FAVOURITES
Favourite Actors
My favourite actors are mainly populated by film actors, however TV actors may turn up if I think they're great. The films I have mentioned serve not only as a reminder, but also give credit to where I found the actors were at their best. The order is random just now : )
Cary Grant - Bringing Up Baby / Monkey Business
Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man / Tootsie / Midnight Cowboy
Peter Dinklage - Game of Thrones
Bill Murray - The Royal Tenenbaums / Ghostbusters
Marylin Monroe - Some Like it Hot
John Goodman - The Big Lebowsky
Christopher Lee - The Wickerman
David Thewlis - Naked
Tim Roth - Meantime / Lie to me
Richard E Grant - Withnail & I
John Belushi - Blues Brothers
Jason Momoa - Game of Thrones
Winona Ryder - Black Swan
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
Denise Richards - Wild Things / Undercover Brother
James Stewart -Harvey / It's a Wonderful World
Brad Pitt - Burn After Reading / Babel
Ewan McGregor - Little Voice / I Love You Phillip Morris
Boris Karloff - Frankenstein
Samuel L. Jackson - Jackie Brown
Jude Law - Sherlock Holmes / I Heart Huckabee
Evelyn Hamann - Papa Ante Portas
Loriot - Papa Ante Portas
Gerhard Polt - Kehraus
Robert Downey Jr - Sherlock Holmes
Ange Engelke - Ladykracher / Der Wixxer
Sophia Loren - Prêt-à-Porter
David Harbour - Stranger Things
Julianne Moore - Magnolia
Cate Blanchett - Coffee and Cigarettes
Keanu Reeves - The Matrix / The Devil's Advocate
Orlando Bloom - Lord of the Rings / Pirates of the Caribbean
Bette Davis - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Whoopie Goldberg - Jumpin' Jack Flash
Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd
Helen Mirren - Brighton Rock
Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
Bob Hoskins - everything he has ever been in, my favourite actor of all times
Morgan Freeman - Seven
Henry Cavill - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sigourney Weaver - Alien
Gerard Departieu - Loulou
Sophie Marceau - La Boum
Romy Schneider - Sissi
CCH Pounder - Bagdad Cafe
Jim Carrey - The Mask / I Love You Phillip Morris
Natalie Portman - Léon: The Professional, SNL: Natalie's Rap
Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Franka Potente - Run Lola Run
Heinz Rühmann - Die Feuerzangenbowle
Melissa McCarthy - everything!
Olivia Newton-John - Grease
Carrie Anne Moss - The Matrix
Michael J. Fox - Back to the Future
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading / Fargo
Steve Buscemi - Living in Oblivion
Vincent Cassel - Birthday Girl
Bjarne Mädel - Der Tatortreiniger - Schotti! I love you!
Jean Reno - Léon: The Professional
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Joachim Krol - Wir können auch anders
Heike Makatsch - Männerpension
Sandra Bullock - Miss Congeniality
Paul Rudd - Our Idiot Brother
Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
Pierre Brice - Winnetou
Susan Sarandon - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Grace Kelly - High Society
Hugh Grant - Notting Hill / Cloud Atlas
Nastassja Kinski - Cat People
Moritz Bleibtreu - Run Lola Run
Peter Falk - Columbo
Helmut Fischer - Monaco Franze
Rachel Weisz - Runaway Jury
Christina Ricci - Buffalo '66
Liam Neeson - Unknown
Charles Chaplin - Modern Times
Micky Rourke - Wild Orchid
Olivia Spencer - The Help
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Happiness
Laurence Fishburne - The Matrix
Maggie Cheung - In the Mood for Love
Don Cheadle - The Guard
Ian McKellen - Lord of the Rings
Judi Dench - Red Joan
Robert De Niro - Jackie Brown
Al Pacino - The Devil's Advocate
Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot
Maggie Smith - Keeping Mum / The Lady in the Van / Downton Abbey
Pierre Cosso - La Boum II
Kristen Thomas Scott - Keeping Mum
Michael Caine - Alfie / Little Voice
Jennifer Hudson - Dream Girls
Robert Carlyle - Carla's Song
Brittany Murphy - Clueless
Maisie Williams - Game of Thrones
Rowan Atkinson - Keeping Mum
Dafne Keen - Logan
Harvey Keitel - The Piano
Ewan Bremner - Trainspotting
Didi Hallervorden - Sein Letztes Rennen
Marcello Mastrianni - Prêt-à-Porter
Catherine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
Bruce Willis - The Fifth Element / Moonrise Kingdom
Milla Jovovich - The Fifth Element
Chloe Sevigny - Kids
Francesca Martinez - The Extras
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
Rebel Wilson - The Hustle
Joe Pesci - My Cousin Vinnie
Anjelica Huston - The Royal Tenenbaums
Tim Robbins - High Fidelity
Kelly McDonald - Gosford Park
Verne Troyer - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Glenn Close - 101 Dalmations / Mars Attacks
Gustl Bayrhammer - Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl
Chadwick Boseman - Black Panther
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Ben Kinsgley - Gandhi
Chackie Chan - Rush Hour
David Duchovny - Evolution
Jodie Foster - Silence of the Lambs
Toni Collette - Muriels Wedding
Tom Hanks - Cloud Atlas
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Groucho Marx - Monkey Business (The Marx Brothers)
Nicole Kidman - Birthday Girl, Moulin Rouge!
Michelle Yeoh - Memoirs of a Geisha
Margaret Rutherford - Miss Marple
John Malkovich - Being John Malkovitch / Burn After Reading
Katrin Cartlidge - Naked
Jim Broadbent - Cloud Atlas
Doona Bae - Cloud Atlas
Penelope Wilton - Shaun of the Dead
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Benedict Cumberbatch - Patrick Melrose
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Kumail Nanjiani - The Big Sick
Bill Nighy - Love Actually
Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda
Parminder Nagra - Bend it like Beckham
Jon Hamm - Madmen
Jake Gyllenhal - Donnie Darko
Emma Thompson - Love Actually
Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Robin Williams - The Fisher King
Antonio Banderas - You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Rossy De Palma - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot
Jack Nicolson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Andy Serkis - Lord of the Rings
Lindsay Lohan - Just my Luck
Viola Davis - The Help
Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
Chris Tucker - Rush Hour
Salma Hayek - The Velocity of Gary
James Dean - Rebels without a Cause
Catherine Denuve - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Marianne Sägebrecht - Bagdad Cafe
Martin Freeman - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / The Office
Mackenzie Crook - The Office
Charlize Theron - Monster
Kate Winslet - Contagion
John C. Reilly - We need to talk about Kevin
William H. Macy - Magnolia
Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia
Brendan Gleeson - Cavalry
Roberto Benignini - Life is Beautiful
Jeremy Renner - The Bourne Legacy / SNL: Coroner
Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
Nick Frost - Spaced / Hot Fuzz
Billy Connolly - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dominique Pinon - Delicatessen
Val Kilmer - The Doors
Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinnie
Edward Norton - Moonrise Kingdom
Ricky Gervais - The Extras / The Office
Tim Curry - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Gisela Schneeberger - Kehraus
Tony Leung - In the Mood for Love
Mike Myers - Austin Powers
John Cusack - High Fidelity
Liv Tyler - One Night at McCools
Reese Witherspoon - Legally Blonde
Juliette Binoche - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Matt Dillon - One Night at McCools
Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice
Bruno Jonas - Wir Enkelkinder
You can find portraits of all my favourite actors on my pinterest account.
This list is by no means complete, I will keep adding to it.
All these films are worth watching.