Leonardo DiCaprio has been in a lot of all-timer films, probably he'd be on balance my favourite. I do enjoy seeing Oscar Isaac, Merle Streep and Andy Serkis whenever they're on screen though.
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Nathan fillion! His brand of humor and delivery consistently hits just right for me.
Jeffrey Wright. Just one good performance after another.
Karl Urban
Honorable mention: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Rockwell, Jean Reno...
Sam Rockwell was the only thing good in season three of White Lotus.
Hell I couldn't get through season 1 so I'll never know. But Sam Rockwell is awesome so that tracks.
Favorite? Peter Weller.
Second place usually rotates to whatever actor I enjoyed watching last. It's currently Monkey Man's Dev Patel.
Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Sorry, picking one feels wrong. So many greats.
Daniel Day Lewis: Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood.
I don't have a singular favorite, but some of the top ones who get me excited just by their casting are (in no particular order):
- Michelle Yeoh
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- J. K. Simmons
- Henry Cavill
- Rosamund Pike
- Adjoa Andoh
- Stellan, Alexander, and Bill Skarsgård (really, the whole family is great, but these 3 especially)
- Anson Mount
- Charlize Theron
I dunno, it's hard to pick a single actor because they don't all do equivalent roles.
I think it fair to say that Edward Norton is damn high on my list though. He does take on a wide range of roles, and I've yet to see anything where he didn't just own the role he was in, even if the rest of the movie wasn't as good. But he also doesn't take on roles in shitty movies either. I can't think of any where the movie wasn't at least well made, even if it wasn't super successful.
I'm in the same place with Samuel L Jackson for similar reasons, though sometimes he does jump into bad-ish movies that are only watchable because he's in it. Like, snakes on plane? If he wasn't in it, no way would it be as fun as it is. But he's kinda stealth despite his reputation. People know he can act, but then he pulls out something like black snake moan and everyone is all "damn, I forgot he could do that". He seems like he enjoys taking on lighter roles just for the fun of acting, and then he finds something meaty he can sink his teeth into and goes beast mode. But I can't think of any performances he's done that weren't worth watching, even the shitty commercials lol
I have to agree with both of them. He also probably takes some lighter roles to get an easy check.
Edward Norton is great. I loved his cameo in”The Dictator”. If you haven’t seen it, look up the clip.
He’s also great in Red Dragon, the Hannibal movie.
Glenn Close and Anthony Hopkins!
Jim Carrey
Colin Farrell. Great range and excellent comedic chops.
Jennifer Coolidge
Brian Cranston, Leo DiCaprio, Tom Holland, Zandaya, Florence Pugh just to name a few.
Liam Neeson
Oh, also steve buscemi and Willem Dafoe
Hugh jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Tilda Swinton, and Sam Elliott.