Favorite Actors and Actresses

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Hey. I'd like to see what everyone's favorite movie stars are and also maybe a little bit of their favorite movies that they've appeared in, some notable things about the parts they played, and perhaps why you like them as an actor or as a person in real life.

Actresses:

Meryl Streep - can do no wrong.
Judi Dench - BRILLIANT!
Maggie Smith - could she have a drier sense-of-humor?!?!? TOO FUNNY!!
Keira Knightly - just... OMG!!
Sandra Bullock - couldn't love her more.
Angelina Jolie - very deep.
Susan Sarandon - as much as I hate to admit it, she's good----but, I am NOT a fan of her, personally----just her acting.
Julie Andrews - "Almost perfect in every way."
Angela Lansbury - FABULOUS!

Actors:

Tom Hanks - Pretty close to genius----and he seems like a genuinely nice person.
Denzel Washington
Harrison Ford
Elvis Presley (so many of his movies were lacking, to say the least----but, as long as I can look at him, and he was singing, I'm as happy as a little pig in shi!t.)
Sly Stallone
Patrick Swayze - eye candy.
John Goodman - pretty close to genius.
Alan Rickman - GENIUS!! (It was a fluke that he acts----he was a graphic designer, before.)
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis - extremely silly----butcha gotta appreciate his brilliance.
Dick Van Dyke

Actresses:

Teresa Palmer
Jennifer Lawrence - Can play goofy or serious characters.
Angelina Jolie
Abbie Cornish - Just spectacular in a few movies.
Julianne Moore
Alexandra Daddario - Genuine, got a lot ahead of her for the future!
Rachel Weisz

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Actors:

Shia LaBeouf - Charlie Countryman, Lawless, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, and Transformers were his best movies.
Denzel Washington
Ethan Hawke - Intelligent.
Val Kilmer
Ryan Reynolds - Pretty funny and serious.
Michael Shannon
Russell Crowe - Really intense, loved him in Gladiator, American Gangster, Man With The Iron Fists, Noah, and Man of Steel.
Matt Damon
Will Smith
Paul Walker (R.I.P)
Tom Cruise
Kurt Russell
Eric Bana
Miles Teller
Mark Wahlberg
James Franco - Pretty funny!

I generally don't get into the personal lives of celebrities. The exception is that i'll read anything by William Shatner. His autobiographies are great.

If I had to pick a favourite actor, I'd pick Robert De Niro,for his work throughout the 70s and 80s. Most notably: Godfather 2, Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, Cape Fear, Once Upon A Time In America, Casino, Goodfellas, and Angel Heart. He's one of very few actors that will make me check out a movie due to their involvement alone, as long as it was made before the mid 90s, after which there was a general decline in the quality of his films.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3mV8rVsb8[/youtube]

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Actors:
Tom Hanks
Christian Bale
Robert Downey Jr
Mark Wahlberg
Matt Damon
Bradley Cooper
Jim Caviziel

Actresses:
Jennifer Lawrence
Emma Stone
Emma Watson
Sandra Bullock
Cate Blanchett
Catherine Keener
Rebecca Hall
Nicole Kidman

Favorite actors:

Robert DeNiro
Vincent DeN'ofrio
Rutger Hauer
Leonardo DeCaprio
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Samuel L. Jackson
Lawrence Fishburn
Mads Mickelsen (spelling)

Favorite Actresses:

Cameron Diaz
Judy Dench
Drew Barrymore
Isabella Rosellini
Carey Mulligan
Ellen Page

Actors, Robert De Niro and Robin Williams, I've never seen a bad movie with either of those two in it.

Actresses, Sigourney Weaver for her acting ability and Marg Helgenberger for her looks.

Director - Michael Mann, I have every movie he's ever directed.

I should have added Ben Kingsley.

Actors:
Tom Cruise
Matthew Perry
Jude Law
Jeff Daniels
C. Thomas Howell
Kevin Conway
John Rothman
Andrew Prine




Actresses:
Nicole Kidman
Angelina Jolie
Jennifer Aniston
Courtney Cox
Alexis Texas
Alexa Rae
Dominique Simone
Glenn Close
Hattie McDaniel
Butterfly McQueen
Ruby Dee
Gloria Reuben

Actors

1. Gary Oldman
2. Robert De Niro
3. Kevin Spacey
4. Al Pacino
5. Michael Fassbender
6. Benedict Cumberbatch
7. Christopher Waltz
8. Daniel Day-Lewis
9. Christian Bale
10. Leonardo DiCaprio

Actresses

1. Jessica Chastain
2. Tilda Swinton
3. Cate Blanchett
4. Marion Cotillard
5. Amy Adams
6. Carey Mulligan
7. Helen Mirren
8. Meryl Streep
9. Gwyneth Paltrow
10. Judi Dench

Debbie Gibson
Tiffany
Gwyneth Paltrow
Blythe Danner
Scarlett Johansson
Amy Adams
Meryl Steep
Cate Blanchett

I forgot:

Amy Adams (FABULOUS), Emma Thompson (GENIUS), Drew Barrymore (EXCELLENT), Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf (GENIUS), Glenn Close, Helen Mirren (BRILLIANT), Blythe Danner, Julie Walters (FABULOUS), and Brenda Blethyn (BRILLIANT).


Will Smith (EXCELLENT), Kurt Russell, and Vincent D'Onofrio (BRILLIANT).

Actors

Gene Hackman
Christian Bale
Edward Norton
Robin Williams
Dany DeVito


Actresses:

Juliette Lewis
Kathy Bates
Judie Foster
Meryl Streep
Gwyneth Paltrow

I just realized, Kevin Spacey is missing from my list.

i similarly have no interest in the personal lives of "celebrities". i only acknowledge their abilities to act.


autobiographies? i thought he had only one life. how can one write more than one autobiography ? (unless one has a multiple personality disorder (and even then, all those personalities are contained within a single life)). i never really liked shatner. i was never captivated by his "kirk" rendition in star trek.

anyway, enough with the small talk...



i agree that his portrayal of pupkin was immaculate in that movie. that movie is among my few favourite movies.

incidentally, there is a sequence that starts at 52:49 where pupkin enters the langford household on the flimsy premise of a personal invitation, and the performance by the male asian actor (who plays langford's domestic servant) is an extremely entertaining rendition that lends itself to classic comedy in a natural way. it was one of my favourite scenes. the way he enunciates his lines from 53:44 is very authentic and due to it's studious adherence to authenticity, it is hilarious to me. the movie itself is not really a comedy unless one sees it that way.


other actors i like are richard burton (most notably for his performance in who's afraid of virginia wolfe.
example from final sequence:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7mcT8THRM[/youtube]

jeremy brett for his portrayal of sherlock holmes (the grenada series)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX6a--uu6QM[/youtube]

peter falk for his portrayal of columbo ( a disheveled genius who uses his propensity for being assumed by others as "simple" to his advantage)
here is a clip that shows the penultimate phase of a movie where the culprit (who had previously assumed a smug state of intellectual relaxedness due to his (erroneous) perception of columbo's diminutive mental agility) is being rattled by columbo as columbo moves in for the "kill". it is very well acted by falk indeed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiv8vkxMac[/youtube]

i can not illustrate why i am captivated by some performances and not by others, but i guess it has to do with elementary authenticity.

I forgot to add:

Anthony Hopkins