead role in NARCOS: MEXICO (S3) as troubled Mexican police officer 'Victor ...
38. Alexander Perkins
Actor | Red Notice
Alexander Perkins is known for Red Notice (2021), Masters of the Air (2024) and The Office (2001). He has been married to Rachel since June 4, 2010.
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