People

Dolly Parton

Pittman Center

Dolly Parton’s screen career is only one part of an unusually wide creative life, but it carries the qualities that define so much of her work: sha...

Jenna Ortega

Coachella Valley, California, USA

Jenna Ortega is an American actress who has become one of the most recognisable young stars of her generation, building a career across television,...

Sandra Bullock

Arlington, Virginia, USA

Sandra Bullock is an American actress and producer who became one of Hollywood's biggest stars during the 1990s, building a career that has moved e...

Brad Pitt

Shawnee

Brad Pitt’s career has often worked through contrast: movie-star ease set against characters who are damaged, dangerous, ridiculous or quietly adri...

Matt Damon

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Matt Damon has built a career on an unusually useful contradiction: he can look completely at home in a crowd while still holding the centre of the...

Bruce Campbell

Royal Oak

Bruce Campbell has made a career out of meeting square-jawed heroism with a knowing sense of humor. Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, on June 22, 1958,...

Margot Robbie

Queensland, Australia

Margot Robbie is an Australian actress and producer who rose from television roles in her home country to become one of Hollywood's most recognisab...

Scarlett Johansson

Manhattan, New York, USA

Scarlett Johansson has built a screen career around a useful tension: she can appear entirely self-possessed while suggesting that something more c...

Anya Taylor-Joy

Miami, Florida, USA

Anya Taylor-Joy is an actress known for her distinctive screen presence and performances across horror, drama, period films and major Hollywood pro...

Sydney Sweeney

Spokane, Washington, USA

Sydney Sweeney is an American actress and producer who has become one of the most recognisable performers of her generation, building a career acro...

Glen Powell

Austin,Texas, USA

Glen Powell is an American actor, writer and producer who has built a career spanning action films, romantic comedies, dramas and major Hollywood b...

Paul Mescal

Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

Paul Mescal is an Irish actor who rose rapidly from acclaimed television performances to leading roles in major international films. Born on 2 Febr...

Jacob Elordi

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jacob Elordi is an Australian actor who rose from teenage romantic comedies to become one of the most prominent young dramatic actors working in fi...

Leonardo DiCaprio

Los Angeles, USA

Leonardo DiCaprio has built his career by repeatedly complicating the qualities that first made him a star. Born in Los Angeles on November 11, 197...

Robert Downey Jr.

Manhattan, New York, USA

Robert Downey Jr. has built a career on quick intelligence, restless energy, and the ability to make even highly controlled characters feel dangero...

Chris Hemsworth

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor best known for playing Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a role that transformed him from a television...

Ryan Gosling

London, Ontario, Canada

Ryan Gosling has built a career around a useful contradiction: he can hold the screen by barely moving, then pivot into comedy, romance or musical...

Ryan Reynolds

Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada

Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian actor, producer, and writer who has built a career around comedy, action, and a talent for delivering sarcastic one-lin...

Hugh Jackman

Sydney

Hugh Jackman has built a career on a contrast few performers can sustain: the physical intensity of an action star paired with the ease and opennes...

Dwayne Johnson

Hayward, California, USA

Dwayne Johnson is an American actor, producer, and former professional wrestler who became one of the world's most recognisable entertainment stars...

Keanu Reeves

Beirut, Lebanon

Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor who has spent more than three decades moving between comedy, science fiction, action and drama, creating some of t...

Jack Black

Santa Monica

Jack Black has built a screen career around a rare combination of full-volume comedy, musical instinct and surprising dramatic control. Born Thomas...

Nicolas Cage

Long Beach, California, USA

Nicolas Cage has built a career on refusing to settle into a single mode. Born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, on January 7, 1964, h...

Jennifer Lawrence

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress and producer who became one of the defining Hollywood stars of the 2010s, moving from acclaimed independen...

Mia Goth

London, England, UK

Mia Goth is an English actress and model and one of the most distinctive performers in modern horror cinema. Born Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth on...

Robert De Niro

New York City, USA

Robert De Niro has built a career on intensity, precision and an unusual willingness to let characters remain difficult. Born in New York City on A...

Al Pacino

Manhattan

Al Pacino’s screen presence has always worked at more than one temperature. He can hold a scene in near-silence, letting tension gather behind his...

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Thal

Born in Thal, Styria, on July 30, 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger built one of cinema’s least conventional leading-man careers. An Austrian and America...

Arnold Vosloo

Pretoria

Arnold Vosloo has built a career around a screen presence that can feel controlled, imposing and quietly dangerous. Born in Pretoria on June 16, 19...

Ben Affleck

Berkeley

Ben Affleck has built the kind of career that invites a second look. Born in Berkeley, California, in 1972 and raised largely in Massachusetts, he...

Ben Barnes

Cambridge

Ben Barnes has built a career around characters whose polished surfaces rarely tell the whole story. A British actor and singer with roots in music...

Ben Kingsley

Snainton

Ben Kingsley’s screen career is a study in control: the calm voice, the watchful stillness and, when a part calls for it, the threat waiting just b...

Andy Beckwith

United Kingdom

Andy Beckwith is a British film and television actor whose career has taken him from punchy crime films to sprawling fantasy worlds and familiar te...

Andy Garcia

Havana

Andy Garcia has built a screen career around composure, intensity and a knack for suggesting that polished characters may be carrying more than the...

Brandy Ledford

Denver

Brandy Ledford is an American actor and model whose work spans television, film and production. Born in Denver on February 4, 1969, she has built a...

Costas Mandylor

Melbourne

Costas Mandylor has built a screen career around characters who carry authority, danger or some uneasy combination of the two. Born Costas Theodoso...

Bobby Cannavale

Union City

Bobby Cannavale has built a career around range rather than predictability, moving between stage, film, television and voice work with an ease that...

Tom Hanks

Concord, California, USA

Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has become one of the most recognisable and widely loved stars in Hollywood, with a career spannin...

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Bruce McGill

San Antonio

Bruce McGill has built a screen career around versatility, moving comfortably between comedy, drama, historical figures and dependable men of autho...

Bruce Willis

Idar-Oberstein

Bruce Willis built his screen career on a useful contradiction: he could look completely at home in an action movie while suggesting that his chara...

Will Smith

Philadelphia, USA

Will Smith’s screen career is built on range, momentum, and a knack for making big-scale entertainment feel personal. Born in Philadelphia on Septe...

Duane Martin

Brooklyn

Duane Martin’s path to the screen began with basketball. Born in Brooklyn on August 11, 1965, he graduated from New York University, where he playe...

Brian George

Jerusalem

Brian George has built the kind of wide-ranging career that makes him a familiar presence even when viewers do not immediately know his name. Born...

George Clooney

Lexington, USA

George Clooney has built a screen career around charm, comic timing and a willingness to complicate the polished leading-man image. Born on May 6,...

Harrison Ford

Chicago

Harrison Ford has built a career on making movie-scale heroics feel grounded. Born in Chicago on July 13, 1942, he came to acting as a self-describ...

Alicia Silverstone

San Francisco

For many viewers, Alicia Silverstone will always be Cher Horowitz, the sweet, spoiled Beverly Hills teenager at the centre of Amy Heckerling’s Clue...

Eric Stonestreet

Kansas City

Eric Stonestreet built his career on comedy, character work and a willingness to go big without losing the details that make a performance click. B...

Denzel Washington

Mount Vernon

Denzel Washington has built a career around authority, restraint and the sense that something volatile may be moving beneath the surface. Born on D...

Idris Elba

London Borough of Hackney

Idris Elba has built a career around authority, tension and an unusual degree of range. Born Idrissa Akuna Elba in the London Borough of Hackney on...

Chris Evans

Boston

Chris Evans has built a screen career around an unusually useful contrast: he can look completely at home in the center of a blockbuster while stil...

Joaquin Phoenix

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Joaquin Phoenix has built a career around characters who rarely seem comfortable in their own skin. Born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto...

Christian Bale

Haverfordwest

Christian Bale has built a career around intensity, precision and a willingness to let a character look deeply uncomfortable in his own skin. Born...

Jake Gyllenhaal

Los Angeles

Jake Gyllenhaal has built a career around characters who rarely feel settled. Whether playing an anxious teenager, an obsessive investigator, a com...

Cillian Murphy

Douglas

Cillian Murphy has built a career around concentration: the watchful pause, the controlled voice and the sense that something restless is moving be...

Damson Alade-Bo Idris

Peckham, London, England, UK

Damson Idris is a British actor who has risen from the stages of London to become one of the most exciting talents working in film and television....

Winona Ryder

Winona County, Minnesota, USA

Winona Ryder has built a career around characters who rarely feel entirely at home in their surroundings. Born Winona Laura Horowitz in Winona Coun...

Michael Keaton

Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, USA

Michael Keaton has built a career on the sense that he might change the temperature of a scene at any moment. He can be quick, funny and nervy, but...

elsa pataky

Madrid, Spain

Elsa Pataky is a Spanish actress and model best known internationally for playing Elena Neves in the Fast & Furious franchise. Starting her career...

Jesse Eisenberg

Queens, New York City, USA

Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor, writer and director best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in...

Mike Myers

Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Mike Myers has built a career around transformation. As an actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker, he is closely associated with outsized character...

Eddie Murphy

Brooklyn

Eddie Murphy’s screen presence has always run on momentum: quick thinking, verbal precision and the sense that a scene might change direction the m...

Cameron Diaz

San Diego

Cameron Diaz has always been especially good at disrupting the image a movie builds around her. Born in San Diego on August 30, 1972, she began mod...

Miles Teller

Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA

Miles Teller is an American actor known for combining dramatic performances with major Hollywood roles, appearing in films including Whiplash, Top...

Val Kilmer

Los Angeles, California, USA

Born in Los Angeles on December 31, 1959, Val Kilmer built a career around transformation. He worked across film, television, theatre and voice act...

Kristen Wiig

Canandaigua, New York, USA

Kristen Wiig is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, born August 22, 1973, in Canandaigua, New York, USA. Best known for her sharp c...

Maya Rudolph

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Maya Rudolph has built a career around comic flexibility: she can disappear into an impersonation, play the grounded center of an unruly ensemble o...

Rose Byrne

Balmain, Sydney, Australia

Rose Byrne has built a career around an unusually flexible screen presence. She can play tightly controlled, quietly troubled or completely ridicul...

Melissa McCarthy

Rebel Wilson

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Rebel Wilson is an Australian actress, comedian, writer and producer, born March 2, 1980, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Known for her bold...

Taylor Lautner

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Taylor Lautner is an American actor, born February 11, 1992, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He is best known for playing Jacob Black in The Twilig...

Lily Collins

Guildford, UK

Born in Guildford on 18 March 1989, Lily Collins is a British-American actor whose career has moved easily between romantic drama, fantasy, period...

Sigourney Weaver

Manhattan, New York City, USA

Sigourney Weaver’s screen career has always been difficult to box in. She can anchor science fiction without losing the human scale, sharpen a come...

Simon Pegg

Brockworth, England, UK

Simon Pegg has built a career around an unusually flexible screen presence: quick-witted and recognisably human in comedy, yet equally at home amid...

Nick Frost

Dagenham, London, UK

Nick Frost brings an unusually grounded presence to comedy. Even when the situation involves zombies, alien fugitives or a suspiciously eventful Gl...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Los Angeles, USA

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has spent most of his life on screen, but his career is defined less by longevity than by a willingness to keep changing the t...

Emily Blunt

Wandsworth

Emily Blunt has built a career on contrasts. She can bring clipped comic timing to a scene, carry the physical demands of an action film or find th...

Natalie Portman

Mount Scopus, Jerusalem

Natalie Portman has built a career around contrasts: composure and volatility, intelligence and vulnerability, large-scale spectacle and intimate c...

Mila Kunis

Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Mila Kunis has built a career around a particularly useful contrast: she can deliver a joke with clipped precision, then turn that same directness...

Gary Oldman

London

Gary Oldman has built a career around transformation, intensity and a willingness to disappear into characters who rarely occupy comfortable moral...

Michael Caine

London Uk

Michael Caine built a screen career around a quality British cinema once rarely allowed its leading men to keep: a recognisably working-class voice...

Morgan Freeman

Memphis, Tennessee,USA

Morgan Freeman has built a screen career on quiet authority, measured delivery, and an ability to suggest his characters have lived well beyond the...

Liam Neeson

Ballymena, County Antrim, N. Ireland, UK

Liam Neeson has built a career on a rare combination of physical authority, restraint, and a voice that carries its own dramatic weight. Born in Ba...

Amanda Seyfried

Allentown

Amanda Seyfried has built a career around range: broad comedy, musicals, thrillers, period drama and television, often bringing an alert, open qual...

Billy Burke

Bellingham

Billy Burke has built a screen career around characters who carry authority, danger or a little of both. Born in Bellingham, Washington, on Novembe...

Jim Carrey

Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Jim Carrey’s screen presence begins with movement: the stretching face, the sudden change of voice, the sense that a scene’s physical limits are th...

Carla Gugino

Sarasota

Carla Gugino has built a career on range rather than a single defining screen persona. Born on August 29, 1971, in Sarasota, Florida, she worked as...

Angela Lansbury

London

Angela Lansbury built a screen and stage career around range, precision and a willingness to play against expectation. Born in London in 1925, the...

Clark Gregg

Boston

Clark Gregg brings a calm, dry precision to the screen, the kind of presence that can make a supporting character feel essential without pushing fo...

James Franco

Palo Alto

James Franco has built a screen career defined by shifts in tone, scale and responsibility. Born in Palo Alto, California, on April 19, 1978, he st...

Amber Tamblyn

Santa Monica

Amber Tamblyn has built a screen career without staying in one lane for long. Born in Santa Monica on May 14, 1983, she grew up in a performing fam...

Reese Witherspoon

New Orleans, USA

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, born March 22, 1976, in New Orleans, has built a screen career around drive, precision and a keen understanding of...

Christoph Waltz

Vienna

Christoph Waltz has built a screen persona around immaculate manners, analytical precision and the possibility of danger lurking beneath both. Born...

Jim Sturgess

Wandsworth, London, UK

Jim Sturgess is an English actor and musician, born May 16, 1978, in Wandsworth, London, England. Known for work across drama, romance, thrillers,...

Ethan Suplee

Manhattan

Ethan Suplee is an American actor whose screen career has moved comfortably between broad comedy, hard-edged drama and television ensemble work. Bo...

Chris Pine

Los Angeles, California, USA

Chris Pine is an American actor, born August 26, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, USA. Best known for playing James T. Kirk in the modern Star Tre...

Daniel Radcliffe

Hammersmith

Daniel Radcliffe grew up on screen, but the shape of his career since Harry Potter has been anything but predictable. Born in Hammersmith, London,...

Robbie Coltrane

Scotland

Robbie Coltrane (1950–2022) was a Scottish actor whose imposing presence came with a rare flexibility: he could be boisterously funny, quietly tend...

Rupert Grint

Harlow, London, UK

Rupert Grint’s screen career began with the sort of role that can define an actor for life. Born in Harlow in 1988, Grint had performed in school p...

Emma Watson

Paris

Emma Watson grew up on screen, but the appeal of her career lies in how deliberately she has tried to move beyond that beginning. Born in Paris on...

Ralph Fiennes

Ipswich, UK

Ralph Fiennes has built a career around characters who hold something back—men whose restraint can suggest authority, vulnerability or real danger....

Alan Rickman

Acton

Alan Rickman brought a deep, measured voice and languid delivery to the screen, qualities that could make menace, comedy or quiet tenderness feel e...

Michael Gambon

London, UK

Michael Gambon brought a formidable voice, dry wit and a sense of barely contained force to the screen. Born in Dublin on 19 October 1940, he moved...

Tom Felton

Epsom, Surrey, UK

Tom Felton has spent much of his screen career working against the easy first impression. Born Thomas Andrew Felton in Epsom on 22 September 1987,...

Helena Bonham Carter

London

Helena Bonham Carter has built a career out of resisting the neatest possible version of herself. Born in London in 1966, the British actor had no...

Daniel Craig

Chester

Daniel Craig’s screen presence has always carried a useful tension: physical confidence on the surface, with unease, anger or vulnerability moving...

Rachel Weisz

Westminster, London, England, UK

Rachel Weisz has built a career around characters whose intelligence is never merely decorative. Whether she is navigating supernatural adventure,...

Kevin James

New York, USA

Kevin James built his screen career around a particularly sturdy kind of comedy: physical without being weightless, broad without losing the ordina...

Ken Jeong

Donnie Wahlberg

Boston

Donnie Wahlberg has built a screen career around intensity, vulnerability and a distinctly grounded presence. Born on August 17, 1969, in Boston’s...

Kristen Stewart

Los Angeles, USA

Born in Los Angeles on April 9, 1990, Kristen Stewart began acting at eight and quickly developed a screen presence that rewards close attention. H...

Jonah Hill

Los Angeles, USA

Jonah Hill has built a career around restless comic energy, sharp character work and a growing interest in what happens behind the camera. Born in...

Zac Efron

San Luis Obispo, California, USA

Zac Efron is an American actor, born October 18, 1987, in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. After beginning his career as a young television actor,...

Zach Galifianakis

Wilkesboro, North Carolina, USA

Zach Galifianakis has built a screen career around a comic presence that rarely feels polished in the conventional sense. Deadpan, awkward and deli...

Taylor Schilling

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Taylor Schilling is an American actress, born July 27, 1984, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is best known for playing Piper Chapman in the hit...

Ashley Greene

Jacksonville

Ashley Greene is an American actress whose screen career is closely tied to one of the defining young-adult film franchises of its era. As Alice Cu...

Chloë Grace Moretz

Atlanta

Chloë Grace Moretz has built a career around range, moving between bruising genre films, intimate drama, comedy and animation without settling into...

Colin Firth

Grayshott

Colin Firth has built a career on control: the carefully chosen pause, the guarded expression and the sense that strong feeling is being kept just...

Ciarán Hinds

Belfast

Ciarán Hinds is a Northern Irish actor whose work moves comfortably between stage, film and television. Born in Belfast on 9 February 1953, he stud...

Mel Gibson

New York, USA

Mel Gibson’s career has never stayed neatly in one lane. Born in Peekskill, New York, on January 3, 1956, he moved with his family to Australia at...

Jodie Foster

Los Angeles, USA

Jodie Foster has spent most of her life on screen, yet her career has never felt confined to a single kind of performance. Born Alicia Christian Fo...

Megan Fox

Oak Ridge, Tennessee,USA

Megan Fox has built a career that moves between blockbuster action, sharp-edged comedy, television and genre films, bringing a cool, direct presenc...

Adam Scott

Santa Cruz

Adam Scott has built a career around a particularly useful tension: he can seem reassuringly ordinary while suggesting that something more anxious,...

Edward Burns

Woodside

Edward Burns has built a career by moving easily between acting and hands-on independent filmmaking. Born on January 29, 1968, in Woodside, Queens,...

Matthew McConaughey

Austin, Texas, USA

Matthew McConaughey has built a screen career around an unusually flexible kind of movie-star ease. He can be relaxed, charming and funny, but ther...

Jeff Bridges

Los Angeles, USA

Jeff Bridges has built a career around an ease that can be deceptive. He often appears relaxed on screen, but his performances can carry melancholy...

Owen Wilson

USA

Born in Dallas on November 18, 1968, Owen Wilson has built a career that moves easily between loose-limbed comedy, thoughtful character work and bl...

James McAvoy

Glasgow

James McAvoy has built a career on sharp turns. Born in Glasgow on 21 April 1979, the Scottish actor has moved between film, television, theatre an...

Robin Wright

Dallas, Texas, USA

Robin Wright has built a screen career around poise, restraint and an ability to suggest far more than a character is willing to say. Born in Dalla...

Kevin Spacey

South Orange, New Jersey,USA

Kevin Spacey is an American actor whose screen career was built on characters who rarely reveal everything at once. Born in South Orange, New Jerse...

Jeremy Irons

isle of wight, UK

Jeremy Irons has built a career around a rare combination of authority, melancholy and menace. Born in Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1948, he train...

Paul Bettany

Shepherd’s Bush, London, UK

Paul Bettany has built a career around striking contrasts: imposing villains and warm comic turns, intimate drama and enormous franchise filmmaking...

Demi Moore

Roswell

Demi Moore has built a career around a compelling tension: composure on the surface, determination and vulnerability moving underneath. Born Demetr...

Gemma Arterton

Gravesend

Born in Gravesend on 2 February 1986, Gemma Arterton has built a career that moves comfortably between studio spectacle, independent film, televisi...

Dominic Cooper

Greenwich

Dominic Cooper is a British actor whose career moves comfortably between stage, television and film. Born and raised in Greenwich, London, he train...

Luke Evans

Wales, UK

Luke Evans is a Welsh actor and singer, born April 15, 1979, in Pontypool, Wales. After beginning his career on the stage, Evans successfully moved...

Russell Brand

Grays, Essex, England, UK

Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor and presenter whose screen work carries much of the restless verbal energy of his stand-up. Born on 4 J...

Gerard Butler

Paisley, Scotland, UK

Gerard Butler has built a screen career around physical conviction, a rough-edged warmth and an appetite for roles that demand total commitment. Bo...

Alan Arkin

Brooklyn

Alan Arkin was the kind of actor who could make impatience, suspicion or plain exhaustion as compelling as a grand speech. Across comedy and drama,...

Leslie Mann

Newport Beach, USA

Leslie Mann has made a career out of finding the tension inside comedy. Her characters can be warm, frustrated, impulsive or sharply direct—sometim...

Jason Bateman

New York, USA

Jason Bateman has built a career around composure: the measured reaction, the dry aside and the increasingly strained attempt to keep chaos under c...

Mark Wahlberg

Boston, USA

Mark Wahlberg has built a screen career around directness. Whether playing a cop, boxer, soldier, criminal or exasperated comedy lead, he tends to...

Kate Beckinsale

Chiswick, England, UK

Kate Beckinsale is an English actor whose career has moved freely between literary adaptations, romantic comedy, intimate drama and effects-heavy a...

Ben Foster

Boston

Ben Foster has built a career around characters who rarely seem settled. Whether playing an outlaw, a troubled brother or a real-life figure, he br...

Diego Luna

Toluca de Lerdo

Diego Luna has built the kind of career that resists being reduced to one role, one language or even one side of the camera. Born in Toluca de Lerd...

Giovanni Ribisi

Los Angeles

Giovanni Ribisi has built the kind of career that is difficult to reduce to a single type of role—or even a single side of the camera. Born in Los...

Maggie Grace

Worthington, Ohio, USA

Maggie Grace has built a screen career that moves easily between television dramas, studio thrillers, literary adaptations and horror. Born Margare...

Justin Timberlake

Tennessee, USA

Justin Timberlake is an American actor, singer and songwriter, born January 31, 1981, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. After becoming internationally fa...

Woody Harrelson

Midland, Texas, USA

Woody Harrelson has built a career on an unusually productive tension: he can seem relaxed and unpredictable at once, equally comfortable playing t...

Charlie Tahan

Glen Rock

Charlie Tahan has built a screen career around characters caught in strange, dangerous and emotionally unsettled worlds. Born and raised in Glen Ro...

Amanda Crew

Langley

Born in Langley, British Columbia, on June 5, 1986, Amanda Crew is a Canadian actress whose career has moved comfortably between comedy, horror, sc...

Kim Basinger

Athens, Georgia, USA

Kim Basinger has built a screen career around an intriguing tension: the polished composure of a former model set against a capacity for vulnerabil...

Russell Crowe

Wellington, New Zealand

Russell Crowe has built a career around forceful screen presence, but his best performances are rarely about volume alone. He can play anger, autho...

Elizabeth Banks

Pittsfield

Elizabeth Banks has built a screen career around range: sharp comedy, blockbuster spectacle, horror and character drama, followed by an increasingl...

Brian Dennehy

Bridgeport

Brian Dennehy (1938–2020) was the kind of actor who could make authority feel reassuring, dangerous or both at once. His breakthrough film role, as...

Emma Stone

Scottsdale

Emma Stone has built a career around a particularly useful tension: she can deliver a joke with sharp precision while letting uncertainty, vulnerab...

Octavia Spencer

Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Octavia Spencer is an American actress whose screen presence shifts between dry comic timing, grounded warmth, and steely authority without losing...

Bryce Dallas Howard

Los Angeles

Bryce Dallas Howard has built a career that moves comfortably between intimate character work, large-scale spectacle and directing. Born in Los Ang...

Allison Janney

Boston

Allison Janney has built a career around presence: the kind of poised, quick-thinking authority that can steady a political drama, sharpen a comedy...

Sissy Spacek

Quitman, Texas, USA

Sissy Spacek has built a career on performances that feel lived-in rather than displayed. Born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on Christmas Day 1949 in Quitm...

Cicely Tyson

The Bronx

Cicely Tyson built a career across film, television and the stage with a clear sense of purpose and an extraordinary command of character. Born in...

Channing Tatum

Cullman, Alabama, USA

Channing Tatum is an American actor, producer and director who rose to fame during the 2000s before becoming a major Hollywood leading man, with a...

Juliette Binoche

Paris, France

Juliette Binoche has built her career around movement: between French and international cinema, intimate dramas and large-scale productions, film s...

Tracy Morgan

Bronx, New York City, USA

Tracy Morgan is an American actor and comedian, born November 10, 1968, in the Bronx, New York City, USA. Known for his energetic and unpredictable...

Katie Holmes

Toledo, Ohio, USA

Katie Holmes has built a screen career around an interesting tension: the approachable warmth that first brought her national attention and a willi...

Ray Liotta

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Ray Liotta brought a distinctive mix of charm, volatility and vulnerability to the screen. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 18, 1954, he stu...

Ben Stiller

New York City

Ben Stiller has spent much of his career moving between two sides of comedy: the performer caught in escalating humiliation and the filmmaker caref...

Casey Affleck

Falmouth

Casey Affleck is an American actor whose screen presence is built around restraint. He often plays men who hold more inside than they say, letting...

Alan Alda

Manhattan

Alan Alda has built a career around an unusually flexible screen presence: quick with a joke, comfortable with moral complexity and equally convinc...

Matthew Broderick

Manhattan, USA

Matthew Broderick has built a career on a particular kind of screen presence: quick-witted, understated and able to shift from youthful confidence...

Téa Leoni

New York City, USA

Téa Leoni has built a career around an appealing tension: she can bring brisk comic energy to a scene, yet she is equally comfortable playing someo...

Michael Peña

Chicago, USA

Michael Peña has built a screen career around range: earnest drama, hard-edged action, broad comedy, science fiction and television crime stories a...

David Morrissey

Liverpool, UK

David Morrissey is an English actor and filmmaker, born June 21, 1964, in Liverpool, England. With a career spanning film, television and theatre,...

Paddy Considine

Burton upon Trent, UK

Paddy Considine has built a career around characters who seem to hold something back—anger, fear, grief, or, when the occasion calls for it, a perf...

Jason Statham

Shirebrook, Derbyshire, USA

Jason Statham has built a career around directness: clipped delivery, tightly controlled physicality and characters who would rather act than expla...

Paul Rudd

New Jersey, USA

Paul Rudd has built a career on versatility, moving between broad comedy, character-driven drama, television, theatre and superhero spectacle witho...

Zooey Deschanel

Los Angeles, USA

Zooey Deschanel has built a career around a screen presence that can shift from dryly sceptical to openly hopeful, often within the same performanc...

Emily Mortimer

Finsbury Park

Emily Mortimer is a British actress whose screen work often finds its spark in characters who are guarded, unsettled or quietly pushing against the...

Kathryn Hahn

Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA

Kathryn Hahn has built a career out of making every kind of part feel more vivid. Equally at home in comedy, drama, television, film and voice work...

Steve Coogan

Middleton, Lancashire, UK

Steve Coogan has built a career on awkwardness, vanity and the uneasy gap between how people see themselves and how everyone else sees them. Born i...

Kirsten Dunst

Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA

Kirsten Dunst has spent most of her life on screen, but the shape of her career is more interesting than simple longevity. Born on April 30, 1982,...

Timothy Spall

London, England, UK

Timothy Spall is an English actor whose career moves comfortably between theatre, film and television, often finding the unease, humour or humanity...

Blu Mankuma

Seattle

Blu Mankuma is a Canadian actor whose work crosses several parts of the screen world. Born in Seattle on July 5, 1948, he is associated with film,...

Anne Heche

Aurora

Anne Heche built a career around an unusual ability to move between vulnerability, sharp comedy and characters carrying more than they initially re...

Cynthia Nixon

New York City

Cynthia Nixon has spent her career moving easily between stage, television and film, bringing a sharp intelligence and emotional directness to char...

Ice Cube

Los Angeles

Ice Cube has built a screen career around a presence that can be stern, confrontational or sharply funny—sometimes within the same performance. Bor...

Steve Buscemi

New York, USA

Steve Buscemi has made a career out of characters who seem slightly out of step with everyone around them. Nervous criminals, weary outsiders, fast...

Samantha Morton

Nottingham, England, UK

Samantha Morton is a British actor and director whose screen work is marked by emotional directness, watchful silences and a willingness to inhabit...

Kevin Durand

Thunder Bay, Ontario,Canada

Kevin Durand has built a screen career around characters who rarely fade into the scenery. Born on January 14, 1974, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, the C...

Jay Baruchel

Canada

Jay Baruchel has built a career around a quality movies do not always know how to use: nervous energy that feels completely genuine. Whether he is...

Seth Rogen

Vancouver, Canada

Seth Rogen has built a career in which acting, writing, producing and directing rarely feel like separate jobs. Born in Vancouver on April 15, 1982...

Anna Kendrick

Portland, Maine, USA

Anna Kendrick is an American actress, producer and director who made the unusual journey from Broadway child performer to Hollywood star, becoming...

Nicole Kidman

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Nicole Kidman has built a career around a striking ability to make composure feel dramatically charged. Across thrillers, musicals, dramas, horror...

Robert Pattinson

London, England, UK

Robert Pattinson has built a career around making familiar star qualities feel slightly strange. He can carry the poise of a leading man, but there...

Tom Cruise

Syracuse, New York, USA

Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who became one of the biggest movie stars of the 1980s and has remained a major Hollywood leading man...

Anne Hathaway

Brooklyn

Anne Hathaway has built a screen career around an ability to move between openness, comic precision and sharper, more guarded characters. Born in B...

Tom Holland

Kingston upon Thames, London, England, UK

Tom Holland is an English actor best known for playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Born Thomas Stanley Holland on 1 J...

Tom Hardy

Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Tom Hardy has built a screen career around pressure: characters who conceal their intentions, carry damage badly or seem ready to erupt without war...