Best male actor 20
by alexber1992 | created - 23 Apr 2022 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public
1. Jim O'Heir
Actor | Smothered by Mothers
Jim O'Heir was born on February 4, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Smothered by Mothers (2019), Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) and Bad Times at the El Royale (2018).
2. Walter Perez
Actor | Fame
Raised in South Gate, California, just 20 miles southeast of Hollywood, Walter Perez was always eager to express himself artistically. In his earlier years, he often directed and played the lead character in several homemade movies where he mimicked his movie idols such as Charlie Chaplin. His ...
3. Mark Edward Smith
Actor | Ray Donovan
Mark Edward Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor, known for Ray Donovan (2013), Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) and The Book of Boba Fett (2021).
4. Josh Gad
Actor | Frozen
Josh Gad is an American actor and singer who is well-known for voicing Olaf the Snowman in Disney's Frozen franchise. He was also in Beauty and the Beast as LeFou, Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Muncher, The Wedding Ringer, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Pixels, The Internship, The Rocker, 21 and The ...
5. Ray Fearon
Actor | Beauty and the Beast
Ray Fearon is a British actor of stage, theatre and film. He has worked with the RSC, Donmar, Almeida, National, and other theatres. Fearon was born on 5 August 1973 and grew up in London with his family. His West Indian parents raised him alongside his seven brothers and sisters. His film works ...
6. Charles Parnell
Actor | Top Gun: Maverick
Charles Parnell was born on October 26, 1964 in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Top Gun: Maverick (2022), The Killer (2023) and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023).
7. Jay Ellis
Actor | Insecure
Jay Ellis is a television and film actor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Born in Sumter, South Carolina, Ellis spent the majority of his childhood traveling with his military family. His father completed over 15 years of service in the Air Force while his mother was an accomplished finance ...
8. Glen Powell
Actor | Top Gun: Maverick
Glen Thomas Powell Jr. is an American actor. He began his career with guest roles on television and small roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014) before making his breakthrough performance as Chad Radwell in the Fox comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015-...
9. Manny Jacinto
Actor | The Good Place
Manuel Luis Jacinto is a Canadian actor born in the Philippines. After several small roles on television, his breakout role came starring as Jason Mendoza on the NBC sitcom The Good Place (2016-2020). He has appeared as Waring 'Wade' Espiritu in the Neo-noir thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale...
10. Campbell Scott
Actor | Big Night
Campbell Scott is an American actor, producer and director. His roles include Steve Dunne in Singles, Mark Usher in House of Cards, Joseph Tobin in Damages, and Richard Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Scott was born on July 19, 1961, in New York City, the son of ...
11. Samuel West
Actor | Howards End
Samuel West was born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Howards End (1992), Van Helsing (2004) and Notting Hill (1999).
12. Demián Castro
Actor | Law & Order
Demián Castro was born in New York City, New York. He is of Puerto Rican descent with mixed Spaniard and South American ancestry mostly from Peru. He is an actor and director, known for S.W.A.T. (2024), The Chosen (2023) and Law & Order (2022). He has been married since 30 September 1995. He and ...
13. Zachary Knighton
Actor | The Hitcher
Zachary Knighton was born on October 25, 1978 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Hitcher (2007), The Prince and Me (2004) and Flashforward (2009). He has been married to Betsy Phillips since August 27, 2018. They have one child. He was previously married to ...
14. Peter Shinkoda
Actor | The Predator
Peter Shinkoda is most well known for his portrayals of Dai in Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies and Nobu in Marvel's Daredevil on Disney+. In addition to his acting career Shinkoda also worked at the Warner Bros. Studios facility in Burbank as an employee of the lot's Post-Production department in ...
15. Michael Benyaer
Actor | Deadpool
Michael Benyaer was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Michael is an actor, known for Deadpool (2016), The Expanse (2015) and Reboot (1998).
16. Steven Yeun
Actor | Minari
Steven Yeun was born in Seoul, South Korea, to June and Je Yeun. His family first immigrated to Canada and stayed there for one year, and then moved to the U.S. He has a brother named Brian. He began acting while at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI, where he studied Psychology as a major (BS in ...
17. Devon Graye
Actor | Nope
Devon Graye was born on March 8, 1987 in Mountain View, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Nope (2022), I See You (2019) and 13 Sins (2014).
18. Rob Schneider
Actor | Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (1975), Schneider has gone on to a successful career in feature films, including starring roles in the ...
19. Gabriel Byrne
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said...
20. Neal Bledsoe
Actor | The Man in the High Castle
Neal Bledsoe is an actor and writer who grew up in Seattle, but for some reason the internet thinks he's from Canada. That's nonsense, he was only born there. He was named after the Beat Generation hero, Neal Cassady, and a car thief his father knew. He's been a Seahawks fan longer than it's been ...
21. Mike Houston
Actor | Orange Is the New Black
Born and raised in Colorado, Mike received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is also a graduate of the The William Esper Studio's Two Year Sanford Meisner Intensive Acting Program in NYC. He is a founding and current ensemble member of The Collective and ...
22. Blake DeLong
Actor | When They See Us
Blake DeLong is an American actor who has worked with a distinguished group of visionary film directors, including Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Ava DuVernay, Lee Daniels, Michael Almereyda, Nisha Ganatra and others. A sixth-generation native Texan now based in New York City, DeLong is a perennial ...
23. Craig Bierko
Actor | The Thirteenth Floor
Craig Bierko was born on August 18, 1964 in Rye Brook, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and Scary Movie 4 (2006).
24. Matthew Jayson Cwern
Actor | The Staircase
Matthew Jayson Cwern was born on December 27, 1980 in Great Neck, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Staircase (2022), The Blacklist (2013) and All Rise (2019).
25. Joe Carroll
Actor | Romeo and Juliet
Joe Carroll was born on May 1, 1990 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Romeo and Juliet (2014), FBI (2018) and BANDSTAND: The Broadway Musical on Screen (2018).
26. Tom O'Keefe
Actor | The Blacklist
Tom O'Keefe is known for The Blacklist (2013), FBI: Most Wanted (2020) and Emergence (2019).
27. Jason Isaacs
Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool. He studied law at Bristol University but fell in love with the theatre and directed, produced and appeared in dozens of productions there, at the National Student Theatre Festival and at the Edinburgh Festival. He graduated in 1985 but then attended the Royal ...
28. Iain Glen
Actor | Game of Thrones
Iain Glen is a Scottish actor, born June 24, 1961, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was the winner of the ...
29. Owen Teale
Actor | Robin Hood
While in his teens, Owen Teale occasionally worked at Porthcawl Little Theatre. In September 1980 he was accepted by the Guildford School of Acting and by Christmas of 1983 had obtained his Equity card. His first proper work was as a dancer in the musical "Cabaret" in Plymouth, Devon. Subsequently ...
30. Jason Ritter
Actor | Freddy vs. Jason
Jason will next be seen starring in MATLOCK for CBS opposite Kathy Bates, and he can mostly recently be seen in ACCUSED for FOX. He also starred in Netflix's RAISING DION and CANDY on Hulu. Previous television credits include starring in ABC's KEVIN SAVES THE WORLD as well as Comedy Central's ...
31. Matt Barr
Actor | Hatfields & McCoys
Matt Barr was born on February 14, 1984 in Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hatfields & McCoys (2012), Blood & Treasure (2019) and The Layover (2017).
32. Lawrence Kao
Actor | Walker: Independence
Son of an accountant and a mailman, he was born in Hacienda Heights, California, groomed to become a doctor, a pediatrician according to his parents. However, forced to play musical instruments as a kid by his mother, Lawrence grew fond of the arts and a curiosity for the imagination. While ...
33. Alfred Enoch
Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Alfred Lewis Enoch was born December 2, 1988 in Westminster, London, England, the son of English actor William Russell (William Russell Enoch) and Brazilian doctor Etheline Margareth Lewis. He is an actor, known for his role as Dean Thomas in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (2001), ...
34. Brian Goodman
Actor | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Brian Goodman was born on June 1, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Last Seen Alive (2022) and Munich (2005).
35. Edgar Ramírez
Actor | Gold
Edgar Ramirez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor, born in the city of San Cristobal (Tachira State, southwest Venezuela). He is the son of Soday Arellano, an attorney, and Filiberto Ramírez, a military officer.
Being the son of a soldier and living abroad with his family, he learned several languages, ...
36. Mark Jeffrey Miller
Actor | The Patriot
Mark Jeffrey Miller was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Patriot (2000), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) and Cold Mountain (2003).
37. Chukwudi Iwuji
Actor | Designated Survivor
Chuk Iwuji was born in Nigeria in 1975. When he was ten his parents began working for the United Nations Organization and moved to Ethiopia, sending their son to a boarding school in England. He got in to Yale University to major in Economics but was interested in acting and joined the university's...
38. Andrew McCarthy
Director | Orange Is the New Black
Andrew McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, until he was 15, when his family moved to Bernardsville. He attended the Pingry School, a prep school, where he performed in plays and musicals and played basketball. At 18, he went to New York University as a theatre major and wound up as the lead ...
39. Jeff Ward
Actor | Hacks
Jeff Ward was born on December 30, 1986 in Washington, DC, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Hacks (2021), Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
40. Luke Arnold
Actor | Black Sails
Rising star Luke Arnold is a graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He began his acting career with Australian television, staring in the series McLeod's Daughters, Rush, Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, and Steven Spielberg's The Pacific.
His first feature film role was...
41. Edoardo Ballerini
Actor | The Sopranos
Edoardo Ballerini was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Sopranos (1999), Quarry (2016) and Dinner Rush (2000).
42. Ben Hardy
Actor | X-Men: Apocalypse
Ben Hardy was born Ben Jones on 2 January 1991 in England, United Kingdom. He grew up in Sherborne and attended The Gryphon School.
Ben starred in The Judas Kiss (1998) play, written by David Hare, in 2012 and played the character Arthur Wellesley, a member of the hotel staff. The play was held in ...
43. Sean Astin
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing...
44. Wayne Brady
Actor | Foodfight!
Wayne Brady was born in Columbus, Georgia and lived in Orlando, Florida. At 16, Brady had already decided on a career in the military. Little did he know that a chance performance in a high school play would garner him not only rave reviews but also permanently alter his long-range plans. Soon, he ...
45. Bobby Naderi
Actor | The Beekeeper
Bobby Naderi was born in Tehran, Iran during the Iran/Iraq war. His youth consisted of a nomadic upbringing due to the political unrest in the region. Brushing shoulders with all walks of life as a child, Bobby developed a natural gravitational pull toward the world of cinema.
Bobby starred in the ...
46. Josh Hutcherson
Actor | The Hunger Games
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born on October 12, 1992 in Union, Kentucky to Michelle Fightmaster, who worked for Delta Air Lines, and Chris Hutcherson, an EPA analyst. He has one younger brother, Connor Hutcherson. From the age of four, Josh knew that he wanted to be an actor. In order to pursue his ...
47. Michael Epp
Actor | The Beekeeper
Michael Epp was born in Germany but because of his British mother has dual citizenship. He lived in upstate New York before moving to New York City to study acting at HB Studio when he was 20 years old. Shortly after he gave his off broadway debut in "Summerfolk" directed by Austin Pendleton. His ...
48. Alex Hassell
Actor | The Tragedy of Macbeth
Alex Hassell was born on September 17, 1980 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), Violent Night (2022) and The Boys (2019). He is married to Emma King.
49. Finn Cole
Actor | F9
Finn Cole was born on November 9, 1995 in Kingston, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for F9: The Fast Saga (2021), Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) and Peaky Blinders (2013).
50. Karl Collins
Actor | Attack the Block
Karl Collins was born on October 20, 1971 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Attack the Block (2011), The Flash (2023) and TwentyFourSeven (1997).
51. Jonathan Groff
Actor | Frozen
Jonathan Drew Groff is an American actor and singer. Known for his performances on screen, stage and television, Groff is the recipient of such accolades as a Grammy Award and has been nominated for two Tony Awards, two Drama League Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
52. Michael Culkin
Actor | The Nest
Michael Culkin is an Irish actor who grew up in Newfoundland. He recently appeared in Culprits and popped up on Gogglebox, and appeared in season 4 of Dalgleish opposite Bertie Carvel as the eponymous Inspector. He has written the WW2 spy series BlitzBoyz which is currently in development 2024. He ...
53. Oliver Gatz
Actor | Zack Snyder's Justice League
Oliver Gatz is known for Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Justice League (2017) and Rellik (2017).
54. David Duchovny
Actor | The X Files
David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...
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